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- Appended frontmatter lines adopt the file's prevailing line ending
(read off the opening delimiter) — one stamp never produces a
mixed-ending file.
- Empty-but-not-blank frontmatter ({}, null, ~) joins the
readable-but-uneditable shapes: zero keys load fine, but appending
after that text would be unparseable YAML.
- Renumber is atomic per file, not per lane — an interrupted rescale
is accepted the same way as the shared-board burst: valid floats,
deterministic order, next renumber completes the job.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018BjQRYBR6jQja3jCRi5S3A
Lanework — Design Documents
A ground-up rewrite of the Kanban app, to ship as Lanework on the Mac App Store. The old repo (../Kanban) 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, tombstones |
| 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 |
| 07-sync-collab.md | Board modes: local-only, git; iCloud Drive warned against |
| 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 |
Deferred design iterations
None remaining — 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.
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.