Replace the crowded note sidebar with a card overview and full note detail. Keep tasks in a stable split view with source content and AI comments, compact header navigation, and search-adjacent status filters. Preserve drafts and return context. Validation: 93 focused tests, typecheck, lint, and isolated Electron renderer checks passed. Full suite was interrupted; renderer probes used in-memory APIs. Release note: Notes now open from a card overview, while todos keep a stable task list beside their details. Compact view and filter controls leave more room for reading and editing.
Magic Notes
Magic Notes is the local notes, checklist and AI-comment workbench. Desktop actions and authorized Agent/MCP tools write to the same desktop SQLite store. 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 its detail and optional AI comments. The separate To-dos tab 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. Content-sized tabs sit in the page header immediately before New note; status filters sit beside search and wrap when needed. Returning from a source note restores the task context and protects unsaved editor changes.
Documents
- Technical design: database notifications, process boundaries, refresh lifecycle and regression coverage.
- Progress: implementation and validation evidence.
- UI design system: authoritative workbench interaction rules, including selection and draft preservation.
An entry is a saved rich-text record within a note. A todo is a checklist item derived from an entry. An unsaved draft belongs to the open editor; it is not written to storage by a background refresh.