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View ▸ Zoom In / Zoom Out / Actual Size (⌘+ / ⌘− / ⌘0): 75%–200% in eight rungs, app-wide and persisted (the Show Comments precedent) — a viewing comfort, not a property of any one board. The level travels as BoardZoomContext in the environment, injected on BoardView alone so the banner strip, search bar, sheets and popovers stay at the system size; the environment is also what carries it through CardFaceView's equality gate, which compares nothing that moves with the level. Every BoardMetrics figure follows zoom.bodyPointSize — card and lane chrome, drag replicas and the count badge, the resize handle, the trash column — and the drop registry carries the ruler for event-time reads, with the autoscroller's three reaches turning font-derived (reachSide named as the stripGap it always equalled). Lanes still divide the window; zoom never moves the window or its floor. The toolbar gains a catalog-only Zoom In/Out pair mirroring the menu rows' predicate; zoom holds shut mid-drag (frozen geometry), each rung announces itself to VoiceOver, and the render suite pins both invariants: a rung repaints every face, a no-op Actual Size repaints nothing. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014PtZdPwqZuqEDLc6wZMtEy
Lanework — Design Documents
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).
Each document covers one aspect of the design. Within each:
- Decisions — settled, either carried over from the old app or newly made.
- Changes from Kanban — where this rewrite deliberately diverges.
- Open questions — flagged for iteration; nothing here is implicitly settled.
Index
| Doc | Aspect |
|---|---|
| 00-vision.md | What Lanework is, who it's for, goals and non-goals |
| 01-storage-format.md | On-disk contract: folders, frontmatter, ordering, the materialized trash |
| 02-architecture.md | App structure: source of truth, stores, watchers, concurrency |
| 03-board-ui.md | Board window: layout, lanes, cards, styling, templates |
| 04-interactions.md | Selection, drag & drop, keyboard, clipboard, search |
| 05-card-window.md | The card window: Markdown preview/edit, attachments |
| 06-history-undo.md | Git-backed undo/redo and history — Pro tier |
| 07-sync-collab.md | Board modes: local-only, git; iCloud Drive warned against — Pro tier |
| 08-agent-integration.md | AI agents as first-class users of the board |
| 09-templates.md | Board templates: inventory and definition format |
| 10-accessibility.md | VoiceOver, text scaling, visual accommodations |
| 11-command-nexus.md | The command Nexus — every command and action: bindings, contexts, customizability |
| 12-editions.md | The tiers (free / Pro subscription / Teams deferred): one-app distribution, entitlement, provider seam, feature matrix |
| 13-native-undo.md | macOS-native undo/redo — the free tier's history substrate |
| 14-git-operations.md | Extracted pathfinder git-operations conclusions: the forward-restore model — Pro tier |
Deferred design iterations
The card window (05-card-window.md), toolbar (03-board-ui.md ▸ Toolbar), styling controls (03-board-ui.md ▸ Styling ▸ Controls), and comments (01 ▸ Enhanced schema + 05 ▸ The comments column — designed 2026-07-29, shipping post-2.0) each had their focused pass and are settled.
The authoritative list of open design passes is the findings board (Lanework Redesign.kanban ▸ Issues to Resolve) — this section stopped enumerating by hand after drifting twice. Standing examples as of 2026-07-29: the attachment-undo staging design and the EchoLedger foreign-undo bridge (both flagged in 13-native-undo.md), Teams' tracker integration (no design yet), the fail-fast decision surface (01 ▸ Refuse), and the drop-release settle presentation (03 ▸ Motion — deliberately last in line).
Wishlist
Ideas worth keeping but outside the committed design live in ../WISHLIST.md.
Terminology
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.