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The tombstone model is retired wholesale: deletion is a move into the reserved <root>/.trash/, always entering at the top (rank minting — no deleted: key, no timestamp sort), with modified stamped for the future age-based purge. Lanes are never trashed — lane delete is physical, native undo in-session the net. Put Back is gone: restore is drag-out or cut+paste (⌘X now enabled in the trash as the keyboard restore path). Trash cards are ordinary cards — search, selection, clipboard, and rendering uniform — and one container boundary replaces the effective-liveness, ancestor-walk, and kind-homogeneity machinery across 02 and 04. Delete stages by place (board moves, trash deletes permanently under the recoverability confirm); legacy deleted: keys migrate without destroying (cards relocate, lanes return live, notices). Templates exclude .trash; Duplicate carries it; the agent guide teaches delete-as-move. Materialized reserved lanes are named as a pattern — .archive is WISHLIST #8, and the backed-out release-presentation question is marked open in 03. Ruling: Redesign board Resolved card e8f1a6c2; 19 mooted tombstone-era rulings moved to the board's new Mooted lane. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CqjXB7ASoWtbyoGod68k97
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# Lanework — Design Documents
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A ground-up rewrite of the Kanban app, to ship as **Lanework** on the Mac App Store. The old repo (`../../Kanban`, one level above this repository — not the rewrite's own `Kanban/` source folder, which shares the codename) was a pathfinder — it never shipped, but it is the reference implementation and the source of hard-won decisions. This design starts from a clean slate and keeps only what earned its place. The rewrite keeps the internal codename `Kanban` (bundle id `dev.rzen.indie.Kanban`).
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Each document covers one aspect of the design. Within each:
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- **Decisions** — settled, either carried over from the old app or newly made.
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- **Changes from Kanban** — where this rewrite deliberately diverges.
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- **Open questions** — flagged for iteration; nothing here is implicitly settled.
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## Index
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| Doc | Aspect |
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| [00-vision.md](00-vision.md) | What Lanework is, who it's for, goals and non-goals |
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| [01-storage-format.md](01-storage-format.md) | On-disk contract: folders, frontmatter, ordering, the materialized trash |
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| [02-architecture.md](02-architecture.md) | App structure: source of truth, stores, watchers, concurrency |
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| [03-board-ui.md](03-board-ui.md) | Board window: layout, lanes, cards, styling, templates |
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| [04-interactions.md](04-interactions.md) | Selection, drag & drop, keyboard, clipboard, search |
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| [05-card-window.md](05-card-window.md) | The card window: Markdown preview/edit, attachments |
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| [06-history-undo.md](06-history-undo.md) | Git-backed undo/redo and history — **Pro edition** |
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| [07-sync-collab.md](07-sync-collab.md) | Board modes: local-only, git; iCloud Drive warned against — **Pro edition** |
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| [08-agent-integration.md](08-agent-integration.md) | AI agents as first-class users of the board |
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| [09-templates.md](09-templates.md) | Board templates: inventory and definition format |
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| [10-accessibility.md](10-accessibility.md) | VoiceOver, text scaling, visual accommodations |
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| [11-command-nexus.md](11-command-nexus.md) | The command Nexus — every command and action: bindings, contexts, customizability |
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| [12-editions.md](12-editions.md) | The three editions (Lanework / Pro / Teams): distribution, provider seam, feature matrix |
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| [13-native-undo.md](13-native-undo.md) | macOS-native undo/redo — the base edition's history substrate |
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## Deferred design iterations
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The card window (05-card-window.md), toolbar (03-board-ui.md ▸ Toolbar), and styling controls (03-board-ui.md ▸ Styling ▸ Controls) each had their focused pass and are settled. The 2026-07-27 edition split (12-editions.md) added two deferred passes: the attachment-undo staging design and the EchoLedger foreign-undo bridge (both flagged in 13-native-undo.md), plus Teams' tracker integration (no design yet).
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## Wishlist
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Ideas worth keeping but outside the committed design live in [../WISHLIST.md](../WISHLIST.md).
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## Terminology
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The rewrite adopts **lane** as the canonical term for what the old app called a column (it's in the name: Lane-work). "Column" survives only when referring to the old app or to interior card-grid columns inside a wide lane.
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