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Magic Notes previously supported rich-text records without a paged drawing or PDF annotation workflow. Add the integrated PeopleLib Fabric and Quill editor with flowing text, pen/highlighter, object transforms, images, paper templates, PDF backgrounds with native text extraction, and raster PDF export. Saves are manual; undo/redo remains scoped to an annotation page or Quill mode. Analyze drafts, saved canvases and canvas-source todos with page images and text when the default model supports images, or an explicitly labelled text-only fallback. Keep successful saves when automatic analysis fails and prevent MCP plain-text replacement of canvas records. Move entry bodies and binary assets into local note files with schema 38 migration and verified readback. SQLite retains metadata, indexes, revisions, todos and comments. Backups must coordinate SQLite and the adjacent notes directory while writes are paused or the app is closed; no one-click backup action is included. Show a continuous record stream with independent collapsible record index and AI pane, real first-page thumbnails, and scroll-only record navigation. Open a blank text/canvas composer by default and reset it after creation. Protect unsaved drafts and establish normalized editor baselines after saving so clean records do not prompt again when leaving. Validation: latest recorded focused run passed 149 tests across five files; typecheck, lint and git diff --check passed. The prior user-reported full run passed 4,713 tests before later corrections and UI changes; it is not a full validation of this final snapshot. Tests were not rerun for this commit, as requested; independent systematic review follows the commit. Release note: Create paged notes with handwriting, flowing text and PDF annotations, browse records through thumbnails, and request AI comments with an explicit text-only fallback. Existing notes migrate to local file storage; backups now need both the database and notes directory.
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Magic Notes
Magic Notes is the local notes, checklist and AI-comment workbench. Desktop actions and authorized Agent/MCP tools use the same desktop store: SQLite for metadata and indexes, and local files for entry bodies and binary assets. The open workbench subscribes to successful writes so users can see external changes without leaving the page or clicking a refresh button.
The workbench opens on a responsive note-card overview. Opening a note replaces the overview with a continuous record stream, a narrow left index and independent right AI comments. Both side panes can collapse. Index items show one real first-page canvas thumbnail with page count, or a text summary; clicking scrolls without replacing the editor or losing a draft. Opening a note shows a blank composer above the history, with text/canvas selection and Save. Creating a record resets that composer; editing a saved record requires its explicit Edit action. The separate To-dos view keeps search, status filters and grouped tasks on one page, with direct completion and a stable left list/right detail layout for instructions, source content and AI comments. Narrow containers use on-demand detail with an explicit return to the mounted list. One content-sized button switches to the other view in the page header immediately before New note; status filters sit beside search and wrap when needed. Note detail removes the surrounding frame and stream padding while keeping editor borders and the AI divider. Returning from a source note restores the task context and protects unsaved editor changes. A successful save followed by no further edits does not prompt again on return. Narrow note layouts use an index drawer and bounded bottom AI pane.
Documents
- Technical design: file storage, schema 38 migration, backup boundaries, database notifications, process boundaries, canvas and AI contracts, refresh lifecycle and regression coverage.
- Progress: implementation and validation evidence.
- UI design system: authoritative workbench interaction rules, including selection and draft preservation.
- Canvas integration: React controller API, PeopleLib core limits, asset adaptation and rendering lifecycle.
An entry is a saved rich-text or paged-canvas record within a note. Its body lives
in notes/<noteId>/entries/<entryId>.json beside note-local binary assets;
note.json is a derived membership manifest. SQLite retains metadata, indexes,
revisions, todos and comments. API reads hydrate assets back into the existing
content format. A todo is a checklist item derived from rich text
or the canvas Quill flow. An unsaved draft belongs to the open editor; it is not
written to storage by a background refresh.
Backups must coordinate SQLite and the adjacent notes/ tree while note writes
are paused or the app is closed. A database-only backup cannot restore these
bodies. There is no product one-click backup action; see the
backup contract.
Canvas Scope
The integrated PeopleLib editor uses Fabric for paged annotations and Quill for body text flowing across pages. It supports paper templates, pen/highlighter, object erasing and selection/transforms, floating text, images, PDF backgrounds with native text extraction, and raster PDF export. Saves are manual. Undo/redo belongs to the current annotation page or Quill body mode; it is not a global document history. There is no infinite canvas or PNG download button.
Drafts, saved entries and todos sourced from canvases support AI comments using
the default model's image-input capability. Image-capable models receive complete
page captures and extracted text. Text-only models receive an explicitly labelled
text fallback; a purely visual canvas entry or draft reports that an image-capable
default model is required. Canvas comments are requested manually in immediate
mode, or after a manual save in after-save-auto mode. Analysis failure does not
undo a successful save. Detailed retention rules are in the
AI contract.
Canvas implementation is complete and final validation is in progress. The progress record distinguishes confirmed production-path evidence from the pending final repository checks.