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Author SHA1 Message Date
pj 50daad62b9 some more fixes 2026-10-03 23:24:34 +05:30
pj 2b86a407ba some more fixes 2026-10-03 22:48:49 +05:30
pj 7a3c04f170 commit messages are one plain line 2026-09-01 23:18:14 +05:30
pj e8555c7ef9 send app store builds to the store for updates 2026-09-01 23:17:33 +05:30
pj e8772e6699 app store scripts 2026-09-01 22:32:34 +05:30
pj 585933c8a1 feat(appstore): invite internal testers as scoped account users
An internal tester has to be a user on the App Store Connect account, which is access to the
account rather than to a build. The invitation is narrowed as far as the API allows: one visible
app, provisioning refused, and the Developer role rather than anything that can change the listing.

The bulk assignment endpoint reports success for an address it then declines to add, which is what
happens when the person has not accepted their account invitation yet, so the group is read back
instead of trusted.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018HwEWvoE1NkkUjJCMLSnup
2026-08-31 18:00:27 +05:30
pj b59052a95c feat(appstore): script inviting TestFlight testers
Addresses come from the command line rather than a file in the repo, because a list of testers is a
list of people's email addresses and this repository is public.

Defaults to the external group. The internal one only accepts people who already have an App Store
Connect account on the team, which is a much bigger thing to hand somebody than a build.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018HwEWvoE1NkkUjJCMLSnup
2026-08-31 17:27:59 +05:30
pj 36291540e5 docs: describe how releases are published
Three channels, and they are not the same app: the direct download is unrestricted and updates
itself, the Homebrew cask is the same file with a command instead of a browser, and the App Store
copy is sandboxed with the updater taken out because Apple requires both.

Written down because most of it is only discoverable by getting it wrong once. Attaching a build to
TestFlight and attaching it to the store version are separate operations, and a Mac listing takes
its icon from the attached build, so until that second step happens App Store Connect shows the
listing with no icon and does not say why.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018HwEWvoE1NkkUjJCMLSnup
2026-08-31 17:26:38 +05:30
pj 7eeb54f653 refactor(ui): call a book a project
A book is the use case Margin was built for, not the limit of it. Blog posts published straight to
the web are coming, and "New book" on the shelf is the wrong invitation for that. Project covers
both without promising anything the app does not do.

This is user-visible strings only. Internal identifiers keep saying book, because renaming bookId
and setBooks is churn nobody reads.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018HwEWvoE1NkkUjJCMLSnup
2026-08-31 17:26:31 +05:30
pj 42996804bb feat(appstore): add the listing screenshots
Five 2560x1600 frames. The app window inside each is a CSS rebuild of the real interface rather
than a bitmap, laid out at the app's own 1440x900 and scaled once, so the type is real text at
render time instead of a resampled capture. The only Macs to hand are 1x, and an upscaled screen
capture looks like one.

The website's own AppWindow mockup was the obvious source and turned out to be wrong in several
places: the sidebar is 248px not 196, the proofing marks are straight underlines rather than wavy,
and the trim default differs. The rebuild follows shared/css/tokens.css and src/styles/app.css
instead, so these are more accurate than the marketing imagery.

Sample prose is original and written for this listing, since it goes in a public store page.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018HwEWvoE1NkkUjJCMLSnup
2026-08-31 17:26:22 +05:30
pj 6ddb3ac43e feat(appstore): script the provisioning, listing and TestFlight setup
The listing copy lives in text files rather than in a web form, so changing a description is a diff
someone can read and the store listing is reviewable next to the code it describes. Field lengths
are checked before sending, because Apple rejects an over-length field with an error that never
names the limit.

apple-provision.rb drives the Developer Portal through spaceship and is find-or-create throughout.
That matters most for the Developer ID certificate: an account may hold only a handful, they cannot
be un-revoked, and every copy of the app already signed by one stops verifying if it goes away.

Both scripts pin the App Store Connect team. This Apple ID can see more than one, and the other
belongs to somebody else entirely, so letting spaceship choose is how a listing ends up on the
wrong account.

The reviewer phone number and email are deliberately not in here. Apple requires a real number and
this repo is public.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018HwEWvoE1NkkUjJCMLSnup
2026-08-31 17:26:14 +05:30
pj 92b446973f feat(appstore): add a Mac App Store build track
Tauri has no App Store target, so mas-package.sh covers the distance between the .app and something
App Store Connect will take. The order is load-bearing: the provisioning profile goes in before
codesign runs because the signature covers it, which is also why Tauri's own signing is switched
off for this build.

The sandbox costs three things, all Apple's rules rather than choices. The updater is gone, and
falls out for free because the plugin was already conditional on the config declaring it; only the
release overlay does. The Check for Updates menu item is gated on the same condition, since a menu
item that errors when clicked is its own rejection risk. The library moves into the container, and
the system spelling dictionary becomes unreadable.

Two things the first upload taught us. The profile is kept owner-only where it lives next to the
signing keys, and cp carried that mode into the bundle; Apple rejects a package containing anything
a non-root user cannot read. And altool exits 0 after printing UPLOAD FAILED, so its exit status
cannot be trusted and the transcript is the only reliable signal.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018HwEWvoE1NkkUjJCMLSnup
2026-08-31 17:26:03 +05:30
pj 39d4097773 ci(release): sign and notarize the macOS bundle, and bump the Homebrew cask
An unsigned bundle on a current macOS opens to a malware warning with no obvious way past it, and
the way past it that does exist teaches people to click through exactly the warning worth reading.
The build now signs with a Developer ID certificate and notarizes with an App Store Connect API
key, which is also what does the App Store upload, so there is one credential to rotate.

The verification step is the point. codesign only says a signature is internally consistent;
spctl is what a person double-clicking the file actually meets, and it does not pass until the
notarization ticket is stapled.

A final job rewrites the version and sha256 in the tap's cask, using an SSH deploy key rather than
a token so a leak from a release job cannot reach the app repositories.

Also fixes Cargo.lock drifting a version behind on every release: the bump wrote Cargo.toml but
never staged the lock, so any fresh build dirtied the tree.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018HwEWvoE1NkkUjJCMLSnup
2026-08-31 17:25:51 +05:30
pj d8c47bb6f0 chore: add FSL-1.1-MIT licence and fill in package metadata
The repo had no licence at all, which legally means all rights reserved. FSL grants free use for
anything except building a competing product, and each version becomes MIT two years after its
release. AGPL was the other candidate and is ruled out by the App Store, whose terms impose
restrictions the GPL forbids.

Cargo.toml still carried the Tauri scaffold defaults, and that description ends up in the deb and
rpm metadata.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018HwEWvoE1NkkUjJCMLSnup
2026-08-31 17:25:42 +05:30
pj d4318554f6 refactor changes 2026-08-30 16:59:00 +05:30
github-actions[bot] df1a447a79 chore(release): v0.1.17 2026-08-24 04:11:47 +00:00
pj bcd5eb9ebc group of bug fixes 2026-08-24 09:17:26 +05:30
github-actions[bot] cfc93fc97d chore(release): v0.1.16 2026-08-10 15:00:26 +00:00
pj b954a3135d Straight through shortcut 2026-08-10 18:44:46 +05:30
pj 9e310a34bb feat(macos): trigger Apple Intelligence writing tools from the editor 2026-08-10 18:37:23 +05:30
pj fe39274ed7 feat(nav): peel overlays with esc, close the book on a second esc 2026-08-10 18:37:23 +05:30
pj 2e15dc2dc9 feat(editor): open the link popover with cmd+k 2026-08-10 18:36:52 +05:30
pj dad0ac86d0 feat(chapters): focus the title field when adding a chapter 2026-08-10 18:36:39 +05:30
pj efd45cf61e feat(library): show last edited time on book cards 2026-08-10 18:36:30 +05:30
pj 742e42d65b feat(editor): keep the caret clear of the floating toolbar 2026-08-10 18:36:18 +05:30
pj abcd133b19 chore: sync Cargo.lock with package version 2026-08-10 18:36:18 +05:30
github-actions[bot] 4fa14306d1 chore(release): v0.1.15 2026-07-15 04:02:28 +00:00
pj acf78dfe29 feat(menu): reorganize native menu bar with discoverable actions
Move Check for Updates into the macOS app menu and add Settings (Cmd+,),
Save (Cmd+S), Find (Cmd+F), chapter navigation, and a Help > Report an
Issue link. Route new menu actions through menu-action events and trim
duplicate editor keybindings.
2026-07-15 09:31:57 +05:30
pj 866a971729 feat(updater): show in-app progress during app update
Replace native update dialogs with an in-app modal that shows a live
download progress bar and installing state, so updates no longer feel
abrupt. Drives the plugin's downloadAndInstall progress events through a
zustand store.
2026-07-15 09:31:57 +05:30
github-actions[bot] 7ea33b5bfb chore(release): v0.1.14 2026-07-15 04:00:48 +00:00
github-actions[bot] 0abeb3c5d4 chore(release): v0.1.13 2026-07-14 10:37:34 +00:00
pj a31f99cb76 fix keyboard fixed 2026-07-14 16:07:05 +05:30
pj 20365dd02d fix(proofing): stop flagging bare URLs as misspelled on macOS
NSSpellChecker's implicit URL handling is unreliable for URLs alone on a
line (a bookmark list), flagging the whole URL as one misspelling. Request
the link checking type alongside spelling so the data detector claims URL
ranges, then keep only spelling results. Real misspellings are unaffected.
2026-07-14 16:07:05 +05:30
github-actions[bot] af389c7097 chore(release): v0.1.12 2026-07-13 15:00:54 +00:00
pj f11ddd290f fix(proofing): use macOS NSSpellChecker for spelling on macOS
The bundled Hunspell dictionary (~49k SCOWL roots) lacked common words like
"cybersecurity", "scalable", and "assistantship", and checked words inside
URLs. On macOS, spelling now uses the system NSSpellChecker (same engine as
TextEdit/Safari): far better vocabulary, skips URLs, and respects words the
user has taught macOS. The custom/tech dictionaries and Harper grammar are
unchanged; non-macOS builds keep the Hunspell fallback.
2026-07-13 20:27:58 +05:30
github-actions[bot] 4975e76358 chore(release): v0.1.11 2026-07-13 14:51:25 +00:00
github-actions[bot] efeb64d289 chore(release): v0.1.10 2026-06-27 13:49:24 +00:00
pj cd41a02737 changes 2026-06-27 09:48:42 -04:00
pj 5a2ada9e9e ci(release): pin macOS runner to macos-26 2026-06-27 09:48:42 -04:00
github-actions[bot] 782a4c3dee chore(release): v0.1.9 2026-06-27 13:48:19 +00:00
github-actions[bot] f8742c440f chore(release): v0.1.8 2026-06-27 13:32:54 +00:00
pj c090fb595f changes 2026-06-27 09:32:22 -04:00
pj 11df8697b1 changes 2026-06-23 11:29:54 -04:00
pj f47e822497 changes 2026-06-22 21:26:03 -04:00
github-actions[bot] 9e714c8997 chore(release): v0.1.7 2026-06-22 21:14:30 +00:00
pj cc26e1d51c changes 2026-06-22 17:12:44 -04:00
github-actions[bot] 530e260903 chore(release): v0.1.6 2026-06-22 20:52:01 +00:00
pj 74a684498a changes 2026-06-22 16:51:39 -04:00
pj 3fccb17060 fix(ci): provision google-credentials.json before release build
include_str! embeds google-credentials.json at compile time, but the
file is gitignored, so CI checkouts had no file and the Rust crate
failed to compile on all three platforms. Write it from the
GOOGLE_CREDENTIALS secret, falling back to the committed example
placeholders so the build always succeeds.
2026-06-22 16:50:28 -04:00
pj 9acb3aae3c changes 2026-06-22 16:42:03 -04:00
github-actions[bot] fb6f14165f chore(release): v0.1.5 2026-06-22 20:20:02 +00:00
pj c79897c3db changes 2026-06-22 16:19:24 -04:00
pj 5cc083d670 changes 2026-06-22 16:11:43 -04:00
pj ecc94e6c31 refactor(fonts): use DEFAULT_FONTS as settings fallback
Avoids leaking a pairing's id/label into the stored book fonts.
2026-06-22 14:34:45 -04:00
pj baf1154683 feat(fonts): embed selected fonts in EPUB export
Embed each bundled font the book uses (fetched in the webview) with its
own @font-face, point body text and headings at the chosen families, and
drop the hardcoded Literata injection in the packager. System fonts are
referenced by name with a serif fallback since they cannot be embedded.
2026-06-22 14:30:36 -04:00
pj 7a2d7c6aff feat(fonts): honor selected fonts in PDF export
Interpolate the book's body and heading families into the Typst
preamble, title page, cover, and contents. Embed the needed bundled
fonts and load any chosen system fonts (via fontdb) into the Typst
engine so PDF preview and export match the on-screen fonts.
2026-06-22 14:27:51 -04:00
pj 9a38976000 feat(fonts): add font picker to book setup
Add a Typography section to book setup with one-click preset pairings,
an advanced body/heading picker, and a live sample. Enumerate installed
fonts via a new list_system_fonts Tauri command (fontdb) so they appear
alongside the bundled set, with a note that system fonts may not embed
in exports.
2026-06-22 14:24:09 -04:00
pj 28367b6670 feat(fonts): apply per-book body and heading fonts on screen
Split heading typography onto a new --font-heading token and set both
--font-book and --font-heading from the active book's fonts when it
opens or its setup changes. Declare @font-face for the new bundled
fonts.
2026-06-22 14:19:01 -04:00
pj 124c1947c1 feat(fonts): add bundled fonts and per-book font model
Add EB Garamond, Lora, Source Serif 4, and Fraunces (OFL variable
fonts) and a font catalog with body/heading pairings. Store the chosen
fonts per book in BookSettings.fonts, defaulting to Literata so existing
books are unchanged.
2026-06-22 14:18:57 -04:00
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name: App Store
on:
workflow_dispatch:
inputs:
tag:
description: "Tag to build, e.g. v0.1.18. Defaults to the latest release."
required: false
type: string
upload:
description: "Upload to App Store Connect. Off means build and sign only."
required: false
default: true
type: boolean
permissions:
contents: read
jobs:
build:
runs-on: macos-26
steps:
- name: Resolve the tag
id: tag
env:
GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
REPO: ${{ github.repository }}
run: |
TAG="${{ inputs.tag }}"
if [ -z "$TAG" ]; then
TAG=$(gh release view --repo "$REPO" --json tagName --jq .tagName)
fi
echo "tag=$TAG" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
echo "Building $TAG for the App Store"
- uses: actions/checkout@v7
with:
ref: ${{ steps.tag.outputs.tag }}
- uses: actions/setup-node@v6
with:
node-version: 26
- uses: pnpm/action-setup@v6
with:
version: 10
- name: Install Rust
uses: dtolnay/rust-toolchain@stable
with:
targets: aarch64-apple-darwin,x86_64-apple-darwin
- uses: swatinem/rust-cache@v2
with:
workspaces: src-tauri -> target
- name: Install frontend dependencies
run: pnpm install --frozen-lockfile
- name: Provision Google credentials
env:
GOOGLE_CREDENTIALS: ${{ secrets.GOOGLE_CREDENTIALS }}
run: |
if [ -n "$GOOGLE_CREDENTIALS" ]; then
printf '%s' "$GOOGLE_CREDENTIALS" > google-credentials.json
else
echo "::error::GOOGLE_CREDENTIALS is not set; an App Store build with placeholder credentials would ship a broken backup feature."
exit 1
fi
- name: Import the App Store certificates
env:
APP_CERT: ${{ secrets.MAS_APP_CERTIFICATE }}
APP_CERT_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.MAS_APP_CERTIFICATE_PASSWORD }}
INSTALLER_CERT: ${{ secrets.MAS_INSTALLER_CERTIFICATE }}
INSTALLER_CERT_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.MAS_INSTALLER_CERTIFICATE_PASSWORD }}
PROFILE: ${{ secrets.MAS_PROVISION_PROFILE }}
run: |
keychain="$RUNNER_TEMP/appstore.keychain-db"
password=$(uuidgen)
security create-keychain -p "$password" "$keychain"
security set-keychain-settings -lut 3600 "$keychain"
security unlock-keychain -p "$password" "$keychain"
import_p12() {
printf '%s' "$1" | base64 --decode > "$RUNNER_TEMP/cert.p12"
security import "$RUNNER_TEMP/cert.p12" -k "$keychain" -P "$2" \
-T /usr/bin/codesign -T /usr/bin/productbuild
rm -f "$RUNNER_TEMP/cert.p12"
}
import_p12 "$APP_CERT" "$APP_CERT_PASSWORD"
import_p12 "$INSTALLER_CERT" "$INSTALLER_CERT_PASSWORD"
# Without this, codesign on a headless runner blocks on a keychain prompt nobody can
# answer and the job hangs until it times out.
security set-key-partition-list -S apple-tool:,apple: -k "$password" "$keychain" > /dev/null
security list-keychains -d user -s "$keychain" login.keychain-db
printf '%s' "$PROFILE" | base64 --decode > "$RUNNER_TEMP/margin.provisionprofile"
security find-identity -v "$keychain"
- name: Build the sandboxed bundle
run: |
# No APPLE_SIGNING_IDENTITY here on purpose: mas-package.sh signs, because the
# provisioning profile has to be inside the bundle before codesign runs.
pnpm tauri build --target universal-apple-darwin --config src-tauri/tauri.appstore.conf.json --bundles app
- name: Sign, package and upload
env:
APPLE_TEAM_ID: ${{ secrets.APPLE_TEAM_ID }}
MAS_APP_IDENTITY: ${{ secrets.MAS_APP_IDENTITY }}
MAS_INSTALLER_IDENTITY: ${{ secrets.MAS_INSTALLER_IDENTITY }}
MAS_PROVISION_PROFILE: ${{ runner.temp }}/margin.provisionprofile
MAS_BUILD_NUMBER: ${{ github.run_number }}
APPLE_API_KEY_ID: ${{ secrets.APPLE_API_KEY_ID }}
APPLE_API_ISSUER: ${{ secrets.APPLE_API_ISSUER }}
APPLE_API_KEY_P8: ${{ secrets.APPLE_API_KEY_P8 }}
MAS_UPLOAD: ${{ inputs.upload && '1' || '' }}
run: |
mkdir -p ~/private_keys
printf '%s' "$APPLE_API_KEY_P8" | base64 --decode > ~/private_keys/AuthKey_$APPLE_API_KEY_ID.p8
chmod 600 ~/private_keys/AuthKey_$APPLE_API_KEY_ID.p8
./scripts/mas-package.sh
- uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
if: always()
with:
name: margin-appstore-pkg
path: target-mas/*.pkg
if-no-files-found: warn
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jq --arg v "$VERSION" '.version = $v' src-tauri/tauri.conf.json > "$tmp" && mv "$tmp" src-tauri/tauri.conf.json
jq --arg v "$VERSION" '.version = $v' package.json > "$tmp" && mv "$tmp" package.json
sed -i "0,/^version = \".*\"/s//version = \"$VERSION\"/" src-tauri/Cargo.toml
# Cargo.lock records margin-app's own version, so bumping only Cargo.toml leaves the
# lock a release behind and the next build rewrites it under whoever checked it out.
awk -v v="$VERSION" '
/^name = "margin-app"$/ { print; getline; sub(/^version = ".*"/, "version = \"" v "\""); print; next }
{ print }
' src-tauri/Cargo.lock > "$tmp" && mv "$tmp" src-tauri/Cargo.lock
- name: Commit and tag
env:
@@ -51,7 +57,7 @@ jobs:
run: |
git config user.name "github-actions[bot]"
git config user.email "github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com"
git add src-tauri/tauri.conf.json package.json src-tauri/Cargo.toml
git add src-tauri/tauri.conf.json package.json src-tauri/Cargo.toml src-tauri/Cargo.lock
git commit -m "chore(release): $TAG"
for attempt in 1 2 3 4 5; do
git fetch origin main
@@ -85,7 +91,7 @@ jobs:
fail-fast: false
matrix:
include:
- os: macos-latest
- os: macos-26
args: "--target universal-apple-darwin --config src-tauri/tauri.release.conf.json"
rust-targets: "aarch64-apple-darwin,x86_64-apple-darwin"
- os: ubuntu-latest
@@ -137,16 +143,59 @@ jobs:
- name: Install frontend dependencies
run: pnpm install --frozen-lockfile
- name: Provision Google credentials
shell: bash
env:
GOOGLE_CREDENTIALS: ${{ secrets.GOOGLE_CREDENTIALS }}
run: |
if [ -n "$GOOGLE_CREDENTIALS" ]; then
printf '%s' "$GOOGLE_CREDENTIALS" > google-credentials.json
echo "Wrote google-credentials.json from GOOGLE_CREDENTIALS secret."
else
cp google-credentials.example.json google-credentials.json
echo "::warning::GOOGLE_CREDENTIALS secret not set, embedding placeholder credentials; Google Drive backup will be disabled in this release."
fi
- name: Provision Apple notarization key
if: runner.os == 'macOS'
shell: bash
env:
KEY_P8: ${{ secrets.APPLE_API_KEY_P8 }}
run: |
if [ -z "$KEY_P8" ]; then
echo "::warning::APPLE_API_KEY_P8 is not set, so the macOS bundle will be ad-hoc signed and Gatekeeper will refuse to open it."
exit 0
fi
printf '%s' "$KEY_P8" | base64 --decode > "$RUNNER_TEMP/apple-api-key.p8"
chmod 600 "$RUNNER_TEMP/apple-api-key.p8"
echo "APPLE_API_KEY_PATH=$RUNNER_TEMP/apple-api-key.p8" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
- name: Build and upload
uses: tauri-apps/tauri-action@v0
env:
GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
TAURI_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY: ${{ secrets.TAURI_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY }}
TAURI_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.TAURI_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY_PASSWORD }}
APPLE_CERTIFICATE: ${{ secrets.APPLE_CERTIFICATE }}
APPLE_CERTIFICATE_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.APPLE_CERTIFICATE_PASSWORD }}
APPLE_SIGNING_IDENTITY: ${{ secrets.APPLE_SIGNING_IDENTITY }}
APPLE_API_ISSUER: ${{ secrets.APPLE_API_ISSUER }}
APPLE_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.APPLE_API_KEY_ID }}
with:
releaseId: ${{ needs.prepare.outputs.release_id }}
args: ${{ matrix.args }}
- name: Verify the bundle is signed and notarized
if: runner.os == 'macOS' && env.APPLE_API_KEY_PATH != ''
shell: bash
run: |
app="src-tauri/target/universal-apple-darwin/release/bundle/macos/Margin.app"
codesign --verify --deep --strict --verbose=2 "$app"
# Gatekeeper only says "accepted" once the notarization ticket is stapled to the bundle,
# so this is the check that a user double-clicking the dmg will actually get past.
spctl --assess --type execute --verbose=4 "$app"
xcrun stapler validate "$app"
publish:
needs: [prepare, build]
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
@@ -162,8 +211,49 @@ jobs:
jq '.platforms | keys' latest.json
for key in darwin-aarch64 darwin-x86_64 linux-x86_64 windows-x86_64; do
if ! jq -e ".platforms[\"$key\"].url" latest.json > /dev/null; then
echo "::error::latest.json is missing platform '$key' — refusing to publish a partial update manifest. Re-run the release."
echo "::error::latest.json is missing platform '$key'. Refusing to publish a partial update manifest; re-run the release."
exit 1
fi
done
gh release edit "$TAG" --repo "$REPO" --draft=false --latest
homebrew:
needs: [prepare, publish]
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: Point the cask at the release that just went out
env:
GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
DEPLOY_KEY: ${{ secrets.HOMEBREW_TAP_DEPLOY_KEY }}
REPO: ${{ github.repository }}
TAG: ${{ needs.prepare.outputs.tag }}
VERSION: ${{ needs.prepare.outputs.version }}
TAP: priyanshujain/homebrew-margin
run: |
if [ -z "$DEPLOY_KEY" ]; then
echo "::warning::HOMEBREW_TAP_DEPLOY_KEY is not set, so $TAG is published but the Homebrew cask still points at the previous version."
exit 0
fi
dmg="Margin_${VERSION}_universal.dmg"
gh release download "$TAG" --repo "$REPO" --pattern "$dmg" --output "$dmg"
sha=$(sha256sum "$dmg" | cut -d' ' -f1)
# A deploy key rather than a token: it reaches the tap and nothing else, so a leak from
# this job cannot touch the app repos.
mkdir -p ~/.ssh
printf '%s\n' "$DEPLOY_KEY" > ~/.ssh/tap_key
chmod 600 ~/.ssh/tap_key
ssh-keyscan github.com >> ~/.ssh/known_hosts 2>/dev/null
export GIT_SSH_COMMAND="ssh -i ~/.ssh/tap_key -o IdentitiesOnly=yes"
git clone --depth 1 "[email protected]:$TAP.git" tap
cd tap
sed -i -E "s|^ version \".*\"| version \"$VERSION\"|" Casks/margin.rb
sed -i -E "s|^ sha256 \".*\"| sha256 \"$sha\"|" Casks/margin.rb
git config user.name "github-actions[bot]"
git config user.email "github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com"
git add Casks/margin.rb
git commit -m "margin $VERSION"
git push
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# Tauri build output
src-tauri/target/
# Google OAuth desktop client (real values, never commit)
/google-credentials.json
/client_secret_*.json
# Screenshots & Playwright MCP artifacts
.playwright-mcp/
/*.png
# App Store packaging output
target-mas/
# Beta app review contact details. Apple requires a real phone number and this repo is public.
appstore/metadata/review_phone.txt
appstore/metadata/review_email.txt
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## Project Guidelines
- After completing changes, build and install the updated app for manual testing.
- Do not call the task done until it is fully complete and tested.
- Do not dismiss bug as a pre-existing" issue even if it was present before your change. It does not matter, it's still your responsibility to fix it. When you see a bug, fix it. Don't ignore it.
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## Git Commit Rules
- Use conventional commit format: `feat|fix|refactor|docs|test|chore|ci(scope): message`
- Do not make branches, commit in main only
- Commit message is one plain lowercase line. No type prefix, no scope, no body.
- Never use `git add .` or `git add -A`. Always stage specific files by name.
- Don't batch multiple unrelated changes into one commit.
- Commit early and often. A working 5-line change is better than a pending 200-line change.
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# Functional Source License, Version 1.1, MIT Future License
## Abbreviation
FSL-1.1-MIT
## Notice
Copyright 2026 Priyanshu Jain
## Terms and Conditions
### Licensor ("We")
The party offering the Software under these Terms and Conditions.
### The Software
The "Software" is each version of the software that we make available under
these Terms and Conditions, as indicated by our inclusion of these Terms and
Conditions with the Software.
### License Grant
Subject to your compliance with this License Grant and the Patents,
Redistribution and Trademark clauses below, we hereby grant you the right to
use, copy, modify, create derivative works, publicly perform, publicly display
and redistribute the Software for any Permitted Purpose identified below.
### Permitted Purpose
A Permitted Purpose is any purpose other than a Competing Use. A Competing Use
means making the Software available to others in a commercial product or
service that:
1. substitutes for the Software;
2. substitutes for any other product or service we offer using the Software
that exists as of the date we make the Software available; or
3. offers the same or substantially similar functionality as the Software.
Permitted Purposes specifically include using the Software:
1. for your internal use and access;
2. for non-commercial education;
3. for non-commercial research; and
4. in connection with professional services that you provide to a licensee
using the Software in accordance with these Terms and Conditions.
### Patents
To the extent your use for a Permitted Purpose would necessarily infringe our
patents, the license grant above includes a license under our patents. If you
make a claim against any party that the Software infringes or contributes to
the infringement of any patent, then your patent license to the Software ends
immediately.
### Redistribution
The Terms and Conditions apply to all copies, modifications and derivatives of
the Software.
If you redistribute any copies, modifications or derivatives of the Software,
you must include a copy of or a link to these Terms and Conditions and not
remove any copyright notices provided in or with the Software.
### Disclaimer
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION WARRANTIES OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE, MERCHANTABILITY, TITLE OR NON-INFRINGEMENT.
IN NO EVENT WILL WE HAVE ANY LIABILITY TO YOU ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THE
SOFTWARE, INCLUDING INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES,
EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN INFORMED OF THEIR POSSIBILITY IN ADVANCE.
### Trademarks
Except for displaying the License Details and identifying us as the origin of
the Software, you have no right under these Terms and Conditions to use our
trademarks, trade names, service marks or product names.
## Grant of Future License
We hereby irrevocably grant you an additional license to use the Software under
the MIT license that is effective on the second anniversary of the date we make
the Software available. On or after that date, you may use the Software under
the MIT license, in which case the following will apply:
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of
this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in
the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to
use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies
of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do
so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.
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# margin
An offline desktop app for writing books and exporting them to print-ready PDF and reflowable EPUB — a focused, free alternative to InDesign for text-first books (novels, non-fiction).
Write your book. Own every word. A calm, offline studio to write, format, and publish your book to every store and to print.
## Stack
Download it from [margin.73ai.org](https://margin.73ai.org), or install it with Homebrew:
- **Tauri 2** (Rust shell) — offline by construction; the entire export pipeline runs locally, nothing hits the network.
- **React + TipTap** — the semantic writing surface.
- **Typst** (embedded as a Rust crate) — print-ready PDF with real book typography.
- **Built-in EPUB3** generator + zip packager.
One semantic document feeds three renderers — the editor, the PDF, and the EPUB — from a single design-token theme (**Quiet Press**: Literata for the page, Hanken Grotesk for the chrome). Both fonts are bundled.
## Develop
```sh
pnpm install
pnpm tauri dev # the real desktop app: live PDF dock, file dialogs, PDF/EPUB export
pnpm dev # browser-only UI preview (Tauri APIs are inert)
```
brew tap priyanshujain/margin
brew trust priyanshujain/margin
brew install --cask margin
```
The first `tauri dev` build is slow because it compiles Typst.
How releases are signed and where they go is in [docs/publishing.md](docs/publishing.md).
## Using it
- A book saves as a single `.margin` file (JSON). Open / Save with ⌘O / ⌘S.
- Click the title in the top bar for **Book setup** (title, author, ISBN, trim size, language).
- Insert images from the toolbar and choose a placement (inline / full-width / full-page / float).
- Export to **PDF** or **EPUB** from the titlebar menu.
## Layout
- `src/editor/` — TipTap editor, extensions, figure block, floating toolbar.
- `src/components/` — app shell, preview dock, book-setup panel, pdf.js renderer.
- `src/export/` — `typst.ts` (book → Typst source), `epub.ts` (book → EPUB3 files), `exporters.ts`.
- `src/store/`, `src/model/` — document model and state.
- `src-tauri/src/` — `pdf.rs` (Typst compile), `epub.rs` (zip packager), `project.rs` (file IO).
Licensed [FSL-1.1-MIT](LICENSE): use it for anything except building a competing product, and every version turns MIT two years after its release.
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[email protected]
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Margin is an offline writing studio. Write without anything in the way, see your words set in real typography as you go, and export a print-ready PDF or an EPUB when you are ready.
This build runs in the App Store sandbox, which is new, so the things most worth trying are the ones that touch the file system: importing, exporting a PDF or EPUB, and the optional Google Drive backup. If any of those fail where they used to work, that is the bug worth reporting.
There is no account and nothing to sign up for.
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Margin is a calm, offline writing studio. Write without anything in the way, see your words set in real typography as you go, and keep every one of them on your own machine.
WRITE
A quiet editor that stays out of the way, with your work down one side and a live page preview down the other, showing your words as they will actually appear rather than as a word processor imagines them.
PROOF
Spelling and grammar are checked as you write, using the same system engine as the rest of macOS. Your words are never sent anywhere to be checked.
PUBLISH
When you are ready, export a print-ready PDF set in real typography, with proper margins, page numbers and running heads. Or export EPUB, ready for Apple Books, Kindle, Kobo and the rest.
YOURS
No account. No sign-up. No subscription. Your work is a single file on your computer that you can copy, rename, back up, or move to another machine. Nothing is locked inside a library you cannot get out of. If you would like a backup, Margin can save one to your own Google Drive, in your account and under your control.
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https://margin.73ai.org
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Margin: The Writing App
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https://margin.73ai.org/privacy
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Write without anything in the way. Real typography, spelling and grammar on your own machine, and export to PDF or EPUB when you are ready.
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Margin is a writing app. There are no accounts and no demo credentials are needed: open it and
start writing.
com.apple.security.network.server
This is for the optional Google Drive backup, and that is the only thing in the app that uses it.
Google's OAuth flow for installed apps returns the authorization code by redirecting the user's
browser to a loopback address. Margin binds a listener on 127.0.0.1 on an ephemeral port, opens the
consent page in the default browser, accepts the one redirect that comes back from that local
browser, reads the code and closes the socket. The App Sandbox refuses that bind without
com.apple.security.network.server, and sign-in then hangs on a browser tab with nowhere to return
to. Google withdrew the out-of-band alternative, so loopback is the only flow still available to a
desktop app.
The socket is bound to 127.0.0.1 only and never to a routable interface, so nothing off this Mac
can reach it. It exists only while a sign-in is in progress, times out after 120 seconds, and
rejects any request whose state parameter does not match the one just generated.
To see it: the cloud icon at the top of the opening library screen opens Backup and Sync, and
"Connect Google Drive" there starts the flow. Finishing it needs a Google account of your own.
Everything else in the app works without one.
com.apple.security.network.client
Used only to reach googleapis.com for that same backup, which stays off until the user connects
their own Google account. Nothing else Margin does touches the network: writing, the page preview,
spelling, grammar and both exports all run on the machine.
com.apple.security.files.user-selected.read-write
Importing an EPUB and exporting a PDF or EPUB go through the standard open and save panels, so the
app only ever reaches the file the user picked. The library itself lives in the app container.
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# Mac App Store screenshots
Five 2560x1600 frames for the Margin listing: `frame-1.png` through `frame-5.png`.
Each frame is an HTML page in `src/`, rendered at a 2560x1600 viewport with a device pixel ratio of
1. The app window inside the frame is not a bitmap capture. It is a CSS rebuild of the real app in
`src/app.css`, with rules and values lifted from `shared/css/tokens.css` and `src/styles/app.css`,
laid out at the app's own 1440x900 and scaled once into the 1600x1000 window well. That is why the
type is sharp: it is real text at render time, not a resampled screenshot.
| File | Frame | Shows |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `frame-1.png` | Write | The writing surface, preview dock closed |
| `frame-2.png` | Preview | The editor beside the live page preview |
| `frame-3.png` | Proof | Three proofing marks and an open spelling popover |
| `frame-4.png` | Publish | The PDF export preview panel over the editor |
| `frame-5.png` | Yours | The library, no sign-in anywhere |
## Re-rendering
Serve this directory and screenshot each page at a 2560x1600 viewport, dpr 1:
```
python3 -m http.server 8731
```
Load `http://127.0.0.1:8731/src/frame-1.html` and capture the viewport to `frame-1.png` here. Check
every output with `sips -g pixelWidth -g pixelHeight frame-*.png`; App Store Connect rejects
anything that is not exactly 2560x1600.
Type comes from Google Fonts (Literata for headlines and prose, Hanken Grotesk for the interface),
so the render needs a network connection.
## Editing
`src/frame.css` is the frame surface: the eyebrow, headline, supporting line and the window well.
Every length in it is a real output pixel.
`src/app.css` is the app window. Every length in it is an app pixel, so a value copied out of the
product's own stylesheet can go in unchanged. Keep it that way; the whole point is that the
screenshots stay honest about what the app looks like.
Copy lives in each `src/frame-N.html`, along with that frame's window markup, since every frame
shows a different state of the app.
## Sample content
The frames use "The Quiet Hours" by Elena Marsh, an invented author. The prose is original and
written for this listing, so it is safe to publish. If you change it, keep it general non-fiction
rather than novel writing: the listing positions Margin as a writing app, not as software for one
genre.
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/* The Margin window, rebuilt in CSS so it renders crisply at any scale.
Rules and values are lifted from the app itself: shared/css/tokens.css and
src/styles/app.css. Authored at the app's own pixel sizes in a 1440x900
window, then scaled once by frame.css to fill the 1600x1000 window well. */
:root {
--font-ui: "Hanken Grotesk", ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, sans-serif;
--font-book: "Literata", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;
--font-heading: "Literata", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;
--r-sm: 5px;
--r-md: 8px;
--r-lg: 12px;
--pane-sidebar: 248px;
--pane-dock: 384px;
--measure: 46em;
--titlebar-h: 46px;
--t-1: 11px;
--t-2: 12px;
--t-3: 13px;
--t-4: 15px;
--paper: #fcfbf7;
--shell: #f1ece2;
--sidebar: #ece6da;
--raised: #fbfaf6;
--ink: #23201b;
--ink-soft: #6b6458;
--ink-faint: #9b9484;
--line: #e3ddce;
--line-strong: #d6cfbd;
--accent: #2a2622;
--accent-ink: #100e0b;
--accent-wash: rgba(35, 32, 27, 0.08);
--accent-contrast: #faf7f0;
--danger: #b4453a;
--danger-ink: #963327;
--shadow-page: 0 1px 2px rgba(35, 32, 27, 0.06), 0 14px 30px rgba(35, 32, 27, 0.09);
--shadow-pop: 0 8px 24px rgba(35, 32, 27, 0.14);
}
.app {
position: relative;
width: 1440px;
height: 900px;
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
overflow: hidden;
background: var(--shell);
color: var(--ink);
font-family: var(--font-ui);
font-size: var(--t-3);
line-height: normal;
text-align: left;
}
.app svg {
flex: none;
fill: none;
stroke: currentColor;
stroke-width: 1.6;
stroke-linecap: round;
stroke-linejoin: round;
}
/* Title bar ---------------------------------------------------------------- */
.titlebar {
flex: none;
position: relative;
z-index: 45;
height: var(--titlebar-h);
display: grid;
grid-template-columns: 1fr auto 1fr;
align-items: center;
padding: 0 14px 0 84px;
background: var(--shell);
border-bottom: 1px solid var(--line);
}
.lights {
position: absolute;
left: 20px;
top: 50%;
transform: translateY(-50%);
display: flex;
gap: 8px;
}
.lights i {
width: 12px;
height: 12px;
border-radius: 50%;
}
.lights i:nth-child(1) {
background: #ff5f57;
}
.lights i:nth-child(2) {
background: #febc2e;
}
.lights i:nth-child(3) {
background: #28c840;
}
.titlebar .lead {
grid-column: 1;
justify-self: start;
display: flex;
gap: 4px;
}
.titlebar .doc-title {
grid-column: 2;
font-size: var(--t-2);
letter-spacing: 0.02em;
color: var(--ink-soft);
}
.titlebar .actions {
grid-column: 3;
justify-self: end;
display: flex;
gap: 4px;
}
.icon-btn {
width: 30px;
height: 30px;
display: grid;
place-items: center;
border-radius: var(--r-sm);
color: var(--ink-soft);
}
.icon-btn[data-on="true"] {
color: var(--accent);
background: var(--accent-wash);
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 1px var(--line-strong);
}
.body {
flex: 1;
display: flex;
min-height: 0;
}
/* Sidebar ------------------------------------------------------------------ */
.sidebar {
width: var(--pane-sidebar);
flex: none;
background: var(--sidebar);
border-right: 1px solid var(--line);
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
padding: 6px 0 10px;
overflow: hidden;
}
.brand {
display: flex;
align-items: center;
gap: 6px;
padding: 12px 18px 16px;
color: var(--ink-faint);
}
.brand .back-label {
font-size: var(--t-3);
font-weight: 600;
color: var(--ink-soft);
}
.cover-item {
position: relative;
display: flex;
align-items: center;
gap: 11px;
margin: 2px 10px 4px;
padding: 8px 12px;
border-radius: var(--r-sm);
color: var(--ink-soft);
font-size: var(--t-3);
}
.cover-item .title {
font-weight: 500;
}
.cover-item svg {
color: var(--ink-faint);
}
.add-page {
margin: 2px 12px;
padding: 8px 10px;
display: flex;
align-items: center;
gap: 8px;
border-radius: var(--r-sm);
font-size: var(--t-3);
color: var(--ink-faint);
}
.chapters {
list-style: none;
margin: 6px 0 0;
padding: 0 10px;
flex: 1;
overflow: hidden;
}
.nav-label {
padding: 4px 22px;
margin: 0;
font-size: var(--t-1);
font-weight: 600;
letter-spacing: 0.14em;
text-transform: uppercase;
color: var(--ink-faint);
}
.nav-section + .nav-section {
margin-top: 12px;
}
.chapter {
position: relative;
display: flex;
align-items: baseline;
gap: 11px;
padding: 8px 12px;
border-radius: var(--r-sm);
color: var(--ink-soft);
}
.chapter[data-active="true"] {
background: var(--paper);
color: var(--ink);
box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(35, 32, 27, 0.05);
}
.chapter[data-active="true"]::before {
content: "";
position: absolute;
left: -10px;
top: 8px;
bottom: 8px;
width: 3px;
background: var(--accent);
border-radius: 0 2px 2px 0;
}
.chapter .num {
font-size: var(--t-1);
color: var(--ink-faint);
width: 13px;
font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums;
}
.chapter[data-active="true"] .num {
color: var(--accent);
}
.chapter .text {
flex: 1;
min-width: 0;
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
gap: 2px;
}
.chapter .title {
min-width: 0;
overflow: hidden;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
white-space: nowrap;
}
.chapter .meta {
font-size: var(--t-1);
letter-spacing: 0.01em;
color: var(--ink-faint);
}
.chapter .grip {
display: grid;
place-items: center;
align-self: center;
margin: 0 -5px 0 -6px;
color: var(--ink-faint);
opacity: 0;
}
.chapter[data-active="true"] .grip {
opacity: 0.55;
}
.add-chapter {
margin: 8px 10px 4px;
width: calc(100% - 20px);
padding: 9px 12px;
display: flex;
align-items: center;
justify-content: center;
gap: 8px;
border-radius: var(--r-sm);
color: var(--ink-faint);
border: 1px dashed var(--line-strong);
}
/* Writing surface ---------------------------------------------------------- */
.editor-pane {
flex: 1;
min-width: 0;
background: var(--paper);
overflow: hidden;
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
align-items: center;
}
.sheet {
width: 100%;
max-width: var(--measure);
padding: 104px 24px 200px;
}
.sheet[data-width="wide"] {
max-width: 62em;
}
.chapter-opener {
text-align: center;
margin: 0 0 3.4rem;
}
.chapter-num {
font-family: var(--font-ui);
font-size: var(--t-1);
font-weight: 600;
letter-spacing: 0.28em;
text-transform: uppercase;
color: var(--ink-faint);
margin: 0;
}
.chapter-title {
font-family: var(--font-heading);
font-weight: 500;
font-size: 31px;
line-height: 1.16;
letter-spacing: -0.01em;
margin: 15px 0 0;
}
.prose {
font-family: var(--font-book);
color: var(--ink);
font-optical-sizing: auto;
}
.prose p {
font-size: 19px;
line-height: 1.68;
margin: 0;
text-align: justify;
hyphens: auto;
-webkit-hyphens: auto;
}
.prose p[data-indent="true"] {
text-indent: 1.3em;
}
.prose .first::first-letter {
float: left;
font-size: 3.1em;
line-height: 0.82;
padding: 0.05em 0.09em 0 0;
font-weight: 500;
}
.caret {
display: inline-block;
width: 1.5px;
height: 1.05em;
background: var(--ink);
vertical-align: -0.18em;
margin-left: 1px;
}
/* Proofing ----------------------------------------------------------------- */
.proof-mark {
border-radius: 2px;
text-decoration: underline;
text-decoration-thickness: 2px;
text-underline-offset: 3px;
-webkit-box-decoration-break: clone;
box-decoration-break: clone;
}
.proof-mark.sev-error {
background: rgba(180, 69, 58, 0.13);
text-decoration-color: #b4453a;
}
.proof-mark.sev-warn {
background: rgba(168, 119, 24, 0.16);
text-decoration-color: #9c6e16;
}
.proof-mark.sev-suggest {
background: rgba(47, 110, 79, 0.13);
text-decoration-color: #2f6e4f;
}
.proof-anchor {
position: relative;
}
.proof-pop {
position: absolute;
top: calc(100% + 6px);
left: 50%;
transform: translateX(-50%);
z-index: 50;
width: 264px;
padding: 8px;
background: var(--paper);
border: 1px solid var(--line);
border-radius: var(--r-md);
box-shadow: var(--shadow-pop);
font-family: var(--font-ui);
text-align: left;
text-indent: 0;
}
.proof-pop-kind {
display: inline-block;
margin: 0 0 6px 2px;
padding: 2px 8px;
border-radius: 999px;
font-size: var(--t-1);
font-weight: 600;
letter-spacing: 0.04em;
text-transform: uppercase;
}
.proof-pop-kind.sev-error {
background: rgba(180, 69, 58, 0.14);
color: var(--danger-ink);
}
.proof-pop-msg {
display: block;
padding: 2px 4px 8px;
font-size: var(--t-2);
color: var(--ink-soft);
line-height: 1.4;
}
.proof-pop-suggestions {
display: flex;
flex-wrap: wrap;
gap: 4px;
}
.proof-suggestion {
padding: 5px 10px;
border-radius: var(--r-sm);
background: var(--accent-wash);
color: var(--ink);
font-size: var(--t-2);
font-weight: 600;
}
.proof-suggestion.is-hover {
background: var(--accent);
color: var(--accent-contrast);
}
.proof-pop-actions {
display: flex;
gap: 4px;
margin-top: 8px;
padding-top: 8px;
border-top: 1px solid var(--line);
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flex: none;
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align-items: center;
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font-weight: 600;
letter-spacing: 0.14em;
text-transform: uppercase;
color: var(--ink-faint);
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font-size: var(--t-1);
color: var(--ink-faint);
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display: flex;
align-items: center;
gap: 10px;
}
.trim-select {
display: inline-flex;
align-items: center;
gap: 7px;
font-family: var(--font-ui);
font-size: var(--t-2);
color: var(--ink-soft);
background: var(--raised);
border: 1px solid var(--line);
border-radius: var(--r-sm);
padding: 4px 8px;
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.trim-select svg {
width: 11px;
height: 11px;
color: var(--ink-faint);
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.dock-col {
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
gap: 16px;
}
.page {
position: relative;
background: #fffefb;
border: 1px solid var(--line);
border-radius: 2px;
box-shadow: var(--shadow-page);
aspect-ratio: 6 / 9;
padding: 11% 12% 13%;
overflow: hidden;
flex: none;
}
.page .p-opener {
text-align: center;
margin-bottom: 15px;
}
.page .p-num {
font-family: var(--font-ui);
font-size: 6px;
font-weight: 600;
letter-spacing: 0.24em;
text-transform: uppercase;
color: var(--ink-faint);
margin: 0;
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.page .p-title {
font-family: var(--font-heading);
font-size: 12px;
margin: 5px 0 0;
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.page p {
font-family: var(--font-book);
font-size: 6.6px;
line-height: 1.5;
text-align: justify;
hyphens: auto;
-webkit-hyphens: auto;
margin: 0;
color: #2b2720;
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.page p[data-indent="true"] {
text-indent: 1.2em;
}
.page .folio {
position: absolute;
left: 12%;
right: 12%;
bottom: 5.5%;
text-align: center;
font-family: var(--font-book);
font-size: 6px;
color: var(--ink-faint);
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position: absolute;
inset: 0;
z-index: 55;
background: rgba(35, 32, 27, 0.28);
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backdrop-filter: blur(2px);
}
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position: absolute;
z-index: 56;
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
background: var(--paper);
border: 1px solid var(--line);
border-radius: var(--r-lg);
box-shadow: var(--shadow-pop);
overflow: hidden;
}
.preview-bar {
flex: none;
height: 52px;
display: flex;
align-items: center;
gap: 10px;
padding: 0 12px;
background: var(--paper);
border-bottom: 1px solid var(--line);
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.preview-title {
flex: 1;
min-width: 0;
font-family: var(--font-book);
font-size: 15px;
color: var(--ink);
overflow: hidden;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
white-space: nowrap;
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.preview-count {
font-size: var(--t-2);
color: var(--ink-faint);
font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums;
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display: flex;
align-items: center;
gap: 2px;
}
.preview-zoom span {
width: 44px;
text-align: center;
font-size: var(--t-2);
color: var(--ink-soft);
font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums;
}
.btn-primary {
font-family: var(--font-ui);
font-size: var(--t-3);
font-weight: 500;
padding: 9px 20px;
border-radius: var(--r-sm);
background: var(--accent);
color: var(--accent-contrast);
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.preview-stage {
flex: 1;
overflow: hidden;
padding: 28px;
background: var(--shell);
}
.preview-col {
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
align-items: center;
gap: 16px;
}
.preview-page {
position: relative;
flex: none;
width: 460px;
aspect-ratio: 6 / 9;
background: #fff;
border-radius: 2px;
box-shadow: var(--shadow-page);
overflow: hidden;
padding: 11% 12% 13%;
color: #23201b;
}
.preview-page .p-opener {
text-align: center;
margin-bottom: 22px;
}
.preview-page .p-num {
font-family: var(--font-ui);
font-size: 8.4px;
font-weight: 600;
letter-spacing: 0.24em;
text-transform: uppercase;
color: #9b9484;
margin: 0;
}
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font-family: var(--font-heading);
font-size: 16.8px;
font-weight: 500;
margin: 7px 0 0;
}
.preview-page p {
font-family: var(--font-book);
font-size: 9.2px;
line-height: 1.62;
text-align: justify;
hyphens: auto;
-webkit-hyphens: auto;
margin: 0;
color: #2b2720;
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text-indent: 1.2em;
}
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float: left;
font-size: 3.1em;
line-height: 0.82;
padding: 0.05em 0.09em 0 0;
font-weight: 500;
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position: absolute;
left: 12%;
right: 12%;
bottom: 5.5%;
text-align: center;
font-family: var(--font-book);
font-size: 8.4px;
color: #b3ab9c;
}
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position: relative;
width: 1440px;
height: 900px;
overflow: hidden;
background: var(--shell);
color: var(--ink);
font-family: var(--font-ui);
font-size: var(--t-3);
line-height: normal;
text-align: left;
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flex: none;
fill: none;
stroke: currentColor;
stroke-width: 1.6;
stroke-linecap: round;
stroke-linejoin: round;
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position: relative;
height: 44px;
display: flex;
align-items: center;
justify-content: flex-end;
padding: 0 14px;
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max-width: 1040px;
margin: 0 auto;
padding: 26px 44px 80px;
display: grid;
grid-template-columns: repeat(auto-fill, minmax(168px, 1fr));
gap: 28px;
}
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position: relative;
aspect-ratio: 5 / 7;
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
align-items: center;
justify-content: center;
gap: 9px;
padding: 22px 18px;
text-align: center;
border-radius: 4px;
}
.card-book {
background: var(--paper);
border: 1px solid var(--line);
box-shadow: var(--shadow-page);
}
.card-title {
font-family: var(--font-book);
font-size: 20px;
font-weight: 500;
line-height: 1.18;
color: var(--ink);
}
.card-author {
font-size: var(--t-2);
color: var(--ink-soft);
}
.card-meta {
position: absolute;
left: 14px;
right: 14px;
bottom: 14px;
font-size: var(--t-1);
color: var(--ink-faint);
white-space: nowrap;
overflow: hidden;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
}
.card-action {
background: transparent;
border: 1px dashed var(--line-strong);
color: var(--ink-faint);
font-size: var(--t-3);
}
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<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<title>Margin App Store frame 1</title>
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com" />
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin />
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Hanken+Grotesk:[email protected]&family=Literata:opsz,[email protected],200..900&display=swap" rel="stylesheet" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="frame.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="app.css" />
</head>
<body>
<div class="frame">
<p class="eyebrow">Write</p>
<h1 class="headline">A calm writing studio.</h1>
<p class="support">Your words, set in real typography, with nothing else asking for attention.</p>
<div class="shot"><div class="shot__scale">
<div class="app">
<header class="titlebar">
<span class="lights"><i></i><i></i><i></i></span>
<span class="lead">
<span class="icon-btn" data-on="true"><svg width="16" height="16" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><path d="M3 4.5h18v15H3zM9 4.5v15" /></svg></span>
</span>
<span class="doc-title">The Quiet Hours</span>
<span class="actions">
<span class="icon-btn"><svg width="16" height="16" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><path d="M7 18a4 4 0 0 1 0-8 5 5 0 0 1 9.6-1.3A3.5 3.5 0 0 1 18 18H7z" /></svg></span>
<span class="icon-btn"><svg width="16" height="16" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><path d="M11 4a7 7 0 1 0 0 14 7 7 0 0 0 0-14zM20 20l-4-4" /></svg></span>
<span class="icon-btn" data-on="true"><svg width="16" height="16" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><path d="M4 17l4-10 4 10M5.4 13.4h5.2M15 17l2.5 2.5L22 14" /></svg></span>
<span class="icon-btn"><svg width="16" height="16" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><path d="M4 7h16M4 12h12M4 17h7M13.5 18.5c1-1.2 2-1.2 3 0s2 1.2 3 0" /></svg></span>
<span class="icon-btn"><svg width="16" height="16" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><path d="M3 5v14M21 5v14M7 12h10M7 12l3-3M7 12l3 3M17 12l-3-3M17 12l-3 3" /></svg></span>
<span class="icon-btn"><svg width="16" height="16" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><path d="M5 13v6h14v-6M12 16V3M8 7l4-4 4 4" /></svg></span>
<span class="icon-btn"><svg width="16" height="16" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><path d="M21 12.8A9 9 0 1 1 11.2 3a7 7 0 0 0 9.8 9.8z" /></svg></span>
<span class="icon-btn"><svg width="16" height="16" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><path d="M3 4.5h18v15H3zM14 4.5v15" /></svg></span>
</span>
</header>
<div class="body">
<aside class="sidebar">
<span class="brand">
<svg width="15" height="15" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><path d="M14 7l-5 5 5 5" /></svg>
<span class="back-label">All projects</span>
</span>
<span class="cover-item">
<svg width="15" height="15" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><path d="M5 4h11l3 3v13H5zM16 4v4h3" /></svg>
<span class="title">Cover</span>
</span>
<span class="add-page">
<svg width="15" height="15" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><path d="M12 5v14M5 12h14" /></svg>
<span>Add page</span>
</span>
<ul class="chapters">
<li class="nav-section">
<p class="nav-label">Front matter</p>
<div class="chapter">
<span class="grip"><svg width="14" height="14" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><path d="M9 6h.01M15 6h.01M9 12h.01M15 12h.01M9 18h.01M15 18h.01" /></svg></span>
<span class="text"><span class="title">Title Page</span></span>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<span class="grip"><svg width="14" height="14" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><path d="M9 6h.01M15 6h.01M9 12h.01M15 12h.01M9 18h.01M15 18h.01" /></svg></span>
<span class="text"><span class="title">Epigraph</span></span>
</div>
</li>
<li class="nav-section">
<p class="nav-label">Chapters</p>
<div class="chapter" data-active="true">
<span class="grip"><svg width="14" height="14" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><path d="M9 6h.01M15 6h.01M9 12h.01M15 12h.01M9 18h.01M15 18h.01" /></svg></span>
<span class="num">1</span>
<span class="text">
<span class="title">The Long Morning</span>
<span class="meta">Edited just now</span>
</span>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<span class="grip"><svg width="14" height="14" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><path d="M9 6h.01M15 6h.01M9 12h.01M15 12h.01M9 18h.01M15 18h.01" /></svg></span>
<span class="num">2</span>
<span class="text"><span class="title">On Interruption</span></span>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<span class="grip"><svg width="14" height="14" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><path d="M9 6h.01M15 6h.01M9 12h.01M15 12h.01M9 18h.01M15 18h.01" /></svg></span>
<span class="num">3</span>
<span class="text"><span class="title">What the Draft Knows</span></span>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<span class="grip"><svg width="14" height="14" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><path d="M9 6h.01M15 6h.01M9 12h.01M15 12h.01M9 18h.01M15 18h.01" /></svg></span>
<span class="num">4</span>
<span class="text"><span class="title">A Note on Endings</span></span>
</div>
<span class="add-chapter">
<svg width="16" height="16" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><path d="M12 5v14M5 12h14" /></svg>
<span>New chapter</span>
</span>
</li>
<li class="nav-section">
<p class="nav-label">Back matter</p>
<div class="chapter">
<span class="grip"><svg width="14" height="14" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><path d="M9 6h.01M15 6h.01M9 12h.01M15 12h.01M9 18h.01M15 18h.01" /></svg></span>
<span class="text"><span class="title">About the Author</span></span>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</aside>
<main class="editor-pane">
<div class="sheet">
<div class="chapter-opener">
<p class="chapter-num">Chapter 1</p>
<h1 class="chapter-title">The Long Morning</h1>
</div>
<div class="prose">
<p class="first">
The best hours are the ones nobody asks for. They arrive before the day has decided
what it wants from you, and they leave without ceremony, and what happens in them is
almost never what you planned.
</p>
<p data-indent="true">
I have kept the same desk for eleven years. It is not a good desk. One leg is
shorter than the others and I have never fixed it, because the small tilt reminds
me, every time I sit down, that the work is not going to be perfect either, and that
this has never once stopped anybody.
</p>
<p data-indent="true">
What I have learned about working slowly is that it is not slow. It only looks that
way from the outside. From inside it feels like the only speed at which anything
holds together.
</p>
<p data-indent="true">
There is a particular hour, somewhere between the first coffee and the second, when
the work stops feeling like a performance. Nothing on the page has changed. What has
changed is that you have stopped listening for applause.
</p>
<p data-indent="true">
The trick, if there is one, is to start before you are ready. Readiness is a story
you tell yourself about a future morning that will be calmer than this one, and it
will not be. The calm is something you make, badly at first, out of whatever the day
has left lying around.
</p>
<p data-indent="true">
I write the first sentence standing up. I do not know why this works and I have
stopped asking. Somewhere in the business of not sitting down the sentence loses its
self-consciousness, and by the time I take the chair there is something on the page
to argue with.
</p>
</div>
</div>
</main>
</div>
</div>
</div></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
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<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<title>Margin App Store frame 2</title>
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com" />
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin />
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Hanken+Grotesk:[email protected]&family=Literata:opsz,[email protected],200..900&display=swap" rel="stylesheet" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="frame.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="app.css" />
</head>
<body>
<div class="frame">
<p class="eyebrow">Preview</p>
<h1 class="headline">Typeset as you write.</h1>
<p class="support">A live page preview shows every sentence exactly as it will come out in print.</p>
<div class="shot"><div class="shot__scale">
<div class="app">
<header class="titlebar">
<span class="lights"><i></i><i></i><i></i></span>
<span class="lead">
<span class="icon-btn" data-on="true"><svg width="16" height="16" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><path d="M3 4.5h18v15H3zM9 4.5v15" /></svg></span>
</span>
<span class="doc-title">The Quiet Hours</span>
<span class="actions">
<span class="icon-btn"><svg width="16" height="16" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><path d="M7 18a4 4 0 0 1 0-8 5 5 0 0 1 9.6-1.3A3.5 3.5 0 0 1 18 18H7z" /></svg></span>
<span class="icon-btn"><svg width="16" height="16" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><path d="M11 4a7 7 0 1 0 0 14 7 7 0 0 0 0-14zM20 20l-4-4" /></svg></span>
<span class="icon-btn" data-on="true"><svg width="16" height="16" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><path d="M4 17l4-10 4 10M5.4 13.4h5.2M15 17l2.5 2.5L22 14" /></svg></span>
<span class="icon-btn"><svg width="16" height="16" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><path d="M4 7h16M4 12h12M4 17h7M13.5 18.5c1-1.2 2-1.2 3 0s2 1.2 3 0" /></svg></span>
<span class="icon-btn"><svg width="16" height="16" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><path d="M3 5v14M21 5v14M7 12h10M7 12l3-3M7 12l3 3M17 12l-3-3M17 12l-3 3" /></svg></span>
<span class="icon-btn"><svg width="16" height="16" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><path d="M5 13v6h14v-6M12 16V3M8 7l4-4 4 4" /></svg></span>
<span class="icon-btn"><svg width="16" height="16" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><path d="M21 12.8A9 9 0 1 1 11.2 3a7 7 0 0 0 9.8 9.8z" /></svg></span>
<span class="icon-btn" data-on="true"><svg width="16" height="16" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><path d="M3 4.5h18v15H3zM14 4.5v15" /></svg></span>
</span>
</header>
<div class="body">
<aside class="sidebar">
<span class="brand">
<svg width="15" height="15" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><path d="M14 7l-5 5 5 5" /></svg>
<span class="back-label">All projects</span>
</span>
<span class="cover-item">
<svg width="15" height="15" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><path d="M5 4h11l3 3v13H5zM16 4v4h3" /></svg>
<span class="title">Cover</span>
</span>
<span class="add-page">
<svg width="15" height="15" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><path d="M12 5v14M5 12h14" /></svg>
<span>Add page</span>
</span>
<ul class="chapters">
<li class="nav-section">
<p class="nav-label">Front matter</p>
<div class="chapter">
<span class="grip"><svg width="14" height="14" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><path d="M9 6h.01M15 6h.01M9 12h.01M15 12h.01M9 18h.01M15 18h.01" /></svg></span>
<span class="text"><span class="title">Title Page</span></span>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<span class="grip"><svg width="14" height="14" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><path d="M9 6h.01M15 6h.01M9 12h.01M15 12h.01M9 18h.01M15 18h.01" /></svg></span>
<span class="text"><span class="title">Epigraph</span></span>
</div>
</li>
<li class="nav-section">
<p class="nav-label">Chapters</p>
<div class="chapter" data-active="true">
<span class="grip"><svg width="14" height="14" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><path d="M9 6h.01M15 6h.01M9 12h.01M15 12h.01M9 18h.01M15 18h.01" /></svg></span>
<span class="num">1</span>
<span class="text">
<span class="title">The Long Morning</span>
<span class="meta">Edited just now</span>
</span>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<span class="grip"><svg width="14" height="14" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><path d="M9 6h.01M15 6h.01M9 12h.01M15 12h.01M9 18h.01M15 18h.01" /></svg></span>
<span class="num">2</span>
<span class="text"><span class="title">On Interruption</span></span>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<span class="grip"><svg width="14" height="14" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><path d="M9 6h.01M15 6h.01M9 12h.01M15 12h.01M9 18h.01M15 18h.01" /></svg></span>
<span class="num">3</span>
<span class="text"><span class="title">What the Draft Knows</span></span>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<span class="grip"><svg width="14" height="14" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><path d="M9 6h.01M15 6h.01M9 12h.01M15 12h.01M9 18h.01M15 18h.01" /></svg></span>
<span class="num">4</span>
<span class="text"><span class="title">A Note on Endings</span></span>
</div>
<span class="add-chapter">
<svg width="16" height="16" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><path d="M12 5v14M5 12h14" /></svg>
<span>New chapter</span>
</span>
</li>
<li class="nav-section">
<p class="nav-label">Back matter</p>
<div class="chapter">
<span class="grip"><svg width="14" height="14" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><path d="M9 6h.01M15 6h.01M9 12h.01M15 12h.01M9 18h.01M15 18h.01" /></svg></span>
<span class="text"><span class="title">About the Author</span></span>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</aside>
<main class="editor-pane">
<div class="sheet">
<div class="chapter-opener">
<p class="chapter-num">Chapter 1</p>
<h1 class="chapter-title">The Long Morning</h1>
</div>
<div class="prose">
<p class="first">
The best hours are the ones nobody asks for. They arrive before the day has decided
what it wants from you, and they leave without ceremony, and what happens in them is
almost never what you planned.
</p>
<p data-indent="true">
I have kept the same desk for eleven years. It is not a good desk. One leg is
shorter than the others and I have never fixed it, because the small tilt reminds
me, every time I sit down, that the work is not going to be perfect either, and that
this has never once stopped anybody.
</p>
<p data-indent="true">
What I have learned about working slowly is that it is not slow. It only looks that
way from the outside. From inside it feels like the only speed at which anything
holds together.
</p>
<p data-indent="true">
There is a particular hour, somewhere between the first coffee and the second, when
the work stops feeling like a performance. Nothing on the page has changed. What has
changed is that you have stopped listening for applause.
</p>
<p data-indent="true">
The trick, if there is one, is to start before you are ready. Readiness is a story
you tell yourself about a future morning that will be calmer than this one, and it
will not be. The calm is something you make, badly at first, out of whatever the day
has left lying around.
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I write the first sentence standing up. I do not know why this works and I have
stopped asking. Somewhere in the business of not sitting down the sentence loses its
self-consciousness, and by the time I take the chair there is something on the page
to argue with.
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The best hours are the ones nobody asks for. They arrive before the day has decided
what it wants from you, and they leave without ceremony, and what happens in them is
almost never what you planned.
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I have kept the same desk for eleven years. It is not a good desk. One leg is
shorter than the others and I have never fixed it, because the small tilt reminds
me, every time I sit down, that the work is not going to be perfect either, and that
this has never once stopped anybody.
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What I have learned about working slowly is that it is not slow. It only looks that
way from the outside. From inside it feels like the only speed at which anything
holds together.
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There is a particular hour, somewhere between the first coffee and the second, when
the work stops feeling like a performance. Nothing on the page has changed. What has
changed is that you have stopped listening for applause.
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The trick, if there is one, is to start before you are ready. Readiness is a story
you tell yourself about a future morning that will be calmer than this one, and it
will not be. The calm is something you make, badly at first, out of whatever the day
has left lying around.
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<p data-indent="true">
I write the first sentence standing up. I do not know why this works and I have
stopped asking. Somewhere in the business of not sitting down the sentence loses its
self-consciousness, and by the time I take the chair there is something on the page
to argue with.
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Everything after that is argument. You put a thing down, you read it back, you tell
it that it is not quite true, and you try again. Nine times out of ten the second
attempt is worse. The tenth is why anybody does this.
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By eleven the light has moved across the desk and the day has started making its
claims. I stop where I am, mid-sentence if I can manage it, because a sentence left
open is a door left open, and tomorrow I will walk straight back through it.
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None of this is a method. A method is something you can hand to somebody else, and I
have tried, and what they get is a description of a room they do not live in.
</p>
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What I can hand over is smaller. Sit down before the day has an opinion. Write badly
on purpose for ten minutes. Stop while it is still going well. That is the whole of
it, and it has taken me eleven years to be able to say it in three sentences.
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What the desk knows, and I keep forgetting, is that the work is not a mood. It does
not care whether I arrived at it happily. It only registers whether I arrived, and
how long I stayed, and whether I was honest about the sentence in front of me while
I was there.
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<p data-indent="true">
The second hour is quieter than the first, which nobody warns you about. You expect
momentum. What you get is a kind of patience, and it turns out that patience is
faster.
</p>
<p data-indent="true">
I have never once regretted a morning spent this way. I have regretted almost every
morning spent otherwise, which is not the same as saying that I stopped having them.
</p>
<p data-indent="true">
There is a version of this essay that argues for discipline, and I have read it many
times, and it has never once got me out of bed.
</p>
<p data-indent="true">
The version that works is duller. Make the room boring. Put the phone in another
room, not face down on the desk, because face down on the desk is still a decision
you have to keep making. Decide once, in advance, while you are calm, and then let
the morning be simple.
</p>
<p data-indent="true">
I am not a fast writer. I have watched fast writers with the particular envy of
someone who has done the arithmetic and knows it does not matter. Over a year the
slow ones and the quick ones arrive at roughly the same place, and the slow ones
seem to enjoy the journey more, which is not nothing.
</p>
<p data-indent="true">
What I want from a morning is not very much. Two hours. One paragraph I did not have
when I sat down. The sense, at the end, that I told the truth about something small.
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An interruption costs more than the minutes it takes. It costs the shape of the
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So I have made the room boring. There is nothing on these walls. The window faces a
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because there is nothing out there to look at and so I look at the page.
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People assume the point is discipline. It is not. The point is to make the right
thing the easiest thing, so that discipline is never called upon, because discipline
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I keep a card by the door with one line on it, in my own handwriting, so that I
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I have kept the same desk for eleven years. It is not a good desk. One leg is
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me, every time I sit down, that the work is not going to be perfect either, and that
this has never once stopped anybody.
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There is a particular hour, somewhere between the first coffee and the second, when
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The trick, if there is one, is to start before you are ready. Readiness is a story
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I write the first sentence standing up. I do not know why this works and I have
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to argue with.
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Everything after that is argument. You put a thing down, you read it back, you tell
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</p>
<p data-indent="true">
None of this is a method. A method is something you can hand to somebody else, and I
have tried, and what they get is a description of a room they do not live in.
</p>
<p data-indent="true">
What I can hand over is smaller. Sit down before the day has an opinion. Write badly
on purpose for ten minutes. Stop while it is still going well.
</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
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<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<title>Margin App Store frame 5</title>
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com" />
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin />
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Hanken+Grotesk:[email protected]&family=Literata:opsz,[email protected],200..900&display=swap" rel="stylesheet" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="frame.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="app.css" />
</head>
<body>
<div class="frame">
<p class="eyebrow">Yours</p>
<h1 class="headline">No account, no subscription.</h1>
<p class="support">Nothing to sign in to. Every piece is a plain file on your own Mac, yours to move, copy and back up.</p>
<div class="shot"><div class="shot__scale">
<div class="library">
<header class="library-head">
<span class="lights"><i></i><i></i><i></i></span>
<span class="icon-btn"><svg width="16" height="16" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><path d="M7 18a4 4 0 0 1 0-8 5 5 0 0 1 9.6-1.3A3.5 3.5 0 0 1 18 18H7z" /></svg></span>
</header>
<div class="shelf">
<span class="card card-action">
<svg width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><path d="M12 5v14M5 12h14" /></svg>
<span>New project</span>
</span>
<span class="card card-action">
<svg width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><path d="M12 3v10m0 0l-4-4m4 4l4-4M5 19h14" /></svg>
<span>Import EPUB</span>
</span>
<span class="card card-book">
<span class="card-title">The Quiet Hours</span>
<span class="card-author">Elena Marsh</span>
<span class="card-meta">Edited just now</span>
</span>
<span class="card card-book">
<span class="card-title">Field Notes</span>
<span class="card-author">Elena Marsh</span>
<span class="card-meta">Edited yesterday</span>
</span>
<span class="card card-book">
<span class="card-title">The Tuesday Letter</span>
<span class="card-author">Elena Marsh</span>
<span class="card-meta">Edited 3 days ago</span>
</span>
<span class="card card-book">
<span class="card-title">Small Repairs</span>
<span class="card-author">Elena Marsh</span>
<span class="card-meta">Edited 6 days ago</span>
</span>
<span class="card card-book">
<span class="card-title">A Year of Mondays</span>
<span class="card-author">Elena Marsh</span>
<span class="card-meta">Edited Aug 12, 2026</span>
</span>
<span class="card card-book">
<span class="card-title">Nothing on These Walls</span>
<span class="card-author">Elena Marsh</span>
<span class="card-meta">Edited Aug 4, 2026</span>
</span>
<span class="card card-book">
<span class="card-title">Twelve Openings</span>
<span class="card-author">Elena Marsh</span>
<span class="card-meta">Edited Jul 28, 2026</span>
</span>
<span class="card card-book">
<span class="card-title">Rooms I Have Worked In</span>
<span class="card-author">Elena Marsh</span>
<span class="card-meta">Edited Jul 9, 2026</span>
</span>
<span class="card card-book">
<span class="card-title">The Long Way Round</span>
<span class="card-author">Elena Marsh</span>
<span class="card-meta">Edited Jun 30, 2026</span>
</span>
<span class="card card-book">
<span class="card-title">Working Slowly</span>
<span class="card-author">Elena Marsh</span>
<span class="card-meta">Edited Jun 2, 2026</span>
</span>
<span class="card card-book">
<span class="card-title">Every Second Sentence</span>
<span class="card-author">Elena Marsh</span>
<span class="card-meta">Edited May 19, 2026</span>
</span>
<span class="card card-book">
<span class="card-title">Letters I Did Not Send</span>
<span class="card-author">Elena Marsh</span>
<span class="card-meta">Edited Apr 27, 2026</span>
</span>
<span class="card card-book">
<span class="card-title">The Brick Wall</span>
<span class="card-author">Elena Marsh</span>
<span class="card-meta">Edited Mar 14, 2026</span>
</span>
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/* Shared surface for every Mac App Store frame. Rendered at exactly 2560x1600,
so every length here is a real output pixel. */
:root {
--paper: #fcfbf7;
--shell: #f1ece2;
--ink: #23201b;
--ink-soft: #6b6458;
--ink-faint: #9b9484;
--line-strong: #d6cfbd;
--font-ui: "Hanken Grotesk", ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, sans-serif;
--font-book: "Literata", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;
}
* {
box-sizing: border-box;
}
html,
body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
body {
width: 2560px;
height: 1600px;
overflow: hidden;
background:
radial-gradient(128% 92% at 50% -14%, var(--paper) 0%, rgba(252, 251, 247, 0) 62%),
var(--shell);
color: var(--ink);
font-family: var(--font-ui);
-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;
}
.frame {
width: 2560px;
height: 1600px;
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
align-items: center;
text-align: center;
overflow: hidden;
padding: 120px 100px 116px;
}
.eyebrow {
margin: 0 0 24px;
font-size: 22px;
font-weight: 650;
letter-spacing: 0.2em;
text-transform: uppercase;
color: var(--ink-faint);
}
.headline {
margin: 0;
font-family: var(--font-book);
font-size: 92px;
font-weight: 560;
line-height: 1.06;
letter-spacing: -0.022em;
color: var(--ink);
font-optical-sizing: auto;
}
.support {
margin: 30px 0 0;
max-width: 1700px;
font-size: 32px;
line-height: 1.5;
color: var(--ink-soft);
text-wrap: balance;
}
/* The app window sitting on the surface, never full bleed. The window itself is
live markup authored at the app's own 1440x900 (see app.css) and scaled up to
fill this well, so the type stays vector-sharp instead of being resampled. */
.shot {
position: relative;
width: 1600px;
height: 1000px;
flex: none;
margin-top: 100px;
border-radius: 22px;
background: var(--paper);
overflow: hidden;
box-shadow:
0 2px 4px rgba(35, 32, 27, 0.06),
0 10px 26px -8px rgba(35, 32, 27, 0.14),
0 46px 96px -26px rgba(35, 32, 27, 0.36);
}
.shot__scale {
width: 1440px;
height: 900px;
transform: scale(1.1111111111);
transform-origin: 0 0;
}
.shot::after {
content: "";
position: absolute;
inset: 0;
border-radius: 22px;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 1px var(--line-strong);
pointer-events: none;
}
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# Publishing
Margin goes out through three doors, and they are not the same app.
The **direct download** from [margin.73ai.org](https://margin.73ai.org) is the full one. It is not
sandboxed, it updates itself, and nobody stands between it and the person using it. The **Homebrew
cask** is the same file with a command instead of a browser. The **Mac App Store** copy is a
sandboxed build with the updater taken out, because Apple requires both. It exists because most
people will never download a `.dmg` from GitHub, and telling them to is how you end up with no
users rather than principled ones.
## Signing and notarization
Every macOS bundle is signed with a Developer ID Application certificate and notarized by Apple
before it is published. This is not optional any more: an unsigned bundle on a current macOS opens
to "Apple could not verify this app is free of malware" with no obvious way past it, and the way
past it that does exist teaches people to click through exactly the warning that is worth reading.
The release workflow does it. `tauri-action` picks up `APPLE_CERTIFICATE` and
`APPLE_CERTIFICATE_PASSWORD` (a base64 `.p12` and its password), signs with
`APPLE_SIGNING_IDENTITY`, and notarizes with an App Store Connect API key: `APPLE_API_ISSUER`,
`APPLE_API_KEY_ID`, and `APPLE_API_KEY_P8`, the last being the base64 of the `.p8` file. The key is
used rather than an Apple ID and app-specific password because the same key does the App Store
upload, so there is one credential to rotate instead of two.
The step after the build is the one that matters. `codesign --verify` only says the signature is
internally consistent; `spctl --assess` is what a person double-clicking the file actually meets,
and it does not pass until `stapler` has attached the notarization ticket to the bundle. If that
step goes green the download works on a machine that has never heard of Margin. If it is skipped
because no key was configured, the workflow says so in a warning rather than shipping something
that looks fine and is not.
## Homebrew
```
brew tap priyanshujain/margin
brew trust priyanshujain/margin
brew install --cask margin
```
Homebrew 6 refuses to load a cask from a tap it has not been told to trust, and the error it raises
instead says nothing about installing, so the trust line belongs in every set of instructions
rather than being left for people to discover.
The tap is [priyanshujain/homebrew-margin](https://github.com/priyanshujain/homebrew-margin) rather
than upstream `homebrew-cask`, which has a notability bar Margin does not clear yet. What that
costs is the two setup lines above, and the tap keeps working as a fallback if the cask ever does
go upstream.
The `homebrew` job at the end of the release workflow downloads the `.dmg` that was just published,
takes its sha256, and rewrites the version and hash in `Casks/margin.rb`. It runs after the publish
gate, so the cask can never point at a release that is still a draft. Without
`HOMEBREW_TAP_DEPLOY_KEY` it warns and does nothing, which leaves the cask on the previous version
rather than failing a release that otherwise succeeded.
That secret is an SSH deploy key registered on the tap, not a personal access token. A token would
carry the whole account; the deploy key reaches the tap and nothing else, so a leak from a release
job cannot touch the app repositories.
## Updates
Both builds check on launch and from the same "Check for Updates…" menu item, and they ask
different questions. The direct download asks the updater endpoint in `tauri.release.conf.json`,
downloads the new bundle and restarts. The App Store copy asks `itunes.apple.com/lookup` which
version is live under the bundle id, and if that is ahead of the one running it offers to open the
store page, because an App Store app may not install code and would be rejected for trying.
Which of the two runs is decided in `updates.rs` by the marker the config carries: the release
overlay declares an `updater` plugin, the App Store overlay declares an `appstore` one. A
`_MASReceipt` inside the bundle overrides both. That is the check that matters, because it means a
bundle which came from the store cannot self-update even if it was built with the updater in it,
and the decision does not rest on a config file alone.
The prompt is a native alert rather than a window the app draws, and it appears once per version.
"Later" means later, not later today: nothing is raised again until there is a new version to raise,
and the menu item is there in the meantime. Whether to update is the reader's call, and an app that
asks the same question at every launch is answering it for them.
The store copy trails the direct one by however long review takes, so an App Store user being told
they are up to date while GitHub has something newer is correct rather than a bug. Each channel
compares against its own. Apple's lookup endpoint is also edge cached and can sit a few hours behind
a release going live, which is what the timestamp on the request is for.
## The Mac App Store
Tauri has no App Store target, so `scripts/mas-package.sh` covers the distance between the `.app`
and something App Store Connect will take. It embeds the provisioning profile, resolves the team
identifier into the entitlements, signs, and wraps the result with `productbuild`.
The order is load-bearing. The profile goes in before `codesign` runs, because the signature covers
it. Tauri's own signing is switched off in this build for the same reason: it would sign a bundle
with no profile in it. Nested code, if there ever is any, is signed before the bundle that contains
it, and never with `--deep`, which would apply the app's entitlements to everything inside.
`CFBundleVersion` comes from the workflow run number. App Store Connect refuses an upload whose
build number it has seen before, so a rejected build cannot be resubmitted under the same one, and
tying it to the run number means it goes up on its own.
### The listing and TestFlight
The store copy lives in `appstore/metadata` as one text file per field, and
`scripts/appstore-listing.rb` pushes it. Keeping it in files rather than in the script means
changing a description is a diff someone can read, and the listing is reviewable next to the code
it describes. The script checks each field against Apple's length limit before sending, because
Apple rejects an over-length field with a validation error that never mentions the number.
The store version is taken from `tauri.conf.json`, the same place every other version in the repo
comes from. This matters because App Store Connect rejects a build whose `CFBundleShortVersionString`
does not match the version it is uploaded against, and a record created by `produce` starts life at
1.0 regardless of what the app actually is.
Release notes are the one field it will not write on a first version. They describe what changed
since the last release, so Apple refuses them when there is no last release, and there would be
nothing truthful to say.
`scripts/testflight-setup.rb` does the beta side: the blurb testers read, the details Beta App
Review asks for, and the two groups. None of it needs a build to exist, so it can all be in place
before the first upload. Internal testers get builds within minutes of processing. External testers
go through Beta App Review, which needs a contact phone number in
`appstore/metadata/review_phone.txt`; without it the script says so and carries on, because
internal testing does not need it.
`scripts/appstore-review-detail.rb` writes the store submission's App Review Information: the same
contact details and the notes in `appstore/metadata/review_notes.txt`. That is a different record
from the TestFlight one, and the two do not share anything. An explanation that only went to
TestFlight is invisible both to the reviewer looking at the store submission and to the automated
check that runs before a human sees it at all, which is how the first submission was rejected.
`scripts/appstore-compliance.rb` answers the age rating questionnaire and declares App Privacy.
Every content answer is NONE and the privacy answer is that nothing is collected, which is true:
there is no telemetry, no account and no server. The Drive backup sends bytes to the account of the
person who switched it on, which is not the developer collecting anything. If that ever stops being
true, that script is the thing that has to change with it.
`scripts/appstore-screenshots.rb` uploads the frames in `appstore/screenshots`, replacing whatever
is already attached rather than adding to it, so a listing cannot quietly accumulate ten frames
across five runs. How the frames themselves are built is in
[appstore/screenshots/README.md](../appstore/screenshots/README.md); they are a CSS rebuild of the
app rendered at 2560x1600, not a screen capture, because the only Macs to hand have 1x displays and
an upscaled capture looks like one.
Screenshots gate submitting for review, and nothing else: not the app record, not a build upload,
and not either tier of TestFlight.
`scripts/mas-upload-local.sh` builds, signs, packages and uploads from a developer's own machine
rather than CI, using a keychain that exists only for the length of the run. `scripts/testflight-release.rb`
then waits for Apple to finish processing, assigns the build to the external group, submits it for
beta app review, and attaches it to the store version.
That last step is easy to miss and does not announce itself. Assigning a build to TestFlight and
attaching it to the store version are separate operations, and a Mac listing takes its app icon
from the attached build. Until it is attached, App Store Connect shows the listing with no icon and
does not say why.
The Apple ID this is driven with can see more than one App Store Connect team, and the other one
belongs to somebody else, so both scripts pin `FASTLANE_ITC_TEAM_ID` rather than letting spaceship
choose. Do not remove that.
### What the sandbox costs
The App Store build declares four entitlements, in `src-tauri/entitlements.mas.plist`, and each one
is there for a reason worth being able to defend in review. `network.client` is the Google Drive
API and the version lookup above. `network.server` is the loopback listener the Drive OAuth flow
redirects to, which is the only installed-app flow Google still supports.
`network.server` is not a theoretical risk. An automated check rejects any submission that declares
it, before review, unless the App Review Information says what listens and why, so
`appstore/metadata/review_notes.txt` explains the loopback bind first and at length: that it is on
127.0.0.1 and never a routable interface, that it lives only for the duration of a sign-in, that it
times out, and how to reach the feature in the app. A rejection on this also has to be answered in
Resolution Center by hand, since that is not in the App Store Connect API.
`files.user-selected.read-write` covers EPUB import and PDF and EPUB export, all of which go
through a panel, so the app only ever reaches the one file that was pointed at. The library needs
nothing: it lives in the container.
Three things are different in that build, and all three are Apple's rules rather than choices:
The updater is gone. `lib.rs` registers the updater plugin only when the config declares it, and
only `tauri.release.conf.json` does, so building against `tauri.appstore.conf.json` leaves it out
by construction. The menu item stays, pointed at the App Store instead, which is what the previous
section is about.
The library moves. Sandboxed, `app_data_dir()` resolves inside
`~/Library/Containers/studio.margin.app`, not `~/Library/Application Support`. Someone who switches
from the direct download to the App Store copy sees an empty library. There is no migration and no
plan for one; if that ever matters to a real person it is a first-run import, not a sync.
System spelling additions are gone. `proofing.rs` reads `~/Library/Spelling/LocalDictionary` to
pick up words added elsewhere on the Mac, and the sandbox denies it. The read already fails
quietly, so the app is fine, it just knows fewer of your words.
## Certificates
Three, and they do different jobs. **Developer ID Application** signs the direct download and is
what notarization checks. **Mac App Distribution** signs the App Store bundle. **Mac Installer
Distribution** signs the `.pkg` that wraps it. A Developer ID certificate is not accepted by the
App Store and a Mac App Distribution one will not notarize, so there is no combining them.
`scripts/apple-provision.rb` creates all three, registers the App ID, and makes the provisioning
profile, driving the Developer Portal through fastlane's spaceship rather than the website. It is
find-or-create throughout, so rerunning it is safe. That matters most for the Developer ID
certificate: an account may hold only a handful, they cannot be un-revoked, and every copy of the
app already signed by one stops verifying if it goes away.
It has to be run by a person, not by CI or an agent, because it prompts for the Apple ID password
and a two-factor code:
```
[email protected] BUNDLE_ID=studio.margin.app APP_NAME=Margin ruby scripts/apple-provision.rb
```
The private keys live in `~/.margin-signing` and are never sent to Apple, the way the updater key
lives in `~/.tauri`. They were generated with `openssl` up front so that Apple only ever sees a
certificate signing request, and so the `.p12` that CI uses can be assembled locally. Each `.p12`
carries Apple's intermediate certificate alongside the leaf, because a fresh CI keychain holding
only the leaf fails to build a chain to the root and `codesign` stops with an error that does not
say so.
`scripts/apple-secrets.sh` then pipes all of it into the repository's Actions secrets without
printing any of it. The one secret it cannot produce is `HOMEBREW_TAP_DEPLOY_KEY`, which is set up
alongside the tap rather than by anything Apple issued.
One step has no API and has to be done on the website: an App Store Connect API key, under Users
and Access, Integrations. The `.p8` downloads exactly once. Put it at `~/.margin-signing/AuthKey.p8`
with its key ID and issuer ID in `AuthKey.env` beside it, and rerun the secrets script.
Certificates expire after five years and are replaceable; the keys are not backed up anywhere else,
so back them up somewhere that is not this machine.
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{
"installed": {
"client_id": "YOUR_CLIENT_ID.apps.googleusercontent.com",
"project_id": "your-project-id",
"auth_uri": "https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth",
"token_uri": "https://oauth2.googleapis.com/token",
"auth_provider_x509_cert_url": "https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v1/certs",
"client_secret": "YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET",
"redirect_uris": ["http://127.0.0.1"]
}
}
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<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no, viewport-fit=cover" />
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="/margin-mark.png" />
<script>
(function () {
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set shell := ["bash", "-euo", "pipefail", "-c"]
app := "Margin"
bundle := "src-tauri/target/release/bundle/macos/" + app + ".app"
default:
@just --list
dev:
pnpm tauri dev
build:
pnpm install --frozen-lockfile
APPLE_SIGNING_IDENTITY=- pnpm tauri build --bundles app
codesign --verify --deep --strict "{{bundle}}"
install: build
#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -euo pipefail
if [ -w /Applications ]; then
dir=/Applications
else
dir="$HOME/Applications"
mkdir -p "$dir"
fi
dest="$dir/{{app}}.app"
if pgrep -x margin-app > /dev/null; then
osascript -e 'tell application id "studio.margin.app" to quit'
for _ in {1..40}; do
pgrep -x margin-app > /dev/null || break
sleep 0.25
done
if pgrep -x margin-app > /dev/null; then
echo "Margin is still running. Quit it and run just install again." >&2
exit 1
fi
fi
rm -rf "$dest"
ditto "{{bundle}}" "$dest"
codesign --verify --deep --strict "$dest"
echo "Installed {{app}} to $dest"
open "$dest"
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{
"name": "margin-app",
"private": true,
"version": "0.1.4",
"version": "0.1.17",
"type": "module",
"scripts": {
"dev": "vite",
"build": "tsc && vite build",
"preview": "vite preview",
"tauri": "tauri",
"dmg": "tauri build --bundles dmg"
"dmg": "tauri build --bundles dmg",
"fonts:sync": "node node_modules/margin-shared/bin/sync-fonts.mjs .",
"fonts:check": "node node_modules/margin-shared/bin/sync-fonts.mjs . --check"
},
"dependencies": {
"@tauri-apps/api": "^2",
"@tauri-apps/plugin-clipboard-manager": "2.3.3",
"@tauri-apps/plugin-dialog": "^2.7.1",
"@tauri-apps/plugin-opener": "^2",
"@tauri-apps/plugin-process": "^2",
"@tauri-apps/plugin-updater": "^2",
"@tiptap/core": "^3.27.1",
"@tiptap/extension-list": "3.27.1",
"@tiptap/extension-placeholder": "^3.27.1",
"@tiptap/pm": "^3.27.1",
"@tiptap/react": "^3.27.1",
"@tiptap/starter-kit": "^3.27.1",
"margin-shared": "file:./shared",
"pdfjs-dist": "^6.0.227",
"react": "^19.1.0",
"react-dom": "^19.1.0",
@@ -33,5 +38,7 @@
"@vitejs/plugin-react": "^4.6.0",
"typescript": "~5.8.3",
"vite": "^7.0.4"
}
},
"description": "A calm, offline writing studio for authors",
"license": "SEE LICENSE IN LICENSE"
}
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'@tauri-apps/api':
specifier: ^2
version: 2.11.1
'@tauri-apps/plugin-clipboard-manager':
specifier: 2.3.3
version: 2.3.3
'@tauri-apps/plugin-dialog':
specifier: ^2.7.1
version: 2.7.1
@@ -26,6 +29,9 @@ importers:
'@tiptap/core':
specifier: ^3.27.1
version: 3.27.1(@tiptap/[email protected])
'@tiptap/extension-list':
specifier: 3.27.1
version: 3.27.1(@tiptap/[email protected](@tiptap/[email protected]))(@tiptap/[email protected])
'@tiptap/extension-placeholder':
specifier: ^3.27.1
version: 3.27.1(@tiptap/[email protected](@tiptap/[email protected](@tiptap/[email protected]))(@tiptap/[email protected]))
@@ -38,6 +44,9 @@ importers:
'@tiptap/starter-kit':
specifier: ^3.27.1
version: 3.27.1
margin-shared:
specifier: file:./shared
version: file:shared
pdfjs-dist:
specifier: ^6.0.227
version: 6.0.227
@@ -537,6 +546,9 @@ packages:
'@tauri-apps/[email protected]':
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'@tauri-apps/[email protected]':
resolution: {integrity: sha512-DeyFHa3wynpyoqTDikDEDGTJIq4LQ5USfolQGRmGIWT6JMADyxZBTDa5cAdT3tDg73rUXufPaCwN7aXBos4OnQ==}
'@tauri-apps/[email protected]':
resolution: {integrity: sha512-BxpaM8bsCoXs3wd4WKYhas/G1gs7+r7B+e4WnyRk2GEoVOouJB1hoL6E6YLXZDXbYci6VFdrNnobQwd2uVL4ew==}
engines: {node: '>= 10'}
@@ -608,6 +620,9 @@ packages:
engines: {node: '>= 10'}
hasBin: true
'@tauri-apps/[email protected]':
resolution: {integrity: sha512-KnyoTs9gj1yEgDkSPUNjOIOHjJTr5wk8IWcYMOWxYTIJCip6QwlyPW8u2X+6bd6kHM4fAdZNpxoal0gy/TwJbg==}
'@tauri-apps/[email protected]':
resolution: {integrity: sha512-OK1UBXYt+ojcmxMktzzuyonYIFta8CmAASpX+CA+DTGK24KlHjhYI6x2iOJ/TjZF4N7/ACK1oFmEOjIY9IhzOQ==}
@@ -887,6 +902,10 @@ packages:
[email protected]:
resolution: {integrity: sha512-KpNARQA3Iwv+jTA0utUVVbrh+Jlrr1Fv0e56GGzAFOXN7dk/FviaDW8LHmK52DlcH4WP2n6gI8vN1aesBFgo9w==}
margin-shared@file:shared:
resolution: {directory: shared, type: directory}
hasBin: true
[email protected]:
resolution: {integrity: sha512-6FlzubTLZG3J2a/NVCAleEhjzq5oxgHyaCU9yYXvcLsvoVaHJq/s5xXI6/XXP6tz7R9xAOtHnSO/tXtF3WRTlA==}
@@ -1424,6 +1443,8 @@ snapshots:
'@tauri-apps/[email protected]': {}
'@tauri-apps/[email protected]': {}
'@tauri-apps/[email protected]':
optional: true
@@ -1471,6 +1492,10 @@ snapshots:
'@tauri-apps/cli-win32-ia32-msvc': 2.11.3
'@tauri-apps/cli-win32-x64-msvc': 2.11.3
'@tauri-apps/[email protected]':
dependencies:
'@tauri-apps/api': 2.12.1
'@tauri-apps/[email protected]':
dependencies:
'@tauri-apps/api': 2.11.1
@@ -1784,6 +1809,8 @@ snapshots:
dependencies:
yallist: 3.1.1
margin-shared@file:shared: {}
[email protected]: {}
[email protected]: {}
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Copyright 2017 The EB Garamond Project Authors (https://github.com/octaviopardo/EBGaramond12)
This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
This license is copied below, and is also available with a FAQ at:
https://openfontlicense.org
-----------------------------------------------------------
SIL OPEN FONT LICENSE Version 1.1 - 26 February 2007
-----------------------------------------------------------
PREAMBLE
The goals of the Open Font License (OFL) are to stimulate worldwide
development of collaborative font projects, to support the font creation
efforts of academic and linguistic communities, and to provide a free and
open framework in which fonts may be shared and improved in partnership
with others.
The OFL allows the licensed fonts to be used, studied, modified and
redistributed freely as long as they are not sold by themselves. The
fonts, including any derivative works, can be bundled, embedded,
redistributed and/or sold with any software provided that any reserved
names are not used by derivative works. The fonts and derivatives,
however, cannot be released under any other type of license. The
requirement for fonts to remain under this license does not apply
to any document created using the fonts or their derivatives.
DEFINITIONS
"Font Software" refers to the set of files released by the Copyright
Holder(s) under this license and clearly marked as such. This may
include source files, build scripts and documentation.
"Reserved Font Name" refers to any names specified as such after the
copyright statement(s).
"Original Version" refers to the collection of Font Software components as
distributed by the Copyright Holder(s).
"Modified Version" refers to any derivative made by adding to, deleting,
or substituting -- in part or in whole -- any of the components of the
Original Version, by changing formats or by porting the Font Software to a
new environment.
"Author" refers to any designer, engineer, programmer, technical
writer or other person who contributed to the Font Software.
PERMISSION & CONDITIONS
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
a copy of the Font Software, to use, study, copy, merge, embed, modify,
redistribute, and sell modified and unmodified copies of the Font
Software, subject to the following conditions:
1) Neither the Font Software nor any of its individual components,
in Original or Modified Versions, may be sold by itself.
2) Original or Modified Versions of the Font Software may be bundled,
redistributed and/or sold with any software, provided that each copy
contains the above copyright notice and this license. These can be
included either as stand-alone text files, human-readable headers or
in the appropriate machine-readable metadata fields within text or
binary files as long as those fields can be easily viewed by the user.
3) No Modified Version of the Font Software may use the Reserved Font
Name(s) unless explicit written permission is granted by the corresponding
Copyright Holder. This restriction only applies to the primary font name as
presented to the users.
4) The name(s) of the Copyright Holder(s) or the Author(s) of the Font
Software shall not be used to promote, endorse or advertise any
Modified Version, except to acknowledge the contribution(s) of the
Copyright Holder(s) and the Author(s) or with their explicit written
permission.
5) The Font Software, modified or unmodified, in part or in whole,
must be distributed entirely under this license, and must not be
distributed under any other license. The requirement for fonts to
remain under this license does not apply to any document created
using the Font Software.
TERMINATION
This license becomes null and void if any of the above conditions are
not met.
DISCLAIMER
THE FONT SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT
OF COPYRIGHT, PATENT, TRADEMARK, OR OTHER RIGHT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
COPYRIGHT HOLDER BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,
INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
DAMAGES, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
FROM, OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE FONT SOFTWARE OR FROM
OTHER DEALINGS IN THE FONT SOFTWARE.
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Copyright 2018 The Fraunces Project Authors (https://github.com/undercasetype/Fraunces)
This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
This license is copied below, and is also available with a FAQ at:
http://scripts.sil.org/OFL
-----------------------------------------------------------
SIL OPEN FONT LICENSE Version 1.1 - 26 February 2007
-----------------------------------------------------------
PREAMBLE
The goals of the Open Font License (OFL) are to stimulate worldwide
development of collaborative font projects, to support the font creation
efforts of academic and linguistic communities, and to provide a free and
open framework in which fonts may be shared and improved in partnership
with others.
The OFL allows the licensed fonts to be used, studied, modified and
redistributed freely as long as they are not sold by themselves. The
fonts, including any derivative works, can be bundled, embedded,
redistributed and/or sold with any software provided that any reserved
names are not used by derivative works. The fonts and derivatives,
however, cannot be released under any other type of license. The
requirement for fonts to remain under this license does not apply
to any document created using the fonts or their derivatives.
DEFINITIONS
"Font Software" refers to the set of files released by the Copyright
Holder(s) under this license and clearly marked as such. This may
include source files, build scripts and documentation.
"Reserved Font Name" refers to any names specified as such after the
copyright statement(s).
"Original Version" refers to the collection of Font Software components as
distributed by the Copyright Holder(s).
"Modified Version" refers to any derivative made by adding to, deleting,
or substituting -- in part or in whole -- any of the components of the
Original Version, by changing formats or by porting the Font Software to a
new environment.
"Author" refers to any designer, engineer, programmer, technical
writer or other person who contributed to the Font Software.
PERMISSION & CONDITIONS
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
a copy of the Font Software, to use, study, copy, merge, embed, modify,
redistribute, and sell modified and unmodified copies of the Font
Software, subject to the following conditions:
1) Neither the Font Software nor any of its individual components,
in Original or Modified Versions, may be sold by itself.
2) Original or Modified Versions of the Font Software may be bundled,
redistributed and/or sold with any software, provided that each copy
contains the above copyright notice and this license. These can be
included either as stand-alone text files, human-readable headers or
in the appropriate machine-readable metadata fields within text or
binary files as long as those fields can be easily viewed by the user.
3) No Modified Version of the Font Software may use the Reserved Font
Name(s) unless explicit written permission is granted by the corresponding
Copyright Holder. This restriction only applies to the primary font name as
presented to the users.
4) The name(s) of the Copyright Holder(s) or the Author(s) of the Font
Software shall not be used to promote, endorse or advertise any
Modified Version, except to acknowledge the contribution(s) of the
Copyright Holder(s) and the Author(s) or with their explicit written
permission.
5) The Font Software, modified or unmodified, in part or in whole,
must be distributed entirely under this license, and must not be
distributed under any other license. The requirement for fonts to
remain under this license does not apply to any document created
using the Font Software.
TERMINATION
This license becomes null and void if any of the above conditions are
not met.
DISCLAIMER
THE FONT SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT
OF COPYRIGHT, PATENT, TRADEMARK, OR OTHER RIGHT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
COPYRIGHT HOLDER BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,
INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
DAMAGES, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
FROM, OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE FONT SOFTWARE OR FROM
OTHER DEALINGS IN THE FONT SOFTWARE.
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Copyright 2011 The Lora Project Authors (https://github.com/cyrealtype/Lora-Cyrillic), with Reserved Font Name "Lora".
This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
This license is copied below, and is also available with a FAQ at:
https://scripts.sil.org/OFL
-----------------------------------------------------------
SIL OPEN FONT LICENSE Version 1.1 - 26 February 2007
-----------------------------------------------------------
PREAMBLE
The goals of the Open Font License (OFL) are to stimulate worldwide
development of collaborative font projects, to support the font creation
efforts of academic and linguistic communities, and to provide a free and
open framework in which fonts may be shared and improved in partnership
with others.
The OFL allows the licensed fonts to be used, studied, modified and
redistributed freely as long as they are not sold by themselves. The
fonts, including any derivative works, can be bundled, embedded,
redistributed and/or sold with any software provided that any reserved
names are not used by derivative works. The fonts and derivatives,
however, cannot be released under any other type of license. The
requirement for fonts to remain under this license does not apply
to any document created using the fonts or their derivatives.
DEFINITIONS
"Font Software" refers to the set of files released by the Copyright
Holder(s) under this license and clearly marked as such. This may
include source files, build scripts and documentation.
"Reserved Font Name" refers to any names specified as such after the
copyright statement(s).
"Original Version" refers to the collection of Font Software components as
distributed by the Copyright Holder(s).
"Modified Version" refers to any derivative made by adding to, deleting,
or substituting -- in part or in whole -- any of the components of the
Original Version, by changing formats or by porting the Font Software to a
new environment.
"Author" refers to any designer, engineer, programmer, technical
writer or other person who contributed to the Font Software.
PERMISSION & CONDITIONS
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
a copy of the Font Software, to use, study, copy, merge, embed, modify,
redistribute, and sell modified and unmodified copies of the Font
Software, subject to the following conditions:
1) Neither the Font Software nor any of its individual components,
in Original or Modified Versions, may be sold by itself.
2) Original or Modified Versions of the Font Software may be bundled,
redistributed and/or sold with any software, provided that each copy
contains the above copyright notice and this license. These can be
included either as stand-alone text files, human-readable headers or
in the appropriate machine-readable metadata fields within text or
binary files as long as those fields can be easily viewed by the user.
3) No Modified Version of the Font Software may use the Reserved Font
Name(s) unless explicit written permission is granted by the corresponding
Copyright Holder. This restriction only applies to the primary font name as
presented to the users.
4) The name(s) of the Copyright Holder(s) or the Author(s) of the Font
Software shall not be used to promote, endorse or advertise any
Modified Version, except to acknowledge the contribution(s) of the
Copyright Holder(s) and the Author(s) or with their explicit written
permission.
5) The Font Software, modified or unmodified, in part or in whole,
must be distributed entirely under this license, and must not be
distributed under any other license. The requirement for fonts to
remain under this license does not apply to any document created
using the Font Software.
TERMINATION
This license becomes null and void if any of the above conditions are
not met.
DISCLAIMER
THE FONT SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT
OF COPYRIGHT, PATENT, TRADEMARK, OR OTHER RIGHT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
COPYRIGHT HOLDER BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,
INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
DAMAGES, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
FROM, OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE FONT SOFTWARE OR FROM
OTHER DEALINGS IN THE FONT SOFTWARE.
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Copyright 2014 The Source Serif 4 Project Authors (https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-serif)
This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
This license is copied below, and is also available with a FAQ at:
https://openfontlicense.org
-----------------------------------------------------------
SIL OPEN FONT LICENSE Version 1.1 - 26 February 2007
-----------------------------------------------------------
PREAMBLE
The goals of the Open Font License (OFL) are to stimulate worldwide
development of collaborative font projects, to support the font creation
efforts of academic and linguistic communities, and to provide a free and
open framework in which fonts may be shared and improved in partnership
with others.
The OFL allows the licensed fonts to be used, studied, modified and
redistributed freely as long as they are not sold by themselves. The
fonts, including any derivative works, can be bundled, embedded,
redistributed and/or sold with any software provided that any reserved
names are not used by derivative works. The fonts and derivatives,
however, cannot be released under any other type of license. The
requirement for fonts to remain under this license does not apply
to any document created using the fonts or their derivatives.
DEFINITIONS
"Font Software" refers to the set of files released by the Copyright
Holder(s) under this license and clearly marked as such. This may
include source files, build scripts and documentation.
"Reserved Font Name" refers to any names specified as such after the
copyright statement(s).
"Original Version" refers to the collection of Font Software components as
distributed by the Copyright Holder(s).
"Modified Version" refers to any derivative made by adding to, deleting,
or substituting -- in part or in whole -- any of the components of the
Original Version, by changing formats or by porting the Font Software to a
new environment.
"Author" refers to any designer, engineer, programmer, technical
writer or other person who contributed to the Font Software.
PERMISSION & CONDITIONS
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
a copy of the Font Software, to use, study, copy, merge, embed, modify,
redistribute, and sell modified and unmodified copies of the Font
Software, subject to the following conditions:
1) Neither the Font Software nor any of its individual components,
in Original or Modified Versions, may be sold by itself.
2) Original or Modified Versions of the Font Software may be bundled,
redistributed and/or sold with any software, provided that each copy
contains the above copyright notice and this license. These can be
included either as stand-alone text files, human-readable headers or
in the appropriate machine-readable metadata fields within text or
binary files as long as those fields can be easily viewed by the user.
3) No Modified Version of the Font Software may use the Reserved Font
Name(s) unless explicit written permission is granted by the corresponding
Copyright Holder. This restriction only applies to the primary font name as
presented to the users.
4) The name(s) of the Copyright Holder(s) or the Author(s) of the Font
Software shall not be used to promote, endorse or advertise any
Modified Version, except to acknowledge the contribution(s) of the
Copyright Holder(s) and the Author(s) or with their explicit written
permission.
5) The Font Software, modified or unmodified, in part or in whole,
must be distributed entirely under this license, and must not be
distributed under any other license. The requirement for fonts to
remain under this license does not apply to any document created
using the Font Software.
TERMINATION
This license becomes null and void if any of the above conditions are
not met.
DISCLAIMER
THE FONT SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT
OF COPYRIGHT, PATENT, TRADEMARK, OR OTHER RIGHT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
COPYRIGHT HOLDER BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,
INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
DAMAGES, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
FROM, OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE FONT SOFTWARE OR FROM
OTHER DEALINGS IN THE FONT SOFTWARE.
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#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# Create the Apple Developer resources a release needs, and turn them into files CI can use.
#
# Everything here is find-or-create, so running it twice does nothing the second time. That matters
# most for the Developer ID certificate: an account may hold only a handful, they cannot be
# un-revoked, and every copy of the app already signed by one stops verifying if it goes away.
#
# The private keys are never sent to Apple and never leave ~/.margin-signing. Apple only ever sees
# the certificate signing requests, which is the whole point of generating them with openssl up
# front rather than letting a tool make its own.
#
# BUNDLE_ID=studio.margin.app APP_NAME=Margin ruby scripts/apple-provision.rb
#
# Run it yourself rather than through an agent: the Apple ID password and the two-factor code are
# prompted for on the terminal.
begin
require "spaceship"
rescue LoadError
# Homebrew vendors fastlane's gems under libexec instead of putting them on the default gem
# path, so spaceship is not requirable until that directory is added to it.
libexec = Dir["/opt/homebrew/Cellar/fastlane/*/libexec", "/usr/local/Cellar/fastlane/*/libexec"].max
abort "spaceship is not installed. `brew install fastlane` and rerun." unless libexec
ENV["GEM_PATH"] = [libexec, ENV["GEM_PATH"]].compact.join(":")
Gem.clear_paths
require "spaceship"
end
require "openssl"
require "fileutils"
require "securerandom"
require "net/http"
require "tmpdir"
# Listing profiles otherwise goes through developerservices2.apple.com, Apple's Xcode-only
# endpoint, which rejects a plain spaceship session with "Please update to Xcode 7.3 or later"
# no matter how current Xcode actually is. This routes it back to the ordinary portal API.
ENV["SPACESHIP_AVOID_XCODE_API"] = "1"
DIR = File.expand_path("~/.margin-signing")
BUNDLE_ID = ENV.fetch("BUNDLE_ID", "studio.margin.app")
APP_NAME = ENV.fetch("APP_NAME", "Margin")
EMAIL = ENV["APPLE_EMAIL"]
# Apple's intermediates. codesign builds a chain from the leaf up, so a .p12 holding only the leaf
# and its key fails on a fresh CI keychain with "unable to build chain to self-signed root".
INTERMEDIATES = {
"AppleWWDRCAG3" => "https://www.apple.com/certificateauthority/AppleWWDRCAG3.cer",
"DeveloperIDG2CA" => "https://www.apple.com/certificateauthority/DeveloperIDG2CA.cer",
}
CERTS = [
{ key: "developer-id", klass: Spaceship::Portal::Certificate::DeveloperIdApplication,
label: "Developer ID Application (direct download, notarized)", ca: "DeveloperIDG2CA" },
{ key: "apple-distribution", klass: Spaceship::Portal::Certificate::MacAppDistribution,
label: "Mac App Distribution (App Store .app)", ca: "AppleWWDRCAG3" },
{ key: "mac-installer", klass: Spaceship::Portal::Certificate::MacInstallerDistribution,
label: "Mac Installer Distribution (App Store .pkg)", ca: "AppleWWDRCAG3" },
]
def common_name(cert)
cert.subject.to_a.find { |n, _, _| n == "CN" }&.at(1)
end
def fetch_intermediate(name)
path = File.join(DIR, "#{name}.cer")
unless File.exist?(path)
uri = URI(INTERMEDIATES.fetch(name))
File.binwrite(path, Net::HTTP.get(uri))
end
OpenSSL::X509::Certificate.new(File.binread(path))
end
# Confirm macOS can actually read the bundle, because the failure mode otherwise shows up days
# later inside a CI keychain as "wrong password" rather than as anything about the format.
def importable?(p12_path, password)
keychain = File.join(Dir.tmpdir, "margin-p12-check-#{SecureRandom.hex(4)}.keychain-db")
system("security", "create-keychain", "-p", "check", keychain, out: File::NULL, err: File::NULL)
system("security", "unlock-keychain", "-p", "check", keychain, out: File::NULL, err: File::NULL)
ok = system("security", "import", p12_path, "-k", keychain, "-P", password,
out: File::NULL, err: File::NULL)
system("security", "delete-keychain", keychain, out: File::NULL, err: File::NULL)
ok
end
# Returns nil on success, or a sentence saying what went wrong.
def write_p12(spec, cert)
key_path = File.join(DIR, "#{spec[:key]}.key")
unless cert.check_private_key(OpenSSL::PKey::RSA.new(File.read(key_path)))
return "the issued certificate does not match the local private key, so Apple issued it " \
"against a different CSR. Revoke it in the portal and rerun."
end
password = SecureRandom.hex(24)
p12_path = File.join(DIR, "#{spec[:key]}.p12")
built = Dir.mktmpdir do |tmp|
leaf = File.join(tmp, "leaf.pem")
ca = File.join(tmp, "ca.pem")
File.write(leaf, cert.to_pem)
File.write(ca, fetch_intermediate(spec[:ca]).to_pem)
# Ruby links OpenSSL 3, whose PKCS12 default MAC is SHA-256. Apple's Security framework reads
# only the legacy SHA-1 MAC and reports the mismatch as a wrong password, so the bundle has to
# come from the LibreSSL at /usr/bin/openssl, which still writes the older format. The password
# goes through the environment rather than argv so it stays out of the process list.
system({ "P12PASS" => password }, "/usr/bin/openssl", "pkcs12", "-export",
"-inkey", key_path, "-in", leaf, "-certfile", ca,
"-name", common_name(cert), "-passout", "env:P12PASS", "-out", p12_path,
out: File::NULL, err: File::NULL)
end
return "/usr/bin/openssl could not build the bundle." unless built
return "macOS refused to import the bundle that was just built." unless importable?(p12_path, password)
File.write(File.join(DIR, "#{spec[:key]}.p12.pass"), password)
File.chmod(0o600, p12_path, File.join(DIR, "#{spec[:key]}.p12.pass"))
nil
end
FileUtils.mkdir_p(DIR)
Spaceship::Portal.login(EMAIL)
Spaceship::Portal.select_team
team_id = Spaceship::Portal.client.team_id
puts "Team ID: #{team_id}"
puts
identities = {}
CERTS.each do |spec|
existing = spec[:klass].all.select { |c| c.status == "Issued" }
cert_obj = existing.first
if cert_obj
puts "#{spec[:label]}: already exists (#{cert_obj.id}), not creating another."
else
csr = File.read(File.join(DIR, "#{spec[:key]}.csr"))
cert_obj = spec[:klass].create!(csr: csr)
puts "#{spec[:label]}: created (#{cert_obj.id})."
end
x509 = cert_obj.download
File.binwrite(File.join(DIR, "#{spec[:key]}.cer"), x509.to_der)
identities[spec[:key]] = common_name(x509)
puts " identity: #{common_name(x509)}"
problem = write_p12(spec, x509)
puts(problem ? " no p12: #{problem}" : " wrote #{spec[:key]}.p12")
puts
end
app = Spaceship::Portal::App.find(BUNDLE_ID, mac: true)
if app
puts "App ID #{BUNDLE_ID}: already registered."
else
app = Spaceship::Portal::App.create!(bundle_id: BUNDLE_ID, name: APP_NAME, mac: true)
puts "App ID #{BUNDLE_ID}: registered."
end
profile_name = "#{APP_NAME} App Store"
profile = Spaceship::Portal::ProvisioningProfile::AppStore.all(mac: true).find do |p|
p.app.bundle_id == BUNDLE_ID && p.status == "Active"
end
if profile
puts "Provisioning profile: reusing #{profile.name}."
else
mas_cert = Spaceship::Portal::Certificate::MacAppDistribution.all.first
profile = Spaceship::Portal::ProvisioningProfile::AppStore.create!(
name: profile_name, bundle_id: BUNDLE_ID, certificate: mas_cert, mac: true
)
puts "Provisioning profile: created #{profile.name}."
end
profile_path = File.join(DIR, "#{BUNDLE_ID}.provisionprofile")
File.binwrite(profile_path, profile.download)
File.chmod(0o600, profile_path)
File.write(File.join(DIR, "#{BUNDLE_ID}.env"), <<~ENV)
APPLE_TEAM_ID="#{team_id}"
APPLE_SIGNING_IDENTITY="#{identities['developer-id']}"
MAS_APP_IDENTITY="#{identities['apple-distribution']}"
MAS_INSTALLER_IDENTITY="#{identities['mac-installer']}"
ENV
puts
puts "Wrote #{profile_path} and #{BUNDLE_ID}.env into #{DIR}."
puts "Still to do by hand, because Apple has no API for it: create an App Store Connect API key"
puts "(Users and Access, Integrations) and save the .p8 as #{DIR}/AuthKey.p8."
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#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Push everything apple-provision.rb produced into this repo's GitHub Actions secrets.
#
# Values are piped from the files straight into `gh`, never echoed, so running this in a shared
# terminal or through an agent does not leak a signing key into the scrollback.
set -euo pipefail
DIR="${MARGIN_SIGNING_DIR:-$HOME/.margin-signing}"
BUNDLE_ID="${BUNDLE_ID:-studio.margin.app}"
REPO="${REPO:-priyanshujain/margin}"
ENV_FILE="$DIR/$BUNDLE_ID.env"
[ -f "$ENV_FILE" ] || { echo "apple-secrets: $ENV_FILE is missing; run apple-provision.rb first." >&2; exit 1; }
# shellcheck source=/dev/null
set -a; . "$ENV_FILE"; set +a
set_plain() {
printf '%s' "$2" | gh secret set "$1" --repo "$REPO" --body -
echo " set $1"
}
set_b64() {
[ -f "$2" ] || { echo " skipped $1 ($2 is missing)"; return; }
base64 -i "$2" | tr -d '\n' | gh secret set "$1" --repo "$REPO" --body -
echo " set $1"
}
set_file() {
[ -f "$2" ] || { echo " skipped $1 ($2 is missing)"; return; }
gh secret set "$1" --repo "$REPO" < "$2"
echo " set $1"
}
echo "Signing identities and team:"
set_plain APPLE_TEAM_ID "$APPLE_TEAM_ID"
set_plain APPLE_SIGNING_IDENTITY "$APPLE_SIGNING_IDENTITY"
set_plain MAS_APP_IDENTITY "$MAS_APP_IDENTITY"
set_plain MAS_INSTALLER_IDENTITY "$MAS_INSTALLER_IDENTITY"
echo "Certificates:"
set_b64 APPLE_CERTIFICATE "$DIR/developer-id.p12"
set_file APPLE_CERTIFICATE_PASSWORD "$DIR/developer-id.p12.pass"
set_b64 MAS_APP_CERTIFICATE "$DIR/apple-distribution.p12"
set_file MAS_APP_CERTIFICATE_PASSWORD "$DIR/apple-distribution.p12.pass"
set_b64 MAS_INSTALLER_CERTIFICATE "$DIR/mac-installer.p12"
set_file MAS_INSTALLER_CERTIFICATE_PASSWORD "$DIR/mac-installer.p12.pass"
set_b64 MAS_PROVISION_PROFILE "$DIR/$BUNDLE_ID.provisionprofile"
echo "App Store Connect API key:"
if [ -f "$DIR/AuthKey.p8" ] && [ -f "$DIR/AuthKey.env" ]; then
# shellcheck source=/dev/null
set -a; . "$DIR/AuthKey.env"; set +a
# An empty value here would be accepted by `gh` and then fail notarization as an auth error that
# says nothing about a missing issuer, so refuse it at the point the mistake is still visible.
if [ -z "${APPLE_API_KEY_ID:-}" ] || [ -z "${APPLE_API_ISSUER:-}" ]; then
echo " refused: AuthKey.env is missing APPLE_API_KEY_ID or APPLE_API_ISSUER." >&2
exit 1
fi
set_plain APPLE_API_KEY_ID "$APPLE_API_KEY_ID"
set_plain APPLE_API_ISSUER "$APPLE_API_ISSUER"
set_b64 APPLE_API_KEY_P8 "$DIR/AuthKey.p8"
else
echo " skipped: put the .p8 at $DIR/AuthKey.p8 and write $DIR/AuthKey.env with"
echo " APPLE_API_KEY_ID= and APPLE_API_ISSUER=, then rerun."
fi
echo
echo "Not handled here: HOMEBREW_TAP_DEPLOY_KEY, an SSH deploy key on the tap rather than"
echo "anything Apple issued."
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#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# Declare the age rating and set pricing. These are the two things App Store Connect will not let a
# submission through without, and neither has anything to do with the copy in appstore-listing.rb.
#
# [email protected] ruby scripts/appstore-compliance.rb
#
# Every content answer here is NONE because Margin is an editor for words the person using it wrote
# themselves. It ships no media, has no feed, no other users, and no in-app browser. If any of that
# ever stops being true, this file is the thing that has to change with it.
begin
require "spaceship"
rescue LoadError
libexec = Dir["/opt/homebrew/Cellar/fastlane/*/libexec", "/usr/local/Cellar/fastlane/*/libexec"].max
abort "spaceship is not installed. `brew install fastlane` and rerun." unless libexec
ENV["GEM_PATH"] = [libexec, ENV["GEM_PATH"]].compact.join(":")
Gem.clear_paths
require "spaceship"
end
BUNDLE_ID = ENV.fetch("BUNDLE_ID", "studio.margin.app")
ENV["FASTLANE_ITC_TEAM_ID"] = ENV.fetch("FASTLANE_ITC_TEAM_ID", "129377371")
NONE = Spaceship::ConnectAPI::AgeRatingDeclaration::Rating::NONE
Spaceship::ConnectAPI.login(ENV["APPLE_EMAIL"], nil, use_portal: false, use_tunes: true)
app = Spaceship::ConnectAPI::App.find(BUNDLE_ID)
abort "No app for #{BUNDLE_ID}." unless app
puts "#{app.name} (#{app.id})"
info = app.fetch_edit_app_info
abort "No editable app info." unless info
declaration = info.fetch_age_rating_declaration
abort "No age rating declaration to write to." unless declaration
graded = {
alcoholTobaccoOrDrugUseOrReferences: NONE,
contests: NONE,
gamblingSimulated: NONE,
gunsOrOtherWeapons: NONE,
horrorOrFearThemes: NONE,
matureOrSuggestiveThemes: NONE,
medicalOrTreatmentInformation: NONE,
profanityOrCrudeHumor: NONE,
sexualContentGraphicAndNudity: NONE,
sexualContentOrNudity: NONE,
violenceCartoonOrFantasy: NONE,
violenceRealistic: NONE,
violenceRealisticProlongedGraphicOrSadistic: NONE,
}
# The app opens links in the system browser rather than rendering the web itself, and the only
# content it ever shows is the person's own writing, so there is no unrestricted web access and no
# user generated content in the sense Apple means: content from other people.
boolean = {
advertising: false,
ageAssurance: false,
gambling: false,
healthOrWellnessTopics: false,
lootBox: false,
messagingAndChat: false,
parentalControls: false,
unrestrictedWebAccess: false,
userGeneratedContent: false,
}
declaration.update(attributes: graded.merge(boolean))
puts " age rating declared, every content question answered NONE"
# App Privacy. Margin has no telemetry, no accounts and no server of its own, so nothing is
# collected. The Google Drive backup is the one thing that sends bytes anywhere, and it sends them
# to the account of the person who turned it on, which is not the developer collecting anything.
usages = Spaceship::ConnectAPI::AppDataUsage.all(
app_id: app.id, includes: "category,grouping,purpose,dataProtection"
)
if usages.any?(&:is_not_collected?)
puts " privacy already declared as data not collected"
else
Spaceship::ConnectAPI::AppDataUsage.create(app_id: app.id, app_data_usage_protection_id: "DATA_NOT_COLLECTED")
puts " privacy declared: data not collected"
end
state = Spaceship::ConnectAPI::AppDataUsagesPublishState.get(app_id: app.id)
if state.published
puts " privacy declaration already published"
else
state.publish!
puts " privacy declaration published"
end
# Free, everywhere. Territory availability is left alone: the default is all of them.
app.update(attributes: { pricing: [] }) if ENV["SET_PRICING"]
puts " pricing left as configured (the app is free, which is the default for a new record)"
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#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# Push the listing copy in appstore/metadata to App Store Connect.
#
# The copy lives in text files rather than in here so that changing a description is a diff someone
# can read, and so the store listing is reviewable in the same place as the code it describes.
#
# [email protected] ruby scripts/appstore-listing.rb
#
# Run it yourself: the Apple ID login prompts for a two-factor code the first time each month.
begin
require "spaceship"
rescue LoadError
libexec = Dir["/opt/homebrew/Cellar/fastlane/*/libexec", "/usr/local/Cellar/fastlane/*/libexec"].max
abort "spaceship is not installed. `brew install fastlane` and rerun." unless libexec
ENV["GEM_PATH"] = [libexec, ENV["GEM_PATH"]].compact.join(":")
Gem.clear_paths
require "spaceship"
end
require "json"
DIR = ENV.fetch("METADATA_DIR", "appstore/metadata")
LOCALE = "en-US"
BUNDLE_ID = ENV.fetch("BUNDLE_ID", "studio.margin.app")
# This Apple ID can see more than one App Store Connect team, and the wrong one belongs to someone
# else entirely. Pin it rather than letting spaceship pick.
ITC_TEAM_ID = ENV.fetch("FASTLANE_ITC_TEAM_ID", "129377371")
ENV["FASTLANE_ITC_TEAM_ID"] = ITC_TEAM_ID
# Apple rejects an over-length field with a validation error that does not name the limit, so the
# check belongs here where the number is visible.
LIMITS = {
"name" => 30, "subtitle" => 30, "keywords" => 100,
"promotional_text" => 170, "description" => 4000,
}.freeze
def field(name, localized: true)
path = localized ? File.join(DIR, LOCALE, "#{name}.txt") : File.join(DIR, "#{name}.txt")
return nil unless File.exist?(path)
value = File.read(path).strip
limit = LIMITS[name]
abort "#{name} is #{value.length} characters, over Apple's limit of #{limit}." if limit && value.length > limit
value
end
Spaceship::ConnectAPI.login(ENV["APPLE_EMAIL"], nil, use_portal: false, use_tunes: true)
app = Spaceship::ConnectAPI::App.find(BUNDLE_ID)
abort "No app on team #{ITC_TEAM_ID} for #{BUNDLE_ID}. Create it with produce first." unless app
puts "#{app.name} (#{app.id})"
info = app.fetch_edit_app_info
abort "No editable app info; the listing may already be in review." unless info
localization = info.get_app_info_localizations.find { |l| l.locale == LOCALE }
localization ||= info.create_app_info_localization(attributes: { locale: LOCALE })
# The name is the one field a person is likely to change by hand in App Store Connect, and losing
# somebody's naming decision to a stale text file is not a good trade. So divergence is reported
# and the live value kept, rather than overwritten.
attributes = { subtitle: field("subtitle"), privacyPolicyUrl: field("privacy_url") }
wanted_name = field("name")
if wanted_name && localization.name && wanted_name != localization.name
puts " keeping the name set in App Store Connect (#{localization.name.inspect});"
puts " #{DIR}/#{LOCALE}/name.txt says #{wanted_name.inspect}. Update the file to match, or pass"
puts " FORCE_NAME=1 to make the file win."
attributes[:name] = wanted_name if ENV["FORCE_NAME"]
else
attributes[:name] = wanted_name
end
localization.update(attributes: attributes)
puts " subtitle and privacy policy set"
category = field("primary_category", localized: false)
if category
info.update_categories(category_id_map: { primary_category_id: category })
puts " primary category set to #{category}"
end
version = app.get_edit_app_store_version(platform: Spaceship::ConnectAPI::Platform::MAC_OS)
abort "No editable macOS version to write to." unless version
# The store version has to match the CFBundleShortVersionString of the build that will be uploaded
# against it, and that comes from tauri.conf.json like every other version in the repo. Left alone,
# a record created by `produce` sits at 1.0 and rejects the first build with a version mismatch.
app_version = JSON.parse(File.read("src-tauri/tauri.conf.json"))["version"]
if version.version_string != app_version
version.update(attributes: { versionString: app_version })
puts " version corrected from #{version.version_string} to #{app_version}"
version = app.get_edit_app_store_version(platform: Spaceship::ConnectAPI::Platform::MAC_OS)
end
version_localization = version.get_app_store_version_localizations.find { |l| l.locale == LOCALE }
version_localization ||= version.create_app_store_version_localization(attributes: { locale: LOCALE })
attributes = {
description: field("description"),
keywords: field("keywords"),
promotionalText: field("promotional_text"),
supportUrl: field("support_url"),
marketingUrl: field("marketing_url"),
}
# Release notes describe what changed since the last release, so Apple refuses them on a first
# version and there is nothing truthful to put there anyway.
if app.get_live_app_store_version(platform: Spaceship::ConnectAPI::Platform::MAC_OS)
attributes[:whatsNew] = field("release_notes")
else
puts " skipping release notes: nothing has shipped yet for them to be relative to"
end
version_localization.update(attributes: attributes)
puts " description, keywords and links set on version #{version.version_string}"
copyright = field("copyright", localized: false)
version.update(attributes: { copyright: copyright }) if copyright
puts " copyright set to #{copyright}" if copyright
puts
puts "Screenshots are not set here. They are required to submit for review, but not to upload a"
puts "build or to run either tier of TestFlight."
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#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# Push the App Review Information for the store submission: who to contact, and the notes that
# explain anything a reviewer would otherwise have to guess at.
#
# [email protected] ruby scripts/appstore-review-detail.rb
#
# This is a different record from the TestFlight one that testflight-setup.rb writes. Beta review
# and store review do not share notes, so an explanation that only went to TestFlight is invisible
# to the reviewer looking at the store submission, and to the automated entitlement check that runs
# before a human sees it at all.
begin
require "spaceship"
rescue LoadError
libexec = Dir["/opt/homebrew/Cellar/fastlane/*/libexec", "/usr/local/Cellar/fastlane/*/libexec"].max
abort "spaceship is not installed. `brew install fastlane` and rerun." unless libexec
ENV["GEM_PATH"] = [libexec, ENV["GEM_PATH"]].compact.join(":")
Gem.clear_paths
require "spaceship"
end
DIR = ENV.fetch("METADATA_DIR", "appstore/metadata")
BUNDLE_ID = ENV.fetch("BUNDLE_ID", "studio.margin.app")
ENV["FASTLANE_ITC_TEAM_ID"] = ENV.fetch("FASTLANE_ITC_TEAM_ID", "129377371")
NOTES_LIMIT = 4000
def field(name)
path = File.join(DIR, "#{name}.txt")
return nil unless File.exist?(path)
File.read(path).strip
end
notes = field("review_notes")
abort "#{DIR}/review_notes.txt is missing." unless notes
abort "review_notes is #{notes.length} characters, over Apple's limit of #{NOTES_LIMIT}." if notes.length > NOTES_LIMIT
phone = field("review_phone")
abort "#{DIR}/review_phone.txt is missing and Apple requires a contact number." unless phone
Spaceship::ConnectAPI.login(ENV["APPLE_EMAIL"], nil, use_portal: false, use_tunes: true)
app = Spaceship::ConnectAPI::App.find(BUNDLE_ID)
abort "No app for #{BUNDLE_ID}." unless app
puts "#{app.name} (#{app.id})"
version = app.get_edit_app_store_version(platform: Spaceship::ConnectAPI::Platform::MAC_OS)
abort "No editable macOS version; the submission may already be in review." unless version
puts " version #{version.version_string} (#{version.app_store_state})"
attributes = {
contactFirstName: field("review_first_name"),
contactLastName: field("review_last_name"),
contactEmail: field("review_email"),
contactPhone: phone,
# Margin has no accounts at all, so there is nothing for a reviewer to sign in to. Saying so
# explicitly is what stops the review coming back asking for credentials.
demoAccountRequired: false,
notes: notes,
}
detail = version.fetch_app_store_review_detail
if detail
Spaceship::ConnectAPI.patch_app_store_review_detail(
app_store_review_detail_id: detail.id,
attributes: attributes,
)
else
Spaceship::ConnectAPI.post_app_store_review_detail(
app_store_version_id: version.id,
attributes: attributes,
)
end
# Apple accepts a patch it then stores as something else often enough to be worth reading back, and
# an empty notes field is exactly the state that got this submission rejected in the first place.
written = version.fetch_app_store_review_detail&.notes.to_s
if written.empty?
abort " the notes field came back empty; nothing was saved."
elsif written != notes
puts " saved, but what came back differs from what was sent. Check it in App Store Connect."
else
puts " contact and #{notes.length} characters of review notes saved"
end
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#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# Upload the rendered frames in appstore/screenshots to the App Store listing.
#
# [email protected] ruby scripts/appstore-screenshots.rb
#
# The frames are rendered by the HTML under appstore/screenshots/src, so this only ever moves
# finished PNGs. Rerunning replaces what is there rather than appending, because a listing that
# quietly accumulated ten frames across five runs would be worse than one that is simply current.
begin
require "spaceship"
rescue LoadError
libexec = Dir["/opt/homebrew/Cellar/fastlane/*/libexec", "/usr/local/Cellar/fastlane/*/libexec"].max
abort "spaceship is not installed. `brew install fastlane` and rerun." unless libexec
ENV["GEM_PATH"] = [libexec, ENV["GEM_PATH"]].compact.join(":")
Gem.clear_paths
require "spaceship"
end
require "shellwords"
DIR = ENV.fetch("SCREENSHOT_DIR", "appstore/screenshots")
LOCALE = "en-US"
BUNDLE_ID = ENV.fetch("BUNDLE_ID", "studio.margin.app")
ENV["FASTLANE_ITC_TEAM_ID"] = ENV.fetch("FASTLANE_ITC_TEAM_ID", "129377371")
# The only size App Store Connect takes for a Mac app, out of the four it documents, that this
# pipeline renders. Anything else is a mistake worth stopping for.
EXPECTED = [2560, 1600].freeze
frames = Dir[File.join(DIR, "frame-*.png")].sort
abort "No frames in #{DIR}." if frames.empty?
frames.each do |path|
dimensions = `sips -g pixelWidth -g pixelHeight #{path.shellescape} 2>/dev/null`
.scan(/pixel(?:Width|Height):\s*(\d+)/).flatten.map(&:to_i)
next if dimensions == EXPECTED
abort "#{path} is #{dimensions.join('x')}, and Apple wants #{EXPECTED.join('x')}."
end
puts "#{frames.size} frames, all #{EXPECTED.join('x')}"
Spaceship::ConnectAPI.login(ENV["APPLE_EMAIL"], nil, use_portal: false, use_tunes: true)
app = Spaceship::ConnectAPI::App.find(BUNDLE_ID)
abort "No app for #{BUNDLE_ID}." unless app
puts "#{app.name} (#{app.id})"
version = app.get_edit_app_store_version(platform: Spaceship::ConnectAPI::Platform::MAC_OS)
abort "No editable macOS version." unless version
localization = version.get_app_store_version_localizations.find { |l| l.locale == LOCALE }
abort "No #{LOCALE} localization; run appstore-listing.rb first." unless localization
display_type = Spaceship::ConnectAPI::AppScreenshotSet::DisplayType::APP_DESKTOP
set = localization.get_app_screenshot_sets.find { |s| s.screenshot_display_type == display_type }
if set
set.app_screenshots.each(&:delete!)
puts " cleared #{set.app_screenshots.size} existing screenshots"
else
set = localization.create_app_screenshot_set(attributes: { screenshotDisplayType: display_type })
puts " created the desktop screenshot set"
end
frames.each_with_index do |path, index|
set.upload_screenshot(path: path, position: index)
puts " uploaded #{File.basename(path)}"
end
puts
puts "Apple processes each image before it counts as attached; give it a minute before checking."
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#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Turn the .app that `tauri build` produced into a signed .pkg the App Store will accept, and
# optionally hand it to App Store Connect.
#
# Tauri has no App Store target, so everything after the bundle is done here: the provisioning
# profile goes in before signing (codesign hashes it), the entitlements carry the team identifier,
# and productbuild wraps the result. Tauri's own signing is deliberately not used, because it
# cannot embed a profile and would sign the app before the profile was in place.
set -euo pipefail
# CI builds universal; a local check against a single-arch build only needs to override this.
app="${APP_PATH:-src-tauri/target/universal-apple-darwin/release/bundle/macos/Margin.app}"
pkg="${PKG_PATH:-target-mas/Margin.pkg}"
: "${APPLE_TEAM_ID:?set APPLE_TEAM_ID to the 10-character team identifier}"
: "${MAS_PROVISION_PROFILE:?set MAS_PROVISION_PROFILE to the .provisionprofile path}"
: "${MAS_APP_IDENTITY:?set MAS_APP_IDENTITY, e.g. '3rd Party Mac Developer Application: Priyanshu Jain (TEAMID)'}"
: "${MAS_INSTALLER_IDENTITY:?set MAS_INSTALLER_IDENTITY, e.g. '3rd Party Mac Developer Installer: Priyanshu Jain (TEAMID)'}"
[ -d "$app" ] || { echo "mas-package: $app does not exist; run the build first." >&2; exit 1; }
work=$(mktemp -d)
trap 'rm -rf "$work"' EXIT
mkdir -p "$(dirname "$pkg")"
# App Store Connect rejects an upload whose CFBundleVersion it has already seen, so a rejected
# build has to come back with a higher one. The marketing version stays put.
if [ -n "${MAS_BUILD_NUMBER:-}" ]; then
/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Set :CFBundleVersion $MAS_BUILD_NUMBER" "$app/Contents/Info.plist"
fi
cp "$MAS_PROVISION_PROFILE" "$app/Contents/embedded.provisionprofile"
# The profile is kept owner-only where it lives, because it sits next to signing keys, and cp
# carries that mode across. Apple rejects a package containing anything a non-root user cannot
# read, since the code signature could not then be verified at launch. Widen everything rather
# than just the profile, and only ever add permission bits, never remove one.
find "$app" -type d -exec chmod go+rx {} +
find "$app" -type f -exec chmod go+r {} +
sed "s/__TEAM_ID__/$APPLE_TEAM_ID/g" src-tauri/entitlements.mas.plist > "$work/entitlements.plist"
plutil -lint "$work/entitlements.plist" > /dev/null
# Nested code has to be signed before the bundle that contains it, and --deep is the wrong tool
# for signing (it applies the outer entitlements to everything inside). Tauri bundles carry no
# frameworks today, so this loop is usually empty, and it stays here so that stops being silent
# the day one appears.
while IFS= read -r -d '' nested; do
codesign --force --timestamp --options runtime --sign "$MAS_APP_IDENTITY" "$nested"
done < <(find "$app/Contents/Frameworks" "$app/Contents/XPCServices" -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -print0 2>/dev/null)
codesign --force --timestamp --options runtime \
--sign "$MAS_APP_IDENTITY" \
--entitlements "$work/entitlements.plist" \
"$app"
codesign --verify --deep --strict --verbose=2 "$app"
echo "Entitlements on the signed bundle:"
codesign --display --entitlements - --xml "$app" | plutil -convert xml1 -o - -
productbuild --component "$app" /Applications --sign "$MAS_INSTALLER_IDENTITY" "$pkg"
pkgutil --check-signature "$pkg"
echo "mas-package: wrote $pkg"
# The upload needs the .p8 where altool looks for it; the caller places it and sets these.
# altool exits 0 even when it has just printed UPLOAD FAILED, so its exit status cannot be
# trusted and the transcript is the only reliable signal.
run_altool() {
local action="$1" output
output=$(xcrun altool "$action" -f "$pkg" -t macos \
--apiKey "$APPLE_API_KEY_ID" --apiIssuer "$APPLE_API_ISSUER" 2>&1) || true
printf '%s\n' "$output"
if printf '%s' "$output" | grep -qE "VERIFY FAILED|UPLOAD FAILED|ERROR:"; then
echo "mas-package: $action failed, see the errors above." >&2
return 1
fi
}
if [ -n "${MAS_UPLOAD:-}" ]; then
: "${APPLE_API_KEY_ID:?}" "${APPLE_API_ISSUER:?}"
run_altool --validate-app
run_altool --upload-app
echo "mas-package: uploaded to App Store Connect; the build appears once processing finishes."
fi
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#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Sign, package and upload an App Store build from this machine, using the certificates in
# ~/.margin-signing rather than the ones in CI.
#
# The certificates go into a keychain that exists only for the length of this run, and the login
# keychain is never written to. That keeps a machine that has signed once from quietly being able
# to sign forever, and it means this leaves nothing behind to go stale.
#
# ./scripts/mas-upload-local.sh # build, sign, package, upload
# MAS_UPLOAD= ./scripts/mas-upload-local.sh # stop after the .pkg
set -euo pipefail
cd "$(dirname "$0")/.."
DIR="${MARGIN_SIGNING_DIR:-$HOME/.margin-signing}"
BUNDLE_ID="${BUNDLE_ID:-studio.margin.app}"
KEYCHAIN="$(mktemp -d)/margin-mas.keychain-db"
for f in "$BUNDLE_ID.env" "$BUNDLE_ID.provisionprofile" apple-distribution.p12 mac-installer.p12; do
[ -f "$DIR/$f" ] || { echo "mas-upload-local: $DIR/$f is missing; run apple-provision.rb first." >&2; exit 1; }
done
# shellcheck source=/dev/null
set -a; . "$DIR/$BUNDLE_ID.env"; set +a
export MAS_PROVISION_PROFILE="$DIR/$BUNDLE_ID.provisionprofile"
# App Store Connect refuses an upload whose build number it has already seen, and seconds since the
# epoch is both unique and monotonic without needing anything to be remembered between runs.
export MAS_BUILD_NUMBER="${MAS_BUILD_NUMBER:-$(date +%s)}"
export MAS_UPLOAD="${MAS_UPLOAD-1}"
if [ -n "${MAS_UPLOAD:-}" ]; then
# shellcheck source=/dev/null
set -a; . "$DIR/AuthKey.env"; set +a
mkdir -p ~/private_keys
cp "$DIR/AuthKey.p8" ~/private_keys/"AuthKey_$APPLE_API_KEY_ID.p8"
chmod 600 ~/private_keys/"AuthKey_$APPLE_API_KEY_ID.p8"
fi
original_keychains=$(security list-keychains -d user | sed 's/^ *"//;s/"$//')
restore() {
# shellcheck disable=SC2086
security list-keychains -d user -s $original_keychains
security delete-keychain "$KEYCHAIN" 2>/dev/null || true
}
trap restore EXIT
security create-keychain -p margin "$KEYCHAIN"
security unlock-keychain -p margin "$KEYCHAIN"
for cert in apple-distribution mac-installer; do
security import "$DIR/$cert.p12" -k "$KEYCHAIN" -P "$(cat "$DIR/$cert.p12.pass")" \
-T /usr/bin/codesign -T /usr/bin/productbuild > /dev/null
done
# Without this, codesign stops on a keychain prompt rather than signing.
security set-key-partition-list -S apple-tool:,apple: -k margin "$KEYCHAIN" > /dev/null
# shellcheck disable=SC2086
security list-keychains -d user -s "$KEYCHAIN" $original_keychains
if [ -z "${SKIP_BUILD:-}" ]; then
pnpm tauri build --target universal-apple-darwin \
--config src-tauri/tauri.appstore.conf.json --bundles app
fi
./scripts/mas-package.sh
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#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# Put the most recently uploaded build in front of testers.
#
# Apple takes somewhere between a few minutes and an hour to process an upload, and nothing can be
# assigned until it has. So this waits rather than failing, and says what it is waiting for.
#
# [email protected] ruby scripts/testflight-release.rb
#
# Internal testers get the build as soon as it is assigned. External testers are gated on Beta App
# Review, which this submits for and which usually comes back within a day.
begin
require "spaceship"
rescue LoadError
libexec = Dir["/opt/homebrew/Cellar/fastlane/*/libexec", "/usr/local/Cellar/fastlane/*/libexec"].max
abort "spaceship is not installed. `brew install fastlane` and rerun." unless libexec
ENV["GEM_PATH"] = [libexec, ENV["GEM_PATH"]].compact.join(":")
Gem.clear_paths
require "spaceship"
end
BUNDLE_ID = ENV.fetch("BUNDLE_ID", "studio.margin.app")
ENV["FASTLANE_ITC_TEAM_ID"] = ENV.fetch("FASTLANE_ITC_TEAM_ID", "129377371")
WAIT_SECONDS = Integer(ENV.fetch("WAIT_SECONDS", "1800"))
Spaceship::ConnectAPI.login(ENV["APPLE_EMAIL"], nil, use_portal: false, use_tunes: true)
app = Spaceship::ConnectAPI::App.find(BUNDLE_ID)
abort "No app for #{BUNDLE_ID}." unless app
puts "#{app.name} (#{app.id})"
deadline = Time.now + WAIT_SECONDS
build = nil
loop do
builds = Spaceship::ConnectAPI::Build.all(app_id: app.id, sort: "-uploadedDate", limit: 5)
ready = builds.reject(&:expired).find { |b| b.processing_state == "VALID" }
if ready
build = ready
break
end
pending = builds.find { |b| b.processing_state == "PROCESSING" }
if Time.now > deadline
abort "Timed out after #{WAIT_SECONDS}s. #{pending ? 'The build is still processing.' : 'No build has appeared yet.'}"
end
puts(pending ? " waiting: build #{pending.version} is still processing" : " waiting: no build has appeared yet")
sleep(30)
end
puts " build #{build.app_version} (#{build.version}) is ready"
groups = app.get_beta_groups
# A group created with hasAccessToAllBuilds receives every build the moment it processes, and Apple
# rejects an explicit assignment to one rather than treating it as a no-op. The internal group is
# exactly that, so there is nothing to do for it and nothing to report either.
assignable = groups.reject { |g| g.is_internal_group || g.has_access_to_all_builds }
already = (build.get_beta_groups.map(&:id) rescue [])
to_add = assignable.reject { |g| already.include?(g.id) }
if to_add.empty?
puts " nothing to assign: #{groups.map(&:name).join(', ')} already have this build"
else
build.add_beta_groups(beta_groups: to_add)
puts " assigned to #{to_add.map(&:name).join(', ')}"
end
# Only external groups are gated on review, so an app with internal testers only never needs this.
if groups.any? { |g| !g.is_internal_group }
begin
Spaceship::ConnectAPI.post_beta_app_review_submissions(build_id: build.id)
puts " submitted for beta app review, which gates the external testers"
rescue => e
# Resubmitting an already submitted build is not an error worth failing the run over.
puts " beta app review not submitted: #{e.message.lines.first.to_s.strip}"
end
end
# The store version needs the build attached too, and that is a separate thing from TestFlight.
# Until it is, App Store Connect shows the listing with no app icon, because for a Mac app the icon
# is read out of the attached build rather than uploaded alongside the other artwork.
version = app.get_edit_app_store_version(platform: Spaceship::ConnectAPI::Platform::MAC_OS)
if version.nil?
puts " no editable store version to attach the build to"
elsif version.build&.id == build.id
puts " already attached to store version #{version.version_string}"
else
version.select_build(build_id: build.id)
puts " attached to store version #{version.version_string}, which is what surfaces the app icon"
end
puts
puts "Internal testers can install now. External testers wait on beta app review."
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#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# Set up TestFlight for the app: the tester-facing blurb, the details Beta App Review asks for, and
# the two groups. None of this needs a build to exist, so it can all be in place before the first
# upload and the build then only has to be assigned to a group.
#
# [email protected] ruby scripts/testflight-setup.rb
begin
require "spaceship"
rescue LoadError
libexec = Dir["/opt/homebrew/Cellar/fastlane/*/libexec", "/usr/local/Cellar/fastlane/*/libexec"].max
abort "spaceship is not installed. `brew install fastlane` and rerun." unless libexec
ENV["GEM_PATH"] = [libexec, ENV["GEM_PATH"]].compact.join(":")
Gem.clear_paths
require "spaceship"
end
DIR = ENV.fetch("METADATA_DIR", "appstore/metadata")
LOCALE = "en-US"
BUNDLE_ID = ENV.fetch("BUNDLE_ID", "studio.margin.app")
ENV["FASTLANE_ITC_TEAM_ID"] = ENV.fetch("FASTLANE_ITC_TEAM_ID", "129377371")
def field(name, localized: true)
path = localized ? File.join(DIR, LOCALE, "#{name}.txt") : File.join(DIR, "#{name}.txt")
File.exist?(path) ? File.read(path).strip : nil
end
Spaceship::ConnectAPI.login(ENV["APPLE_EMAIL"], nil, use_portal: false, use_tunes: true)
app = Spaceship::ConnectAPI::App.find(BUNDLE_ID)
abort "No app for #{BUNDLE_ID}." unless app
puts "#{app.name} (#{app.id})"
localization = app.get_beta_app_localizations.find { |l| l.locale == LOCALE }
attributes = {
description: field("beta_description"),
feedbackEmail: field("beta_feedback_email", localized: false),
marketingUrl: field("marketing_url"),
privacyPolicyUrl: field("privacy_url"),
}
if localization
Spaceship::ConnectAPI.patch_beta_app_localizations(localization_id: localization.id, attributes: attributes)
else
Spaceship::ConnectAPI.post_beta_app_localizations(app_id: app.id, attributes: attributes.merge(locale: LOCALE))
end
puts " tester blurb and feedback address set"
# Apple requires a contact phone number here, and this only gates external testing: internal
# testers never go through Beta App Review. So a missing number is a warning, not a failure.
if field("review_phone", localized: false)
Spaceship::ConnectAPI.patch_beta_app_review_detail(app_id: app.id, attributes: {
contactFirstName: field("review_first_name", localized: false),
contactLastName: field("review_last_name", localized: false),
contactEmail: field("review_email", localized: false),
contactPhone: field("review_phone", localized: false),
# Margin has no accounts at all, so there is nothing for a reviewer to sign in to. Saying so
# explicitly is what stops the review coming back asking for credentials.
demoAccountRequired: false,
notes: field("review_notes", localized: false),
})
puts " beta app review contact and notes set"
else
puts " skipping beta app review details: #{DIR}/review_phone.txt is missing and Apple requires"
puts " a contact number. Internal testing works without it; external testing does not."
end
existing = app.get_beta_groups.map(&:name)
[
{ name: "Internal", internal: true, public_link: false },
{ name: "Public Beta", internal: false, public_link: true },
].each do |group|
if existing.include?(group[:name])
puts " group #{group[:name].inspect} already exists"
next
end
if group[:internal]
# spaceship always sends the public-link attributes, and App Store Connect rejects them
# outright on an internal group rather than ignoring them, so this one is posted by hand.
body = {
data: {
attributes: { name: group[:name], isInternalGroup: true, hasAccessToAllBuilds: true },
relationships: { app: { data: { id: app.id, type: "apps" } } },
type: "betaGroups",
},
}
Spaceship::ConnectAPI.client.test_flight_request_client.post("v1/betaGroups", body)
puts " created internal group #{group[:name].inspect}"
else
created = app.create_beta_group(
group_name: group[:name],
is_internal_group: false,
public_link_enabled: true,
public_link_limit_enabled: true,
)
puts " created external group #{created.name.inspect}"
end
end
puts
app.get_beta_groups.each do |g|
kind = g.is_internal_group ? "internal" : "external"
puts " #{g.name} (#{kind})#{g.public_link ? " #{g.public_link}" : ''}"
end
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#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# Invite people to a TestFlight group.
#
# [email protected] ruby scripts/testflight-testers.rb [email protected] ...
#
# Addresses come from the command line rather than a file in the repo, because a list of testers is
# a list of people's email addresses and this repository is public.
#
# GROUP defaults to the external group, since the internal one only accepts people who already have
# an App Store Connect account on the team, which is a far bigger thing to hand out than a build.
begin
require "spaceship"
rescue LoadError
libexec = Dir["/opt/homebrew/Cellar/fastlane/*/libexec", "/usr/local/Cellar/fastlane/*/libexec"].max
abort "spaceship is not installed. `brew install fastlane` and rerun." unless libexec
ENV["GEM_PATH"] = [libexec, ENV["GEM_PATH"]].compact.join(":")
Gem.clear_paths
require "spaceship"
end
BUNDLE_ID = ENV.fetch("BUNDLE_ID", "studio.margin.app")
GROUP = ENV.fetch("GROUP", "Public Beta")
ENV["FASTLANE_ITC_TEAM_ID"] = ENV.fetch("FASTLANE_ITC_TEAM_ID", "129377371")
emails = ARGV.reject { |a| a.start_with?("-") }
abort "Usage: ruby scripts/testflight-testers.rb [email protected] [[email protected] ...]" if emails.empty?
Spaceship::ConnectAPI.login(ENV["APPLE_EMAIL"], nil, use_portal: false, use_tunes: true)
app = Spaceship::ConnectAPI::App.find(BUNDLE_ID)
abort "No app for #{BUNDLE_ID}." unless app
group = app.get_beta_groups.find { |g| g.name == GROUP }
abort "No group named #{GROUP.inspect}." unless group
puts "#{app.name}: #{group.name} (#{group.is_internal_group ? 'internal' : 'external'})"
# An internal tester has to be a user on the App Store Connect account first, which is a far larger
# grant than a build: it is access to the account, not to an app. So the invitation is narrowed as
# far as the API allows, to this one app and with provisioning refused, and the person still has to
# accept it before they can be put in the group.
if group.is_internal_group
known = Spaceship::ConnectAPI::User.all.map { |u| u.email.to_s.downcase }
invited = Spaceship::ConnectAPI::UserInvitation.all.map { |i| i.email.to_s.downcase }
emails.each do |email|
next if known.include?(email.downcase)
if invited.include?(email.downcase)
puts " #{email} has an invitation waiting to be accepted"
next
end
local = email.split("@").first
Spaceship::ConnectAPI::UserInvitation.create(
email: email,
first_name: ENV.fetch("FIRST_NAME", local),
last_name: ENV.fetch("LAST_NAME", "Tester"),
roles: [Spaceship::ConnectAPI::User::UserRole::DEVELOPER],
provisioning_allowed: false,
all_apps_visible: false,
visible_app_ids: [app.id],
)
puts " invited #{email} to App Store Connect, limited to this app, no provisioning access"
invited << email.downcase
end
end
existing = Spaceship::ConnectAPI::BetaTester
.all(filter: { betaGroups: group.id })
.map { |t| t.email.to_s.downcase }
emails.each do |email|
if existing.include?(email.downcase)
puts " #{email} is already in this group"
next
end
Spaceship::ConnectAPI.post_bulk_beta_tester_assignments(
beta_group_id: group.id,
beta_testers: [{ email: email }],
)
# The bulk endpoint reports success for an address it then quietly declines to add, which is what
# happens on an internal group when the person has not accepted their account invitation yet. So
# the group is read back rather than trusted.
landed = Spaceship::ConnectAPI::BetaTester
.all(filter: { betaGroups: group.id })
.any? { |t| t.email.to_s.casecmp?(email) }
if landed
puts " added #{email}"
else
puts " #{email} was not added. An internal tester has to accept the App Store Connect"
puts " invitation first; rerun this once they have."
end
end
puts
if group.is_internal_group
puts "Internal testers can install as soon as a build finishes processing."
else
puts "External testers get the invitation once beta app review passes."
puts "Anyone can also join through #{group.public_link}" if group.public_link
end
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# margin-shared
The faces, palette and glyphs [Margin](../) and Margin Docs both draw from. It is the one copy of
the decisions the two apps have to agree on: which six fonts they offer, what their named pairings
are, the 35 design tokens they share, and the title bar icon paths.
No build step and no dependencies. Both apps resolve the TypeScript source directly through their
bundler, so an edit here is live in both on the next dev server restart.
Margin consumes it as `"margin-shared": "file:./shared"`. Margin Docs, which lives in a separate
repository, uses a relative path to this directory; see its `package.json`.
The font binaries in `fonts/` are the source of truth, and each app keeps a vendored copy under
`public/fonts` because its Rust PDF exporter reads them with `include_bytes!` before any npm install
has run. Run `pnpm fonts:sync` in an app to refresh that copy and `pnpm fonts:check` to verify it.
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#!/usr/bin/env node
// Copies this package's font files into an app's public/fonts, or checks that they already match.
//
// The copies exist because both apps' `src-tauri/src/pdf.rs` reads the same files with
// `include_bytes!`, so the bytes have to be on disk at a path cargo can see before any npm install
// has run. Serving them out of node_modules would mean a cargo build that fails on a fresh clone
// until the front end was installed, which is a worse trade than a vendored copy with a named
// upstream and a check that fails loudly when the two drift.
//
// node bin/sync-fonts.mjs <app-dir> copy, reporting what changed
// node bin/sync-fonts.mjs <app-dir> --check compare only, exit 1 on any difference
import { readdirSync, readFileSync, writeFileSync, mkdirSync, existsSync } from "node:fs";
import { dirname, join, resolve } from "node:path";
import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
const here = dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url));
const source = resolve(here, "..", "fonts");
const args = process.argv.slice(2);
const check = args.includes("--check");
const target = args.find((a) => !a.startsWith("--"));
if (!target) {
console.error("usage: sync-fonts.mjs <app-dir> [--check]");
process.exit(2);
}
const dest = resolve(process.cwd(), target, "public", "fonts");
const files = readdirSync(source).filter((f) => f.endsWith(".ttf") || f.endsWith(".txt")).sort();
if (!check) mkdirSync(dest, { recursive: true });
const wrong = [];
let copied = 0;
for (const file of files) {
const from = join(source, file);
const to = join(dest, file);
const want = readFileSync(from);
const have = existsSync(to) ? readFileSync(to) : null;
if (have !== null && have.equals(want)) continue;
if (check) {
wrong.push(`${have === null ? "missing" : "differs"}: ${file}`);
continue;
}
writeFileSync(to, want);
copied += 1;
}
// A file the app has and the package does not is reported rather than deleted. It is far more
// likely to be a face somebody is in the middle of adding than something to throw away, and this
// script does not get to be the reason an asset disappears.
if (existsSync(dest)) {
for (const file of readdirSync(dest)) {
if (!files.includes(file)) wrong.push(`not in the package, left alone: ${file}`);
}
}
if (check) {
if (wrong.length === 0) {
console.log(`fonts match margin-shared (${files.length} files)`);
process.exit(0);
}
console.error("public/fonts is out of step with margin-shared:");
for (const line of wrong) console.error(` ${line}`);
console.error("\nrun: pnpm fonts:sync");
process.exit(1);
}
console.log(copied === 0 ? `fonts already current (${files.length} files)` : `synced ${copied} file(s)`);
for (const line of wrong) console.log(` note: ${line}`);
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/* The six families src/fonts.ts offers, bound to the variable files in fonts/.
*
* The URLs are absolute site paths, so each app serves these out of its own `public/fonts`. The
* copies there are vendored from this package and kept honest by `bin/sync-fonts.mjs`; they are not
* imported from node_modules, because both apps' `src-tauri/src/pdf.rs` reads the same files with
* `include_bytes!` and a cargo build must not depend on an npm install having run first.
*
* Every one is a variable file with an upright and an italic cut, so a weight anywhere in the
* declared range is a real instance rather than a synthesised one, and italic is the designer's
* italic rather than a slant applied by the browser.
*
* `font-display: block` throughout, and that is the unusual choice. The alternative is a first
* paint in Georgia that reflows into Literata a moment later, and a page of prose that resets its
* line breaks under the caret is worse than a page that arrives a beat late. The files are local to
* the bundle, so the beat is a disk read. */
@font-face {
font-family: "Hanken Grotesk";
src: url("/fonts/HankenGrotesk-VF.ttf") format("truetype-variations");
font-weight: 100 900;
font-style: normal;
font-display: block;
}
@font-face {
font-family: "Hanken Grotesk";
src: url("/fonts/HankenGrotesk-Italic-VF.ttf") format("truetype-variations");
font-weight: 100 900;
font-style: italic;
font-display: block;
}
@font-face {
font-family: "Literata";
src: url("/fonts/Literata-VF.ttf") format("truetype-variations");
font-weight: 200 900;
font-style: normal;
font-display: block;
}
@font-face {
font-family: "Literata";
src: url("/fonts/Literata-Italic-VF.ttf") format("truetype-variations");
font-weight: 200 900;
font-style: italic;
font-display: block;
}
@font-face {
font-family: "EB Garamond";
src: url("/fonts/EBGaramond-VF.ttf") format("truetype-variations");
font-weight: 400 800;
font-style: normal;
font-display: block;
}
@font-face {
font-family: "EB Garamond";
src: url("/fonts/EBGaramond-Italic-VF.ttf") format("truetype-variations");
font-weight: 400 800;
font-style: italic;
font-display: block;
}
@font-face {
font-family: "Lora";
src: url("/fonts/Lora-VF.ttf") format("truetype-variations");
font-weight: 400 700;
font-style: normal;
font-display: block;
}
@font-face {
font-family: "Lora";
src: url("/fonts/Lora-Italic-VF.ttf") format("truetype-variations");
font-weight: 400 700;
font-style: italic;
font-display: block;
}
@font-face {
font-family: "Source Serif 4";
src: url("/fonts/SourceSerif4-VF.ttf") format("truetype-variations");
font-weight: 200 900;
font-style: normal;
font-display: block;
}
@font-face {
font-family: "Source Serif 4";
src: url("/fonts/SourceSerif4-Italic-VF.ttf") format("truetype-variations");
font-weight: 200 900;
font-style: italic;
font-display: block;
}
@font-face {
font-family: "Fraunces";
src: url("/fonts/Fraunces-VF.ttf") format("truetype-variations");
font-weight: 100 900;
font-style: normal;
font-display: block;
}
@font-face {
font-family: "Fraunces";
src: url("/fonts/Fraunces-Italic-VF.ttf") format("truetype-variations");
font-weight: 100 900;
font-style: italic;
font-display: block;
}
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/* The palette, the type scale and the shape constants both apps are built from.
*
* These 35 tokens already held identical values in the two repos before this package existed, which
* is the argument for moving them: they were identical by somebody remembering to copy a hex across,
* and that is not a mechanism. A colour that only exists in one app is not here. Each app layers its
* own sheet on top of this one and adds what only it needs, which is a preview pane width in Margin
* and a document typography scale in Margin Docs.
*
* --font-book and --font-heading are the two a document overrides at runtime, per book or per
* document. What is set here is the default pair, and the only place that decides what an untouched
* page looks like. */
:root {
--font-ui: "Hanken Grotesk", ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, sans-serif;
--font-book: "Literata", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;
--font-heading: "Literata", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;
--r-sm: 5px;
--r-md: 8px;
--r-lg: 12px;
--pane-sidebar: 248px;
--measure: 46em;
--titlebar-h: 46px;
--t-1: 11px;
--t-2: 12px;
--t-3: 13px;
--t-4: 15px;
--ease: cubic-bezier(0.22, 0.61, 0.36, 1);
}
:root,
:root[data-theme="light"] {
--paper: #fcfbf7;
--shell: #f1ece2;
--sidebar: #ece6da;
--raised: #fbfaf6;
--ink: #23201b;
--ink-soft: #6b6458;
--ink-faint: #9b9484;
--line: #e3ddce;
--line-strong: #d6cfbd;
--accent: #2a2622;
--accent-ink: #100e0b;
--accent-wash: rgba(35, 32, 27, 0.08);
--accent-contrast: #faf7f0;
--selection: rgba(35, 32, 27, 0.14);
--glass: rgba(252, 251, 247, 0.86);
--danger: #b4453a;
--danger-ink: #963327;
--danger-wash: rgba(180, 69, 58, 0.1);
--danger-contrast: #faf7f0;
--shadow-page: 0 1px 2px rgba(35, 32, 27, 0.06), 0 14px 30px rgba(35, 32, 27, 0.09);
--shadow-pop: 0 8px 24px rgba(35, 32, 27, 0.14);
}
:root[data-theme="dark"] {
--paper: #1d1a16;
--shell: #151310;
--sidebar: #1a1713;
--raised: #232019;
--ink: #ece6da;
--ink-soft: #a89f8e;
--ink-faint: #756d5e;
--line: #2c2823;
--line-strong: #3a352d;
--accent: #efe9dc;
--accent-ink: #ffffff;
--accent-wash: rgba(239, 233, 220, 0.12);
--accent-contrast: #1a1714;
--selection: rgba(239, 233, 220, 0.18);
--glass: rgba(33, 30, 25, 0.88);
--danger: #d97a6f;
--danger-ink: #e58e84;
--danger-wash: rgba(217, 122, 111, 0.16);
--danger-contrast: #1a1714;
--shadow-page: 0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4), 0 14px 34px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);
--shadow-pop: 0 8px 24px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.55);
}
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Copyright 2017 The EB Garamond Project Authors (https://github.com/octaviopardo/EBGaramond12)
This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
This license is copied below, and is also available with a FAQ at:
https://openfontlicense.org
-----------------------------------------------------------
SIL OPEN FONT LICENSE Version 1.1 - 26 February 2007
-----------------------------------------------------------
PREAMBLE
The goals of the Open Font License (OFL) are to stimulate worldwide
development of collaborative font projects, to support the font creation
efforts of academic and linguistic communities, and to provide a free and
open framework in which fonts may be shared and improved in partnership
with others.
The OFL allows the licensed fonts to be used, studied, modified and
redistributed freely as long as they are not sold by themselves. The
fonts, including any derivative works, can be bundled, embedded,
redistributed and/or sold with any software provided that any reserved
names are not used by derivative works. The fonts and derivatives,
however, cannot be released under any other type of license. The
requirement for fonts to remain under this license does not apply
to any document created using the fonts or their derivatives.
DEFINITIONS
"Font Software" refers to the set of files released by the Copyright
Holder(s) under this license and clearly marked as such. This may
include source files, build scripts and documentation.
"Reserved Font Name" refers to any names specified as such after the
copyright statement(s).
"Original Version" refers to the collection of Font Software components as
distributed by the Copyright Holder(s).
"Modified Version" refers to any derivative made by adding to, deleting,
or substituting -- in part or in whole -- any of the components of the
Original Version, by changing formats or by porting the Font Software to a
new environment.
"Author" refers to any designer, engineer, programmer, technical
writer or other person who contributed to the Font Software.
PERMISSION & CONDITIONS
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
a copy of the Font Software, to use, study, copy, merge, embed, modify,
redistribute, and sell modified and unmodified copies of the Font
Software, subject to the following conditions:
1) Neither the Font Software nor any of its individual components,
in Original or Modified Versions, may be sold by itself.
2) Original or Modified Versions of the Font Software may be bundled,
redistributed and/or sold with any software, provided that each copy
contains the above copyright notice and this license. These can be
included either as stand-alone text files, human-readable headers or
in the appropriate machine-readable metadata fields within text or
binary files as long as those fields can be easily viewed by the user.
3) No Modified Version of the Font Software may use the Reserved Font
Name(s) unless explicit written permission is granted by the corresponding
Copyright Holder. This restriction only applies to the primary font name as
presented to the users.
4) The name(s) of the Copyright Holder(s) or the Author(s) of the Font
Software shall not be used to promote, endorse or advertise any
Modified Version, except to acknowledge the contribution(s) of the
Copyright Holder(s) and the Author(s) or with their explicit written
permission.
5) The Font Software, modified or unmodified, in part or in whole,
must be distributed entirely under this license, and must not be
distributed under any other license. The requirement for fonts to
remain under this license does not apply to any document created
using the Font Software.
TERMINATION
This license becomes null and void if any of the above conditions are
not met.
DISCLAIMER
THE FONT SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT
OF COPYRIGHT, PATENT, TRADEMARK, OR OTHER RIGHT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
COPYRIGHT HOLDER BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,
INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
DAMAGES, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
FROM, OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE FONT SOFTWARE OR FROM
OTHER DEALINGS IN THE FONT SOFTWARE.
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Copyright 2018 The Fraunces Project Authors (https://github.com/undercasetype/Fraunces)
This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
This license is copied below, and is also available with a FAQ at:
http://scripts.sil.org/OFL
-----------------------------------------------------------
SIL OPEN FONT LICENSE Version 1.1 - 26 February 2007
-----------------------------------------------------------
PREAMBLE
The goals of the Open Font License (OFL) are to stimulate worldwide
development of collaborative font projects, to support the font creation
efforts of academic and linguistic communities, and to provide a free and
open framework in which fonts may be shared and improved in partnership
with others.
The OFL allows the licensed fonts to be used, studied, modified and
redistributed freely as long as they are not sold by themselves. The
fonts, including any derivative works, can be bundled, embedded,
redistributed and/or sold with any software provided that any reserved
names are not used by derivative works. The fonts and derivatives,
however, cannot be released under any other type of license. The
requirement for fonts to remain under this license does not apply
to any document created using the fonts or their derivatives.
DEFINITIONS
"Font Software" refers to the set of files released by the Copyright
Holder(s) under this license and clearly marked as such. This may
include source files, build scripts and documentation.
"Reserved Font Name" refers to any names specified as such after the
copyright statement(s).
"Original Version" refers to the collection of Font Software components as
distributed by the Copyright Holder(s).
"Modified Version" refers to any derivative made by adding to, deleting,
or substituting -- in part or in whole -- any of the components of the
Original Version, by changing formats or by porting the Font Software to a
new environment.
"Author" refers to any designer, engineer, programmer, technical
writer or other person who contributed to the Font Software.
PERMISSION & CONDITIONS
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
a copy of the Font Software, to use, study, copy, merge, embed, modify,
redistribute, and sell modified and unmodified copies of the Font
Software, subject to the following conditions:
1) Neither the Font Software nor any of its individual components,
in Original or Modified Versions, may be sold by itself.
2) Original or Modified Versions of the Font Software may be bundled,
redistributed and/or sold with any software, provided that each copy
contains the above copyright notice and this license. These can be
included either as stand-alone text files, human-readable headers or
in the appropriate machine-readable metadata fields within text or
binary files as long as those fields can be easily viewed by the user.
3) No Modified Version of the Font Software may use the Reserved Font
Name(s) unless explicit written permission is granted by the corresponding
Copyright Holder. This restriction only applies to the primary font name as
presented to the users.
4) The name(s) of the Copyright Holder(s) or the Author(s) of the Font
Software shall not be used to promote, endorse or advertise any
Modified Version, except to acknowledge the contribution(s) of the
Copyright Holder(s) and the Author(s) or with their explicit written
permission.
5) The Font Software, modified or unmodified, in part or in whole,
must be distributed entirely under this license, and must not be
distributed under any other license. The requirement for fonts to
remain under this license does not apply to any document created
using the Font Software.
TERMINATION
This license becomes null and void if any of the above conditions are
not met.
DISCLAIMER
THE FONT SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT
OF COPYRIGHT, PATENT, TRADEMARK, OR OTHER RIGHT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
COPYRIGHT HOLDER BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,
INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
DAMAGES, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
FROM, OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE FONT SOFTWARE OR FROM
OTHER DEALINGS IN THE FONT SOFTWARE.
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Copyright 2021 The Hanken Grotesk Project Authors (https://github.com/marcologous/hanken-grotesk)
This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
This license is copied below, and is also available with a FAQ at:
http://scripts.sil.org/OFL
-----------------------------------------------------------
SIL OPEN FONT LICENSE Version 1.1 - 26 February 2007
-----------------------------------------------------------
PREAMBLE
The goals of the Open Font License (OFL) are to stimulate worldwide
development of collaborative font projects, to support the font creation
efforts of academic and linguistic communities, and to provide a free and
open framework in which fonts may be shared and improved in partnership
with others.
The OFL allows the licensed fonts to be used, studied, modified and
redistributed freely as long as they are not sold by themselves. The
fonts, including any derivative works, can be bundled, embedded,
redistributed and/or sold with any software provided that any reserved
names are not used by derivative works. The fonts and derivatives,
however, cannot be released under any other type of license. The
requirement for fonts to remain under this license does not apply
to any document created using the fonts or their derivatives.
DEFINITIONS
"Font Software" refers to the set of files released by the Copyright
Holder(s) under this license and clearly marked as such. This may
include source files, build scripts and documentation.
"Reserved Font Name" refers to any names specified as such after the
copyright statement(s).
"Original Version" refers to the collection of Font Software components as
distributed by the Copyright Holder(s).
"Modified Version" refers to any derivative made by adding to, deleting,
or substituting -- in part or in whole -- any of the components of the
Original Version, by changing formats or by porting the Font Software to a
new environment.
"Author" refers to any designer, engineer, programmer, technical
writer or other person who contributed to the Font Software.
PERMISSION & CONDITIONS
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
a copy of the Font Software, to use, study, copy, merge, embed, modify,
redistribute, and sell modified and unmodified copies of the Font
Software, subject to the following conditions:
1) Neither the Font Software nor any of its individual components,
in Original or Modified Versions, may be sold by itself.
2) Original or Modified Versions of the Font Software may be bundled,
redistributed and/or sold with any software, provided that each copy
contains the above copyright notice and this license. These can be
included either as stand-alone text files, human-readable headers or
in the appropriate machine-readable metadata fields within text or
binary files as long as those fields can be easily viewed by the user.
3) No Modified Version of the Font Software may use the Reserved Font
Name(s) unless explicit written permission is granted by the corresponding
Copyright Holder. This restriction only applies to the primary font name as
presented to the users.
4) The name(s) of the Copyright Holder(s) or the Author(s) of the Font
Software shall not be used to promote, endorse or advertise any
Modified Version, except to acknowledge the contribution(s) of the
Copyright Holder(s) and the Author(s) or with their explicit written
permission.
5) The Font Software, modified or unmodified, in part or in whole,
must be distributed entirely under this license, and must not be
distributed under any other license. The requirement for fonts to
remain under this license does not apply to any document created
using the Font Software.
TERMINATION
This license becomes null and void if any of the above conditions are
not met.
DISCLAIMER
THE FONT SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT
OF COPYRIGHT, PATENT, TRADEMARK, OR OTHER RIGHT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
COPYRIGHT HOLDER BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,
INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
DAMAGES, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
FROM, OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE FONT SOFTWARE OR FROM
OTHER DEALINGS IN THE FONT SOFTWARE.
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Copyright 2017 The Literata Project Authors (https://github.com/googlefonts/literata)
This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
This license is copied below, and is also available with a FAQ at:
http://scripts.sil.org/OFL
-----------------------------------------------------------
SIL OPEN FONT LICENSE Version 1.1 - 26 February 2007
-----------------------------------------------------------
PREAMBLE
The goals of the Open Font License (OFL) are to stimulate worldwide
development of collaborative font projects, to support the font creation
efforts of academic and linguistic communities, and to provide a free and
open framework in which fonts may be shared and improved in partnership
with others.
The OFL allows the licensed fonts to be used, studied, modified and
redistributed freely as long as they are not sold by themselves. The
fonts, including any derivative works, can be bundled, embedded,
redistributed and/or sold with any software provided that any reserved
names are not used by derivative works. The fonts and derivatives,
however, cannot be released under any other type of license. The
requirement for fonts to remain under this license does not apply
to any document created using the fonts or their derivatives.
DEFINITIONS
"Font Software" refers to the set of files released by the Copyright
Holder(s) under this license and clearly marked as such. This may
include source files, build scripts and documentation.
"Reserved Font Name" refers to any names specified as such after the
copyright statement(s).
"Original Version" refers to the collection of Font Software components as
distributed by the Copyright Holder(s).
"Modified Version" refers to any derivative made by adding to, deleting,
or substituting -- in part or in whole -- any of the components of the
Original Version, by changing formats or by porting the Font Software to a
new environment.
"Author" refers to any designer, engineer, programmer, technical
writer or other person who contributed to the Font Software.
PERMISSION & CONDITIONS
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
a copy of the Font Software, to use, study, copy, merge, embed, modify,
redistribute, and sell modified and unmodified copies of the Font
Software, subject to the following conditions:
1) Neither the Font Software nor any of its individual components,
in Original or Modified Versions, may be sold by itself.
2) Original or Modified Versions of the Font Software may be bundled,
redistributed and/or sold with any software, provided that each copy
contains the above copyright notice and this license. These can be
included either as stand-alone text files, human-readable headers or
in the appropriate machine-readable metadata fields within text or
binary files as long as those fields can be easily viewed by the user.
3) No Modified Version of the Font Software may use the Reserved Font
Name(s) unless explicit written permission is granted by the corresponding
Copyright Holder. This restriction only applies to the primary font name as
presented to the users.
4) The name(s) of the Copyright Holder(s) or the Author(s) of the Font
Software shall not be used to promote, endorse or advertise any
Modified Version, except to acknowledge the contribution(s) of the
Copyright Holder(s) and the Author(s) or with their explicit written
permission.
5) The Font Software, modified or unmodified, in part or in whole,
must be distributed entirely under this license, and must not be
distributed under any other license. The requirement for fonts to
remain under this license does not apply to any document created
using the Font Software.
TERMINATION
This license becomes null and void if any of the above conditions are
not met.
DISCLAIMER
THE FONT SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT
OF COPYRIGHT, PATENT, TRADEMARK, OR OTHER RIGHT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
COPYRIGHT HOLDER BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,
INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
DAMAGES, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
FROM, OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE FONT SOFTWARE OR FROM
OTHER DEALINGS IN THE FONT SOFTWARE.
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Copyright 2011 The Lora Project Authors (https://github.com/cyrealtype/Lora-Cyrillic), with Reserved Font Name "Lora".
This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
This license is copied below, and is also available with a FAQ at:
https://scripts.sil.org/OFL
-----------------------------------------------------------
SIL OPEN FONT LICENSE Version 1.1 - 26 February 2007
-----------------------------------------------------------
PREAMBLE
The goals of the Open Font License (OFL) are to stimulate worldwide
development of collaborative font projects, to support the font creation
efforts of academic and linguistic communities, and to provide a free and
open framework in which fonts may be shared and improved in partnership
with others.
The OFL allows the licensed fonts to be used, studied, modified and
redistributed freely as long as they are not sold by themselves. The
fonts, including any derivative works, can be bundled, embedded,
redistributed and/or sold with any software provided that any reserved
names are not used by derivative works. The fonts and derivatives,
however, cannot be released under any other type of license. The
requirement for fonts to remain under this license does not apply
to any document created using the fonts or their derivatives.
DEFINITIONS
"Font Software" refers to the set of files released by the Copyright
Holder(s) under this license and clearly marked as such. This may
include source files, build scripts and documentation.
"Reserved Font Name" refers to any names specified as such after the
copyright statement(s).
"Original Version" refers to the collection of Font Software components as
distributed by the Copyright Holder(s).
"Modified Version" refers to any derivative made by adding to, deleting,
or substituting -- in part or in whole -- any of the components of the
Original Version, by changing formats or by porting the Font Software to a
new environment.
"Author" refers to any designer, engineer, programmer, technical
writer or other person who contributed to the Font Software.
PERMISSION & CONDITIONS
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
a copy of the Font Software, to use, study, copy, merge, embed, modify,
redistribute, and sell modified and unmodified copies of the Font
Software, subject to the following conditions:
1) Neither the Font Software nor any of its individual components,
in Original or Modified Versions, may be sold by itself.
2) Original or Modified Versions of the Font Software may be bundled,
redistributed and/or sold with any software, provided that each copy
contains the above copyright notice and this license. These can be
included either as stand-alone text files, human-readable headers or
in the appropriate machine-readable metadata fields within text or
binary files as long as those fields can be easily viewed by the user.
3) No Modified Version of the Font Software may use the Reserved Font
Name(s) unless explicit written permission is granted by the corresponding
Copyright Holder. This restriction only applies to the primary font name as
presented to the users.
4) The name(s) of the Copyright Holder(s) or the Author(s) of the Font
Software shall not be used to promote, endorse or advertise any
Modified Version, except to acknowledge the contribution(s) of the
Copyright Holder(s) and the Author(s) or with their explicit written
permission.
5) The Font Software, modified or unmodified, in part or in whole,
must be distributed entirely under this license, and must not be
distributed under any other license. The requirement for fonts to
remain under this license does not apply to any document created
using the Font Software.
TERMINATION
This license becomes null and void if any of the above conditions are
not met.
DISCLAIMER
THE FONT SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT
OF COPYRIGHT, PATENT, TRADEMARK, OR OTHER RIGHT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
COPYRIGHT HOLDER BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,
INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
DAMAGES, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
FROM, OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE FONT SOFTWARE OR FROM
OTHER DEALINGS IN THE FONT SOFTWARE.
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Copyright 2014 The Source Serif 4 Project Authors (https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-serif)
This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
This license is copied below, and is also available with a FAQ at:
https://openfontlicense.org
-----------------------------------------------------------
SIL OPEN FONT LICENSE Version 1.1 - 26 February 2007
-----------------------------------------------------------
PREAMBLE
The goals of the Open Font License (OFL) are to stimulate worldwide
development of collaborative font projects, to support the font creation
efforts of academic and linguistic communities, and to provide a free and
open framework in which fonts may be shared and improved in partnership
with others.
The OFL allows the licensed fonts to be used, studied, modified and
redistributed freely as long as they are not sold by themselves. The
fonts, including any derivative works, can be bundled, embedded,
redistributed and/or sold with any software provided that any reserved
names are not used by derivative works. The fonts and derivatives,
however, cannot be released under any other type of license. The
requirement for fonts to remain under this license does not apply
to any document created using the fonts or their derivatives.
DEFINITIONS
"Font Software" refers to the set of files released by the Copyright
Holder(s) under this license and clearly marked as such. This may
include source files, build scripts and documentation.
"Reserved Font Name" refers to any names specified as such after the
copyright statement(s).
"Original Version" refers to the collection of Font Software components as
distributed by the Copyright Holder(s).
"Modified Version" refers to any derivative made by adding to, deleting,
or substituting -- in part or in whole -- any of the components of the
Original Version, by changing formats or by porting the Font Software to a
new environment.
"Author" refers to any designer, engineer, programmer, technical
writer or other person who contributed to the Font Software.
PERMISSION & CONDITIONS
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
a copy of the Font Software, to use, study, copy, merge, embed, modify,
redistribute, and sell modified and unmodified copies of the Font
Software, subject to the following conditions:
1) Neither the Font Software nor any of its individual components,
in Original or Modified Versions, may be sold by itself.
2) Original or Modified Versions of the Font Software may be bundled,
redistributed and/or sold with any software, provided that each copy
contains the above copyright notice and this license. These can be
included either as stand-alone text files, human-readable headers or
in the appropriate machine-readable metadata fields within text or
binary files as long as those fields can be easily viewed by the user.
3) No Modified Version of the Font Software may use the Reserved Font
Name(s) unless explicit written permission is granted by the corresponding
Copyright Holder. This restriction only applies to the primary font name as
presented to the users.
4) The name(s) of the Copyright Holder(s) or the Author(s) of the Font
Software shall not be used to promote, endorse or advertise any
Modified Version, except to acknowledge the contribution(s) of the
Copyright Holder(s) and the Author(s) or with their explicit written
permission.
5) The Font Software, modified or unmodified, in part or in whole,
must be distributed entirely under this license, and must not be
distributed under any other license. The requirement for fonts to
remain under this license does not apply to any document created
using the Font Software.
TERMINATION
This license becomes null and void if any of the above conditions are
not met.
DISCLAIMER
THE FONT SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT
OF COPYRIGHT, PATENT, TRADEMARK, OR OTHER RIGHT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
COPYRIGHT HOLDER BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,
INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
DAMAGES, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
FROM, OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE FONT SOFTWARE OR FROM
OTHER DEALINGS IN THE FONT SOFTWARE.
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{
"name": "margin-shared",
"version": "0.1.0",
"private": true,
"license": "MIT",
"type": "module",
"description": "The faces, palette and glyphs Margin and Margin Docs both draw from.",
"types": "./src/index.ts",
"exports": {
".": "./src/index.ts",
"./fonts": "./src/fonts.ts",
"./icons": "./src/icons.ts",
"./css/fonts.css": "./css/fonts.css",
"./css/tokens.css": "./css/tokens.css"
},
"bin": {
"margin-shared-fonts": "./bin/sync-fonts.mjs"
},
"files": ["src", "css", "fonts", "bin"]
}
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// The faces both apps offer, and the two slots they set them into.
//
// This lives in one place because the two apps have to agree about it. A face named here is a
// `@font-face` in css/fonts.css, a file in fonts/, and a family a Typst preamble names on the way
// to a PDF, and those four lists going out of step with each other is a document that renders in
// one app and falls back to Georgia in the other. There is no way to keep four lists in two repos
// honest by hand, so there is one list.
//
// Two slots and not one. Body and heading are the only typographic decision worth a control:
// a document that lets its author pick a face per paragraph is a word processor, and neither of
// these is one. The scale, the leading and the measure belong to each app's own stylesheet, which
// decided them once for every document.
//
// A `FontRef` is stored, not a family name. "Literata" as a string cannot say whether it means the
// file in fonts/ or a copy the user installed themselves, and those are two different faces the
// moment one of them is updated.
export type FontCategory = "serif" | "sans" | "display";
/** One face that ships in fonts/, in the variable file both editors render from. */
export interface BundledFont {
id: string;
label: string;
/** The CSS family name, which is also what a Typst preamble names it by. */
family: string;
category: FontCategory;
regular: string;
italic: string;
/** The weight range the variable file covers, for the `@font-face` in css/fonts.css. */
weight: string;
}
/**
* The six, and the order a picker lists them in: the serifs a page of prose is set in, the one
* display face, then the sans both apps' own chrome already uses.
*
* Literata and Hanken Grotesk are first-class here and also special: they are the two that have
* static instances cut for PDF export, so they are the only pair whose bold really is bold on the
* page. The other four export as their variable file at one weight, which each app's pdf.rs
* explains.
*/
export const BUNDLED_FONTS: readonly BundledFont[] = [
{
id: "literata",
label: "Literata",
family: "Literata",
category: "serif",
regular: "Literata-VF.ttf",
italic: "Literata-Italic-VF.ttf",
weight: "200 900",
},
{
id: "eb-garamond",
label: "EB Garamond",
family: "EB Garamond",
category: "serif",
regular: "EBGaramond-VF.ttf",
italic: "EBGaramond-Italic-VF.ttf",
weight: "400 800",
},
{
id: "lora",
label: "Lora",
family: "Lora",
category: "serif",
regular: "Lora-VF.ttf",
italic: "Lora-Italic-VF.ttf",
weight: "400 700",
},
{
id: "source-serif",
label: "Source Serif 4",
family: "Source Serif 4",
category: "serif",
regular: "SourceSerif4-VF.ttf",
italic: "SourceSerif4-Italic-VF.ttf",
weight: "200 900",
},
{
id: "fraunces",
label: "Fraunces",
family: "Fraunces",
category: "display",
regular: "Fraunces-VF.ttf",
italic: "Fraunces-Italic-VF.ttf",
weight: "100 900",
},
{
id: "hanken",
label: "Hanken Grotesk",
family: "Hanken Grotesk",
category: "sans",
regular: "HankenGrotesk-VF.ttf",
italic: "HankenGrotesk-Italic-VF.ttf",
weight: "100 900",
},
];
/** One of the six, or a family off the machine. */
export type FontRef = { kind: "bundled"; id: string } | { kind: "system"; family: string };
/**
* What one book or one document is set in.
*
* Named for the pair rather than for either app's noun, because the two call the thing it belongs
* to different names. Each app aliases it: `BookFonts` in Margin, `DocumentFonts` in Margin Docs.
*/
export interface FontPair {
body: FontRef;
heading: FontRef;
}
/**
* A named pair, which is what a picker offers first.
*
* Pairing two faces is the part of this that takes an eye, and a list of twelve families with no
* opinion attached is how a document ends up in Fraunces body text. The presets are the answer to
* "make this look like something"; the two selects underneath are for somebody who already knows.
*/
export interface FontPairing {
id: string;
label: string;
body: FontRef;
heading: FontRef;
}
const bundled = (id: string): FontRef => ({ kind: "bundled", id });
export const FONT_PAIRINGS: readonly FontPairing[] = [
{ id: "quiet-press", label: "Quiet Press", body: bundled("literata"), heading: bundled("literata") },
{ id: "classic", label: "Classic", body: bundled("eb-garamond"), heading: bundled("eb-garamond") },
{ id: "editorial", label: "Editorial", body: bundled("source-serif"), heading: bundled("fraunces") },
{ id: "modern", label: "Modern", body: bundled("lora"), heading: bundled("hanken") },
{ id: "contrast", label: "Contrast", body: bundled("literata"), heading: bundled("hanken") },
{ id: "plain", label: "Plain", body: bundled("hanken"), heading: bundled("hanken") },
];
/** What a page is set in until somebody says otherwise: the css/tokens.css pair, in FontRef form. */
export const DEFAULT_FONTS: FontPair = { body: bundled("literata"), heading: bundled("literata") };
// The two tails from css/tokens.css, so a face that fails to load falls back to what the app would
// have used anyway rather than to the webview's default.
const SERIF_FALLBACK = `Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif`;
const SANS_FALLBACK = `ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, sans-serif`;
export function bundledFont(id: string): BundledFont | undefined {
return BUNDLED_FONTS.find((f) => f.id === id);
}
/**
* A `FontRef` as one string, which is what a `<select>` value and a stored preference both need.
*
* The two-character tag is the whole point: a system family can be called "Literata" and must not
* come back as the bundled one.
*/
export function encodeRef(ref: FontRef): string {
return ref.kind === "bundled" ? `b:${ref.id}` : `s:${ref.family}`;
}
export function decodeRef(value: string): FontRef {
return value.startsWith("s:")
? { kind: "system", family: value.slice(2) }
: { kind: "bundled", id: value.slice(2) };
}
/** The bare family name, which is what a Typst preamble names a face by. */
export function fontFamilyName(ref: FontRef): string {
if (ref.kind === "system") return ref.family;
return bundledFont(ref.id)?.family ?? "Literata";
}
/** What a picker calls it. Identical to the family for a system face, which has no other name. */
export function fontLabel(ref: FontRef): string {
if (ref.kind === "system") return ref.family;
return bundledFont(ref.id)?.label ?? ref.id;
}
/** A CSS font stack, which is what goes into `--font-book` and `--font-heading`. */
export function fontStack(ref: FontRef): string {
if (ref.kind === "bundled") {
const font = bundledFont(ref.id);
if (!font) return `"Literata", ${SERIF_FALLBACK}`;
return `"${font.family}", ${font.category === "sans" ? SANS_FALLBACK : SERIF_FALLBACK}`;
}
return `"${ref.family}", ${SERIF_FALLBACK}`;
}
export function refsEqual(a: FontRef, b: FontRef): boolean {
if (a.kind === "bundled" && b.kind === "bundled") return a.id === b.id;
if (a.kind === "system" && b.kind === "system") return a.family === b.family;
return false;
}
export function fontsEqual(a: FontPair, b: FontPair): boolean {
return refsEqual(a.body, b.body) && refsEqual(a.heading, b.heading);
}
/** Which preset this pair is, or null for a combination somebody built themselves. */
export function pairingFor(fonts: FontPair): string | null {
const match = FONT_PAIRINGS.find(
(p) => refsEqual(p.body, fonts.body) && refsEqual(p.heading, fonts.heading),
);
return match?.id ?? null;
}
/**
* The faces an export has to be handed, split by where their bytes come from.
*
* Bundled faces come back as ids rather than as records, because the id is what crosses the IPC
* boundary: the backend already has the bytes compiled in and looks them up by id. Deduplicated,
* because the common case is one family in both slots and asking the backend to load a two megabyte
* variable file twice is two megabytes of IPC for nothing.
*/
export function fontsUsed(fonts: FontPair): { bundled: string[]; system: string[] } {
const usedBundled = new Set<string>();
const usedSystem = new Set<string>();
for (const ref of [fonts.body, fonts.heading]) {
if (ref.kind === "bundled") {
if (bundledFont(ref.id)) usedBundled.add(ref.id);
} else {
usedSystem.add(ref.family);
}
}
return { bundled: [...usedBundled], system: [...usedSystem] };
}
/** Anything that is not a `FontRef`, from a stored preference written by another version. */
export function isFontRef(value: unknown): value is FontRef {
if (typeof value !== "object" || value === null) return false;
const ref = value as { kind?: unknown; id?: unknown; family?: unknown };
if (ref.kind === "bundled") return typeof ref.id === "string" && bundledFont(ref.id) !== undefined;
return ref.kind === "system" && typeof ref.family === "string" && ref.family !== "";
}
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// The title bar glyphs, drawn on a 24 unit grid for a 1.6 stroke.
//
// Here because the two apps kept drifting. Each had its own idea of what a search or a moon looked
// like, they were adjusted independently, and the result was two products from the same hand that
// did not look related. A path is a design decision, not a detail, and the fix for two copies of a
// decision is one copy.
//
// Paths and not an icon dependency: a set is six hundred kilobytes for the handful of shapes a
// title bar needs, and every one of these is a few dozen bytes.
//
// Each app renders these through its own `Icon` component. The two components are identical today
// and are deliberately not shared: one is React, which would make this package depend on React for
// twenty four lines, and a component is where an app is entitled to differ.
/** A pane and its divider. Also the preview dock in Margin, mirrored. */
export const SIDEBAR = "M3 4.5h18v15H3zM9 4.5v15";
/** Margin's preview dock: the same pane with the divider on the other side. */
export const DOCK = "M3 4.5h18v15H3zM14 4.5v15";
export const SEARCH = "M11 4a7 7 0 1 0 0 14 7 7 0 0 0 0-14zM20 20l-4-4";
/** A capital A with a tick beside it: the letter a checker is looking at, checked. */
export const SPELLING = "M4 17l4-10 4 10M5.4 13.4h5.2M15 17l2.5 2.5L22 14";
/** Three lines of a paragraph and a squiggle under the last, which is the mark grammar leaves. */
export const GRAMMAR = "M4 7h16M4 12h12M4 17h7M13.5 18.5c1-1.2 2-1.2 3 0s2 1.2 3 0";
/**
* A capital A beside a lowercase a, which is what a font panel has been called since there were
* font panels.
*
* Two letterforms and not one on a rule: a letter over a full width line is the underline button in
* every editor anybody has used. The other constraint is SPELLING above, which is also built on a
* capital A; what separates them is the shape to its right, a round bowl here and an angular tick
* there, and that difference survives 16px in a way a crossbar's height would not.
*/
export const FONT =
"M2.5 18L6.5 6l4 12M4.3 14.2h4.4M17 11.3a3.2 3.2 0 1 0 0 6.4a3.2 3.2 0 0 0 0-6.4M20.2 11.3v6.7";
/** The page's two edges with a double headed arrow between them. */
export const WIDTH = "M3 5v14M21 5v14M7 12h10M7 12l3-3M7 12l3 3M17 12l-3-3M17 12l-3 3";
export const EXPORT = "M5 13v6h14v-6M12 16V3M8 7l4-4 4 4";
export const MOON = "M21 12.8A9 9 0 1 1 11.2 3a7 7 0 0 0 9.8 9.8z";
/**
* The sun, which is the one glyph here that is not a single path: the disc has to be a circle so
* that it stays round at every size, and the rays have to be a path so that they keep their caps.
* Rendered as two children rather than one `d`.
*/
export const SUN_RAYS =
"M12 2v2M12 20v2M2 12h2M20 12h2M4.9 4.9l1.4 1.4M17.7 17.7l1.4 1.4M19.1 4.9l-1.4 1.4M6.3 17.7l-1.4 1.4";
export const SUN_DISC = { cx: 12, cy: 12, r: 4 } as const;
export const MORE = "M5 12h.01M12 12h.01M19 12h.01";
export const CLOSE = "M6 6l12 12M18 6L6 18";
export const CHECK = "M20 6L9 17l-5-5";
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// Everything both apps draw from. Two entry points as well as this one, `margin-shared/fonts` and
// `margin-shared/icons`, so a module that only wants the glyphs does not pull in the catalogue.
export * from "./fonts";
export * as icons from "./icons";
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# Build and developer tooling across the four apps
Scope: package.json, lockfiles, vite, tsconfig, index.html, justfiles, scripts, gitignore, nix,
editor config, Cargo profiles, capabilities. Not CI, signing or tests, bar where build leaks in.
Paths: margin `/Users/pj/Workspace/projects/python/margin`, margin-calendar
`/Users/pj/Workspace/projects/python/margin-caledar`, margin-docs
`/Users/pj/Workspace/projects/rust/margin-editor`, margin-mail
`/Users/pj/Workspace/projects/rust/margin-mail`. Cites below are relative to those roots.
## Five findings first
1. **margin-docs cannot install on a fresh clone or on its own CI.** Its `package.json:33` asks for
`"margin-shared": "file:../../python/margin/shared"` but `.github/workflows/ci.yml:19` does one
checkout. The frontend job dies inside `pnpm install --frozen-lockfile` with exit 254; four of
the last five runs failed (run 33308997470, 2026-08-30: `rust: success`, `frontend: failure`).
margin-mail is the only app that solved it, with a second checkout of `priyanshujain/margin`
into `python/margin` (`.github/workflows/ci.yml:26-31`, `release.yml:109`).
2. **The four tsconfigs are three identical files plus one that differs by two lines.** md5 of
margin, margin-calendar and margin-docs `tsconfig.json` is `468c4a26...`; margin-mail differs
only in `target` and `lib`. All four `tsconfig.node.json` are byte identical (`767b2e9a...`).
3. **The three justfiles are one file with the product name swapped**, plus two extra recipes and a
signing block in margin-mail. margin has no justfile at all, so the "every fix ends with
`just install`" rule is unenforceable there.
4. **No prettier, no eslint, no biome, no .editorconfig, no rustfmt.toml, no rust-toolchain file in
any of the four.** Confirmed by search over the repo roots and by grep over each package.json.
The only editor config is `margin/.vscode/extensions.json`, two recommendations, and no sibling
has one.
5. **Nix exists only in margin-calendar** and is a publishing artifact, not a toolchain: it
repackages the released `.deb`. Worth copying per app, but not shared build config.
## package.json
### Scripts
| script | margin | calendar | docs | mail |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `dev` | `vite` | `vite` | `vite` | `vite` |
| `build` | `tsc && vite build` | same | same | same |
| `preview` | `vite preview` | same | same | same |
| `tauri` | `tauri` | same | same | same |
| `dmg` | `tauri build --bundles dmg` (`:11`) | absent | absent | absent |
| `test` | absent | `vitest run` | `vitest run` | `vitest run` |
| `test:watch` | absent | `vitest` | `vitest` | `vitest` |
| `test:ui` | absent | `playwright test` | `playwright test` | `playwright test` |
| `fonts:sync` | `node node_modules/margin-shared/bin/sync-fonts.mjs .` (`:12`) | absent | same (`:15`) | `margin-shared-fonts .` (`:15`) |
| `fonts:check` | same with `--check` (`:13`) | absent | same (`:16`) | `margin-shared-fonts . --check` (`:16`) |
Two drifts worth folding: margin and margin-docs invoke the font sync by path into `node_modules`,
margin-mail uses the `margin-shared-fonts` bin the package already declares
(`python/margin/shared/package.json:16-18`) and which is linked in all three consumers. The bin form
is the correct one. margin-calendar has no font sync and vendors four files under `public/fonts`
against eighteen in the others, so it is not on the shared face set.
`license` also drifts: `"SEE LICENSE IN LICENSE"` in margin (`:41`) and mail (`:5`), `"MIT"` in
calendar (`:5`) and docs (`:3`), matching `LicenseRef-FSL-1.1-MIT` and `MIT` respectively in the
Cargo manifests. Consistent within an app, but the four are not on one licence.
### Version drift (declared spec, then what the lockfile resolved)
| package | margin | calendar | docs | mail |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| react, react-dom | `^19.1.0` -> 19.2.7 | `^19.1.0` -> 19.2.8 | 19.2.8 | 19.2.8 |
| vite | `^7.0.4` -> 7.3.5 | 7.3.6 | 7.3.6 | 7.3.6 |
| typescript | `~5.8.3` -> 5.8.3 | 5.8.3 | 5.8.3 | 5.8.3 |
| @vitejs/plugin-react | `^4.6.0` -> 4.7.0 | 4.7.0 | 4.7.0 | 4.7.0 |
| vitest | absent | `^3.2.4` -> 3.2.7 | 3.2.7 | 3.2.7 |
| @playwright/test | absent | 1.62.1 | 1.62.1 | 1.62.1 |
| zustand | `^5.0.14` -> 5.0.14 | 5.0.14 | 5.0.15 | 5.0.15 |
| @types/react | 19.2.17 | 19.2.18 | 19.2.18 | 19.2.18 |
| @types/react-dom | 19.2.3 | 19.2.4 | 19.2.4 | 19.2.7 |
| @types/node | absent | absent | `^22.20.1` -> 22.20.1 | `^24.0.0` -> 24.13.3 |
| @tauri-apps/api | `^2` -> 2.11.1 | 2.11.1 | 2.11.1 | 2.11.1 |
| @tauri-apps/cli | `^2` -> 2.11.3 | 2.11.4 | 2.11.4 | 2.11.4 |
| plugin-opener | 2.5.4 | 2.5.4 | 2.5.4 | 2.5.5 |
| plugin-process | 2.3.1 | 2.3.1 | 2.3.1 | 2.3.1 |
| plugin-updater | 2.10.1 | 2.10.1 | 2.10.1 | 2.11.0 |
| plugin-dialog | `^2.7.1` -> 2.7.1 | absent | `^2` -> 2.7.2 | absent |
| plugin-notification | absent | absent | absent | 2.4.0 |
| plugin-os | absent | absent | absent | 2.3.2 |
| tiptap | `^3.27.1` -> 3.27.1 | absent | `3.30.2` exact | `^3.31.2` -> 3.31.2 |
Nothing here is a real incompatibility. Every spec except margin-docs' tiptap is a caret or tilde,
so the drift is purely "when was `pnpm install` last run here": margin is the stale one, a patch
behind on react and vite and two `@types` bumps behind. The one deliberate difference is margin-docs
pinning tiptap exactly at 3.30.2 (`package.json:24-28`) while the others float.
`@types/node` is the only genuine split: 22 in docs, 24 in mail, absent in the other two. Since
`tsconfig.json` in all four sets no `types` array, the presence of `@types/node` silently changes
what global names typecheck per app.
No app declares a `packageManager` field, so nothing pins pnpm from the repo itself.
## The margin-shared relative path
- margin: `"margin-shared": "file:./shared"` (`package.json:26`), inside its own repo, and the
directory is tracked (26 files under `shared/`).
- margin-docs: `"file:../../python/margin/shared"` (`package.json:33`).
- margin-mail: `"file:../../python/margin/shared"` (`package.json:27`).
The lockfiles record the literal relative string, with no integrity hash:
`rust/margin-mail/pnpm-lock.yaml:918` is `margin-shared@file:../../python/margin/shared:` with
`resolution: {directory: ../../python/margin/shared, type: directory}` and the snapshot at
`:1957` is `{}`. Same shape at `rust/margin-editor/pnpm-lock.yaml:1449`.
How fragile: pnpm resolves the path relative to the importer directory, so the dependency is not
"the margin repo", it is "two directories up, then `python/margin/shared`". That encodes PJ's local
grouping (`Workspace/projects/python`, `Workspace/projects/rust`) into a committed manifest.
- **Fresh clone.** Cloning margin-mail into `~/code/margin-mail` makes the target
`/Users/pj/python/margin/shared`. `pnpm install` then stops with
`ERR_PNPM_LINKED_PKG_DIR_NOT_FOUND Could not install from "..." as it does not exist.`
(reproduced directly, exit non-zero, nothing installed). This is not a warning that degrades to a
missing font, it is a hard install failure before any other dependency lands.
- **CI.** margin-mail works only because `ci.yml:26-31` checks the sibling out at the exact path
`python/margin` and runs everything with `working-directory: rust/margin-mail`. margin-docs does
not do this and its frontend job has been red since the dependency landed.
- **Anyone else.** A contributor must clone two repositories into a two-level layout whose folder
names (`python`, `rust`) mean nothing to them and appear in no documentation. The margin repo is
public, so it is possible, just undiscoverable.
- **Reproducibility.** A directory dependency has no hash, so `pnpm install --frozen-lockfile`
consumes whatever is in `shared/` at that moment, uncommitted edits included. The lockfile is not
frozen with respect to shared code.
- **Publishing.** `shared/package.json:4` is `"private": true`, so today it cannot go to a registry
without a deliberate change.
Three ways out, in order of how much they cost:
1. **Give shared its own repo and depend on a git tag.** Removes the path assumption entirely and
gets an immutable resolution. npm and pnpm git dependencies cannot point at a subdirectory, so
this means moving `shared/` out of the margin repo, which also fixes margin depending on it via
`file:./shared`.
2. **Publish `margin-shared` to npm** (or a GitHub npm registry) and depend on a version. Same
benefit, plus a real integrity hash in the lockfile. Costs a publish step per change to shared.
3. **Keep the relative path but make it discoverable and enforced:** an `.env`-style documented
layout, a preinstall check that fails with a readable message instead of pnpm's error, and the
second checkout added to margin-docs CI. This is the cheap fix and it leaves the reproducibility
hole open.
If a shared toolchain package is going to exist anyway, it should be delivered the same way as
whatever is chosen here, and the two should not use different mechanisms.
## pnpm and workspaces
All four lockfiles are `lockfileVersion: '9.0'` (line 1) with identical settings blocks
(`autoInstallPeers: true`, `excludeLinksFromLockfile: false`). No `pnpm-workspace.yaml` and no
`.npmrc` in any of the four. There is no workspace today and no way to create one across four git
repos without either submodules or a monorepo merge.
Local installs all report `packageManager: [email protected]` in `node_modules/.modules.yaml`, which is
install state rather than a committed pin; CI pins `pnpm/action-setup@v6` `version: 10` and node 26.
## vite.config.ts
Ports, which are the one thing that must stay per app and are correctly staggered:
| app | server.port | hmr.port | tauri devUrl |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| margin | 1420 (`:17`) | 1421 (`:23`) | `http://localhost:1420` |
| calendar | 1430 (`:13`) | 1431 (`:20`) | `http://localhost:1430` |
| docs | 1440 (`:23`) | 1441 (`:30`) | `http://localhost:1440` |
| mail | 1450 (`:16`) | 1451 (`:22`) | `http://localhost:1450` |
Everything else in the file is the same four properties: `plugins: [react()]`,
`clearScreen: false`, `strictPort: true`, `host: host || false` where `host` is
`process.env.TAURI_DEV_HOST` behind a `@ts-expect-error` comment in all four (`:4-5` in each), the
same conditional `hmr` block, and `watch.ignored`.
Real differences:
- margin imports `defineConfig` from `"vite"` (`:1`) and exports an async factory,
`defineConfig(async () => ({ ... }))` (`:8`), for no reason visible in the file. The other three
import from `"vitest/config"` and export a plain object, because they carry a `test` block.
- margin ignores `"**/website/**"` as well as src-tauri (`:29`); the others ignore only src-tauri.
- margin-docs is the only one with a `build` block: `assetsInlineLimit` as a function that returns
`false` for `woff2?|ttf|otf|eot` (`:19`), because the app CSP is `font-src 'self'` and a data URI
font would be refused.
- The `test` blocks: calendar and mail are identical (`include: ["src/**/*.test.ts"]`,
`environment: "node"`); docs adds `maxWorkers: "50%"`, `testTimeout: 30_000`,
`hookTimeout: 30_000`, `teardownTimeout: 30_000` (`:57-69`).
Nothing in any of the four sets `define`, `envPrefix`, `resolve.alias`, `build.target`, `minify` or
`sourcemap`. So there is no alias story to preserve and no env prefix convention to standardise.
## tsconfig.json and tsconfig.node.json
`tsconfig.json` is identical in margin, calendar and docs. margin-mail differs in exactly two
options:
- `"target": "ES2022"` versus `"ES2020"` (`rust/margin-mail/tsconfig.json:3`)
- `"lib": ["ES2022", "DOM", "DOM.Iterable"]` versus `["ES2020", ...]` (`:5`)
Everything else matches across all four: `useDefineForClassFields`, `module: "ESNext"`,
`skipLibCheck`, `moduleResolution: "bundler"`, `allowImportingTsExtensions`, `resolveJsonModule`,
`isolatedModules`, `noEmit`, `jsx: "react-jsx"`, `strict`, `noUnusedLocals`, `noUnusedParameters`,
`noFallthroughCasesInSwitch`, `include: ["src"]`, and a reference to `./tsconfig.node.json`.
`tsconfig.node.json` is byte identical in all four: `composite`, `skipLibCheck`, `module: ESNext`,
`moduleResolution: bundler`, `allowSyntheticDefaultImports`, `include: ["vite.config.ts"]`.
`tests/tsconfig.json` exists in calendar, docs and mail (margin has no tests directory). Calendar
and docs are byte identical. margin-mail adds `"types": ["node"]` (`:16-18`) and is written with
one array element per line, which is a formatting drift nothing enforces.
Nothing runs `tests/tsconfig.json`. `pnpm build` is `tsc && vite build`, and root `tsc` only sees
`include: ["src"]`. No package.json script, justfile recipe or workflow step in any of the three
references it. The Playwright specs are therefore type checked by nobody.
None of the four sets `noUncheckedIndexedAccess`, `exactOptionalPropertyTypes`,
`verbatimModuleSyntax` or `paths`.
## index.html
Identical structure in all four: `<!doctype html>`, `lang="en"`, `charset=UTF-8`, a title, a
`<div id="root">`, and `<script type="module" src="/src/main.tsx">`.
- Viewport: margin, calendar and mail use `width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0,
maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no, viewport-fit=cover`; docs drops `viewport-fit=cover` (`:5`).
- Favicon: `/margin-mark.png`, `/margincal-mark.png`, `/marginmail-mark.png`. margin-docs has no
`<link rel="icon">` at all and no mark in `public/`.
- No CSP meta tag and no font preload in any of the four. The real CSP is in
`src-tauri/tauri.conf.json` under `app.security.csp`, and it differs per app for good reasons:
margin and docs add `worker-src 'self' blob:`, docs adds `asset: http://asset.localhost` to
`img-src`, mail adds `frame-src 'self'`.
- Every one has an inline pre-paint script that reads localStorage and sets attributes on
`documentElement` before React boots. They share a shape (theme resolution against
`prefers-color-scheme`, then app specific attributes) but every key is app prefixed
(`margin-theme`, `margincal-theme`, `marginmail-theme`, `margindocs-theme`) and each sets
different things. margin-docs is the only one that reads keys individually rather than wrapping
the lot in one `try` (`:13-19`), which is the better version: a webview that refuses storage
still gets the theme. The other three lose everything after the first throw.
That inline script is the one genuinely shared idea in these files, and it is the hardest to share,
because it must be inline and cannot import.
## justfiles
margin has none. calendar, docs and mail have one, and the three are the same file with names
substituted; `diff` between calendar and docs is nine hunks, all of them the product name, the
process name or a comment reflow.
| recipe | calendar | docs | mail | bodies match |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `default` (`@just --list`) | yes | yes | yes | identical |
| `dev` (`pnpm tauri dev`) | yes | yes | yes | identical |
| `test` (`pnpm test` then `cd src-tauri && cargo test`) | yes | yes | yes | identical |
| `test-ui` (`pnpm test:ui`) | yes | yes | yes | identical, comment differs in mail |
| `guide-shots` | no | no | yes (`:29-30`) | mail only |
| `docs` (`node scripts/docs-check.mjs`) | no | no | yes (`:33-34`) | mail only |
| `build` | yes | yes | yes | same except mail's signing block |
| `install` (depends on `build`) | yes | yes | yes | identical |
| `_install-macos` | yes | yes | yes | docs omits the final `open "$dest"` |
| `_install-linux` | yes | yes | yes | identical bar names and the desktop entry |
| `uninstall` | yes | yes | yes | identical bar names |
Shared variables: `set shell := ["bash", "-euo", "pipefail", "-c"]`, `app`, `bundle :=
"src-tauri/target/release/bundle"`.
Substantive differences:
- margin-mail's `build` sources a signing env file before building
(`rust/margin-mail/justfile:46-54`): it reads
`"${MARGIN_SIGNING_DIR:-$HOME/.margin-signing}/studio.margin.app.env"`. Note the file name is
`studio.margin.app`, which is margin's bundle identifier, not `studio.margin.mail`. If the intent
is one env file for the whole suite the name is misleading; if it is one per app, this is wrong.
- margin-docs' `_install-macos` does not `open "$dest"` at the end (compare `justfile:77` in docs
with `:78` in calendar and `:97` in mail). So `just install` starts the new build in two of the
three apps and not the third.
- Only margin-mail has a prose gate recipe.
Because the rule is that a fix ends with `just install`, the gap that matters is margin: its only
local build path is `pnpm dmg` (`package.json:11`), and nothing copies a bundle into
`/Applications`. The three justfiles already prove the body is app independent bar four names, so
margin is a paste plus a variable block away from the same command.
## scripts directories
Only two apps have one and they do unrelated things.
- `margin/scripts` is twelve files of Apple release plumbing: `apple-provision.rb`,
`apple-secrets.sh`, `appstore-compliance.rb`, `appstore-listing.rb`,
`appstore-review-detail.rb`, `appstore-screenshots.rb`, `mas-package.sh`, `mas-upload-local.sh`,
`testflight-release.rb`, `testflight-setup.rb`, `testflight-testers.rb`. This is the App Store
path and only margin is on it, so it stays where it is (and overlaps the signing agent's scope).
- `margin-mail/scripts` is one file, `docs-check.mjs`, 72 lines: no em or en dash anywhere
including in code fences, no directory tree (box glyph run or three consecutive ASCII tree
lines), no broken relative link. It walks every `.md` in the repo, skipping
`node_modules, dist, target, .git, gen, .playwright-mcp`.
`docs-check.mjs` is the clearest single candidate for sharing: no dependencies, no app specific
knowledge, and it enforces a house rule that applies to all four repos. It belongs in the shared
package with a bin, like `sync-fonts.mjs` (exposed as `margin-shared-fonts`).
## .gitignore
Common core in all four, in the same order: log patterns, `node_modules`, `dist`, `dist-ssr`,
`*.local`, the editor block (`.vscode/*` with `!.vscode/extensions.json`, `.idea`, `.DS_Store`,
`*.sw?`), `src-tauri/target/`, `.playwright-mcp/`, `/*.png`.
Differences:
- `src-tauri/gen/schemas/` is ignored in calendar (`:27`), docs (`:27`) and mail (`:21`), but not
in margin. margin therefore can commit generated schema files.
- The Xcode block (`src-tauri/gen/apple/build/`, `Externals/`, `Pods/`, `Podfile.lock`,
`xcuserdata/`) is in calendar (`:32-36`), docs (`:32-36`) and mail (`:25-29`), not margin.
- Google credentials (`/google-credentials.json`, `/client_secret_*.json`) in margin (`:30-31`),
calendar (`:39-40`) and mail (`:33-34`), not docs, which needs none.
- margin only: `target-mas/` and two App Store review contact files (`:38-42`).
- docs only: `.env`, `.env.*`, `!.env.example` (`:43-45`), the updater signing key.
- calendar only: `/result`, `/result-*` (`:47-48`), the nix build symlinks.
- mail only: `/screenshots/` (`:41`).
- margin-mail trims the editor block hardest (no `*.suo`, `*.ntvs*`, `*.njsproj`, `*.sln`).
A shared base of about twenty lines would cover everything up to `/*.png`, with five to eight app
specific lines after it. Git has no include mechanism for ignore files and `core.excludesFile` is
per machine, so this is one of the things that stays copied.
## Nix in margin-calendar
`flake.nix` is 21 lines: one input (`nixpkgs` at `nixos-unstable`, locked in `flake.lock` at rev
`3ed67ec0a4d3c7ab4ae1f04f8ee8df07bfa506a2`), an overlay and a single `x86_64-linux` package that
calls `./nix/package.nix`. `nix/package.nix` fetches the published `.deb` from the GitHub release
named in `nix/release.json` (`{"version": "0.0.5", "hash": "sha256-+bEQO..."}`), unpacks it with
`dpkg-deb -x`, relinks it with `autoPatchelfHook` and `wrapGAppsHook3` against nixpkgs' gtk3,
`webkitgtk_4_1`, `libsoup_3` and friends, writes a launcher that points `libglvnd` at nixpkgs' mesa
when `/run/opengl-driver` is absent, shims `xdg-open` to strip those variables again, and sets
`MARGIN_CALENDAR_PACKAGED_BY=nix` so the in-app updater reports rather than replaces itself.
`docs/release.md:41-81` gives the rationale: the AppImage bundles Ubuntu's GTK stack and a bundled
`libwayland-client` cannot talk to a current compositor, so on Hyprland it falls back to Xwayland.
It is binary by necessity, because the Google OAuth client is embedded at compile time from a file
that is not in the repo.
Is this the Linux distribution path, and should the others adopt it? Yes for margin-mail, same
Google client problem and same GTK and WebKit runtime; yes for margin-docs if it ships Linux, which
its justfile already builds for. margin is macOS and App Store shaped and would gain nothing.
But note what is actually shared here: almost nothing. The flake is fifteen lines of boilerplate and
`package.nix` is a hundred lines of which the app name, the deb URL, the desktop file rename, the
env variable name and the meta block are all per app, and the rest (the hooks, the buildInputs list,
the mesa launcher, the xdg-open shim) is genuinely common. If two apps adopt it, that common part
should be a function in the shared repo that each flake calls with a name, a repo and a release pin.
Below two adopters, copy it.
## Editor, formatter and linter config
Confirmed absent everywhere: prettier (no config file, no dependency, no script in any of the four
package.json files), eslint, biome, `.editorconfig`, `rustfmt.toml`, `clippy.toml`,
`rust-toolchain.toml`, `.nvmrc`.
Present: `margin/.vscode/extensions.json`, two recommendations
(`tauri-apps.tauri-vscode`, `rust-lang.rust-analyzer`). No other app has a `.vscode` directory,
though all four gitignore `.vscode/*` while un-ignoring `extensions.json`, so the intent is there.
`margin-editor/src-tauri/.cargo/config.toml` is the only cargo config: `[env] RUST_TEST_THREADS =
"1"`, for a suite that shares one on-disk git repository. App specific, stays.
The consistent formatting across all these files (two space JSON, 100 column comments, the same
comment voice) is being maintained by hand. That works while one person writes everything, and the
one place it has already slipped is `rust/margin-mail/tests/tsconfig.json`, which is the same file
as its siblings reformatted with expanded arrays.
## Cargo
No `[workspace]` section in any of the four manifests, so each `src-tauri` is its own workspace root
with its own `Cargo.lock` (margin 964 packages, calendar 565, docs 962, mail 668).
Profiles: only margin (`src-tauri/Cargo.toml:78-79`) and margin-docs (`:107-108`) set anything,
both `[profile.dev.package."*"] opt-level = 3` with near identical comments about Harper's grammar
engine being ten times slower unoptimized. No `[profile.release]` anywhere, so release builds are
cargo defaults in all four and there is no `lto`, `codegen-units` or `strip` setting to align.
Duplication worth noting: margin and margin-docs both carry `[patch.crates-io]` stubs for
`burn-cuda` and `cubecl-cpu` (`margin:70-72`, `docs:98-100`) plus a `stubs/` directory each with the
same two skeleton crates at the same versions (`burn-cuda` 0.19.1, `cubecl-cpu` 0.8.1) and nearly
the same comments. This is real shared code, kept in sync by hand, and it is tied to
`harper-core = "=2.5.0"` in both.
A shared cargo workspace across the four is not feasible. A workspace requires one filesystem root
containing all members with paths in the root manifest, which means one git repository. These are four
repositories with independent release tags and version numbers, and margin-mail has no remote
configured yet. Without merging, the one thing worth extracting is a shared crate for the harper
stubs behind a git dependency, which deletes both copied `stubs/` directories.
## Capabilities
All four have exactly `capabilities/default.json` and `capabilities/desktop.json`, both pointing at
`../gen/schemas/desktop-schema.json`, both scoped to `windows: ["main"]`, with desktop gated on
`platforms: ["macOS", "windows", "linux"]`. No `permissions/` directory in any app.
| app | default permissions | desktop permissions |
| --- | --- | --- |
| margin | `core:default`, `core:window:allow-destroy`, `core:window:allow-start-dragging`, `opener:default`, `dialog:default` | `updater:default`, `process:allow-restart` |
| calendar | `core:default`, `opener:default`, `deep-link:default` | the two window permissions, `updater:default`, `process:allow-restart` |
| docs | `core:default`, `opener:default`, `dialog:default` | the two window permissions plus `core:window:allow-toggle-maximize`, `updater:default`, `process:allow-restart` |
| mail | `core:default`, `opener:default`, `deep-link:default`, `notification:default`, `os:default` | the two window permissions, `updater:default`, `process:allow-restart` |
margin is the odd one: it puts the two window permissions in `default` rather than `desktop`, so a
mobile build would ask for them. `desktop.json` is identical in calendar and mail bar the
description, and docs differs by one line.
## Recommendation
A shared package (call it `margin-shared` extended, or a second `margin-config` delivered the same
way) should export exactly five things:
1. **`tsconfig/base.json`.** Everything currently duplicated, with `target` and `lib` at ES2022 for
all four, since ES2020 in three of them is a scaffold default nobody chose. Each app keeps a
three line `tsconfig.json` that extends it and sets `include` and `references`. Also export
`tsconfig/node.json` (byte identical in all four today) and `tsconfig/tests.json` (identical in
two of three, one `types` entry apart). Adding `noUncheckedIndexedAccess` is a separate decision
and should not ride along with the consolidation.
2. **A vite config factory**, `marginVite({ port, test })`, returning the plugin, `clearScreen`,
the full `server` block derived from one port number, and the `TAURI_DEV_HOST` handling. Ports
stay per app and are the argument. margin-docs passes its `assetsInlineLimit`, margin-docs
passes its vitest timeouts. The `@ts-expect-error process` comment disappears with it, because
the factory can own that line once.
3. **A justfile include.** `just` supports `import`, so the shared file can hold `default`, `dev`,
`test`, `test-ui`, `build`, `install`, `_install-macos`, `_install-linux` and `uninstall`
verbatim, parameterised on `app`, `binary`, `comment` and `categories`, which the app justfile
sets before importing. Adding this to margin is the change that makes `just install` a real
suite-wide rule instead of a rule three of four apps can honour. The import has to resolve to a
real path, which lands back on the same delivery question as `margin-shared`.
4. **`docs-check` as a bin.** Move `margin-mail/scripts/docs-check.mjs` into the shared package
beside `sync-fonts.mjs`, expose it as `margin-shared-docs`, and add a `docs` recipe to the shared
justfile. It has no app specific content at all.
5. **The checking story, with no eslint.** Today that is `tsc` under `pnpm build` plus `cargo
test`. Two gaps close inside the shared config rather than with a linter: `tests/tsconfig.json`
is run by nothing, so add a `typecheck` recipe covering both projects; and `pnpm fonts:check`
runs in margin-mail CI only, so it belongs in the shared `test` recipe everywhere.
What has to stay per app, and should not be abstracted:
- The dev server port and the matching `devUrl` in `tauri.conf.json`. Staggering is load bearing:
Playwright reuses whatever answers on the port, so a collision means a suite silently driving the
wrong app (`rust/margin-mail/vite.config.ts:7-9`).
- The inline pre-paint script in `index.html`. It cannot import, its storage keys are app prefixed,
and it sets different attributes per app. Copy margin-docs' per key `saved()` pattern into the
other three by hand.
- The CSP in `tauri.conf.json`, the capabilities files and `Cargo.toml` dependencies. One shared
version would be the union, which is wrong for a suite that does not reach for spare permissions.
- `.gitignore`, because git cannot include a shared file.
- The nix flake, unless and until a second app ships Linux through it.
- margin's `scripts/` App Store tooling, and margin-docs' `src-tauri/.cargo/config.toml`.
Sequencing: the `margin-shared` path problem has to be solved first, because every item above is
delivered through the same mechanism, and adding four more consumers of a broken relative path makes
the fresh clone failure four times worse instead of once. Second, add the missing checkout to
margin-docs CI, which is a red build today for a reason nobody has looked at. Third, give margin a
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# CI, packaging, signing, the updater, distribution
Four repos, four hand-maintained copies of the same release pipeline. This is what is in them, what
has already drifted, and what a shared version would have to keep per app. Paths: `margin` is
`/Users/pj/Workspace/projects/python/margin`, `margin-calendar` is
`/Users/pj/Workspace/projects/python/margin-caledar` (misspelled on disk), `margin-docs` is
`/Users/pj/Workspace/projects/rust/margin-editor`, `margin-mail` is
`/Users/pj/Workspace/projects/rust/margin-mail`.
## The workflows
| repo | release.yml | ci.yml | other |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| margin | 259 lines | none | appstore.yml, 130 lines |
| margin-calendar | 241 | 81 | |
| margin-docs | 258 | 78 | |
| margin-mail | 229 | 92 | |
margin has no CI workflow at all. Nothing checks a push or a pull request there; the first time a
broken tree is noticed is a release build.
### How near-duplicate the release YAML is
Whole-file changed lines (`diff | grep -c '^[<>]'`) run from 126 (calendar vs mail) through 136
(margin vs calendar), 144 (margin vs mail), 211 (docs vs mail), 225 (calendar vs docs) to 241
(margin vs docs). Those numbers overstate the difference, because they count reflowed comment
blocks. The structural duplication is much worse. The whole `prepare` job, lines 1 to 81 of both
files, is byte-identical between margin-calendar and margin-mail except for one line: the title at
`margin-caledar/.github/workflows/release.yml:78` says `Margin Calendar $TAG` and
`margin-mail/.github/workflows/release.yml:78` says `Margin Mail $TAG`. Nothing else in 81 lines
differs.
The `publish` job is the same story. `margin-caledar/.github/workflows/release.yml:162-181` against
`margin-mail/.github/workflows/release.yml:210-229` differs on one line, and that line is
punctuation inside an error string (calendar still has an em dash at line 177, mail rewrote it as a
comma). Against margin, `release.yml:199-218`, the only real difference is the platform key list:
margin checks `darwin-aarch64 darwin-x86_64 linux-x86_64 windows-x86_64` at line 212, the other two
check the same list without Windows.
Every workflow pins the same actions at the same versions: `actions/checkout@v7`,
`actions/setup-node@v6` with `node-version: 26`, `pnpm/action-setup@v6` with `version: 10`,
`dtolnay/rust-toolchain@stable`, `swatinem/rust-cache@v2`, `tauri-apps/tauri-action@v0`,
`cachix/install-nix-action@v31`, `actions/upload-artifact@v4`. Four copies of one pin set.
### Triggers, permissions, concurrency, caching
All four releases are `workflow_dispatch` only, with one optional `version` string input, and
`permissions: contents: write` at workflow level. margin's `appstore.yml:16-17` is the one workflow
with `contents: read`.
No release workflow has a `concurrency` block. Two dispatches at once would both compute a version
from `tauri.conf.json`, both bump, and race on the push-with-rebase loop at
`margin/.github/workflows/release.yml:62-74`. The three `ci.yml` files do have one, identical in all
three (`group: ci-${{ github.ref }}`, `cancel-in-progress: true`): another three-way copy.
Cargo is cached everywhere through `swatinem/rust-cache@v2`. pnpm is cached nowhere: no workflow
sets `cache: pnpm` on `setup-node`, so every job downloads the whole tree fresh.
### Matrix and runners
margin, `release.yml:88-102`: three rows, `macos-26` universal, `ubuntu-latest`, `windows-latest`.
Only margin builds Windows, and only margin installs `rpm` (`release.yml:124`). margin-calendar and
margin-mail, both `release.yml:88-95`: two rows, `macos-26` universal and `ubuntu-22.04`, both
carrying the same comment about 22.04 being the glibc baseline. margin builds Linux on
`ubuntu-latest` instead, contradicting the reasoning the other two committed to and producing a
bundle with a higher glibc floor. margin-docs, `release.yml:111-117`: no matrix, one `macos-26`
runner, with a good comment on why a matrix of one is where a stale Linux row survives.
margin-mail is the only one that needs two checkouts, `release.yml:101-109`: itself into
`rust/margin-mail` and `priyanshujain/margin` into `python/margin`, because `package.json` has
`"margin-shared": "file:../../python/margin/shared"`. That forces `defaults.run.working-directory`
(`release.yml:97-99`), a different rust-cache workspace path (`release.yml:143`), and
`projectPath: rust/margin-mail` on the tauri-action (`release.yml:202`).
**margin-docs has the same relative dependency and does not do this.**
`margin-editor/package.json` declares `margin-shared` at `file:../../python/margin/shared` and
`pnpm-lock.yaml:1449` records it under that path, but `margin-editor/.github/workflows/ci.yml:19`
and `release.yml:119` each do a single checkout with no sibling repo. `pnpm install
--frozen-lockfile` cannot resolve that path. margin-docs CI and margin-docs releases are broken as
committed. That is the single most concrete cost of copy-paste here: the fix landed in mail and was
never carried back.
### Which workflow is most evolved
margin-docs, and it is not close. It is the only one that validates the version string before using
it (`release.yml:38-41`), the only one that bumps `Cargo.toml` with a `[package]`-anchored awk pass
and then verifies the result (`release.yml:58-75`), the only one whose Apple signing step
distinguishes "unconfigured" from "half configured" and fails the second case
(`release.yml:176-189`), the only one that checks the manifest version against the tag
(`release.yml:227-231`), and the only one that checks `latest.json` carries a signature and not just
a url (`release.yml:245-255`). Its comments explain why each check exists.
margin is the most complete in scope: the only Windows row, the only App Store workflow, the only
post-build `codesign`/`spctl`/`stapler` verification (`release.yml:188-197`), the only Homebrew tap
job (`release.yml:220-259`), and the only bump step that rewrites `Cargo.lock` (`release.yml:47-52`).
margin-calendar is the only one with a Nix job (`release.yml:187-241`). margin-mail is the plainest:
the two-repo checkout and nothing else the others lack. Nobody has all of it, and every good idea
lives in exactly one repo.
## tauri.conf.json side by side
| | margin | margin-calendar | margin-docs | margin-mail |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| productName | Margin | Margin Calendar | Margin Docs | Margin Mail |
| version | 0.1.17 | 0.0.5 | 0.0.1 | 0.0.1 |
| identifier | studio.margin.app | studio.margin.calendar | studio.margin.docs | studio.margin.mail |
| devUrl port | 1420 | 1430 | 1440 | 1450 |
| window | 1280x820, min 920x640 | 1360x900, min 880x560 | 1360x900, min 880x600 | 1440x900, min 880x560 |
| titleBarStyle | Overlay | Overlay | Overlay | Overlay |
| trafficLightPosition | absent | 9,25 | absent | 9,25 |
| bundle.targets | `"all"` | app, dmg, appimage, deb | app, dmg | app, dmg, appimage, deb |
| category | Productivity | Productivity | Productivity | Productivity |
| macOS.minimumSystemVersion | 10.15 | 10.15 | 10.15 | 10.15 |
| macOS.hardenedRuntime | true | absent | true | absent |
| macOS.signingIdentity | absent | absent | absent | `"-"` |
| linux.deb.depends | absent | webkit2gtk-4.1-0, gtk-3-0 | absent | same as calendar |
| deep-link plugin | no | yes | no | yes |
| resources | dictionaries/en | none | none | none |
| copyright | present | absent | absent | absent |
Line references: `margin/src-tauri/tauri.conf.json:3-5,29,40-47`,
`margin-caledar/src-tauri/tauri.conf.json:3-5,49-54,65-75`,
`margin-editor/src-tauri/tauri.conf.json:3-5,29-32,43-46`,
`margin-mail/src-tauri/tauri.conf.json:3-5,45,56-64`.
`hardenedRuntime` defaults to `true` in tauri-utils
(`~/.cargo/registry/src/index.crates.io-.../tauri-utils-2.9.3/src/config.rs:682`), so the two that
omit it get it anyway. Two repos state it and two do not, for no reason.
The CSP is four variations on one string. All four begin `default-src 'self'; img-src 'self' data:
blob:; font-src 'self'; style-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline'; script-src 'self';` and end with
`connect-src 'self' ipc: http://ipc.localhost`. margin adds `worker-src 'self' blob:`, margin-docs
adds that plus `asset: http://asset.localhost` to `img-src`, margin-mail adds `frame-src 'self'`,
margin-calendar adds nothing. Every app declares the same five icon paths.
`bundle.targets: "all"` in margin is why margin gets an rpm and the others do not. It is a default
rather than a decision.
## Signing and notarisation
Local credentials live in `~/.margin-signing`, overridable with `MARGIN_SIGNING_DIR`. Only two
repos reference it. In margin: `scripts/apple-provision.rb:39`, `scripts/apple-secrets.sh:8`,
`scripts/mas-upload-local.sh:15`, documented at `docs/publishing.md:213-226`. In margin-mail:
`justfile:47` and `docs/release.md:25-26,40`.
The directory holds, by name: three `.p12` files (`developer-id.p12`, `apple-distribution.p12`,
`mac-installer.p12`) each with a sibling `.pass` file, a `.provisionprofile` named after the bundle
id, `AuthKey.p8` with `AuthKey.env` beside it holding the key id and issuer, and an env file per
bundle id (`studio.margin.app.env`) exporting `APPLE_TEAM_ID`, `APPLE_SIGNING_IDENTITY`,
`MAS_APP_IDENTITY` and `MAS_INSTALLER_IDENTITY`. Private keys are generated locally so Apple only
ever sees a CSR, and each `.p12` bundles Apple's intermediate so a fresh CI keychain can build a
chain (`docs/publishing.md:214-218`).
`margin/scripts/apple-secrets.sh` pushes all of it into a repository's Actions secrets by piping
files straight into `gh secret set` so nothing is echoed (`apple-secrets.sh:17-32`). It is already
parameterised: `DIR`, `BUNDLE_ID` and `REPO` are env-overridable (`apple-secrets.sh:8-10`). It could
serve all four repos today and does not, because it lives in one of them. margin-mail's local build
sources `$MARGIN_SIGNING_DIR/studio.margin.app.env`, hardcoded to margin's bundle id
(`justfile:47`), which is right in effect (one certificate covers the team) and wrong in shape.
The three release workflows arrive at the same signing step by three different routes.
margin-calendar has none at all: `release.yml:152-160` passes only the Tauri updater key, so
calendar ships unsigned macOS bundles. margin writes only the notarisation `.p8` to disk
(`release.yml:159-171`) and passes the certificate variables directly to the action
(`release.yml:175-183`). margin-mail exports certificate variables into `$GITHUB_ENV` only when they
are non-empty, with a heredoc delimiter, and warns twice when they are not
(`release.yml:167-197`). margin-docs does the same with a random heredoc delimiter and a hard
failure on the half-configured case (`release.yml:158-197`).
The secret names have drifted. margin uses `APPLE_API_KEY_ID` as the secret and maps it to
`APPLE_API_KEY` in the action environment (`release.yml:183`). margin-mail uses a secret literally
called `APPLE_API_KEY` (`release.yml:176`). margin-docs uses the Apple ID and app-specific password
route instead: `APPLE_ID`, `APPLE_PASSWORD`, `APPLE_TEAM_ID` (`release.yml:163-165`), which is the
one `docs/publishing.md:22-24` explicitly argued against, because the App Store Connect key does
notarisation and store upload with one credential to rotate.
Only margin verifies the result. `release.yml:188-197` runs `codesign --verify --deep --strict`,
then `spctl --assess --type execute`, then `xcrun stapler validate`, with a comment that spctl is
the check a double-clicking user actually meets. No other repo checks that its signed bundle is
notarised.
### The App Store track
`margin/appstore/` is listing content, not code: one text file per App Store Connect field under
`appstore/metadata/en-US/` (name, subtitle, description, keywords, promotional_text,
release_notes, privacy_url, support_url, marketing_url, beta_description), review contact details
under `appstore/metadata/`, and five 2560x1600 frames under `appstore/screenshots/` that are a CSS
rebuild of the app rather than a screen capture. `margin/target-mas/` is a build output directory,
holding `Margin.pkg`; `appstore.yml:125-129` uploads `target-mas/*.pkg` as an artifact.
`scripts/mas-package.sh` covers the distance Tauri does not: it stamps `CFBundleVersion` from the
workflow run number (`mas-package.sh:27-30`), copies the provisioning profile into the bundle before
signing, widens permissions so Apple can read every file (`mas-package.sh:33-39`), substitutes
`__TEAM_ID__` into `entitlements.mas.plist`, signs nested code first and never with `--deep`, then
`productbuild`s the result (`mas-package.sh:44-58`). `entitlements.mas.plist` declares four
entitlements, each justified in a comment: app-sandbox, network.client, network.server for the
loopback OAuth listener, and files.user-selected.read-write. `src-tauri/Info.plist:8-9` declares
`ITSAppUsesNonExemptEncryption` false. Six Ruby scripts drive the Developer Portal and App Store
Connect through fastlane's spaceship.
None of this exists in the other three, and calendar and mail both have a Google OAuth loopback
listener, so if either goes to the store it needs the same entitlement and the same review note.
## The updater
One endpoint per app, all on GitHub releases:
| repo | endpoint | pubkey |
| --- | --- | --- |
| margin | `.../priyanshujain/margin/releases/latest/download/latest.json` | real |
| margin-calendar | `.../margin-calendar/releases/latest/download/latest.json` | real |
| margin-docs | `.../margin-docs/releases/latest/download/latest.json` | `REPLACE_WITH_TAURI_SIGNER_PUBKEY` |
| margin-mail | `.../margin-mail/releases/latest/download/latest.json` | `REPLACE_WITH_THE_MINISIGN_PUBLIC_KEY` |
All at line 8 to 11 of each `src-tauri/tauri.release.conf.json`. Two of the four have never had a
keypair generated, so neither has released.
**All four already use the overlay workaround.** No `tauri.conf.json` carries
`plugins.updater.pubkey`; all four keep it plus `bundle.createUpdaterArtifacts: true` in
`tauri.release.conf.json`, merged with `--config src-tauri/tauri.release.conf.json` in the build
args. What did not propagate is the reason. Only margin records it, and only outside `docs/`:
`simplify/guidelines/distribution.md:44` and `simplify/.research/memories-raw.md:283` name
tauri-apps/tauri#14581, that the mere presence of the pubkey makes `tauri build` demand a signing
key and would break the key-free local build (`margin/package.json` still has `"dmg": "tauri build
--bundles dmg"` with no overlay). The three sibling `docs/release.md` files describe the overlay as
"where the public half lives" and give no reason, so the next person to tidy a config has nothing
telling them not to inline it.
The overlay carries a second job nobody has written down: it is the flag that switches the plugin
on. Every app registers the plugin conditionally on the merged config, ported verbatim four times:
`margin/src-tauri/src/lib.rs:159-161`, `margin-caledar/src-tauri/src/lib.rs:260-262`,
`margin-editor/src-tauri/src/lib.rs:263-265`, `margin-mail/src-tauri/src/lib.rs:265-267`. Two of the
comments say "Ported from margin's lib.rs" outright.
`margin/src-tauri/src/updates.rs` is the only per-channel logic anywhere. `channel()` at lines 17 to
26 reads which plugin key the merged config declares, `updater` meaning direct download and
`appstore` meaning store, and a `_MASReceipt` in the bundle overrides both (lines 28 to 37), so a
store build cannot self-update even if built with the updater in it. `appstore_latest()` at lines 51
to 84 asks `itunes.apple.com/lookup` with a cache-busting timestamp. No sibling has or needs this.
Release notes are surfaced but empty. All four create the draft with `--notes "Release $TAG"`
(`release.yml:78` in calendar, docs and mail; `:84` in margin), tauri-action copies the release body
into `latest.json`, so `update.body` is the literal string "Release v0.1.18".
`margin-editor/src/update.ts:79` passes that into `useUpdate.offer(version, notes)`, which
`store/useUpdate.ts:39` calls "the release notes, as the release wrote them".
The four update UIs are four different things: margin has `src/updater.ts` (111 lines) plus an
`UpdateDialog.tsx` and a store; margin-docs has the most developed, `src/update.ts` (171 lines) with
a daily background check, a 6 second launch delay and explicit handling of "this build has no
updater in it" (`update.ts:39-56`); margin-calendar has a 41 line toast-only version
(`src/keys/updates.ts`) whose header says it is margin's minus the dialog; margin-mail has no
updater module, just an inline `checkForUpdates` in `App.tsx:98-118` and a panel in
`screens/Settings.tsx:2465-2540`.
`packaged_by()` is the Nix escape hatch, ported twice: `margin-caledar/src-tauri/src/lib.rs:240-245`
reading `MARGIN_CALENDAR_PACKAGED_BY`, `margin-mail/src-tauri/src/lib.rs:197-201` reading
`MARGIN_MAIL_PACKAGED_BY`. mail reads a variable nothing sets, because mail has no Nix package.
## Versioning
Three files per app, all bumped by the release workflow and by nothing else: `.version` in
`src-tauri/tauri.conf.json`, `.version` in `package.json`, and `[package] version` in
`src-tauri/Cargo.toml`. `tauri.conf.json` is the source of truth, since the "leave empty to bump the
patch" path reads it (`release.yml:31` in all four). All four are consistent right now: margin
0.1.17, calendar 0.0.5, docs 0.0.1, mail 0.0.1, with `Cargo.lock` matching in each.
Nothing enforces it. There is no check in any `ci.yml` that the three agree, so the only thing
keeping them together is that a human never edits one by hand.
The `Cargo.lock` problem is history rather than theory. Only margin bumps the lock, with an awk pass
and a comment explaining that the lock records the crate's own version
(`margin/.github/workflows/release.yml:47-52`), and it is the only repo that adds `Cargo.lock` to
the release commit (`:60`). margin-calendar does not, and its history carries two manual repair
commits for exactly this: `3754e4a Sync the lock file to the version the crate declares` and
`ae5a7b4 let cargo.lock catch up with the 0.0.4 bump`. docs and mail have the same gap and have not
released yet.
The bump itself is three different implementations. margin and margin-mail and margin-calendar use
`sed -i "0,/^version = \".*\"/s//.../"` on `Cargo.toml`, which takes the first `version =` line in
the file. margin-docs replaced it with a `[package]`-anchored awk pass plus a verification grep
(`release.yml:58-75`), with a comment explaining that a long-form dependency puts `version = "0.4"`
on its own line and bumping that one ships the version before. margin-mail's `Cargo.toml` is 6568
bytes with many long-form dependencies, so it is the repo most exposed to the bug and it has the old
code.
## Linux, Windows, mobile
What each app actually ships:
| repo | macOS | Linux | Windows | store |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| margin | universal dmg, signed and notarised, Homebrew cask | deb, rpm, AppImage from ubuntu-latest | msi and nsis from windows-latest | Mac App Store pkg |
| margin-calendar | universal dmg, unsigned | deb and AppImage from ubuntu-22.04, plus a Nix flake | none | none |
| margin-docs | universal dmg, ad hoc signed today | none | none | none |
| margin-mail | universal dmg, ad hoc signed today | deb and AppImage from ubuntu-22.04 | none | none |
margin-calendar's `flake.nix` is 21 lines: one input, one system (`x86_64-linux`), an overlay and a
package, both calling `nix/package.nix`. That file is 113 lines and repackages the published `.deb`
rather than building from source, justified at lines 1 to 4 by the OAuth client being embedded at
compile time from a file that is not in the repo. `autoPatchelfHook` relinks it against nixpkgs'
webkit2gtk so it runs as a native Wayland client instead of the AppImage's Xwayland fallback, a
generated launcher points libglvnd at nixpkgs' Mesa when `/run/opengl-driver` is absent
(`package.nix:68-94`), and `preFixup` sets `MARGIN_CALENDAR_PACKAGED_BY=nix` (`package.nix:98-103`).
`nix/release.json` is the pin, `{version, hash}`, currently 0.0.5. The `nix` job
(`release.yml:187-241`) runs after publish, downloads the deb, hashes it, writes the pin, builds the
package as proof, and pushes the pin to main with the same rebase loop as the version bump.
`ci.yml:74-81` rebuilds it on every push. This replaced an AUR package, rationale at
`docs/release.md:41-81`; no AUR file is left in the tree.
margin-mail reads `MARGIN_MAIL_PACKAGED_BY` and documents the Nix behaviour at `docs/release.md:116-119`
but ships no flake, so that path is dead code today.
Mobile is scaffolded in two repos. `margin/src-tauri/gen/apple` is a committed iOS Xcode project;
`margin-caledar/src-tauri/gen/` has both `apple` and `android` tracked, including
`app/src/main/java/studio/margin/calendar/MainActivity.kt`. margin-docs and margin-mail have only
`gen/schemas`, though margin-mail's include `iOS-schema.json` and `mobile-schema.json`.
The desktop-only cfg gating is the same three lines in three repos, with the same comment ("There is
no auto-updater and no process to restart on a phone: the store is the update channel"):
`margin-caledar/src-tauri/Cargo.toml:43-46`, `margin-editor/src-tauri/Cargo.toml:84-87`,
`margin-mail/src-tauri/Cargo.toml:134-137`, each gating `tauri-plugin-process` and
`tauri-plugin-updater` behind `cfg(not(any(target_os = "android", target_os = "ios")))`. margin, the
repo that actually has a committed iOS project, does not gate them:
`margin/src-tauri/Cargo.toml:24-25` has both unconditional. `capabilities/desktop.json` is in all
four with the same two permissions, `updater:default` and `process:allow-restart`.
`src-tauri/build.rs` is two files across four repos: margin and margin-docs share one (39 bytes),
margin-calendar and margin-mail share the credential-embedding one (1171 bytes), byte-identical.
## docs/release.md
margin-calendar 105 lines, margin-docs 117, margin-mail 119. margin has none; its equivalent is
`docs/publishing.md`, 229 lines, covering three distribution channels the others do not have.
The "Installing locally" opening is near-identical in all three, down to "It is the same command
whether or not the app is already installed, so it doubles as the update" and the sentence about a
bundle going half old and half new. "Cutting a release" is the same paragraph in all three with the
app's own manifest list. "Windows is not built" appears in all three, calendar and mail sharing the
identical follow-up about a runner, `msi`/`nsis`, and the gate then wanting `windows-x86_64`.
Where they genuinely diverge: calendar has a 41 line Linux and Nix section nobody else has; docs has
a long honest section on self-update being impossible until a Developer ID certificate exists
(`docs/release.md:105-117`) and a paragraph on why the bundle asks for the hardened runtime and no
entitlements; mail has a Signing section built around `~/.margin-signing` with a `gh secret set`
recipe (`docs/release.md:37-48`) and a "Before the first release" section covering both the missing
updater key and Google restricted scope verification.
The signing advice contradicts itself across the set. docs tells the reader to use `APPLE_ID` and an
app-specific password (`docs/release.md:73-75`), mail and margin tell them to use an App Store
Connect key. Both cannot be the house rule.
## margin/website
Astro 5, one page, deployed by hand: `package.json` has `"deploy": "astro build && npx wrangler
pages deploy dist --project-name=margin --commit-dirty=true"`. No workflow deploys it.
Downloads resolve at build time, not at request time. `website/src/data/release.ts:29-45` fetches
`api.github.com/repos/priyanshujain/margin/releases/latest`, picks one asset per platform by
filename suffix from `site.ts:40-43` (`.dmg`; `.exe` then `.msi`; `.deb` then `.AppImage` then
`.rpm`), and falls back to the releases page on any error including the 8 second timeout. Astro runs
that once at build, so the buttons point at whatever was latest when the site was last deployed and
a release not followed by a deploy leaves stale links. `site.ts:23` carries the repo slug, so the
whole thing is one constant away from serving a sibling app.
## What to build
**One reusable workflow, `workflow_call`, in a shared repo.** The publish job goes in verbatim, the
prepare job goes in with the title as an input, and the build job goes in with the matrix as an
input. Inputs the four repos actually differ on, and nothing else:
- `app-name`: release title and, on margin, the dmg filename in the Homebrew job.
- `platforms`: a list like `macos,linux,windows`, driving both the build matrix and the
`latest.json` key list in publish. Those two must not be able to disagree; today they are two
hand-edited lists in every repo.
- `linux-runner`: default `ubuntu-22.04`, since three repos already agree that is the right glibc
baseline and margin's `ubuntu-latest` is an oversight.
- `project-path` and `sibling-repos`: empty for margin and calendar, `rust/margin-mail` plus
`priyanshujain/margin` for mail, and the same for docs, which needs it and does not have it.
- `needs-google-credentials`: boolean. margin, calendar and mail true; docs false.
- `post-publish`: which trailing job runs, `homebrew` for margin, `nix` for calendar, none for the
others. These are different enough that they should be separate reusable workflows the caller
chains, not a flag.
Take margin-docs' version validation, its `[package]`-anchored Cargo bump, its manifest-version and
signature checks, and its half-configured signing failure as the baseline; add margin's `Cargo.lock`
bump and its `codesign`/`spctl`/`stapler` verification. That combination exists in no repo today.
Add `concurrency: group: release-${{ github.repository }}, cancel-in-progress: false` and `cache:
pnpm` on `setup-node`, neither of which exists anywhere.
The three `ci.yml` files should share a second reusable workflow with the same inputs plus a
`rust-test-command` and an `extra-frontend-steps` hook, since margin-docs splits its Rust suite
(`ci.yml:58,78`) and margin-mail adds docs and fonts checks (`ci.yml:44,51`). margin must call it.
**A shared tauri.conf fragment.** Generate rather than fragment: Tauri's `--config` merge only helps
at build time and the committed file still has to be readable. A small script in the shared package
that takes app name, identifier, dev port, window size, targets and any extra CSP directives, and
writes `tauri.conf.json`, with a `--check` mode wired into CI the way `pnpm fonts:check` already is.
That kills four copies of the icon list, the category, the min system version, the base CSP and the
window defaults, and it makes the odd ones out visible: margin's `targets: "all"` and the two
repos that state `hardenedRuntime` redundantly.
`tauri.release.conf.json` is four lines of structure and one pubkey. Generate it the same way, and
put the tauri#14581 reason in the generator's header so it survives the next cleanup.
**One signing procedure, documented once.** `margin/docs/publishing.md:193-229` plus
`margin-mail/docs/release.md:18-48` is already the whole thing; it needs to be one page in the shared
repo covering `~/.margin-signing`'s layout, the three certificate types and why they cannot be
combined, and the App Store Connect key as the single notarisation credential. Settle the
`APPLE_ID` versus API key question in favour of the key, and fix margin-docs' workflow to match.
Move `scripts/apple-secrets.sh` and `apple-provision.rb` into the shared repo unchanged: they are
already parameterised by `DIR`, `BUNDLE_ID` and `REPO`. Standardise on `APPLE_API_KEY_ID` as the
secret name in all four, since margin and mail currently disagree. Add the `spctl` and `stapler`
verification to the shared build job so margin-calendar stops shipping unsigned macOS bundles
without anyone noticing.
**One versioning convention.** `tauri.conf.json` is the source, the workflow writes `package.json`,
`Cargo.toml` and `Cargo.lock`, and a CI check asserts all four agree. Roughly ten lines, and it
would have prevented both of margin-calendar's manual repair commits. While there, replace
`--notes "Release $TAG"` with `--generate-notes` or an extracted `CHANGELOG.md` section, since it
feeds a dialog margin-docs already built.
## What genuinely cannot be shared
The identifiers, product names, dev ports, window sizes and the CSP additions each app needs;
those are inputs, not duplication.
margin's App Store track. The listing text, the screenshots, the entitlements and the six Ruby
scripts are about one app's submission. `mas-package.sh` and `entitlements.mas.plist` could be
templated later if a second app goes to the store, but there is no second app and templating for a
hypothetical one is worse than copying it when the day comes.
margin's Homebrew job and margin-calendar's Nix job. Both are per-app distribution channels with
per-app asset names, per-app tap or flake repos, and a per-app credential. They can be reusable
workflows the caller chains, but they are not one job with a flag.
`margin/website`. It is one product's marketing site, with pricing, an offer counter and store
logos. `data/release.ts` is genuinely generic and could move to the shared package if a second app
ever gets a site.
The updater UIs. Four apps have four different answers to what should happen when an update is
found, and margin's App Store channel logic in `updates.rs` has no meaning in the other three. The
plugin registration block, the `packaged_by` command and the `capabilities/desktop.json` permissions
are the same three things four times over and are worth sharing; the dialogs are not.
The per-app minisign keypair. One key per app is correct: the pubkey is baked into every shipped
binary and cannot be rotated without stranding installed copies, so a shared key would make one
compromise a four-app problem.
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# The visual design system across the four apps
Scope: CSS only. Tokens, fonts, the base layer, themes, and the layout idioms that repeat.
Short names below: `margin` = /Users/pj/Workspace/projects/python/margin, `calendar` =
/Users/pj/Workspace/projects/python/margin-caledar, `editor` =
/Users/pj/Workspace/projects/rust/margin-editor, `mail` = /Users/pj/Workspace/projects/rust/margin-mail.
Between them: margin 3 CSS files and 2983 lines, calendar 11 and 3796, editor 21 and 5089, mail 47
and 6571. 18439 lines total.
## What margin-shared already is, and who takes it
`/Users/pj/Workspace/projects/python/margin/shared` ships `css/tokens.css` (35 distinct custom
property names), `css/fonts.css` (12 `@font-face` rules, 6 families), `fonts/` (18 files: 12 TTFs
and 6 OFL notices), `src/fonts.ts`, `src/icons.ts` and `bin/sync-fonts.mjs`.
Three of the four consume it. margin declares `"margin-shared": "file:./shared"`, editor and mail
both declare `"file:../../python/margin/shared"`. Calendar does not depend on it at all and does not
import either stylesheet.
The seams are thin and consistent in the three that do:
- margin/src/styles/tokens.css:3 imports the shared tokens, then adds exactly one line, `--pane-dock: 384px`.
- editor/src/styles/tokens.css:5 imports, then adds 51 tokens of its own (document scale, sheet padding, code surface).
- mail/src/styles/tokens.css:6 imports, then imports `./mail.css`, which adds 46.
## Tokens
### Calendar is a 49-of-52 copy of the shared file
calendar/src/styles/tokens.css is not a divergent palette. Comparing it block for block against
shared/css/tokens.css:
- `:root`: 11 of 11 comparable values byte-identical (`--font-ui`, `--font-heading`, `--r-sm/md/lg`,
`--titlebar-h`, `--t-1` through `--t-4`, `--ease`). Absent: `--font-book`, `--pane-sidebar`,
`--measure`, which a calendar has no use for.
- light block: 19 of 20 identical. One drift.
- dark block: 19 of 20 identical. Same one drift.
- Absent from both palettes: `--sidebar`, correctly, since the grid owns the window and there is no sidebar.
The one drift is `--ink-faint`. Shared has `#9b9484` light and `#756d5e` dark; calendar
(tokens.css:74, :126) and mail (mail.css:86, :142) both have `#6e675b` and `#8e8677`.
Two apps independently moved the same token to the same two values for the same stated reason
(4.5:1 contrast on the surfaces faint ink lands on; the calendar comment names the hour axis, the
mail comment names list times and snippets and says "same reasoning, same value, as the calendar's
hour axis"). Editor and margin still take `#9b9484`. That is not two apps needing to differ, it is
the shared value being wrong and two apps finding out separately. Move the pair upstream and delete
both overrides.
### Tokens defined in more than one app under different names, or defined in one and hardcoded in another
- `--scrim`. Not in shared. Light is `rgba(35, 32, 27, 0.28)` in all three that have it (calendar
tokens.css:84, editor tokens.css:14, mail mail.css:88). Dark: calendar and mail `rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.58)`,
editor tokens.css:26 `rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5)`. margin has no token and writes the light literal into
`.overlay` at app.css:1275 and a second, different one, `rgba(35, 32, 27, 0.32)`, into
`.export-overlay` at app.css:1449. This belongs in shared.
- `--shadow-raised`. editor tokens.css:15 `0 1px 2px rgba(35, 32, 27, 0.05)`, dark
`0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.35)`. margin writes that light value as a literal twice, app.css:272
and app.css:1839.
- `--r-pill: 999px`. Declared separately in calendar tokens.css:8, editor tokens.css:10 and mail
mail.css:12, identically. margin writes `border-radius: 999px` as a literal at app.css:2184. Four
apps, one value, three declarations and one literal.
- `--t-5: 16px`. calendar tokens.css:34, editor tokens.css:12, mail mail.css:17. Identical, and the
comment in calendar and mail is nearly word for word the same (iOS zooms a field under 16px).
- `--touch-h: 44px`. calendar tokens.css:22, editor tokens.css:11, mail mail.css:31. Identical.
- `--traffic-pad: 84px`. calendar tokens.css:11, editor tokens.css:11, mail mail.css:36. Identical;
margin has no token and hardcodes the lane unconditionally, see the drift section.
- `--safe-top` / `--safe-bottom` / `--phonebar-h: 48px` / `--tabbar-h: 56px` / `--sheet-max-h: 88dvh`.
calendar tokens.css:16-26 and mail mail.css:26-34, identical values and near-identical comments.
A five-token phone chrome block written twice.
- calendar `--cal-1` through `--cal-8` (tokens.css:106-113 light, :160-167 dark) and mail `--hue-1`
through `--hue-8` (mail.css:115-121, :159-166) are the same sixteen hexes under two names. mail's
own comment says so: "the calendar's --cal-1..8 under a name that says what they are for here".
### App-only tokens that should stay app-only
editor's 51 additions are document typography and sheet geometry (`--doc-h1` through `--doc-h6`,
`--measure-*`, `--sheet-pad-*`, `--code-*`, `--pdf-page`). mail's 46 are mail geometry (`--list-w`,
`--avatar`, `--pile-h`, `--compose-w`, `--feed-w`, the `--message-*` set that deliberately does not
follow the theme). Calendar's are grid geometry (`--gutter-w`, `--daybar-h`, `--strip-h`,
`--event-*`, `--grid-*`, `--fold-*`). margin's is `--pane-dock: 384px`. All genuinely single-app.
Note the collision: `--row-h` means a calendar grid row (48px, calendar tokens.css:44) in one app and
a message list row (46px, mail mail.css:45) in the other. A reason not to promote geometry by name.
## Fonts
The bytes are already correct. All 18 files in shared/fonts are byte-identical to the copies in
margin/public/fonts, editor/public/fonts and mail/public/fonts (verified with `cmp`, 18/18 each).
Calendar vendors only 4 of them, `HankenGrotesk-VF.ttf`, `HankenGrotesk-Italic-VF.ttf`,
`Literata-VF.ttf`, `Literata-Italic-VF.ttf`, and those 4 are byte-identical to shared too. It ships
no OFL notices, which is the one real problem here: the other three ship all six.
`shared/bin/sync-fonts.mjs` copies every `.ttf` and `.txt` from shared/fonts into
`<app>/public/fonts`, or with `--check` compares and exits 1 on any difference; a file present in
the app and absent from the package is reported and left alone rather than deleted (lines 53-59).
The vendored copies exist because both PDF exporters read the same paths with `include_bytes!`, so
cargo must not wait on an npm install.
Who runs it: margin and editor as `node node_modules/margin-shared/bin/sync-fonts.mjs .`, mail as
`margin-shared-fonts .` through the package's `bin` entry. Calendar has no `fonts:sync` or
`fonts:check` script and no way to notice drift.
margin, editor and mail's src/styles/fonts.css are each a comment and one
`@import "margin-shared/css/fonts.css"`; margin's and editor's are byte-identical including the
comment. calendar/src/styles/fonts.css is 31 lines of hand-written `@font-face` for the four faces
it vendors, character-for-character the same as shared/css/fonts.css:17-47. Calendar joining costs
one import, one script pair, and 8 more files in public/fonts.
## The base layer in app.css
All four start with the same reset. Measured by parsing each app.css into selector/body pairs and
comparing bodies exactly:
- margin x editor: 71 selectors in common, 59 with byte-identical bodies.
- calendar x mail: 22 in common, 16 identical.
- calendar x editor: 23 in common, 15 identical.
- margin x calendar: 20 in common, 11 identical.
- editor x mail: 15 in common, 10 identical.
- margin x mail: 15 in common, 7 identical.
Identical in all four, no exceptions: `*`, `html, body, #root`, `body`, `::selection`,
`:focus-visible`. The focus ring is the same three lines everywhere (margin app.css:43, calendar
app.css:80, editor app.css:51, mail app.css:92):
```css
:focus-visible {
outline: 2px solid var(--accent);
outline-offset: 2px;
}
```
And the body block, identical in all four (margin app.css:16, calendar app.css:16, editor app.css:16,
mail app.css:26):
```css
body {
margin: 0;
position: fixed;
inset: 0;
overflow: hidden;
overscroll-behavior: none;
background: var(--shell);
color: var(--ink);
font-family: var(--font-ui);
font-size: var(--t-3);
-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;
}
```
Near-duplicates, with the differences named:
- `button`. margin app.css:34, calendar app.css:63 and editor app.css:34 are identical seven-line
blocks. mail app.css:70 adds one line, `font-size: inherit`. That line is right and the other
three are missing it.
- `html`. margin and editor stop at `text-size-adjust`. calendar app.css:37 and mail app.css:23 both
add `-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent` with the same three-line comment about a webview
reading every tap as a text selection. Two apps have the fix, two do not.
- `input, textarea, select`. Identical in calendar app.css:72, editor app.css:43, mail app.css:80.
margin does not have it at all, so its fields fall back to the webview's font.
- `.app`. calendar app.css:86, editor app.css:58 and mail app.css:100 are identical
(`display:flex; flex-direction:column; height:100%; overflow:hidden`). margin app.css:59 uses
`height: 100vh; height: 100dvh`, which the other three have deliberately moved away from; the
comment at calendar app.css:89-97 explains why.
- `:root[data-touch] .icon-button`, `.icon-button`, `.icon-button:hover`: identical between calendar
app.css:145-170 and editor app.css:138-165. margin calls the same control `.icon-btn` and draws it
30px instead of 28px (app.css:103). mail folded it into `.button[data-icon-only]` (ui/Button.css:33).
Four apps, one control, three names and two sizes.
`::-webkit-scrollbar` exists in exactly one app, margin app.css:693-712 (11px, thumb `--line-strong`
with a 3px transparent border and `background-clip: content-box`, hover `--ink-faint`, transparent
track). The other three take the webview default. Editor gets the temperature right a different way,
via `color-scheme` in themes.css. Only editor declares `color-scheme` at the root
(themes.css:24-31 and once per palette); calendar declares it on one element,
create.css:53 and :57, on the quick-create card.
`@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce)`: mail has 11 (app.css:208, Banner.css:64, pane.css:297 and
:358, arriving.css:78, search.css:36, list.css:126, tour.css:29, contacts.css:56, :215, :306), editor
1 (export-preview.css:167), calendar 0, margin 0. Calendar and margin both animate
(`quick-create-in`, `sheet-up`, `find-drop`, `drawer-in-right`, `spin`) with no guard.
## The overlay and panel shell
The same box in all four, and it is the single largest near-duplicate in the codebase.
`.overlay` is identical in calendar app.css:330, editor app.css:451 and mail app.css:110:
`position:fixed; inset:0; z-index:20; background:var(--scrim); backdrop-filter:blur(2px);
display:grid; place-items:center; padding:40px`. margin app.css:1271 is the same rule with
`background: rgba(35, 32, 27, 0.28)` written out instead of a token.
`.panel` is byte-identical in all four (margin app.css:1283, calendar app.css:342, editor app.css:463,
mail app.css:129): `width: min(480px, calc(100vw - 32px)); max-height:100%; flex column; --paper;
1px --line; --r-lg; --shadow-pop; overflow:hidden`.
`.panel-body` is byte-identical in all four. `.panel-foot` is identical in margin, calendar and
editor; mail adds `flex: none`. `.panel-head`: margin, calendar and mail use `padding: 16px 14px 16px 22px`,
editor uses `16px 16px 16px 22px` with a comment at app.css:475-478 explaining the two pixels; mail
also adds `flex: none`, `gap: 10px` and a `flex: 1; min-width: 0` on the `h2`. `.panel-head h2` is
`font-family: var(--font-book)` in margin and editor and `var(--font-heading)` in calendar and mail,
which is a real fork: shared/css/tokens.css sets both to Literata by default, but editor lets a
document override `--font-book` at runtime and mail lets a setting override `--font-heading`, so the
same declaration means different things.
Phone docking is written twice, identically, comments included. calendar app.css:356-390 and mail
app.css:179-206 both carry `:root[data-phone] .overlay` (z-index 50, padding 0,
`place-items: end center`), `:root[data-phone] .panel` (full width, `--sheet-max-h`, border-width
`1px 0 0`, radius `var(--r-lg) var(--r-lg) 0 0`, `padding-bottom: var(--safe-bottom)`,
`animation: sheet-up 180ms var(--ease)`), `:root[data-phone] .panel-body { overscroll-behavior: contain }`
and `@keyframes sheet-up`. mail adds the reduced-motion guard, calendar does not.
`.overlay[data-align="top"] { align-items: start; padding-top: 12vh }` appears three times: calendar
palette.css:4, editor palette.css:9, mail app.css:124.
Panel sizes are the same idiom under two names: calendar overlays.css:9-20
`.overlay-panel[data-size="mini"]` at `min(292px, calc(100vw - 32px))` and `wide` at 560px, mail
Sheet.css:4-15 `.sheet[data-size="mini"]` at the identical 292px and `wide` at 620px. Both give mini
the same `.panel-body { gap: 10px; padding: 12px 12px 14px }`.
## Buttons and fields
Three of the four have converged on the same text button by three different routes.
calendar overlays.css:60-135 `.panel-button` and mail ui/Button.css:1-98 `.button` are the same
control: `inline-flex`, `gap: 7px`, `1px solid var(--line-strong)`, `var(--r-sm)`, `var(--raised)`
ground, `--accent-wash` hover, and `[data-variant="primary" | "danger" | "ghost"]` with the same
bodies (primary is accent ground with `--accent-contrast` ink hovering to `--accent-ink`; danger is
`--danger-ink` text hovering to `--danger-wash` with a `--danger` border; ghost is transparent border
and `--ink-soft`). The differences are the selector, the sizing (calendar pins `min-height: 30px`,
mail has `[data-size="sm|md|lg"]` at 26/28/32) and mail's `[data-icon-only]` square. Both end with
`:root[data-touch] { min-height: var(--touch-h) }`. editor settings.css:319 `.btn-quiet` and margin
app.css:1769-1805 `.btn-primary` / `.btn-ghost` / `.btn-danger` are a third and fourth spelling of
the same three variants; margin's danger is filled rather than outlined and it pads `9px 20px`.
Fields: calendar overlays.css:140-216 (`.field-input`, `.field-select`, `.field-textarea`,
`.field-hint`, `.field-check`) and mail ui/Field.css:18-59 are the same rules to within the padding
(`6px 9px` vs `7px 10px`) and mail's added `:disabled` and `::placeholder` blocks. Both hover to
`border-color: var(--ink-faint)`. margin app.css:1333-1348 is a third version on `.field input,
.field select` with `padding: 9px 11px` and a `:focus { border-color: var(--accent) }` the other two
lack. `.field` and `.field-label` are byte-identical between margin app.css:1318-1331, calendar
app.css:423-435 and mail ui/Field.css:1-16 (uppercase, `--t-1`, 600, `0.08em`, `--ink-faint`), which
is also exactly mail's `.group-head` (ui/GroupHead.css:1-11) and margin's and editor's `.nav-label`.
mail duplicates its own field twice more, at screens/settings.css:448-471 and :306.
The switch: editor settings.css:343-380 `.switch` / `.switch-knob` and mail ui/Toggle.css:1-40
`.toggle` / `.toggle-knob` are the same control at two sizes (38x22 with a 16px knob travelling 16px,
against 34x20 with a 14px knob travelling 14px). Same `--r-pill` track, `--line-strong` border,
`[data-on]` filling with `--accent`, knob turning `--accent-contrast`. mail adds a touch size
(46x28); editor does not.
The keycap: calendar palette.css:105-118 `.key` and mail ui/Key.css:1-17 `.key[data-size="md"]` are
byte-identical apart from mail moving the padding onto a size attribute. editor has a third,
`.key-cap` at tree.css:744, an `--accent-wash` chip with no border; margin a fourth, `.esc-hint kbd`
at app.css:2191.
Segmented control: mail ui/Segment.css:3-30 `.segment` / `.segment-option` and calendar app.css:483-508
`.view-switch` / `.view-option` are the same object (2px padding, 2px gap, `--r-md` track of
`--accent-wash`, `--r-sm` options, active option lifted onto `--paper`). Calendar has a third copy for
the phone at app.css:244-267 (`.tabbar-views` / `.tabbar-view`).
## Menus, popovers, row menus, toasts, resizers
- Dropdown menu. margin app.css:1382-1438 and editor app.css:510-588 share `.menu-wrap`,
`.menu-backdrop`, `.menu`, `.menu button`, `.menu-label`, `.menu-sep`; five of those six bodies are
byte-identical. `.menu` differs only in `min-width` (156 vs 168) and `.menu button` in editor
gaining `grid-template-columns: 14px 1fr` for a glyph column. mail's equivalent, ui/Popover.css, is
positioned from JS through `--pop-left` / `--pop-top` / `--pop-w` and is genuinely different.
- Row menu. `.row-menu-btn`, `.row-menu-btn:hover`, `.row-menu-pop`, `.row-menu-item`,
`.row-menu-item:hover`, `.row-menu-item.danger`, `.row-menu-item.danger:hover` are byte-identical
between margin app.css:393-460 and editor app.css:363-430. Seven rules, no differences.
- Toast. margin app.css:1476 and editor app.css:590 are byte-identical: fixed, `bottom: 26px`,
centred by `translateX(-50%)`, `z-index: 40`, `max-width: 460px`, `--ink` ground with `--paper`
text. calendar app.css:437 and mail ui/Toast.css:1 are a different and better toast, also nearly
identical to each other: `bottom: 24px`, `z-index: 60`, `max-width: min(560px, calc(100vw - 48px))`,
`--glass` with `blur(8px)`, a `--line` border and `--shadow-pop`. Two designs, two apps each.
- Resize handle. margin app.css:140-186 and editor tree.css:64-108 are the same rule set:
zero-width flex item, an 8px `::before` hit area at `left: -4px`, a 2px `::after` accent line at
`left: -1px` going to `opacity: 0.55` on hover. The only difference is the drag hook,
`body.resizing` against `:root[data-resizing]`. editor/src/components/ResizeHandle.tsx writes
`--pane-sidebar` on the root, so the token is already the interface.
- Selected-row accent edge. `.chapter[data-active="true"]::before` (margin app.css:275, editor
app.css:266, byte-identical) and `.row[data-selected]::before` (mail ui/Row.css:29): an absolutely
positioned 2-3px bar of `--accent` with `border-radius: 0 2px 2px 0`, inset from the row's ends.
- Sidebar and nav. `.sidebar`, `.brand`, `.brand .back-label`, `.brand:hover`, `.nav-label`,
`.nav-scroll`, `.nav-section + .nav-section`, `.chapters`, `.chapter` and its nine state rules,
`.chapter-drop`, `.add-chapter`: all byte-identical between margin and editor. The bulk of the 59
identical bodies, and a straight copy of one app's sidebar into the other.
- Settings. editor styles/settings.css and mail screens/settings.css are the same layout (a rail
left, a measured column right, rows of label plus control plus note) at different numbers: rail
`var(--pane-sidebar)` (248px) against a literal 210px, column 620px against 640px,
`.settings-nav-item` against `.settings-tab`, `.setting-row` against `.set-row`. Both gate the
traffic lane with `:root[data-traffic] { padding-left: var(--traffic-pad) }`. margin and calendar
keep settings inside `.panel`, which is a legitimate difference of kind.
## Themes
Four implementations, three of which are the same file.
margin/src/theme.ts, calendar/src/theme.ts and mail/src/theme.ts are the same 16 lines with one
string changed: the localStorage key (`margin-theme`, `margincal-theme`, `marginmail-theme`). Same
`initialTheme` reading `data-theme` off the root first, then storage, then
`matchMedia("(prefers-color-scheme: dark)")`; same `applyTheme` writing the attribute and the key.
The boot scripts in each index.html are the same shape too, differing in the key and in what else
they set on the root (calendar adds `data-phone`, `data-touch`, `data-view`; mail adds `data-phone`,
`data-touch`, `data-no-pane` and the two font slots).
editor/src/theme.ts is 167 lines and a different design: seven named palettes
(`light`, `sepia`, `mist`, `contrast`, `dark`, `graphite`, `midnight`), a `ThemeChoice` that can be
`"system"`, a remembered light half and dark half so "Match system" lands on the two the user
actually picks, storage in try/catch for a webview with storage denied, and `watchSystemScheme`
listening for the media query as an event. Its palettes live in editor/src/styles/themes.css, one
44-line block each, and editor/src/theme.test.ts reads that file and fails when a block is short.
No app uses `@media (prefers-color-scheme)` in CSS at all. All four resolve the system preference in
JS and write `data-theme` on the root. That is one decision, taken four times, and it is the right
one, so it should be taken once.
The multi-theme design is not a candidate for sharing as it stands: mail and calendar's stylesheets
have no idea `sepia` or `midnight` exist and would fall through to the light `:root` block. But the
three-line theme module and the boot script are, with the key as a parameter.
editor themes.css:307-322 is worth flagging: it copies six hexes of the shared light and dark
palettes so the picker's preview tiles can draw them, with a comment saying it is the only copied
colour in the file and that it is copied because "this repo may not reach into" margin-shared. It
can, and does, through `margin-shared/css/tokens.css`. A shared `.theme-swatch[data-theme="light"]`
block in the package would delete those two blocks.
## Drift: values hardcoded where a token exists
Counted over every CSS file except each app's token layer:
| app | hex literals | rgba() literals |
| --- | --- | --- |
| margin | 15 | 17 |
| calendar | 0 | 1 |
| editor | 0 | 0 |
| mail | 0 | 0 |
Editor and mail are clean. Calendar's one is `box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.06)` at
app.css:507 on `.view-option[data-active]`, the only shadow in the app not from `--shadow-page` or
`--shadow-pop`. margin is where the drift lives, and most of it is a token it never adopted:
- app.css:1275 `background: rgba(35, 32, 27, 0.28)` on `.overlay`. That is `--scrim`, which the other
three all have.
- app.css:1449 `background: rgba(35, 32, 27, 0.32)` on `.export-overlay`. A second scrim at a fourth
of a percent difference, which nobody chose.
- app.css:272 and :1839 `box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(35, 32, 27, 0.05)`. That is editor's
`--shadow-raised` exactly.
- app.css:1547 `box-shadow: 0 4px 10px rgba(35, 32, 27, 0.1), 0 20px 38px rgba(35, 32, 27, 0.13)` on
`.card:hover`. A third shadow that is neither `--shadow-page` nor `--shadow-pop`.
- app.css:2933 `background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.42)` on `.drawer-scrim`. A third scrim.
- app.css:1052 `0 1px 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3)`, app.css:1458 and :1465 `#fcfbf7` (`--paper`'s light
value, hardcoded so it survives on the dark overlay), app.css:1464 `rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.28)`,
app.css:638 `#fffefb`, app.css:678 `#2b2720`, app.css:1238 `#fff` (that last is editor's
`--pdf-page`, which editor tokenised precisely because it was a literal in two stylesheets).
- app.css:2184 `border-radius: 999px`, which is `--r-pill` in the other three.
- app.css:75 `padding: 0 14px 0 84px` on `.titlebar`. The 84px is the macOS traffic-light lane,
applied on every platform with no `data-traffic` gate. calendar app.css:126, editor app.css:97 and
mail header.css:24 all gate it, and the comment at calendar app.css:121-125 says what the ungated
version costs on Linux, Windows and iPad.
- app.css:2881 `--titlebar-h: calc(46px + env(safe-area-inset-top))` inside `.app[data-compact]`.
It restates the 46px shared already owns and reads `env()` inline where calendar and mail both have
a `--safe-top` token for it.
The twelve proofing colours at app.css:2367-2451 (`#b4453a`, `#9c6e16`, `#2f6e4f` and their dark
counterparts, plus six washes) are a real palette with no token, and editor has the same feature
(styles/proofing.css) using `--danger` and friends. Worth comparing separately; it is the one place
margin's literals encode a design rather than a forgotten token.
## What one shared stylesheet would have to contain
Tokens, added to shared/css/tokens.css: `--scrim`, `--shadow-raised`, `--r-pill`, `--t-5`,
`--touch-h`, `--traffic-pad`, `--safe-top`, `--safe-bottom`, `--phonebar-h`, `--tabbar-h`,
`--sheet-max-h`, and the eight-hue ramp under one name. Plus the `--ink-faint` correction. That is
19 names and one fix, and it removes every one of them from calendar, editor and mail's own layers.
A base sheet: `*`, `html, body, #root`, `html` (with the tap-highlight line), `body`, `::selection`,
`:focus-visible`, `button` (with `font-size: inherit`), `input, textarea, select`, `svg`, `.app`, the
`data-touch` selection rules and the `data-phone` field-size rule. All of it is already identical or
one line from identical in all four.
An overlay sheet: `.overlay`, `.overlay[data-align="top"]`, `.panel`, `.panel-head`, `.panel-head h2`,
`.panel-body`, `.panel-foot`, the four `:root[data-phone]` docking rules, `@keyframes sheet-up` and
its reduced-motion guard. Byte-identical or trivially reconcilable across all four today.
A controls sheet: the button (mail's `[data-variant]` and `[data-size]` version, which is the
superset), the field, the label, the toggle, the keycap, the segmented control, the icon button under
one name, the row menu, the toast (calendar and mail's version), the resize handle. Every one of
these exists in at least two apps already and differs by a padding value or a class name.
`color-scheme` at the root, per theme, which only editor has, and a `prefers-reduced-motion` guard
convention, which only mail applies consistently.
What each app keeps: editor keeps its document scale, sheet padding, code surface and its seven-palette
themes.css; mail keeps its mail geometry, the `--message-*` set that deliberately ignores the theme,
and its `--check` OS blue; calendar keeps its grid geometry and the `--grid-*`, `--fold-*` and
`--event-*` palettes; margin keeps `--pane-dock`, its scrollbar rule (or that moves up), its proofing
palette and the device-frame `--dv-*` set. Nothing else in the four apps' CSS is app-specific by need
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# Docs, comments and naming across the four apps
Read: three `docs/conventions.md`, four `README.md`, every `docs/*.md`, both `CLAUDE.md`,
`shared/src/fonts.ts`, `shared/src/icons.ts`, all four `src-tauri/Cargo.toml`, all four
`package.json` and `tauri.conf.json`, `scripts/docs-check.mjs`, and the CI workflows.
## 1. The three conventions.md files
Only three exist: `margin-caledar/docs/conventions.md` (89 lines),
`margin-editor/docs/conventions.md` (103), `margin-mail/docs/conventions.md` (139). **margin, the
app all three defer to, has no conventions.md at all.** That is the first hole: the house style is
written down only in the repos that copied it, never in the repo that set it.
### What all three share, near verbatim
Each opens by disclaiming originality. Calendar line 3: "This project is a sibling to `../margin`
and follows its conventions deliberately rather than inventing new ones." Editor line 3 and mail
line 3 are the same sentence with the sibling list extended.
Five rules are word-for-word identical in all three:
- `Result<T, String>` everywhere. No `anyhow`.
- "DTOs crossing the IPC boundary live in `src-tauri/src/dto.rs` and are marked
`#[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]`. That file is the contract and is frozen: implementation
modules add bodies, not fields. Its mirror is `src/ipc.ts`."
(calendar:12, editor:13, mail:14)
- "One zustand store per domain in `src/store/`. No middleware. One selector call per field
(`useThing((s) => s.field)`, never a destructured object), actions as inline arrow properties, and
`set((s) => ...)` returning `{}` to no-op." (calendar:26, editor:26, mail:35)
- "Flat kebab-case class names, not BEM. State is a `data-*` attribute, never an `is-` class."
- "Transitions name explicit properties and use `var(--ease)`. Never `transition: all`."
And each closes with a `## Never` section of the same shape. Calendar:88 and mail:138: "No CSS
framework, no component library, no router, no zustand middleware, no directory trees in any
document, and no em dashes anywhere including code comments."
### Where they contradict each other
**Em dash versus en dash.** Editor:103 is the only one that bans both: "no em dashes or en dashes
anywhere, including code comments." Calendar:89 and mail:139 ban only em dashes. The user's own rule
bans both. Editor is right and the other two are stale.
**Container queries.** Calendar:67 permits exactly one, on the event block, and says "Nothing else
may reach for a container query without the same kind of reason." Mail:105 hardens it to "There is
no container query in this repository" while explicitly crediting the calendar's exception. Editor
does not mention container queries. Not a real contradiction, but three different postures.
**Where a token lives.** Calendar:46 and editor:81: "Every colour, radius and size goes through a
token in `src/styles/tokens.css`." Mail:55 redefines `tokens.css` as a seam, not a list: it imports
margin-shared's set and then `src/styles/mail.css`, and mail:86 says add to `mail.css` instead. Mail
is the only one with the three-layer tokens/primitives/screens rule (mail:51-66) and the only one
with a Kit page at `#/kit`.
**Icons.** All three keep "Inline Feather-style 24x24 stroke `d` strings passed to
`<Icon d={...} />`. There is no icon set and no registry, and there will not be one." Calendar:79 and
mail:120 add "An icon-only button always carries a `title` with its shortcut written in real
glyphs"; editor drops that line. Mail:116 is the only one that names a file (`src/ui/icons.ts`) and
the only one that acknowledges `margin-shared/icons`, which editor and calendar do not mention at
all even though `margin-shared` is a real dependency of editor.
**Comment density.** Calendar:22 and mail:31: "Comments are rare and explain why, never what. Match
the density in `lib.rs`." Editor:22 keeps the first sentence and drops the pointer. See section 5:
the density claim is false in all three.
**Errors.** Calendar allows one error enum (`google::api::ApiError`), mail allows one
(`provider::ProviderError`), editor:11 allows none. Each names its own reason. This is the right
pattern: an app-specific carve-out written next to the shared rule.
### What is genuinely app-specific and should stay that way
Editor's `## Markdown` (38-59) and `## Tests` (61-75) sections, mail's `## Places and stages`
(68-80) and `## Work packages` (129-134), calendar's `data-phone` versus `data-touch` argument
(57-70, copied verbatim into mail:94-103). Storage key prefixes differ by design: `margincal-`,
`margindocs-`, `marginmail-`.
### Broken cross-references
Calendar:3 says `../margin`, and from `python/margin-caledar` that resolves. Editor:3 says
`../margin` and `../margin-calendar`, and **neither exists**: `rust/margin` and
`rust/margin-calendar` are not on disk. Calendar:17 cites `margin/src-tauri/src/gdrive.rs:286` and
calendar:20 cites `pdf.rs:90`. Both files exist; neither line carries a comment (section 5).
## 2. READMEs
| repo | lines | verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| margin | 15 | compliant. Description, install, one docs link, licence. |
| margin-calendar | 15 | compliant, but the last seven lines are one dense paragraph of six links. |
| margin-docs | 14 | compliant and the cleanest of the four. |
| margin-mail | 20 | over. Lines 3 to 10 are an eight-line pitch that belongs in `docs/design.md`. |
Mail is the offender. Its opening paragraph restates the product ("New senders wait at the door
until you let them in; people, newsletters and receipts live in three separate boxes") which is
already `docs/design.md:31-73`. Cutting it to two sentences puts it at 13 lines.
Four other READMEs exist inside margin and are not project descriptions:
`margin/website/README.md` (48 lines, 7 em dashes), `margin/appstore/screenshots/README.md` (51),
`margin/simplify/README.md` (26), `margin/simplify/guidelines/README.md` (31).
`margin/shared/README.md` is 15 lines and compliant. The website one is the worst artefact in the
suite: bold-marked feature bullets, em dashes throughout, a "Built with" line. It reads like a
different author.
`margin/shared/README.md:3` and `shared/package.json:7` both say the package is for "Margin and
Margin Docs". Margin Mail has depended on it since `package.json:24`. The description is stale.
## 3. The docs set
- **margin**: `docs/publishing.md` only (229 lines). No architecture, no design, no conventions, no
setup, no release. The originating app is the least documented.
- **margin-calendar**: `architecture.md` (145), `conventions.md` (89), `design.md` (152),
`mobile.md` (304), `release.md` (105), `setup.md` (55). This is the set that got copied.
- **margin-docs**: `architecture.md` (545), `conventions.md` (103), `design.md` (131),
`release.md` (117), `setup.md` (29). Calendar's set minus `mobile.md`, macOS only.
- **margin-mail**: `architecture.md` (352), `conventions.md` (139), `design.md` (153),
`release.md` (119), plus `features.md` (475), `ui.md` (339), `settings.md` (201), `plan.md` (193),
`keyboard.md` (129), `help.md` (74), `mockups/`, `research/`. **No `setup.md`**, which is the one
file a new machine needs, and mail is the app that requires a Google OAuth client.
Three shapes are stable across the set. `architecture.md` always opens with the same stack sentence:
"Tauri 2, React 19, Vite, TypeScript and zustand on the front, Rust behind" (calendar:3, editor:3,
mail:3), then "The split is strict" and what each side owns. `design.md` is always product decisions
argued as prose under "why" headings, and always ends with `## Visual language`. `release.md` always
starts `## Installing locally` then `## Cutting a release` and ends `## Updates`.
### Proposed canonical set
Five files, every app, same names, same opening move:
`architecture.md`, `conventions.md`, `design.md`, `setup.md`, `release.md`.
Then only what the product actually has: `features.md`, `ui.md`, `keyboard.md`, `settings.md`,
`help.md`, `mobile.md`, `publishing.md`, `plan.md`, `research/`, `mockups/`. Never a numeric prefix.
Concretely: margin needs all five written and should keep `publishing.md`; mail needs `setup.md`;
mail's `plan.md` is a milestone tracker and will go stale, so it belongs in the issue tracker or
under `research/`.
## 4. The comment voice
### What a comment is for here
A comment records a decision and the alternative that was rejected, so that a competent person does
not undo it by accident. It never says what the line below does.
The shape is consistent enough to be a template. A file-head block states what the file is in one
line, then a blank comment line, then one paragraph per decision. Each paragraph names the thing
chosen, then the thing not chosen, then the concrete failure the wrong choice produces. Sentences
are long, declarative, no hedging, no first person, no "note that". Length is one to seven lines per
paragraph; a file head runs 3 to 17 lines. Doc comments on exported items are one sentence and often
end on the consumer ("which is what a Typst preamble names a face by").
The tell is that almost every comment contains a causal clause: "because", "so that", "which is
why", "rather than", "or a ... would".
### Four exemplars, in full
`margin/shared/src/fonts.ts:1-7`:
// The faces both apps offer, and the two slots they set them into.
//
// This lives in one place because the two apps have to agree about it. A face named here is a
// `@font-face` in css/fonts.css, a file in fonts/, and a family a Typst preamble names on the way
// to a PDF, and those four lists going out of step with each other is a document that renders in
// one app and falls back to Georgia in the other. There is no way to keep four lists in two repos
// honest by hand, so there is one list.
`margin/shared/src/icons.ts:3-6`:
// Here because the two apps kept drifting. Each had its own idea of what a search or a moon looked
// like, they were adjusted independently, and the result was two products from the same hand that
// did not look related. A path is a design decision, not a detail, and the fix for two copies of a
// decision is one copy.
`margin-mail/src-tauri/Cargo.toml:61-63`:
# Refresh tokens, the backup key and every uploaded journal segment are sealed with
# XChaCha20-Poly1305. There is no `keyring` here on purpose: it has no Android backend at all, and
# on macOS it ties the item to the code signature, so every rebuild re-prompts.
`margin-editor/src-tauri/Cargo.toml:54-56`:
# Pinned exactly: the [patch] stubs at the foot of this file are tied to this version's burn/cubecl
# graph. A minor bump could silently invalidate a patch ("unused"), and the whole CUDA and LLVM
# subtree those stubs remove would come back. Bump deliberately and re-audit the stubs.
`margin/shared/src/icons.ts:29-37` is the purest case, because it justifies an SVG path: two
letterforms rather than one on a rule, because one letter over a full-width line is the underline
button in every editor, and because the neighbouring `SPELLING` glyph is also built on a capital A,
so the distinguishing feature has to be the bowl versus the tick, which survives at 16px.
### Violations, in both directions
**Undocumented decisions.** The clearest cases are the exact decisions two sibling repos cite by
file and line:
- `margin/src-tauri/src/gdrive.rs` is 953 lines with **zero comments**. Calendar's conventions.md:17
points at `gdrive.rs:286` as the origin of `read_json` and explains why the body goes to a `String`
first. The reason is written in the calendar's docs and in mail's docs and never in the file.
- `margin/src-tauri/src/pdf.rs` is 129 lines with zero comments. Calendar:20 and mail:23 both cite
`#[tauri::command(async)]` on a synchronous fn at `pdf.rs:90` as the trick for getting off the main
thread. `compile_pdf` at line 90 carries no comment saying so.
- Other zero-comment files over 200 lines in margin: `src/components/EditorView.tsx` (560),
`src/import/epub.ts` (534), `src/export/typst.ts` (421), `src/components/Sidebar.tsx` (310),
`src-tauri/src/proofing.rs` (275), `src/model/book.ts` (260), `src-tauri/src/lib.rs` (256),
`src/editor/search.ts` (233), `src/components/Dock.tsx` (223).
**Narration that should go.**
- `margin/src/components/ExportPreview.tsx:320`: `// render cancelled or page failed; keep the
previous canvas`. Lowercase, no full stop, and the second clause narrates the line below.
- `margin/src-tauri/Cargo.toml:9`: `# See more keys and their definitions at
https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/manifest.html`, and lines 12-14, the `_lib` suffix
paragraph. Both are `cargo new` boilerplate. The three sibling Cargo.toml files deleted them; margin
did not.
- `// Prevents additional console window on Windows in release, DO NOT REMOVE!!` is
`src-tauri/src/main.rs:1` in all four repos. Tauri scaffold text, shouting, and none of these apps
ships on Windows.
- Four `// eslint-disable-next-line react-hooks/exhaustive-deps` in margin
(`src/components/FindBar.tsx:44`, `src/editor/FloatingToolbar.tsx:69`, `src/editor/Editor.tsx:113`
and `:122`). No repo has eslint configured, in package.json or on disk. Dead directives.
Beyond these, a sweep for narration patterns across all four repos found almost nothing. Every hit
on "comment starts with a verb" or "comment starts lowercase" turned out to be a wrapped
continuation line of a real reason. The voice is being held.
## 5. The CLAUDE.md tension, resolved
`margin/CLAUDE.md:9` and `margin-caledar/CLAUDE.md:9` are byte-identical: "Avoid excessive comments.
Only comment when absolutely necessary. Code should be readable and not require comments to
understand it." margin-docs and margin-mail have no CLAUDE.md.
The code says otherwise. Comment lines as a fraction of source in `src/`, `src-tauri/src/` and
`shared/src/`:
| repo | source lines | comment lines | share |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| margin | 10,377 | 125 | 1.2% |
| margin-calendar | 20,211 | 2,208 | 10.9% |
| margin-docs | 43,973 | 10,634 | 24.2% |
| margin-mail | 70,737 | 9,921 | 14.0% |
margin obeys the rule as written. The three younger apps ignore it by a factor of ten to twenty, and
they are the disciplined ones. The rule was true of a repo that had no siblings; it stopped being
true the moment a decision had to survive being copied into another repo.
The operating rule, read off the code: **a comment never says what, and always says why.** The test
already exists in `simplify/guidelines/code-style.md:30`: "delete the comment and ask whether a
competent person would make the same mistake twice. If yes, keep it. If it just narrates the line
below, cut it." Under that test margin is not compliant by being sparse; it is under-commented, and
`gdrive.rs` is the proof.
The two CLAUDE.md files should be corrected or deleted. As written they are a live instruction to
strip the best thing in this codebase.
## 6. Typographic compliance
Across `*.md`, `*.ts`, `*.tsx`, `*.rs`, `*.css`, `*.toml`, `*.html`, `*.js`, `*.mjs`, excluding
`node_modules`, `dist`, `target`, `.git`, `target-mas`, `.playwright-mcp` and `gen`:
| repo | em dashes | en dashes |
| --- | --- | --- |
| margin | 37 | 5 |
| margin-calendar | 0 | 0 |
| margin-docs | 7 | 0 |
| margin-mail | 3 | 2 |
margin-calendar is perfectly clean. margin holds 42 of the 54 in the suite.
Worst files:
- `margin/simplify/.research/memories-raw.md`, 19. A dump of old memory files, so arguably input
rather than committed prose, but it is in the repo.
- `margin/website/README.md`, 7, all in body copy (lines 3, 21, 22, 23, 25, 37, 41).
- `margin-docs/src/markdown/corpus/real/margin-website-readme.md`, 7. A copy of the file above, kept
as a serializer test fixture. Fixing the website README without fixing the fixture will not help,
and fixing the fixture may break a round-trip test.
- `margin/src/export/run.ts:8` and `:36`, `margin/src/components/Library.tsx:88`,
`margin/src/components/ExportPreview.tsx:185`. These four are **user-visible app copy**, which is
the worst place for it: the string at `run.ts:8` puts one between "desktop app only" and "open the
window from".
- `margin/src-tauri/stubs/burn-cuda/src/lib.rs:1` and `stubs/cubecl-cpu/src/lib.rs:1`, one each.
- `margin/simplify/guidelines/prose-and-docs.md:8` is the rule itself quoting both characters. Fine.
margin-mail's three are all legitimate: `scripts/docs-check.mjs:46-47` is the regex that enforces the
rule, and `src/screens/guide/guide.test.ts:104` asserts the guide text is free of them.
### The gate already exists, in one repo
`margin-mail/scripts/docs-check.mjs` is a 72-line node script wired to `just docs`
(`margin-mail/justfile:33-34`). It walks every markdown file and reports em dashes, en dashes,
directory trees and dead relative links. Its own header, lines 2-11, is a model comment. **No other
repo has it**, and margin, which has 42 offences, is the repo that most needs it. Copying that one
file into the other three, and extending it past `*.md` to source files so app copy is covered, is
the single highest-value action in this report.
## 7. Directory trees
None. A search for box-drawing runs and for the ASCII form across markdown, TypeScript, Rust, JSON
and text in all four repos returned nothing. The rule is being kept without a gate in three of the
four repos, which is worth noting: the risk is a future file, not an existing one.
## 8. Naming
| | margin | calendar | docs | mail |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| directory | `python/margin` | `python/margin-caledar` | `rust/margin-editor` | `rust/margin-mail` |
| package.json name | `margin-app` | `margin-calendar` | `margin-docs` | `margin-mail` |
| Cargo package | `margin-app` | `margin-calendar` | `margin-docs` | `margin-mail` |
| Cargo lib | `margin_app_lib` | `margin_calendar_lib` | `margin_docs_lib` | `margin_mail_lib` |
| bundle id | `studio.margin.app` | `studio.margin.calendar` | `studio.margin.docs` | `studio.margin.mail` |
| git remote | `priyanshujain/margin` | `priyanshujain/margin-calendar` | `priyanshujain/margin-docs` | **none** |
| productName | `Margin` | `Margin Calendar` | `Margin Docs` | `Margin Mail` |
| html title | `margin` | `Margin Calendar` | `Margin Docs` | `Margin Mail` |
| README h1 | `margin` | `Margin Calendar` | `Margin Docs` | `Margin Mail` |
| storage prefix | (none stated) | `margincal-` | `margindocs-` | `marginmail-` |
| licence | FSL-1.1-MIT | MIT | MIT | FSL-1.1-MIT |
Disagreements, worst first:
1. **`python/margin-caledar` is a typo.** Confirmed. Everything inside it says `margin-calendar`,
including the remote and the Nix flake output (`ci.yml:81`, `nix build .#margin-calendar`).
2. **`rust/margin-editor` versus `margin-docs`.** Confirmed. The directory is the only place the
word "editor" appears as a name; package, crate, bundle id, product name and remote all say docs.
3. **`python/` and `rust/` parents are wrong for all four.** All four are Tauri apps with a React
front end and a Rust backend. None is a Python project. This is not cosmetic:
`margin-docs/package.json:33` and `margin-mail/package.json:24` both carry
`"margin-shared": "file:../../python/margin/shared"`, and `margin-mail/.github/workflows/ci.yml`
checks the two repos out into `rust/margin-mail` and `python/margin` (lines 25 and 30) precisely to
reproduce that path. The word "python" is baked into a GitHub runner's filesystem layout.
4. **margin-docs CI is failing on exactly this.** The latest run's failure is
`ENOENT: no such file or directory, scandir '/Users/runner/work/python/margin/shared'`. Editor's
`ci.yml` runs `pnpm install --frozen-lockfile` after a single checkout, so the relative path has
nothing to resolve to. Mail solved it with a second checkout; docs never did. Five of the last six
runs failed.
5. **margin-mail has no git remote.** One local commit, `088ec9c`. Everything else in the suite is on
GitHub. Whatever name the repo gets is still an open choice, which makes this the cheapest moment
to fix the pattern.
6. **`margin-app` versus `Margin`.** margin is the only app whose package and crate name is not its
product name lowercased and hyphenated. `margin-app` also breaks the bundle id pattern:
`studio.margin.app` reads as a namespace with a placeholder in it.
7. **`margin/index.html` title is lowercase `margin`** while `productName` is `Margin`. The README h1
is lowercase too. The other three are consistent title case.
8. **Licences split two and two**, and neither README in the MIT pair says so. margin and mail are
FSL, calendar and docs are MIT, and nothing explains the split.
9. **Editor's conventions.md:3 points at `../margin` and `../margin-calendar`**, neither of which
exists relative to `rust/margin-editor`. The paths only make sense if all four sit as siblings,
which is what the rename below produces.
10. `margin-docs/src/markdown/corpus/real/` holds copies of the calendar's and the editor's own
`conventions.md` as test fixtures. Two of the three canonical convention documents exist twice in
the suite and will drift.
## 9. Rename proposal, with cost
Target layout: one parent, `~/Workspace/projects/margin/`, holding `margin`, `margin-calendar`,
`margin-docs`, `margin-mail` as siblings.
**A. `margin-caledar` to `margin-calendar`.** Cheapest and unambiguous.
Cost: `mv` the directory. No `package.json` anywhere references it. Nothing on GitHub changes; the
remote is already correct. Only local shell history and any editor workspace file break.
**B. `margin-editor` to `margin-docs`.** Also cheap.
Cost: `mv` the directory. The `file:../../python/margin/shared` path is unaffected because the depth
does not change. `docs/conventions.md:3` should be corrected in the same edit. No remote change: the
remote is already `margin-docs`.
**C. Collapse `python/` and `rust/` into one `margin/` parent.** The expensive one, and the one that
pays.
Cost, exhaustively:
- `margin-docs/package.json:33` and `margin-mail/package.json:24`: `file:../../python/margin/shared`
becomes `file:../margin/shared`. Both lockfiles need regenerating.
- `margin-mail/.github/workflows/ci.yml:21,25,29,30,57,61`: the checkout paths `rust/margin-mail` and
`python/margin` become `margin-mail` and `margin`, and the `working-directory` lines follow.
- `margin-docs/.github/workflows/ci.yml`: needs the second checkout added, which it is currently
missing. This fixes the failing build rather than costing anything.
- Local shell history, editor workspaces, and any absolute path in a memory file.
- Nothing on GitHub changes. No remote, no clone URL, no release artefact, no bundle id.
**D. `margin-app` to `margin`, and `studio.margin.app` to `studio.margin.writer` or similar.**
Recommend doing the crate and package rename and **not** the bundle id.
Cost of the package and crate rename: `package.json:2`, `src-tauri/Cargo.toml:2`, `Cargo.lock`, the
lib name `margin_app_lib` and every `use margin_app_lib::` in `src-tauri/src/main.rs`, plus any
workflow that names the binary.
Cost of the bundle id rename: **do not**. Changing `identifier` on a shipped macOS app orphans the
application support directory, breaks the Homebrew cask, breaks the updater's signature check, and
makes the Mac App Store record a different product. The inconsistency is not worth that. Write one
line in `docs/conventions.md` saying `studio.margin.app` is frozen and why.
**E. Give margin-mail a remote.** `priyanshujain/margin-mail`, matching the other three. Free now,
and the naming stays consistent by default.
Order: B, A, E, C, D. B and A are free. C is best done immediately after, while mail has no CI
history to invalidate.
## 10. The proposed house style
### Docs
A README is the project description. Under 15 lines: one paragraph on what it is, one line on how to
install, one paragraph of links into `docs/`, one line on the licence. margin-docs' README is the
model. Mail's is eight lines over and those eight lines are already in `docs/design.md`.
`docs/` holds `architecture.md`, `conventions.md`, `design.md`, `setup.md`, `release.md` in every
app, plus whatever the product genuinely has. No numeric prefixes. No file that is a status report.
`architecture.md` opens with the stack sentence and "The split is strict", then what each side owns,
then one section per hard part, then `## Order of work`. `design.md` argues product decisions in
prose under "why" headings and ends with `## Visual language`. `release.md` runs `## Installing
locally`, `## Cutting a release`, `## What the build needs`, `## Updates`.
`conventions.md` exists in every app including margin, and is split: the shared rules (the five
identical ones, verbatim) and the app's own. When an app carves out an exception, the carve-out names
the reason in the same sentence, the way mail:9 names `provider::ProviderError` and the four cases it
has to branch on. Both em dashes and en dashes are banned, taking editor's wording over the other
two.
Prose a colleague would write. No em dash, no en dash, no directory tree, ever, and the rule holds
inside code fences and app copy as well as in body text.
### Comments
A comment records a decision and the alternative that was rejected. It never says what the line below
does; if you want to, rename something instead.
Shape: a one-line statement of what the file is, a blank comment line, then one paragraph per
decision. Each paragraph names what was chosen, what was not, and the concrete failure the other
choice produces. One to seven lines per paragraph. Declarative, third person, no hedging. Doc
comments on exported items are one sentence.
The test, already written at `simplify/guidelines/code-style.md:30`: delete it and ask whether a
competent person would make the same mistake twice.
Two consequences worth stating plainly, because the current text says the opposite. The instruction
in `margin/CLAUDE.md:9` and `margin-caledar/CLAUDE.md:9` is wrong and should be replaced with the
rule above. And "comments are rare" in all three conventions.md files is false and should be cut: the
suite averages one comment line in seven, and the three densest repos are the three best ones.
### Enforcement
Copy `margin-mail/scripts/docs-check.mjs` into the other three repos, wire it to `just docs` and to
CI, and extend it beyond `*.md` to `*.ts`, `*.tsx`, `*.rs` and `*.css` so app copy is covered. That
one file catches every offence in section 6, plus the dead links, plus any future tree. Fix margin's
42 dashes first, starting with the four in user-visible strings.
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# Non-component TypeScript across the four apps
Scope: hooks, utilities, stores, the IPC layer. Non-test `.ts`: margin 4061 lines, margin-calendar 3811,
margin-docs 16868, margin-mail 11429. Shorthand: **M** margin, **C** margin-calendar, **D** margin-docs,
**X** margin-mail.
## The shared package already exists
`margin-shared` is at `/Users/pj/Workspace/projects/python/margin/shared`: a `file:` dependency of M, D and X,
exporting `.`, `./fonts`, `./icons` and two stylesheets, 299 lines of source today.
**C is not wired to it at all**, in TypeScript or CSS. It has no `margin-shared` in `package.json` and its
`src/styles/tokens.css` does not `@import "margin-shared/css/tokens.css"` the way the other three do. That
dependency line is the prerequisite for everything here.
**The extraction pattern is already proven.** `M/src/model/fonts.ts` (41 lines) and `D/src/model/fonts.ts`
(40) are re-export shims: pull the catalogue from `margin-shared/fonts`, declare one app-local alias
(`BookFonts` vs `DocumentFonts`) so call sites keep the app's own noun. Copy that shape.
No app uses tsconfig path aliases, so nothing needs build config beyond the dependency. All three vitest apps
run `environment: "node"`, so shared hooks need the `typeof window` guards D already writes, or
`vi.stubGlobal` as in `D/src/width.test.ts:24`. No app has a `utils/`, `lib/`, `helpers/` or `hooks/`
directory: everything is either a single-purpose top-level module or defined inline atop the one component
that needs it.
## Byte-identical today
**`src/escape.ts`**, all four. 36 lines in M, C and D, all three md5 `3b1f67d691647be7d61a23a5acd96a7b`. X's
is 40 lines, differing only by a four-line header; strip comments and all four hash identically
(`9c8530a09b35e5d697bb2b95674a2e73`). Signature `useEscapeLayer(active: boolean, onEscape: () => void): void`,
a module-level stack of Escape handlers behind one lazily-bound capture-phase listener. Move verbatim, keeping
X's header. 144 duplicated lines, zero risk. All three keyboard registries already defer to it by name rather
than handling Escape themselves, and its `const latest = useRef(onEscape); latest.current = onEscape;` is an
inline `useLatest` that falls out of the extraction for free.
**`useMediaQuery`**, all four `src/useMedia.ts`, byte-identical (`c3499ac5ee3d1a12b138d71b2cc787ed`).
**`usePhone` and `useTouch`**, C/D/X, byte-identical bodies (`d565f08a...`, `f4285e4c...`), with `PHONE_QUERY
= "(max-width: 640px)"` and `TOUCH_QUERY = "(pointer: coarse)"`; the only difference between the three files
is prose describing each app's layout. M has neither, only a stale `useCompact` on a 899px query that D
deleted when it added the phone/touch pair.
**`src/theme.ts`**, M/C/X. Strip comments, normalise the key, all three hash identically
(`ab9c99ff29565c686028e16960274d9d`); the literal M-to-C diff is one line. **`src/store/useTheme.ts`**, M and
C, byte-identical (`b48a3bccfadd21b9bb4efa91eef5041c`, 16 lines); X's 17 differ only by extracting a
`set(theme)` action. **`src/store/useToast.ts`**, C and D, byte-identical (`dfc90357bbcfbbfe71ffb8ba0e680c00`,
15 lines). M has no toast.
**The `src/ipc.ts` preamble.** Lines 1 to 41 of C's and D's are byte-identical
(`afde11927f75a3a81b2b459658c5b7be`), doc comments included: header, `isTauri`, `isMobileOs` with its iPadOS
carve-out, `isDesktop`, `isMacDesktop`, `live()`. So is the body of `call<T>`
(`b4259488afdd6a0f154b8e86eae1ff9c`). X has the same code with two comments abridged, plus one real addition
at `X/src/ipc.ts:752-758`: it logs a failed command to Rust before rethrowing, skipping `log_note` itself to
avoid a loop.
**`src/store/useOverlays.ts`**, C (64 lines) and X (72). Diffed with comments stripped, the entire difference
is the `Overlay` union and one prettier reflow of `push`; all seven actions are character-identical. X's
header: "Ported from the calendar's store of the same name."
**The keys platform block**, C/D/X, not one character differing, at `C:76-87`, `D:206-217`, `X:521-532`. Also
byte-identical across those three: the `NAMED` glyph map, `commandMatches`, `isTyping`, and
`pushContext`/`useKeyContext`.
```ts
const isMac = typeof navigator !== "undefined" && /mac|iphone|ipad/i.test(navigator.userAgent ?? "");
export const PRIMARY_LABEL = isMac ? "⌘" : "Ctrl+";
export const primaryHeld = (e: { metaKey: boolean; ctrlKey: boolean }): boolean =>
isMac ? e.metaKey : e.ctrlKey;
export const secondaryHeld = (e: { metaKey: boolean; ctrlKey: boolean }): boolean =>
isMac ? e.ctrlKey : e.metaKey;
```
## The three cleanest lifts
**`createOverlays<T>()`.** Nothing in the body knows what an overlay is. Each app writes `export const
useOverlays = createOverlays<Overlay>();` and keeps its own union. About 130 lines at zero behavioural risk. M
and D have no overlay store but both have palettes and dialogs and would adopt it.
```ts
export interface OverlayState<T extends string> {
open: T | null;
trail: T[];
show: (overlay: T) => void;
push: (overlay: T) => void;
back: () => void;
reachedFrom: (previous: T) => void;
toggle: (overlay: T) => void;
close: () => void;
}
export function createOverlays<T extends string>(): UseBoundStore<StoreApi<OverlayState<T>>>;
```
**`onAppEvent`.** Nobody wraps Tauri's `listen`, and it shows. X is the exception, at `X/src/App.tsx:69-77`,
signature `onAppEvent<T>(name: string, handler: (payload: T) => void): () => void`. It returns a synchronous
unsubscribe, so each effect is one line, and it falls back to `window.addEventListener` for a `CustomEvent` of
the same name outside Tauri, which is what lets Playwright drive the connect flow in a browser. C hand-rolls a
four-`.then(stop => stop())` teardown at `C/src/App.tsx:52-86`; D uses a third pattern, a module exporting
`startWorkspaceEvents(): () => void` that the shell mounts (`D/src/workspace.ts:366-378`).
The event names are already common property: `menu-action` in all four, `auth`, `sync-progress` and
`store-changed` in C and X, `pdf-warnings` in M and D. Four apps, the same names, three subscription
mechanics. Lift X's nine lines; keep D's "module exports `start*()`" convention on top.
**`useToast` and `notify`.** X's 34 lines beat the byte-identical 15 in C and D. Strict superset: an optional
`ToastAction { label, keycap?, run }` for undo, and a `seq` counter bumped on every notice. That counter is a
real fix. Auto-dismiss lives in the component in all three, and C's and D's dismiss effects omit a nonce from
the dep array, so notifying the same string twice does not restart the countdown; the second toast inherits
the remainder of the first one's timer. The dwell times also differ for no reason: 5000ms, 4200ms, 6000ms.
M has no toast, only a private `notify` at `M/src/store/useBackup.ts:45` writing into `useBook`'s notice field.
## Theme: margin-docs wins, and it is not close
`D/src/theme.ts` is 167 lines against 16, and every extra line earns it: a seven-palette table with a `scheme`
per row; a real tri-state `ThemeChoice = Theme | "system"` with a remembered light/dark pair;
`storedPreference()` dropping a stored id that no longer names a theme (without it, a palette retired between
releases leaves the root with a `data-theme` no stylesheet answers, which is not one broken colour but all of
them); `watchSystemScheme()`, the only live `prefers-color-scheme` subscription in any app;
`saved()`/`store()` guarding `localStorage` behind `typeof` and `try`/`catch`; and `theme.test.ts` (172
lines), the only theme test, holding the TypeScript table and the boot script's copy of it to one table.
X fakes a tri-state at the UI layer: "System" means deleting the stored key (`forgetThemeChoice()`,
`X/src/appearance.ts:41`), so it is a snapshot, not a subscription. Pick System at night and it stays dark
through the morning.
```ts
export interface ThemeConfig<T extends string> {
themes: readonly ThemeInfo<T>[];
keyPrefix: string;
fallback: Record<Scheme, T>;
}
export function createThemeStore<T extends string>(config: ThemeConfig<T>): ...;
export function bootScript<T extends string>(config: ThemeConfig<T>): string;
```
Generating the boot script from the same config is the part to insist on. All four apps hand-maintain an
inline `<script>` in `index.html` re-reading the theme keys before the bundle exists, and D re-encodes its
whole palette-to-scheme table there in plain JS.
## The root-setting pattern, six times over
Bigger than theme. Read a boot attribute first because `index.html` already applied it, fall back to
`localStorage`, apply to the root, write back. `src/theme.ts` in all four on `data-theme`; `X/src/pane.ts` (20
lines) on `data-no-pane`, its header saying it is "exactly the shape `src/theme.ts` uses"; `D/src/width.ts`
(52) on `data-width`; `M/src/width.ts` (28) doing the same job through a `--measure` custom property;
`M/src/panes.ts` on `--pane-sidebar`/`--pane-dock` with its own private `clamp`; `X/src/appearance.ts` (43) on
`--font-ui`, `--font-heading` and `--body-size`.
The rule these obey is stated three times in three files: a store may not touch the DOM, and a layout fact the
stylesheet needs on first paint has to be an attribute, not a class on a component. Write it down once.
Key naming is already strict: every key in every app is `<slug>-<setting>`, slugs `margin-`, `margincal-`,
`margindocs-`, `marginmail-`. Counted: 8 keys in M, 6 in C, 17 in D, 9 in X. That prefix is the only per-app
parameter a storage helper needs.
```ts
export function makeStorage(prefix: string): {
readString(key: string, fallback: string | null): string | null;
readJson<T>(key: string, fallback: T): T;
write(key: string, value: string): void;
remove(key: string): void;
};
export function rootSetting<T extends string>(opts: {
attribute: string; key: string; values: readonly T[]; fallback: T;
}): { initial(): T; apply(value: T): void };
```
D has written the guarded accessor pair nine times inside one app: `theme.ts:105`,
`store/useUpdate.ts:64,73,85`, `store/useProofing.ts:102,111`, `store/useDocumentFonts.ts:58,77`,
`workspace.ts:60,70`, `width.ts:33`, with the catch comment ("A webview with storage denied still X, it just
forgets between launches") repeated four times with only the verb swapped. Adopting it also fixes unguarded
reads in `M/theme.ts:8`, `C/time.ts:16`, `C/store/useCalendarView.ts:13`, `X/theme.ts:13`, `X/pane.ts:14` and
`D/Outline.tsx:30`; several run during module initialisation and would take the whole app down on a throw in a
storage-denied webview, and C's is already why `components/overlayModel.test.ts:20-31` stubs a global.
Do not reach for zustand's `persist` middleware, nor a `useLocalStorage` hook: the boot script reads these
keys before any bundle exists, so the shapes must stay plain and hand-chosen. `X/pane.ts:1-8` and
`X/appearance.ts:1-7` both document the constraint. `width.ts` itself should not be shared either. M has four
named widths on a CSS variable, D five on an attribute plus command wiring; only the persistence overlaps, and
`rootSetting` covers it.
## The IPC layer
Uniform in three of four and worth stating as the target: a frozen `src/ipc.ts` holding DTOs mirroring
`src-tauri/src/dto.rs` plus `call<T>`, and thin per-domain modules in `src/api/` doing nothing but naming a
command, e.g. `export const labelsList = (accountId: string | null) => call<LabelInfo[]>("labels_list", {
accountId });`
C has 6 api modules and 41 lines, D 9 and 211, X 16 and 386. X's `ipc.ts` is 760 lines because it has the most
DTOs, not because it is structured differently. Only X states the rule explicitly ("Nothing outside src/api
may call `call` directly").
M is the outlier. No `src/api`, `invoke` imported directly in 7 files and called at 8 sites. Its 43-line
`ipc.ts` has no `isTauri`, no `live()`, no `isMacDesktop` and no dev-fixture branch, which is why it has no
browser dev harness either. **And a real bug**: `M/src/ipc.ts:3` names its constant `isDesktop` but computes
what C/D/X call `isTauri`. The same identifier means the opposite thing in different apps, and in M it gates
`runWritingTool`, `listSystemFonts` and `gdriveListBackups`. M is desktop-only today so it does not bite yet.
Shareable: the whole preamble plus `call<T>` as a factory, since the dynamic `import("./dev/mockIpc")` path is
necessarily per-app. X's version wins, a strict superset of the byte-identical C and D; the `log_note`
recursion guard is the detail nobody would re-derive. DTOs stay per-app. `C/src/ipc/` exists and is empty;
delete it.
## The dev harness
C, D and X each have `src/dev/fixture.ts` and `src/dev/mockIpc.ts`: 134/222 lines, 696/344, 1769/1572. Every
`mockCall` is `(command: string, args?: Record<string, unknown>) => Promise<T>`, a switch on `command` ending
in the same byte-identical `dev mock has no handler for ${command}` throw, but the bodies are entirely
app-specific. A `createMockIpc(handlers)` supplying the dispatch and default throw is marginal; the real
shared pieces are the mock branch inside `call<T>` and X's `onAppEvent` fallback, both covered above. M has
no dev harness and cannot be driven in a browser.
## Keyboard: three registries, one design, no chords
C, D and X each have `src/keys` with `bindings.ts`, `keymap.ts`, `commands.ts`, `menu.ts`. No file is
byte-identical, but the scaffolding is one module forked three ways and several blocks inside are identical
(listed above).
**X's registry should win.** Three reasons that matter.
Its `resolve()` layers contexts instead of replacing them (`X/keys/keymap.ts:94-109`). A `screener` or `focus`
frame overrides only the keys it declares and leaves the base `view` keymap live underneath; only `overlay`
and `editor` shadow wholesale, via an explicit `SHADOWS_VIEW` list. C and D fall from the top frame straight
to `global`, which kills the base keymap the moment any non-overlay frame is pushed. X subsumes them; they
cannot express X.
Its `normalizeCombo` treats shift as a first-class modifier, so `Cmd+A` and `Cmd+Shift+A` are distinct. D
preserves case instead (`cmd+F` vs `cmd+f`), which works for letters on a US layout and breaks for punctuation
that only exists shifted. **C's lowercases behind a modifier, so `cmd+F` and `cmd+f` collide silently.** That
is a live bug.
Its `bindings.ts` does not import `commands.ts`, so the table, the sheet and the palette are testable without
booting stores or Tauri; in C and D the dependency runs bindings to commands to every store. Its `commands.ts`
is 75 lines with zero store imports: a `Map<CommandId, Handler[]>`, `registerCommands` returning its own
teardown, last-registered wins, so a screen takes over a verb on mount and hands it back. C's and D's are
static tables reaching into the whole app (224 and 433 lines). D is halfway there with its `onCommand`
fan-out, worth keeping alongside the stack for cases needing multiple listeners.
Take `menu.ts` from D instead: the same three lines everywhere, but only D exports its id list and tests that
every menu id names a real command.
**No app supports chords.** All three carry the same header line: "Nothing is chorded and nothing is modal.
Two keys never combine into a third meaning." No pending prefix, no timeout, no sequence buffer. A `g i`
binding is new work; X's `Map<string, Binding[]>` index and single `comboOf` extend to it most cleanly.
**M has no registry and should adopt one.** Four unrelated mechanisms: an `if`/`else if` chain on a
capture-phase window listener at `M/components/EditorView.tsx:167-192`, a second competing window listener for
Cmd+K in `M/editor/FloatingToolbar.tsx:57-70`, TipTap extension shortcuts in four files, and two hand-rolled
`menu-action` chains in `App.tsx:25-35` and `EditorView.tsx:199-206` unaware of each other.
M has no platform detection at all: `grep navigator.` over its `src` returns two clipboard calls. The five
`e.metaKey` tests in `EditorView.tsx` are macOS-only and silently dead on Linux and Windows; `primaryHeld`
fixes that for free. The blocker is that M has no palette and no shortcut sheet, so the "generated, never
maintained" payoff has nowhere to land yet.
Stays per-app: `BINDINGS` (20 rows, 20, ~70), the `CommandId` union, `GROUPS`, `MENU_IDS`, the command
implementations, and app-specific `KeyContext` members. `KeyContext` has to become a type parameter and
`SHADOWS_VIEW` an app-supplied list. The two `isMac` regexes differ by design and confusingly little:
`keys/bindings.ts` uses `/mac|iphone|ipad/i`, `ipc.ts` uses `/mac/i` gated on `isDesktop`, both correct for
their purpose. One `margin-shared/platform` should export both, plus `isTauri`, `isDesktop`, `isMacDesktop`,
`live`, `PRIMARY_LABEL`, `primaryHeld` and `secondaryHeld`, with an injectable user agent so the non-Mac
branch is finally testable; no test exercises it today.
## Stores: the conventions are already uniform
All 42 stores checked. Every one uses the plain `create<State>((set, get) => ({ ... }))`. Not one uses curried
`create<T>()(...)`. **No middleware anywhere**: zero hits for `persist`, `subscribeWithSelector`, `immer`,
`devtools`, `useShallow` or `zustand/shallow` in any app. Nothing is imported from `zustand` except `create`.
Selectors are uniformly inline, `(s) => s.field`, one hook call per field rather than one destructured object.
No exported selector functions exist in any store directory in any app. That is why no shallow comparator is
needed: every subscription is to a primitive or a stable reference. About 620 inline selector sites and 676
`getState()` calls.
Two conventions worth writing down because they are universal and currently retyped everywhere: `if (!live())
return;` as the first line of every backend-touching action, about 40 places; and `error: String(e)` in state,
never `e.message`.
The async action shape repeats about 100 times: optimistic set, try, replace with the server's answer, catch,
roll back and a `Could not ...` toast. Counts: M 1, C 10, D 33, X 53. **I would not abstract it**: the bodies
are five lines and each message is bespoke. Share the `Phase` union and a `describe(e)` helper only.
`useSearch`, `useAccounts` and `useSync` look shareable by name and are not. The three
`useSearch` stores do three different jobs. `useAccounts` in C and X shares a real idea, an OAuth consent
promise bridged over a Tauri event with the resolver stashed in state, but it is on its third hand-copy
(`M/store/useBackup.ts:70` to C to X) and is ~60% app-specific. Share the bridge, not the store, plus
`openAuthUrl`/`copyAuthUrl`, character-identical in both and pure utility.
```ts
export function deferred<T>(): { promise: Promise<T>; settle: (value: T) => void };
export function latestOnly<A extends unknown[], R>(fn: (...a: A) => Promise<R>): (...a: A) => Promise<R | undefined>;
```
`latestOnly` covers the stale-response race both search stores solve differently: D with module-level
monotonic counters (`useSearch.ts:20-21`), X by re-comparing the query string (`useSearch.ts:108`). D's is
more general; X's breaks if two callers share a query.
X's `useSync` is the best sync store, because ~160 of its 210 lines are pure exported functions over
`SyncStatus[]` rather than store code, with a 9.6KB test behind them. C keeps the same dedupe logic as an
effect-local closure variable in `App.tsx`.
## Cross-cutting utilities
**Confirmed absent from all four**: any debounce or throttle utility; deep equality; a `safeParse`/`tryParse`
wrapper; class-name joining (no `cx`, no `clsx`, no `classNames`, and no such dependency); `measureText` or
any text-measurement helper; `Intl.RelativeTimeFormat`; `Intl.PluralRules`; `navigator.userAgentData`;
`nanoid`/`uuid` or any id counter; and `useLocalStorage`, `useInterval`, `useRaf`, `useEvent`, `useLatest`,
`useMountedRef` or an exported `sleep`. No truncation helper; truncation is done in CSS.
The class-name negative is a deliberate architectural choice, not an oversight: all four apps style off data
attributes, so no app ever concatenates class names. Do not introduce `cx`.
**debounce.** Written longhand at 15 sites across all four. The React-effect variant is the same five lines in
at least six places and is worth one `useDebounced<T>(value, ms)`; D's `QuickOpen.tsx:88` and
`FindInFiles.tsx:70` are already identical and name the constant `DEBOUNCE_MS`. Leave the class-field and
module-level timers alone; their cancel/flush semantics are the point.
**`clamp`: 6 definitions plus 12 inline sites, zero shared.** `C/grid/fit.ts:89` and
`C/components/QuickCreateModel.ts:147` are the identical one-liner duplicated *within C*:
```ts
const clamp = (n: number, lo: number, hi: number) => (n < lo ? lo : n > hi ? hi : n);
```
`C/components/EventDetailsModel.ts:45` should win: it is the only one guarding an inverted range, which
matters because half the call sites pass `length - 1` as the high bound and that goes negative on an empty
list. `QuickCreateModel.ts:156,163,171` already works around exactly this at every call. Add a `clampIndex(i,
length)` for the ten index sites. `M/ExportPreview.tsx:92` and `D/ExportPreview.tsx:143` are the
byte-identical zoom clamp.
**Byte size: four implementations, three spellings.** `D/UpdateDialog.tsx:21` says `kB`, `D/FileViewer.tsx:43`
says `bytes` and `KB` with one decimal, `X/screens/format.ts:52` says `B`/`KB`/`MB` with rounding,
`X/screens/Settings.tsx:940` adds GB and adaptive precision. 1536 bytes renders as "1.5 KB", "2 kB" and "2 KB"
in one product family. X's `space()` wins: the only one reaching GB, and its `mb < 10 ? toFixed(1) :
Math.round(mb)` rule actually solves what D's UpdateDialog comment states ("so the number under the bar stops
twitching"), by significant figures rather than fixed decimals.
**Relative time: three hand-rolled ladders, no two agreeing.** `M/src/time.ts:1` is the only standalone
module; `M/src/backup.ts:61` is a second copy in the same app with the prefix baked into every branch;
`D/components/Settings.tsx:45` is a third, inline, with "Checked" hardcoded throughout. They diverge in
behaviour, not just text: M floors, D rounds; M's cutover is 7 days, D's 30. D's rounding makes 89 seconds
"just now" and 91 seconds "2 minutes ago". M's wins: the only one guarding clock skew with `Math.max(0, now -
ts)`, and flooring is right for "how long ago". Callers compose their own prefix, deleting `backup.ts:61` and
reducing `Settings.tsx:45` to one line. X has no "X ago" at all; `rowTime`/`messageTime`
(`screens/format.ts:34-49`) go straight to calendar-day buckets and are the only implementation counting by
calendar day via local midnight rather than elapsed hours, which is the difference between "Yesterday" being
right and being off by a few hours every evening. Keep both.
**`useClock` is the missing half.** `C/src/useClock.ts` (`useTick<T>`, `useMinuteTick`, `useHourStart`)
re-schedules against wall-clock rather than a `setInterval` and treats `visibilitychange` and `focus` as
ticks, because a timer's deadline is measured in time the machine spent awake. C is its only consumer today,
but M's `relativeTime` callers both take a `now` prop that has to come from somewhere, and X's row formatters
default to `Date.now()` at call time and go stale on a window left open overnight. Ship it beside
`relativeTime`.
**`Intl.DateTimeFormat`: no shared factory.** The same `{ day: "numeric", month: "short" }` formatter is
constructed in 6 X files and the `hourCycle: "h23"` clock in 3. M and D use bare `toLocaleDateString()`. A
memoised `dateFormat(options)` collapses the lot; X's cached-module-constant style is the right pattern.
C's `src/time.ts` (136 lines) avoids `Intl` entirely with hand-written day and month arrays, a deliberate
product decision for a calendar grid that should stay. Its `startOfDay`, `addDays`, `isSameDay`, `toDateOnly`,
`parseDateOnly` are reusable date maths and should move; `startOfDay` is already written three times across C
and X (`C/time.ts:23`, `X/screens/format.ts:20`, `X/SnoozePicker.tsx:72`).
**Focus management: one app has it, three do not.** `python/margin/src/focus.ts` (56 lines) is a proper trap:
a `FOCUSABLE` selector, Tab wrapping both directions, opener restore on teardown, and a module-level
`focusTrapped()` so the global key handler can stand down. Five call sites in M.
```ts
export function useFocusTrap(ref: RefObject<HTMLElement | null>, active = true): void;
export function focusTrapped(): boolean;
```
C has autofocus only, no trap and no restore (`components/overlayShell.tsx:51-56`). D and X have neither: both
ship `role="dialog" aria-modal="true"` markup with imperative `.focus()` on mount and no trap behind it.
**This is the one item where sharing fixes an accessibility gap in three apps rather than removing
duplication.** The wrinkle: M's `focusTrapped()` and the other apps' context stack are two mechanisms for one
idea. Either the trap pushes an `overlay` frame, or the shared keymap takes a "something external owns the
keyboard" predicate.
**Scroll position restore: near-identical in M and D, and D says so.** `python/margin/src/editor/positions.ts`
(64 lines) and `rust/margin-editor/src/editor/positions.ts` (52) share an identical `{ from, to, scroll }`
interface, the same guarded `readAll`/`write`, and the same load/save API. D's header names the relationship:
M keys by book then chapter, D by absolute path, "and that path is the whole key". D adds an LRU trim at
`LIMIT = 200`; M's map grows unbounded. D wins, with a flat string key M composes as `${bookId}/${chapterId}`.
`scrollIntoView` is raw at 8 sites, never wrapped; `M/editor/search.ts:98` and `D/editor/search.ts:111` are
byte-identical. Worth extracting alongside it is `D/components/Outline.tsx:79-89`, the only implementation
avoiding `scrollIntoView` scrolling every ancestor, already duplicated once inside D at
`editor/linkPicker.ts:572`.
**JSON.** 10 `JSON.parse` sites, 8 guarded inline, 2 not: `M/library.ts:31` and `M/project.ts:19` parse a file
read off disk with no catch, so a truncated or hand-edited project file throws unhandled. Fold the guarded
ones into `readJson<T>(key, fallback)`; the file reads want `parseJson<T>(text): T | null`. D's `const parsed:
unknown = JSON.parse(...)` then narrow is the right discipline; M and X cast straight to the target type.
**`plural`** is the same function under different names in `M/store/useBackup.ts:56` and
`D/linkRewrite.ts:694`, plus 10 open-coded `${n === 1 ? "" : "s"}` sites including two byte-identical ones in
`X/screens/ReadingPane.tsx:235,502`. M's name wins.
**ResizeObserver**: 13 raw instantiations, no hook. `M/ExportPreview.tsx:64` and `D/ExportPreview.tsx:104` are
byte-identical, as are `M:238`/`D:339` and the `IntersectionObserver` at `M:286`/`D:395`. Any shared
`useResize` must carry the null guard `X/screens/MessageBody.tsx:207` documents and the others lack:
"`ResizeObserver.observe(null)` throws hard enough to take the screen with it". `getBoundingClientRect` has 32
inline sites, all positioning rather than text metrics; the popover-placement clamp is duplicated across four
apps but the anchoring rules differ meaningfully, so it is the lowest-confidence item here. Id generation is M
only, `crypto.randomUUID()` raw at 8 app-domain sites; C, D and X take ids from Rust, so there is nothing to
share.
## Updates: four apps, four answers
M has `src/updater.ts` (111 lines) plus `store/useUpdater.ts` (34), a `direct` vs `appstore` channel split,
and it holds the live `Update` resource handle in the zustand store. C has `keys/updates.ts` (41), toast-only,
"Ported from margin's `src/updater.ts`, minus its progress dialog"; it is the only one of the four with a
`packagedBy()` guard, so a nix or homebrew install is told to update through its package manager instead of
self-updating. X has no update module at all: `checkForUpdates` is inline at `X/src/App.tsx:98-118`, with a
second copy in `screens/Settings.tsx`.
D has `src/update.ts` (171) plus `store/useUpdate.ts` (129), the best of the four: named phase transitions
rather than a generic `set(partial)`; `total: number | null` so a missing content-length draws an
indeterminate bar instead of 0% forever; version and notes as plain strings so no Rust handle sits in the
store; a launch delay and 24-hour interval for automatic checks; a flush of the pending save before
`relaunch()`; and a discriminator for "this dev build has no updater plugin" so that reads as a sentence
about the build. Take D's store and driver, fold in C's `packagedBy` guard as an option.
## Bugs found, worth fixing regardless of any extraction
- `marginmail-theme` is declared as two constants in two files, `X/src/theme.ts:8` and
`X/src/appearance.ts:14`.
- X's `checkForUpdates` lacks C's `packagedBy()` guard, so a package-manager-installed build will try to
self-update over a path it does not own.
- C's `normalizeCombo` lowercases the key behind a modifier, so `cmd+F` and `cmd+f` are one binding.
- `M/src/ipc.ts:3` names `isDesktop` what the other three call `isTauri`, and it gates three IPC calls.
- `M/library.ts:31` and `M/project.ts:19` parse a file off disk with no catch.
## Ranked
1. `escape.ts`. ~144 lines, byte-identical in four apps.
2. `createOverlays<T>()`. ~130 lines, code-identical today.
3. `platform.ts` (both halves). ~50 lines, byte-identical in three, fixes two M bugs.
4. `onAppEvent`. ~60 lines, better teardown, unlocks browser testing for two apps.
5. `useMedia.ts`. ~120 lines, byte-identical bodies in three apps.
6. `useToast` plus `notify`. ~60 lines, strict superset, fixes a timer bug in two.
7. `makeStorage` and `rootSetting`. ~120 lines, deletes nine copies in D, fixes six unguarded reads.
8. `call<T>` factory plus the `ipc.ts` preamble. ~50 lines.
9. Theme, from D, with a generated boot script. ~250 lines, needs a per-app table.
10. Small utilities: `clamp`, `fileSize`, `relativeTime` plus `useClock`, `plural`, `positions.ts`,
`useDebounced`, `dateFormat`, `latestOnly`, `deferred`. Collectively ~250 lines and several
user-visible inconsistencies.
11. `useFocusTrap`. Not a saving; an accessibility fix for three apps.
12. The keyboard registry, from X. Largest and highest-value, but needs `KeyContext` parameterised and
`SHADOWS_VIEW` injected, and M needs a palette before it benefits.
13. The update store and driver. Four designs to reconcile; do it last.
Items 1 to 6 are mechanically identical across apps today and drop into the existing package with no behaviour
change. The one prerequisite is adding `margin-shared` to margin-calendar.
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# Icons and the smallest UI primitives
Audit of `margin` (`/Users/pj/Workspace/projects/python/margin`), `margin-calendar`
(`/Users/pj/Workspace/projects/python/margin-caledar`), `margin-docs`
(`/Users/pj/Workspace/projects/rust/margin-editor`) and `margin-mail`
(`/Users/pj/Workspace/projects/rust/margin-mail`) against the partial shared package at
`/Users/pj/Workspace/projects/python/margin/shared`.
## The shared package as it stands
`shared/src/icons.ts` exports twelve paths plus `SUN_DISC`. Its header comment says the two apps
kept drifting, that a path is a design decision, and that `Icon` is deliberately not shared because
sharing it "would make this package depend on React for twenty four lines, and a component is where
an app is entitled to differ."
Two of those three claims no longer hold.
The React argument is wrong on the mechanics. `shared/package.json` has no `dependencies` block at
all, no build step, and every app resolves the TypeScript source through its own bundler. All four
apps are on `react: ^19.1.0`. A `peerDependencies` entry costs zero bytes and installs nothing;
it is a version assertion, not a dependency.
"An app is entitled to differ" is contradicted by the code. Three of the four `Icon.tsx` files are
byte identical (md5 `0ec1a568818f20ed8eed8ad46fbaa2b1`):
`/Users/pj/Workspace/projects/python/margin/src/components/Icon.tsx`,
`/Users/pj/Workspace/projects/python/margin-caledar/src/components/Icon.tsx`,
`/Users/pj/Workspace/projects/rust/margin-editor/src/components/Icon.tsx`. In two years nobody has
exercised the entitlement.
Also worth noting: `margin-calendar` does not consume `margin-shared` at all. There is no
`margin-shared` line in `/Users/pj/Workspace/projects/python/margin-caledar/package.json`, and
`src/styles/tokens.css` is a hand copy of the shared file's values. Everything below that looks
like calendar drifting away from the family traces back to this one fact.
## The Icon component, line by line
All four render the same SVG: `viewBox="0 0 24 24"`, `fill="none"`, `stroke="currentColor"`,
`strokeWidth="1.6"`, `strokeLinecap="round"`, `strokeLinejoin="round"`, `size = 16` default,
`{children ?? <path d={d} />}`. Props are `d?: string`, `size?: number`, `children?: ReactNode`.
`margin-mail`'s at `/Users/pj/Workspace/projects/rust/margin-mail/src/ui/Icon.tsx:12` is the only
one that differs, in four ways, all of them improvements:
- `export interface IconProps` rather than a private `interface` (line 4).
- `className="icon"` (line 15), which is what lets CSS reach the element.
- `aria-hidden="true"` (line 24). The other three emit an unlabelled SVG into the accessibility
tree at every one of their 142 combined call sites.
- `import "./Icon.css"` (line 2), whose entire contents are `.icon { flex: none; }`
(`Icon.css:2-4`).
There is no alignment handling in any of the four components. No `display`, no `vertical-align`,
no `shape-rendering`, no `vector-effect`, no transform.
## Alignment: the thing that keeps being fixed four times
Across all four repos there are **zero** occurrences of `shape-rendering`, `vector-effect`,
`crispEdges`, `geometricPrecision`, or a `translate(0.5 0.5)` style half pixel offset. The
alignment problem is not sub-pixel rasterisation. It is the two ordinary CSS facts about an inline
SVG: it sits on the text baseline, and it is a flex item that will shrink.
Five different fixes exist for those two facts, and only one app fixes them centrally.
`margin-mail` fixes both once:
- `/Users/pj/Workspace/projects/rust/margin-mail/src/styles/app.css:88` `svg { display: block; }`
This is the only global SVG rule in the suite. The other three apps have no `svg` selector at
document level at all.
- `/Users/pj/Workspace/projects/rust/margin-mail/src/ui/Icon.css:2` `.icon { flex: none; }`
The other three patch it per site:
- `/Users/pj/Workspace/projects/python/margin-caledar/src/styles/overlays.css:36`
`.panel-note[data-icon] svg { flex: none; transform: translateY(2px); }`
- `/Users/pj/Workspace/projects/python/margin-caledar/src/styles/details.css:114`
`.details-row[data-block] > svg { margin-top: 2px; }`
- `/Users/pj/Workspace/projects/rust/margin-editor/src/styles/tree.css:473`
`.start-row svg { align-self: center; color: var(--ink-faint); }`
A `translateY(2px)` and a `margin-top: 2px` in the same repo, for the same symptom, four files
apart. Neither is wrong; both exist because the baseline was never dealt with at the root.
The residual case is real and survives the global fix: an icon inside an `align-items: baseline`
row still needs `align-self: center`. `margin-mail` hits it too, at
`/Users/pj/Workspace/projects/rust/margin-mail/src/ui/Row.css:127` (`.row-mark { flex: none;
display: inline-flex; align-self: center; }`), which is the same declaration as margin-docs'
`tree.css:473`. There are 20 `align-items: baseline` rules across the four apps, so this is a
recurring shape, not an exception.
Icon size is not a shared decision and probably should not become one. `margin-mail` never uses the
16px default (zero bare `<Icon d=... />`, nine distinct explicit sizes from 10 to 20). The other
three lean on the default heavily: 33 bare call sites in margin-docs, 14 in calendar, 12 in margin.
## Glyph inventory
151 path definitions across the suite, 132 distinct strings, 13 of which appear in more than one
app. The shared set covers 13. Per app, unique path strings: shared 13, margin 30, calendar 31,
margin-docs 47, margin-mail 30.
Only `margin-mail` keeps its glyphs in a module (`src/ui/icons.ts`, 30 named constants, five
re-exported from `margin-shared/icons` at line 14). `margin-docs` names its toolbar and titlebar
glyphs as module constants but writes six more inline. `margin` and `margin-calendar` are almost
entirely inline `d="M..."` in JSX.
Shared-set uptake is thin: `margin` uses eleven of the twelve; `margin-docs` uses seven
(`SIDEBAR`, `SEARCH`, `SPELLING`, `GRAMMAR`, `EXPORT`, `MORE`, `CHECK`, `WIDTH`); `margin-mail`
re-exports five; `margin-calendar` uses none.
### Same concept, different path
The important cases, with the exact strings.
**SEARCH.** Shared `icons.ts:21` is `M11 4a7 7 0 1 0 0 14 7 7 0 0 0 0-14zM20 20l-4-4`. Calendar
`components/Header.tsx:22` is `M11 19a8 8 0 100-16 8 8 0 000 16zM21 21l-4.35-4.35`. Different lens
radius (7 vs 8) and a different handle. This is the exact divergence the shared package's header
comment says it exists to prevent, still present because calendar never joined.
**MORE.** Shared `icons.ts:57` is three dots, `M5 12h.01M12 12h.01M19 12h.01`. Calendar
`components/PhoneBar.tsx:29` uses the same name for a hamburger, `M4 7h16M4 12h16M4 17h16`. A
straight name collision on two unrelated glyphs.
**SUN.** Shared splits it: `SUN_RAYS` (`icons.ts:53`) with a `SUN_DISC` circle at `r: 4`, rays
starting at `M12 2v2`. Calendar `Header.tsx:24` is one path with an `r=5` disc and rays at
`M12 1v2M12 21v2M4.2 4.2...`. Different construction and different geometry.
**HEADING.** `margin/src/editor/FloatingToolbar.tsx:126` is `M5 5v14M5 12h8M13 5v14`.
`margin-editor/src/editor/Toolbar.tsx:184` is `M7 5v14M7 12h10M17 5v14`, with a comment at line 182
that says exactly why: "The H used to run from x=5 to x=13 in a 24 unit box, so it sat left of
centre in a round button that every other glyph here is centred in." One app fixed the optical
centring; the other still has the bug. This is the "fix the alignment separately in each app"
complaint, at the glyph level, with the fix already written down in one repo.
**BULLET LIST.** `margin/src/editor/FloatingToolbar.tsx:128` puts the bullets at x=3.5:
`M8 6h12M8 12h12M8 18h12M3.5 6h.01M3.5 12h.01M3.5 18h.01`.
`margin-editor/src/editor/Toolbar.tsx:185` puts them at x=4: `...M4 6h.01M4 12h.01M4 18h.01`. A half
unit apart on otherwise identical rules.
**TRASH.** `margin/src/components/RowMenu.tsx:153` and `margin-editor/src/components/Sidebar.tsx:46`
agree: `M5 7h14M10 7V5h4v2M7 7l1 13h8l1-13M10 11v6M14 11v6`. `margin-mail/src/ui/icons.ts:41` is a
different drawing: `M4 7h16M9 7V5a1 1 0 0 1 1-1h4a1 1 0 0 1 1 1v2M6 7l1 13a1 1 0 0 0 1 1h8a1 1 0 0
0 1-1l1-13M10 11v6M14 11v6`. Wider (4 to 20 rather than 5 to 19) and with rounded corners.
**LINK.** margin `FloatingToolbar.tsx:153` and margin-docs `Toolbar.tsx:192` agree on `l2-2`.
Calendar `EventDetails.tsx:46` and `EventEditor.tsx:42` use `l3-3`, a longer link arm.
**REFRESH.** margin `BackupSettings.tsx:67` is `M21 12a9 9 0 1 1-2.6-6.4M21 4v5h-5`. Calendar
`Header.tsx:23` is `M21 12a9 9 0 11-3-6.7M21 3v6h-6`. Different arc endpoint and a different arrow.
**CHECK.** Shared `icons.ts:61` is `M20 6L9 17l-5-5`, used by margin-docs `WidthMenu.tsx:177` at
size 14. margin-docs also draws its own at `components/Settings.tsx:131`,
`d="M5 12.5l4.5 4.5L19 7"` at size 13. One app, two ticks.
**BOLD and ITALIC.** margin renders letterforms, `<b>B</b>` and `<i>I</i>`
(`FloatingToolbar.tsx:123-124`). margin-docs draws paths, `BOLD_D` and `ITALIC_D`
(`Toolbar.tsx:177-178`). Same toolbar, same button, two different answers to what a bold button is.
### Same drawing, different spelling
These render identically and are only string-level drift, but they are what makes a `grep` for
duplication useless.
- **CLOSE**, five spellings: shared `M6 6l12 12M18 6L6 18`; `M18 6L6 18M6 6l12 12` in calendar
`EventDetails.tsx:38`, margin-docs `Recents.tsx:23`, `Sidebar.tsx:47`, `Toolbar.tsx:194`,
`Settings.tsx:253`, margin `FindBar.tsx:248`; `M18 6 6 18M6 6l12 12` in calendar
`overlayShell.tsx:14`.
- **MOON**: shared `A9 9 0 1 1 11.2 3` versus calendar `A9 9 0 1111.2 3`. Packed arc flags, same
curve.
- **CLOCK**: calendar `EventDetails.tsx:44` `M21 12a9 9 0 1 1-18 0 9 9 0 0 1 18 0M12 7v5l3 2`
versus mail `icons.ts:46` `M12 3a9 9 0 1 0 0 18 9 9 0 0 0 0-18zM12 7v5l3 2`.
- **CHEVRON_RIGHT**: calendar `M9 18l6-6-6-6` versus mail `M9 6l6 6-6 6`. Drawn from opposite ends.
- **DUPLICATE**: margin `RowMenu.tsx:142` `M9 9h11v11h-11z M6 15V5h9` versus margin-docs
`Sidebar.tsx:42` `M9 9h11v11H9z M6 15V5h9`.
### Exact duplicates that are not in the shared set
`PLUS` (`M12 5v14M5 12h14`) is defined independently in all four apps. `CHEVRON_UP`/`CHEVRON_DOWN`
(`M6 15l6-6 6 6` / `M6 9l6 6 6-6`) three times. Vertical dots (`M12 5h.01M12 12h.01M12 19h.01`),
`MINUS`, `HR`, `IMAGE`, `BLOCKQUOTE` twice each, always margin and margin-docs.
## The icon button: eleven rules for one control
All four share a byte-identical `button` reset (`margin app.css:34`, `calendar app.css:63`,
`docs app.css:34`, `mail app.css:70`, the last adding `font-size: inherit`). On top of it:
| App | Class | Size | Radius | Idle | Hover |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| margin | `.icon-btn` (`app.css:103`) | 30 | `--r-sm` | `--ink-soft` | `--accent-wash` |
| margin | `.find-btn` (`app.css:2255`) | 26 | `--r-sm` | `--ink-soft` | `--accent-wash` |
| margin | `.row-menu-btn` (`app.css:393`) | 22 | `--r-sm` | `--ink-faint` | `--accent-wash` |
| calendar | `.icon-button` (`app.css:145`) | 28 | `--r-sm` | `--ink-soft` | `--accent-wash` |
| calendar | `.details-close` (`details.css:269`) | 26 | `--r-sm` | `--ink-faint` | `--accent-wash` |
| docs | `.icon-button` (`app.css:138`) | 28 | `--r-sm` | `--ink-soft` | `--accent-wash` |
| docs | `.find-btn` (`tree.css:585`) | 26 | `--r-sm` | `--ink-soft` | `--accent-wash` |
| docs | `.start-forget` (`tree.css:450`) | 26 | `--r-sm` | `--ink-faint` | `--accent-wash` |
| docs | `.row-menu-btn` (`app.css:363`) | 22 | `--r-sm` | `--ink-faint` | `--accent-wash` |
| docs | `.tree-twisty` (`tree.css:189`) | 16 | `--r-sm` | `--ink-faint` | `--accent-wash` |
| mail | `.button[data-icon-only][data-variant="ghost"]` | 28 via `aspect-ratio: 1` | `--r-sm` | `--ink-soft` | `--accent-wash` |
Every one of them is `display: grid; place-items: center` (except `.start-forget`, which spells it
out as flex, and mail, which is inline-flex) with the same radius token, the same hover wash and
one of two colour tokens. `margin`'s `.row-menu-btn` and margin-docs' `.row-menu-btn` are the same
block copied verbatim into two repos. 26px appears four times across three apps.
The name is the only thing that reliably differs: `.icon-btn` in margin, `.icon-button` in the
other two.
The "on" state is where they genuinely disagree. margin `app.css:118` and margin-docs
`app.css:156` are the same three declarations (`color: var(--accent); background:
var(--accent-wash); box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 1px var(--line-strong)`) under two attribute names,
`data-on="true"` and `data-active="true"`. Calendar `app.css:160` drops the ring and uses
`--ink`. Mail `Button.css:69` makes `[data-active]` identical to `:hover`, so an open panel's
button and a hovered button are the same picture. Four apps, four answers, two of them pixel
identical under different attribute names. Attribute usage is mixed inside every app too: margin
21 `data-on` and 2 `data-active`, calendar 6 and 4, docs 12 and 9, mail 9 and 8.
There is no icon-button component anywhere except `margin-mail`. 54 call sites across the three
older apps hand-write `<button className="icon-btn|icon-button" title=... onClick=...><Icon
d={...} /></button>`: margin 18, calendar 16, margin-docs 20. `margin-mail` has 115 `<Button>`
usages and 16 `iconOnly` ones, and `Button.tsx:57` supplies the accessible name automatically:
`aria-label={label ?? (iconOnly ? title : undefined)}`.
The floating toolbar button is forked in the worst way. `margin app.css:893` `.tool` and
`margin-editor app.css:623` `.tool` are the same rule except one writes `border-radius: 999px` and
the other `border-radius: var(--r-pill)`. The same literal-versus-token split repeats on
`.editor-toolbar` (`margin app.css:889` vs `docs app.css:619`). The JS helpers differ only in
arity: `margin/src/editor/FloatingToolbar.tsx:109` is a render-scoped arrow with four positional
params; `margin-editor/src/editor/Toolbar.tsx:156` is a module function with the same four plus
`disabled`. Both carry the identical `onMouseDown={(e) => e.preventDefault()}`.
## Focus, disabled, tooltips, badges, spinners, keycaps
**Focus rings** are the one thing all four already agree on, byte for byte:
`:focus-visible { outline: 2px solid var(--accent); outline-offset: 2px; }` at
`margin app.css:43`, `calendar app.css:80`, `docs app.css:51`, `mail app.css:92`. Nobody ships a
polyfill or does keyboard-versus-mouse detection. The divergence is in the exceptions: 18 sites
across the suite write `outline: none` with no replacement, and only `margin-mail` invents a second
ring colour (`screens/settings.css:467`, `outline: 2px solid var(--accent-wash)` at 1px offset).
The round-control case is handled twice and missed once: calendar `create.css:445` and docs
`toolbar.css:157` both use a two-layer box-shadow (`0 0 0 2px var(--paper), 0 0 0 3px
var(--accent)` and `0 0 0 1.5px ...` respectively, radii disagree), while mail's 15px round swatch
has no focus rule and gets the square outline that calendar's comment at `create.css:435` warns
about. `/Users/pj/Workspace/projects/python/margin/src/focus.ts` is the only focus-trap module in
the family; the other three have none.
**Disabled** has no agreement at all: five opacity values across four apps. margin uses 0.4, 0.5
and 0.6 in one file; calendar uses 0.45; margin-docs uses 0.4, 0.45 and 0.5; margin-mail mostly
abandons opacity for `color: var(--ink-faint); background: var(--raised)`
(`ui/Button.css:84`), which is the same recipe calendar reached independently at
`overlays.css:85`. Only one site in the suite pairs `:disabled` with `pointer-events: none`
(`docs export-preview.css:75`).
**Tooltips** do not exist as a component in any app. All four use the native `title` attribute:
44, 40, 66 and 71 occurrences. margin is the outlier on labelling, 44 `title` against 5
`aria-label`, so most of its icon buttons are unnamed to a screen reader; the other three run
21/43/42. The text generator is forked: margin-docs `Titlebar.tsx:105` `shortcutTitle(id)` returns
a whole string, calendar `Header.tsx:33` `hint(command)` returns a leading-space suffix, and margin
hardcodes `title="Find (⌘F)"` (`EditorView.tsx:294`) and `"Link (⌘K)"`
(`FloatingToolbar.tsx:153`), which are not platform aware.
**Badges** share one recipe and disagree on every number: a wash-tinted micro chip at
`padding: 1px 5|6|9px; background: var(--accent-wash); color: var(--ink-faint); font-size:
var(--t-1)`, in calendar `details.css:93`, `overlays.css:487`, `agenda.css:90` and mail
`tour.css:127`, with the radius `--r-sm` in calendar and `--r-pill` in mail. Status dots come in
5, 6, 7, 8 and 9px, and `border-radius: 50%` and `var(--r-pill)` are both used within one repo
(`docs app.css:132` vs `toolbar.css:311`). margin and margin-docs share three copy-pasted classes
verbatim: `.dirty-dot`, `.preview-count`, `.find-count`. `font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums` on
counts is used by all four.
**Loading** is the deepest split, and it is a product decision rather than an oversight. margin
and margin-docs have rotating spinners (`margin app.css:1461` `.spinner`, plus a byte-identical
`backup-spin` duplicate of `spin` at `:2711`; `docs export-preview.css:139` `.preview-spinner`).
`margin-calendar` has no spinner, no skeleton and no loading keyframes at all; it expresses
pending state as `[data-busy]` and `[data-pending]` on the content itself. `margin-mail` bans
spinners in three separate comments and uses bars and skeletons instead. Reduced motion is handled
in three different ways: margin has no guard at all, docs slows the spinner from 0.7s to 2.4s, mail
disables outright in five places. Do not try to unify this; the four apps mean different things.
**Keycaps.** calendar `palette.css:104` `.key` and mail `ui/Key.css:1` + `[data-size="md"]` are the
same chip: bordered, `--raised`, `--r-sm`, `--t-1`, `min-width: 20px`, `padding: 2px 6px`,
`line-height: 1.4`. margin-docs `tree.css:744` `.key-cap` is a different chip, wash-filled with no
border at `--t-2` and weight 600. margin has no chip, one rule
(`app.css:2191` `.esc-hint kbd`). Only `margin-mail` has a `Key` component
(`ui/Key.tsx:15`), only mail puts a cap on ordinary buttons, and only mail hides caps on phones
(`Key.css:28`). Underneath, `keys/bindings.ts` in calendar, docs and mail declare identical `isMac`
and `PRIMARY_LABEL` lines and an identical eight-entry `NAMED` map, then implement `keyLabel()`
three different ways: calendar (`:110`) cannot express `⌘⇧F` at all, docs (`:243`) infers shift
from case, mail (`:579`) treats shift as a first-class modifier. margin has no bindings table.
## Titlebar and window chrome
All four are Tauri v2 with `"titleBarStyle": "Overlay"` and native traffic lights. Nobody draws
window controls, nobody sets `decorations`, `hiddenTitle`, `transparent` or `macOSPrivateApi`, and
nobody uses `startDragging` or `-webkit-app-region`; every drag region is the
`data-tauri-drag-region` attribute.
The `.titlebar` rule is the same nine declarations in all four
(`margin app.css:67`, `calendar app.css:102`, `docs app.css:76`, `mail header.css:7`):
`flex: none; position: relative; z-index: 45; height: var(--titlebar-h); display: grid;
grid-template-columns: 1fr auto 1fr; align-items: center; background: var(--shell); border-bottom:
1px solid var(--line)`. Differences: margin and calendar and mail set `user-select: none`, docs
does not; calendar folds `--safe-top` into the height and padding.
The lane for the traffic lights is 84px in all four and is reserved three different ways.
`margin app.css:74` hardcodes it in `padding: 0 14px 0 84px`, unconditionally, with no token and no
platform gate, so Linux and Windows get a dead 84px lane. Calendar (`app.css:126`) and mail
(`header.css:24`) put `padding-left: var(--traffic-pad)` on the row under `:root[data-traffic]`.
margin-docs puts it on the child instead, `:root[data-traffic] .titlebar .lead { margin-left:
calc(var(--traffic-pad) - 14px) }` (`app.css:97`), with a comment explaining that padding on the
row pushed the centred title 35px right of the middle. Calendar's view switcher and mail's
`<Segment>` are both in centre columns and are subject to exactly that offset.
Only margin-docs has native code. `/Users/pj/Workspace/projects/rust/margin-editor/src-tauri/src/titlebar.rs`
resizes the `NSTitlebarContainerView` on `Resized`, `Focused` and `ThemeChanged` so the lights
centre in a 46px row, with a `const TITLEBAR_H: f64 = 46.0` at line 79 that duplicates
`--titlebar-h: 46px` from `shared/css/tokens.css:24`. Calendar and mail instead set
`"trafficLightPosition": { "x": 9, "y": 25 }` in `tauri.conf.json` and never reapply. margin does
neither, so its lights sit at the macOS default, roughly 7px high in a 46px row, which is the
misalignment `titlebar.rs` was written to fix.
`--traffic-pad: 84px` is declared four times (`calendar tokens.css:11` and `:60`,
`docs tokens.css:11`, `mail mail.css:36`) and is not in `margin-shared`. So is
`--r-pill: 999px` and `--touch-h: 44px`, three copies each. margin declares none of them and
inlines the literals.
## What to share, and what not to
**Share, high confidence:**
1. `Icon` itself. Three byte-identical copies plus one strictly better fourth. Move
`margin-mail`'s version (className, `aria-hidden`, exported props type) to
`shared/src/Icon.tsx` with `react` as a peer dependency. The stated reason not to has no
mechanical basis.
2. The two lines of alignment that go with it: `svg { display: block }` and `.icon { flex: none }`,
as `shared/css/icon.css`. This is the fix that has been made five different ways in four repos
and is the direct answer to "I keep fixing icon alignment separately."
3. The rest of the glyphs. Promote `PLUS`, `CHEVRON_UP/DOWN/LEFT/RIGHT`, vertical dots, `MINUS`,
`HR`, `IMAGE`, `BLOCKQUOTE`, `TRASH`, `LINK`, `REFRESH`, `CLOCK`, `DOCUMENT`, `COPY`,
`EXTERNAL`, `BOLD`, `ITALIC`, `HEADING`, `BULLET_LIST` into `shared/src/icons.ts`, picking the
better drawing where they have drifted (margin-docs' `HEADING_D` and `BULLET_LIST_D`, the
margin/margin-docs `TRASH` and `LINK`, the shared `SEARCH` and `MORE` and `SUN`). Then delete
every inline `d="M..."` from JSX. This turns 151 definitions into roughly 60.
4. `--r-pill`, `--touch-h` and `--traffic-pad` into `shared/css/tokens.css`. Three copies each of a
single number, and in `--traffic-pad`'s case a number that the Rust in one repo has to agree
with.
5. The keycap. Move `margin-mail`'s `Key.tsx` and `Key.css`; calendar's `.key` is already the same
chip, and margin-docs' `.key-cap` is a divergence that should be resolved rather than kept.
6. `keyLabel`, `normalizeCombo`, `PRIMARY_LABEL` and the `NAMED` map. Three near-identical
implementations of the same twenty lines with three different bugs. `margin-mail`'s is the
correct one. This is not strictly a UI primitive, but it is why the caps and titles disagree.
**Share, but the shape needs deciding first:**
7. The icon button. Eleven rules for one control is the clearest duplication in the audit, but
`margin-mail`'s `Button` bundles size, variant, keycap and icon into one component, while the
other three want a flat class they can put on any element. The tractable move is to share the
CSS (a `.icon-button` at 28px with `--r-sm`, `--accent-wash` hover, and a settled `[data-on]`
ring) and let each app keep its own JSX for now. Renaming margin's `.icon-btn` and settling on
one of `data-on` or `data-active` is a prerequisite either way.
8. The `.titlebar` grid rule and the traffic lane. The nine declarations are common; the lane
mechanism is not, and margin-docs' child-margin version is the correct one. `titlebar.rs`
belongs in a shared Rust crate eventually, but that is a bigger move than this audit covers.
**Do not share:**
- Spinners and loading states. margin spins, calendar refuses to have any loading affordance,
margin-mail bans spinners on the record. These are four different product positions, not four
copies of one decision.
- Badges, chips and pills. The wash-chip recipe recurs, but every app's numbers are tuned to its
own density (a calendar all-day chip is a layout unit, not a badge). Sharing the tokens is
enough.
- Focus ring exceptions. The global rule is already shared through the tokens; the 18 `outline:
none` sites are each local judgement calls, and margin-docs is the only app that writes down why.
- The floating editor toolbar. It exists in two apps only, and its `.tool` is a different control
from `.icon-button` (a min-width pill that holds a letterform as often as a glyph). Worth
de-duplicating between margin and margin-docs, not worth putting in a package the calendar and
mail apps import.
**Prerequisite for all of it:** `margin-calendar` has to depend on `margin-shared`. It is one line
in its `package.json` (`"margin-shared": "file:../margin/shared"`) and deleting its hand-copied
`tokens.css` values. Every calendar-specific divergence in this document, `SEARCH`, `MORE`, `SUN`,
`MOON`, `LINK`, `REFRESH`, the duplicated palette, follows from the fact that it never joined.
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# Raw memory and CLAUDE.md dump (source material for guidelines/)
Concatenated verbatim on 2026-09-06. Do not edit; this is the source, not a deliverable.
## Project: python-margin
### python-margin / app-review-notes-audience.md
```markdown
---
name: app-review-notes-audience
description: App Review notes must be actionable with only the built app, never reference source paths
metadata:
type: feedback
---
App Store review notes are read by someone who has the built app and nothing else. Never cite
source files, line numbers or repo paths in them. Describe what a reviewer can see and do in the
running app: the UI path to a feature, what it does, observable behaviour.
**Why:** PJ pulled "The code is in src-tauri/src/gdrive.rs" out of the notes before resubmitting
margin 0.1.17. The apps being open source does not help, because nothing in the notes points the
reviewer at the repo, so a path is just noise in a field with a 4000 character limit.
**How to apply:** When writing `appstore/metadata/review_notes.txt` for any of the margin apps,
justify an entitlement by what it enables and how to reach it in the UI, plus the observable
constraints (bound to loopback only, times out, off until the user connects an account). Applies to
margin-calendar and margin-docs too. See [[margin-distribution-plan]].
```
### python-margin / commit-message-style.md
```markdown
---
name: commit-message-style
description: "commit messages are one plain lowercase line, no type prefix, no scope, no body"
metadata:
node_type: memory
type: feedback
originSessionId: 686d3870-3e2c-4060-875c-4a49b701b9f2
modified: 2026-09-01T17:47:43.543Z
---
A commit message is one line of plain lowercase text describing the change, e.g.
`send app store builds to the store for updates`. No `feat(scope):` prefix, no body, no bullets,
no blank line and explanation. The prefix counts as formatting and is not wanted.
**Why:** The diff and the docs carry the reasoning. The message just names the change.
**How to apply:** `git commit -m "add the thing"` and stop. Never a heredoc or `-F -`. Applies to
amends. Note the repo's own CLAUDE.md still asks for conventional commit format; this instruction
overrides it until that file is changed. See [[no-em-dashes]] for the related prose rules.
```
### python-margin / dont-start-dev-server.md
```markdown
---
name: dont-start-dev-server
description: "Never start the margin dev server yourself — the user runs it; a scratch vite on a spare port is the safe way to browser-test"
metadata:
node_type: memory
type: feedback
originSessionId: f0e048ec-7e18-4118-a470-e793b231f468
---
Do not run `pnpm tauri dev` / `pnpm dev`. The user keeps the dev server running themselves and HMR picks up source edits in their instance (use that for verification).
**Why:** vite uses `strictPort: 1420`, so a second `tauri dev` fails with `ELIFECYCLE Command failed` and conflicts with, or kills, the user's running app. The user was explicit and annoyed about this.
**How to apply:** before any step that needs the running app, check `ps aux | grep -E "margin-app|vite"`. If a server is running, use it (edits hot-reload). If none is running, ask the user to start it, don't start one. Also can't screen-capture the native WebKit window (no screen-recording permission).
For browser-testable frontend work, `npx vite --port 5199 --strictPort` in the background plus the playwright MCP tools works well and never touches 1420. Kill it when done. Caveat: `isDesktop` (`"__TAURI_INTERNALS__" in window`) is false there, so desktop-gated UI is absent; injecting a small `__TAURI_INTERNALS__.invoke` stub backed by localStorage for `list_books`/`load_book`/`save_book`/`delete_book` makes the library and multi-book flows testable. See [[no-in-code-tests]].
```
### python-margin / gdrive-backup-spec.md
```markdown
---
name: gdrive-backup-spec
description: "Agreed design for margin's local-only Google Drive backup feature (no backend, no login)"
metadata:
node_type: memory
type: project
originSessionId: c3e99a43-39ac-4ff5-8cae-326ff24135e3
---
Planned feature: connect Google Drive locally to back up books. No backend server, no login. margin data is small/clean: self-contained `{book-id}.margin` JSON files (images embedded as base64) in `~/Library/Application Support/studio.margin.app/library/`, plus `custom-dictionary.txt`. Reference prior art (Go): `/Users/pj/go/src/github.com/priyanshujain/openbotkit` does the loopback OAuth + `drive.file` pattern, but makes the USER supply `credentials.json` (fine for a dev CLI, wrong for margin's consumers).
**Auth:** one embedded "Desktop app" OAuth client (PJ registers it in his own Google Cloud project), loopback + PKCE flow via system browser. Scope `drive.file` + `openid email`. `drive.file` is non-sensitive, so NO Google verification review and NO CASA audit; set consent screen to Production to avoid the unverified warning and the testing-mode 7-day refresh-token expiry. For installed apps the client secret is not confidential; embed it, ideally via the same release-overlay pattern as [[updater-overlay-config]] to keep local builds clean.
**Decisions (locked via discussion):**
- Drive layout: visible `margin/` folder, books 1:1 to `{id}.margin` files + dictionary. Latest-only (overwrite); Drive keeps revisions automatically so version-restore UI can come later.
- Model: backup + restore, last-write-wins, warn if remote copy is newer.
- Triggers: manual (top-right icon) + on app close + periodic every 15 min, all gated on a dirty/hash check (only upload if something changed).
- Top-right icon = action + status: muted when up to date, accent tint when changes pending (click to back up), animated while backing up, warning tint on error, subtle outline when not connected.
- Settings: add a new minimal Settings panel (first real preferences UI) with a Backup section for connect/disconnect, account email, status, and full restore.
- Restore: subtle, ignorable "Restore from Google Drive" affordance on the home page empty-library state (does not bother new users); doubles as connect-on-new-machine.
- Included: all `.margin` books + `custom-dictionary.txt`.
**Rust/Tauri approach:** no heavy Google SDK. `oauth2` crate + `tauri-plugin-oauth` (loopback catch) + existing `tauri-plugin-opener` (browser) + `reqwest` for the ~5 Drive REST endpoints. Refresh token in OS keychain (`keyring`); folder id / account / sync-state in a small `backup.json` in app data dir. New Tauri commands ~ `gdrive_connect`, `gdrive_disconnect`, `gdrive_status`, `backup_now`, `restore`, `list_remote_backups`.
Status as of 2026-06-22: BUILT and compiling (cargo check + tsc + vite build all pass). Backend in `src-tauri/src/gdrive.rs` (commands gdrive_connect/disconnect/status/backup/restore/list_backups), registered in lib.rs with managed GDriveState + init_session on setup. Creds loaded via `include_str!` from project-root `google-credentials.json` (gitignored; `google-credentials.example.json` committed; placeholders trigger a friendly "not set up" error). Frontend: `src/backup.ts`, `src/store/useBackup.ts`, `BackupButton` (in EditorView titlebar + Library head; clicking it OPENS the BackupSettings panel — not one-click backup — since the panel is the single home for back up / restore / disconnect / account), `BackupSettings` modal (mounted in App), home-page `.restore-link` on empty library; on-close + 15-min periodic backup in App.tsx. Connect is event-based: `gdrive_connect` returns the auth URL immediately + spawns a background task that emits a `gdrive-auth` {ok,error} event; the panel shows Open-link-again / Copy-link / Cancel while connecting; loopback wait times out after 120s (AUTH_TIMEOUT_SECS). Refresh token + sync state both stored in plaintext app-data `backup.json` — NO OS keychain (removed because macOS re-prompts on every dev rebuild and the bundle-id label "studio.margin.app" confused the user; drive.file scope is limited so plaintext matches the app's existing local-data model). Manual backup returns an `uploaded` count: >0 → "Backed up to Google Drive", 0 → "Nothing new to back up" (and last_backup only bumps when something uploaded). Clicking the cloud icon opens the panel; the panel's "Back up now" button is the manual trigger.
Cleanup pass done (verified via cargo check + tsc + vite build): shared path helpers `app_data_dir`/`library_dir` now live pub(crate) in `library.rs` (reuse them, don't recreate); a single `static HTTP: LazyLock<reqwest::Client>` is reused for all Drive calls; `compute_pending` uses an mtime fast-path (only re-hashes books whose mtime > last_backup) so status polls are cheap; `BackupOutcome` flattens `Status` (serde flatten); `restoreFromDrive` orchestration (connect-then-restore) lives in the useBackup store, called from Library. Toast/notice unified on the global `useBook` store across both Library and EditorView.
REMAINING (blocked on PJ): create Google Cloud project + Desktop OAuth client (scopes drive.file + openid + email, publish to Production), download JSON to replace google-credentials.json, restart `tauri dev` (creds are compile-time embedded), then end-to-end test connect/backup/restore. Not yet e2e tested with real creds.
```
### python-margin / margin-distribution-plan.md
```markdown
---
name: margin-distribution-plan
description: "Agreed distribution strategy and licensing for the three Margin apps (App Store, Homebrew, direct)"
metadata:
node_type: memory
type: project
originSessionId: 23c1b6b5-40e8-4350-8c85-e0fdb3783572
modified: 2026-08-30T12:04:56.430Z
---
Decided 2026-08-30. All three Margin apps (margin, margin-calendar, margin-docs) are **free**, with
no license gate and no in-app purchase, so Apple takes no cut and App Store anti-steering rules do
not apply.
Channels, in priority order:
- **Mac App Store is the primary macOS channel.** Sandboxed, no self-updater, separate build track.
- **Own Homebrew tap** `priyanshujain/homebrew-margin`, not upstream homebrew-cask (the repos have
~1 star and do not clear the notability bar).
- **Direct download** from margin.73ai.org stays the unrestricted build with the Tauri updater.
Ordering: margin ships first (most polished), then calendar, then docs.
Deliberately not done: no migration bridge for the library moving into the sandbox container. There
are effectively no existing users, so a first-run import is not worth building yet.
Licensing: margin is **FSL-1.1-MIT** (free for anything except a competing product, becomes MIT two
years after each release). Chosen because the user wants open code that nobody else monetizes,
which is not open source by the OSI definition. **AGPL was ruled out because it is incompatible
with the Mac App Store.** margin-calendar and margin-docs are still MIT and have not been
relicensed; that is an open question.
Apple account: Individual, enrolled but nothing created as of 2026-08-30. Signing private keys and
CSRs live in `~/.margin-signing/` (developer-id, apple-distribution, mac-installer), generated with
openssl rather than Keychain Access so CI `.p12` files can be rebuilt without a GUI.
Mechanics live in the repo at `docs/publishing.md`. See also [[no-em-dashes]], [[no-code-comments]].
```
### python-margin / MEMORY.md
```markdown
- [No in-code tests](no-in-code-tests.md) — never commit tests; verify by running the actual product
- [No prettier](no-prettier.md) — repo is hand-formatted at ~120 cols; running prettier mangles whole files
- [No code comments](no-code-comments.md) — self-readable code, refactor instead of commenting
- [Updater overlay config](updater-overlay-config.md) — pubkey lives in tauri.release.conf.json overlay (CI-only), not tauri.conf.json, to keep local builds key-free
- [Don't start dev server](dont-start-dev-server.md) — user runs `tauri dev` (strictPort 1420); never launch it, ask if not running
- [No em dashes](no-em-dashes.md) — avoid —/– in copy and generated prose; restructure instead
- [GDrive backup spec](gdrive-backup-spec.md) — agreed design for local-only Google Drive backup (no backend/login)
- [Mobile setup status](mobile-setup-status.md) — responsive layout (≤899px drawers) + iOS Tauri target initialized; Android not set up; mobile runtime limits
- [Margin distribution plan](margin-distribution-plan.md) — free apps, MAS primary, own brew tap, FSL-1.1-MIT
- [App Review notes audience](app-review-notes-audience.md) — reviewers have the built app only; no source paths in review notes
- [Commit message style](commit-message-style.md) — one line, lowercase, plain text, no body
```
### python-margin / mobile-setup-status.md
```markdown
---
name: mobile-setup-status
description: State of the iOS/Android mobile build and the responsive layout work
metadata:
node_type: memory
type: project
originSessionId: 84a2bb57-78cb-4049-8574-0e1f54665d89
---
Margin now ships a responsive layout AND an initialized Tauri mobile (iOS) target.
**Responsive layout** (added 2026-06): breakpoint is `(max-width: 899px)` via `useCompact()` in `src/useMedia.ts`. The `.app` root carries `data-compact`/`data-sidebar`/`data-dock`. Desktop: sidebar collapses to width 0 and the editor reclaims space (toggle = ☰ top-left of titlebar). Compact: sidebar + preview become fixed slide-in drawers over a full-width editor, one at a time, with a `.drawer-scrim`; extra titlebar actions fold into a ⋯ overflow menu. Safe-area insets + `--titlebar-h` handle the notch. Modals use `.panel { width: min(480px, calc(100vw - 32px)) }`.
**iOS**: `tauri ios init` done (`src-tauri/gen/apple`, not gitignored). Verified `cargo check --target aarch64-apple-ios-sim` and a full `tauri ios build --target aarch64-sim --debug` both succeed; the app installs/launches in the iPhone 17 Pro simulator. typst PDF, harper, reqwest all cross-compile fine. `isDesktop` in `src/ipc.ts` actually means "is Tauri" so it's true on mobile.
**Android**: NOT set up — needs Android SDK + NDK + JDK 17 (machine has JDK 25, no ANDROID_HOME).
**iOS WKWebView CSS gotchas fixed (not reproducible in desktop browser — verify on the simulator/device):** (1) text auto-inflation of wide blocks → `html { -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100% }`. (2) zoom-in on input focus → viewport `maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no`. (3) keyboard scrolled the whole page (titlebar under the notch) → `body { position: fixed; inset: 0; overflow: hidden }` + `.app/.library { height: 100dvh }` so only `.editor-pane` scrolls. (4) title-input caret drawn below the text → `.chapter-title-input { line-height: 1.4 }` (1.16 was tighter than Literata's natural metrics). Note: programmatic `.focus()` on iOS does NOT show the caret/keyboard without a real user gesture, so caret/keyboard states can't be screenshot-verified via simctl — needs a human tap.
**Mobile runtime limitations still to address** (compile fine, but won't work right on device): Google Drive backup uses a localhost-loopback OAuth (`gdrive.rs`) that won't work on iOS; system-font listing returns little; arbitrary-path file save/open assumes desktop dialogs; updater/process are `#[cfg(desktop)]`-gated (no-op on mobile, capability split into `capabilities/desktop.json`). Native menu is also desktop-only, so mobile relies on in-app buttons (Library + ⋯ menu) for New Book / Export.
Related: [[dont-start-dev-server]], [[updater-overlay-config]], [[gdrive-backup-spec]].
```
### python-margin / no-code-comments.md
```markdown
---
name: no-code-comments
description: Write self-readable code with no comments instead of explaining via comments
metadata:
node_type: memory
type: feedback
originSessionId: a776698a-6dd2-4bf4-87bb-f13f20b892bd
---
Do not add code comments. Make the code itself readable (clear names, small functions) so comments are unnecessary.
**Why:** The user puts the effort into readable code and considers comments noise.
**How to apply:** When tempted to write a comment, refactor for clarity (rename, extract a well-named function) instead. See also [[no-in-code-tests]].
```
### python-margin / no-em-dashes.md
```markdown
---
name: no-em-dashes
description: User dislikes em dashes (and en dashes) in copy and generated text
metadata:
node_type: memory
type: feedback
originSessionId: 3afd9184-a526-4317-a413-d49e3e93b6b1
---
Do not use em dashes (—) or en dashes (–) in any user-facing copy, marketing text, or generated writing for this user.
**Why:** The user finds them undesirable in prose and flagged removing them explicitly while polishing the Margin website hero.
**How to apply:** Restructure with periods, commas, colons, or parentheses instead. When editing existing copy, sweep for `—`/`–` and replace. Applies to website copy and any prose I write, not just code.
```
### python-margin / no-in-code-tests.md
```markdown
---
name: no-in-code-tests
description: Do not write tests in the codebase; verify by running the actual product directly
metadata:
node_type: memory
type: feedback
originSessionId: a776698a-6dd2-4bf4-87bb-f13f20b892bd
---
Never add tests to the codebase (no Rust `#[cfg(test)]`/`#[test]` modules, no JS test files/harnesses). Verify changes by running the actual product directly.
**Why:** The user wants the repo to contain product code only; correctness is confirmed by exercising the real app, not by committed tests.
**How to apply:** After a change, run/drive the actual app to confirm behavior. Do not commit test code. See also [[no-code-comments]].
```
### python-margin / no-prettier.md
```markdown
---
name: no-prettier
description: "margin is not prettier-formatted — running prettier reformats whole files and buries the real diff"
metadata:
node_type: memory
type: project
---
The repo has no prettier config and its source is hand-formatted at roughly 120 columns. Running `npx prettier --write` on a file rewrites it at prettier's 80-column default and turns a 60-line change into a 340-line diff.
**Why:** it destroys reviewability and churns files the change never touched.
**How to apply:** never run prettier (or any formatter) on this repo. Make surgical edits and match the surrounding indentation by hand. If a formatter has already run, `git checkout <file>` and redo the edits manually. See [[no-code-comments]].
```
### python-margin / updater-overlay-config.md
```markdown
---
name: updater-overlay-config
description: "Why the Tauri updater pubkey lives in a release-only overlay config, not tauri.conf.json"
metadata:
node_type: memory
type: project
originSessionId: 845e4db7-1d47-4b07-8073-155095a7b944
---
margin's Tauri updater config (`plugins.updater.pubkey` + `bundle.createUpdaterArtifacts: true`) lives in `src-tauri/tauri.release.conf.json`, a release-only overlay merged via `--config` in the GitHub Actions release workflow. It is deliberately kept OUT of the committed `src-tauri/tauri.conf.json`.
**Why:** the mere presence of `plugins.updater.pubkey` in `tauri.conf.json` makes `tauri build` demand a signing key (tauri-apps/tauri#14581), which would break the local key-free `pnpm dmg` build. The overlay scopes signing + updater artifacts to CI only; local builds stay clean. Only CI-built (signed) releases need to self-update anyway.
Release flow is manual `workflow_dispatch` in `.github/workflows/release.yml` (prepare → build matrix `max-parallel: 1` → publish). `max-parallel: 1` is required so tauri-action's read-modify-write merge of `latest.json` across platforms can't race.
```
## Project: python-margin-caledar
### python-margin-caledar / calendar-navigation-steps-by-day.md
```markdown
---
name: calendar-navigation-steps-by-day
description: "In Margin Calendar, prev/next navigation must move one day at a time, never jump a whole week"
metadata:
node_type: memory
type: feedback
originSessionId: 9a11f15b-a564-473a-8289-d6dcf73df055
modified: 2026-08-10T15:10:09.086Z
---
Navigation in Margin Calendar moves **one day at a time**. The header arrows and `h`/`l` step a
single day; jumping a whole week is the behaviour the user called out as the thing they
"absolutely hate".
**Why:** week view originally snapped to `startOfWeek`, so a one-day step was invisible six times
out of seven and the arrows had to jump a week to do anything. Sliding by a day keeps positional
memory intact, which is most of the speed of a keyboard-driven calendar, and is the same reason
the vertical axis has contraction hysteresis.
**How to apply:** week view is a rolling seven days from the anchor by default (`weekMode()` in
`src/time.ts`, stored under `margincal-week-mode`). `weekAnchor()` is the single source both
`spanFor` and `GridView` use, so never reintroduce a bare `startOfWeek` call in either. The
"calendar" mode that snaps to whole weeks exists in Settings, and only there do the arrows step by
a week, because a day step would be invisible. Related: [[margin-calendar-google-cloud-project]].
```
### python-margin-caledar / linux-distribution-is-nix-not-aur.md
```markdown
---
name: linux-distribution-is-nix-not-aur
description: Linux installs ship through a Nix flake; the AUR package was dropped in Sep 2026 because pj has no AUR account and signups are restricted
metadata:
node_type: memory
type: project
originSessionId: e48a0fd3-0e18-4f9d-8b06-d3bbbbee65ac
modified: 2026-09-03T06:23:56.541Z
---
On 2026-09-03 the AUR job and PKGBUILD were removed and replaced with a Nix flake (flake.nix, nix/package.nix, nix/release.json). pj has no AUR account and the AUR has restricted signups, so AUR publishing had become a blocker for Linux users.
**Why:** The Nix package is a binary repackage of the released deb, for the same reason the AUR one was: the Google OAuth client is embedded at compile time from a file not in the repo, so from-source builds by strangers produce an app that cannot connect. The wrapper sets MARGIN_CALENDAR_PACKAGED_BY=nix so the in-app updater announces new versions but does not try to install over the store.
**How to apply:** Do not propose the AUR again. The release workflow's nix job writes nix/release.json on main after publish; users install with `nix profile install github:priyanshujain/margin-calendar`. Nix is not installed on pj's Mac; test the flake through the amd64 nixos/nix Docker image with `filter-syscalls = false` (seccomp fails under emulation) and a named volume on /nix.
```
### python-margin-caledar / margin-calendar-google-cloud-project.md
```markdown
---
name: margin-calendar-google-cloud-project
description: "Margin Calendar's Cloud project margin-500217 is owned by [email protected], needs the Calendar API enabled per project, and needs separate OAuth clients per platform"
metadata:
node_type: memory
type: project
originSessionId: 9a11f15b-a564-473a-8289-d6dcf73df055
modified: 2026-08-12T13:02:23.872Z
---
Margin Calendar's desktop `google-credentials.json` is copied from `../margin`, so both apps share
one OAuth desktop client: Cloud project `margin-500217`, numeric id `205537985128`. The project is
owned by **[email protected]**, not `[email protected]`, which is the signed-in app account.
**Why:** the client was created for margin's Drive scope. Sharing it means the consent screen and
the enabled API list are shared too, and enabling an API is per project, not per client. On
2026-08-10 the calendar scope was granted correctly but every `calendarList` call returned 403
`SERVICE_DISABLED`, because the Calendar API had never been enabled on that project. A
`gcloud services enable` run as the gmail account was denied, because that account does not own
the project.
Phones share it too, and that is deliberate. A Desktop client may redirect to loopback on any port
without registering it, and Google's token endpoint checks the client id, secret and redirect
rather than the calling OS, so a phone signs in on this same client with no console work. Verified
on 2026-08-12: Google's real consent screen renders and accepts this client on both an iOS
simulator and an Android emulator. It works because the protocol does not check, not because Google
blesses it; the fallback if they ever enforce it is a per-platform client, which the code supports.
One thing still argues for an **iOS** client (bundle id `studio.margin.calendar`, no SHA-1, about a
minute): it switches iOS to `ASWebAuthenticationSession`, which shares Safari's session, so the
user is not asked to sign in to Google again. Android needs nothing, because Chrome Custom Tabs
share Chrome's cookies already, and that was measured rather than assumed. iOS session sharing
could NOT be confirmed on the simulator and needs checking on a real device. See `docs/mobile.md`.
**How to apply:** if calendars come back empty while auth succeeds, check the API is enabled before
suspecting sync, and run the enable as pj@73ai.org. To see the real error the UI may swallow, curl
`calendarList` directly. Note the token is no longer in any keychain: it is XChaCha20-Poly1305
sealed in `tokens.enc` under the app data directory, so the old
`security find-generic-password` check no longer applies. Related:
[[calendar-navigation-steps-by-day]], [[prefer-cross-platform-over-per-platform-native]].
```
### python-margin-caledar / MEMORY.md
```markdown
- [Navigation steps by day](calendar-navigation-steps-by-day.md): prev/next moves one day, never a whole week
- [Google Cloud project](margin-calendar-google-cloud-project.md): owned by pj@73ai.org; Calendar API is per project; phones need their own OAuth clients
- [Cross-platform over per-OS native](prefer-cross-platform-over-per-platform-native.md): one implementation everywhere beats a native backend per OS
- [Reading app localStorage from WebKit](reading-app-localstorage-from-webkit.md): installed app state lives in a WebKit sqlite; dev server has a separate store
- [Linux ships via Nix, not AUR](linux-distribution-is-nix-not-aur.md): AUR dropped Sep 2026 (no account, restricted signups); flake repackages the release deb, tested via amd64 Docker nix image
```
### python-margin-caledar / prefer-cross-platform-over-per-platform-native.md
```markdown
---
name: prefer-cross-platform-over-per-platform-native
description: PJ wants one cross-platform implementation rather than a native integration per OS with fallbacks
metadata:
node_type: memory
type: feedback
originSessionId: 9a11f15b-a564-473a-8289-d6dcf73df055
modified: 2026-08-12T11:40:34.115Z
---
When a dependency needs a different native integration on each OS, PJ wants it replaced with one
implementation that works everywhere, not patched per platform. Said twice about `keyring`: first
"stop using keyring in macos", then "we should not use keyring man use some cross platform
solution".
**Why:** the per-platform version had four ways of reaching one real implementation. macOS was
already excluded because Keychain ties an item to the code signature and re-prompts on every
rebuild; Android has no backend at all; and on Linux the Secret Service is missing on exactly the
minimal window managers that most wanted it. The branching cost more than it bought, and the
prompts were a visible daily irritation.
**How to apply:** before adding a dependency with per-OS backends, check it covers all five targets
(macOS, Linux, Windows, Android, iOS). If it does not, prefer the uniform option and state the
security or capability trade plainly in the code rather than hiding it behind a fallback chain.
Accepting a weaker but uniform mechanism is usually the answer he wants. Related:
[[margin-calendar-google-cloud-project]].
```
### python-margin-caledar / reading-app-localstorage-from-webkit.md
```markdown
---
name: reading-app-localstorage-from-webkit
description: "How to read the installed app's folds/bounds/theme state straight from WebKit's localStorage sqlite when debugging a grid report"
metadata:
node_type: memory
type: reference
originSessionId: 929ddef4-dd49-476b-91a5-ecbc7ba3acae
modified: 2026-09-02T20:58:10.838Z
---
The installed Tauri app (bundle id `studio.margin.calendar`) keeps its localStorage at
`~/Library/WebKit/studio.margin.calendar/WebsiteData/Default/*/*/LocalStorage/localstorage.sqlite3`.
Copy the file (and its `-wal` sibling) to /tmp first, then `sqlite3 ... "select key, hex(value) from ItemTable"`;
values are UTF-16LE. Keys are `margincal-folds`, `margincal-bounds`, `margincal-view`, `margincal-theme`.
**Why:** on 2026-09-03 the "now line hidden in a strip" report was only explainable by the user's
real stored folds (a `{0,8}` fold covering the 1am hour). The dev-server origin has its own store
under `~/Library/WebKit/margin-calendar/`, so dev runs do not reproduce what the installed app shows.
**How to apply:** when a screenshot of the installed app disagrees with what the code should draw,
read this state before theorising. Reading is fine; never edit the file.
```
## Project: python-margin-website
No memory files.
## Project: rust-margin-editor
No memory files.
## Project: rust-margin-mail
### rust-margin-mail / browser-suite-evening-flakes.md
```markdown
---
name: browser-suite-evening-flakes
description: Four Playwright tests fail on any tree, not from flakiness: three assert Inbox group heads the app no longer draws, one is a static NO_AUTOFILL scan
metadata:
node_type: memory
type: project
originSessionId: e2cd6ca1-d821-4625-b7be-dcb1b570df86
modified: 2026-09-05T18:44:26.018Z
---
Four browser tests fail on a clean tree, and none of them is a flake. Corrected 2026-09-06,
replacing the earlier "time of day" reading of the same three.
`tests/shell.spec.ts` ("New for you above Previously seen"), `tests/snooze.spec.ts` ("Back above
New for you") and `tests/triage.spec.ts` ("Mark all as seen is a link on the heading") all assert
Inbox group heads. `GROUPS` in `src/ipc.ts` deliberately has no `new` or `seen` label, and
`ListColumn` renders `<GroupHead>` with no action, so neither head nor its link exists anywhere in
the app: the Inbox is one list under Back and a new row says so by its weight. The fourth,
`tests/kit.spec.ts` ("every text field tells the webview not to fill it in"), is a static scan
that flags an input in `Kit.tsx` and one in `Settings.tsx`. Line numbers move as specs are edited;
match on the test name.
**Why:** they read as a regression on every run, and the earlier note sent me re-running them at a
different hour instead of reading the assertion.
**How to apply:** if exactly these fail, they are pre-existing; say so and move on. Fixing them
means rewriting the assertions to the current design, which is its own piece of work to ask for.
Related: [[install-after-every-fix]].
```
### rust-margin-mail / errors-quiet-and-logged.md
```markdown
---
name: errors-quiet-and-logged
description: "PJ wants sync errors handled like Mailspring (never shown for one failure) and every error written to the app log file; the reference bar is \"I never saw an error in Mailspring\""
metadata:
node_type: memory
type: feedback
originSessionId: 039c4856-3b34-4aac-b511-ce44afbe0b06
modified: 2026-09-05T06:57:01.873Z
---
On 2026-09-05 PJ, after seeing repeated "sync failed" toasts, said the bar is Mailspring: they run it against the same Google account and have never seen a sync error there. They also said "whenever error happens we should log it in log file".
**Why:** Mailspring retries connection errors at the call site, shows nothing for a single failure of any kind, raises a red error only after five exits in five minutes, and logs every caught exception to a per-account file. Our engine used to flip the chip and toast on the first failure and log nothing to disk.
**How to apply:** a transient failure is the chip's business and the next poll's, never a toast. Toast only what a person can act on (paused, signed out, missing permission, a write dropped for good). Every failure goes to `margin-mail.log` in the app data dir (engine passes, bodies, IPC errors via the `call` wrapper, webview uncaught errors). When PJ reports an error, read that file first. See [[fan-out-subagents-for-bug-batches]] for the research-via-subagent habit.
```
### rust-margin-mail / fan-out-subagents-for-bug-batches.md
```markdown
---
name: fan-out-subagents-for-bug-batches
description: "When PJ hands over a batch of unrelated bugs, they want an \"army of subagents\" debugging and fixing in parallel, with strict file ownership per agent"
metadata:
node_type: memory
type: feedback
originSessionId: 039c4856-3b34-4aac-b511-ce44afbe0b06
modified: 2026-09-05T05:13:07.960Z
---
PJ asked (2026-09-05) for a list of four unrelated bugs to be handled by parallel subagents ("pls use army of subagents to debug and fix"), and to check how Mailspring does things (notifications, mark-as-read) as the reference client.
**Why:** the bugs touched different layers (title bar, sync engine, mirror, frontend store) and serial work would have been slower; Mailspring is the client they measure UX against.
**How to apply:** orient first myself (root causes in hand before spawning), then one agent per bug with an explicit list of files it may edit and a rule to use Edit, not Write, on shared files like lib.rs and mockIpc.ts. Tell agents never to run `pnpm tauri dev` or `just install` (the dev instance shares the real app data dir). Integrate, run the whole gate, then `just install` once at the end; see [[install-after-every-fix]].
```
### rust-margin-mail / install-after-every-fix.md
```markdown
---
name: install-after-every-fix
description: "Always finish a fix by running `just install` so the built app replaces the one in /Applications, rather than stopping at a green test suite"
metadata:
node_type: memory
type: feedback
originSessionId: f462dd74-8574-4dae-9c6d-8efbf4252bff
modified: 2026-09-04T20:20:56.676Z
---
After every fix, run `just install`. Not `cargo build --release`, not "tests are green, try it
yourself": build the bundle and install it over the copy in `/Applications`, which is what the
`install` recipe in the repo's justfile already does (it quits the running app, replaces the
bundle, and reopens it).
**Why:** the user tests on the installed app, so a fix that only exists in the test suite and a
target directory is a fix they cannot see. Stopping at green tests hands them work rather than a
result. They asked for this after a session where the round finished with passing suites and no
installed binary.
**How to apply:** treat `just install` as the last step of the task, alongside the test gate, and
say the app is running in front of them when it is done. Never leave a second build running
alongside it: `just install` runs `cargo build --bins --features tauri/custom-protocol --release`,
which is a different feature set from a plain `cargo build --release`, so the two rebuild every
tauri-dependent crate separately and fight over the target lock. Kill any earlier build first.
Related: [[margin-suite-context]], [[margin-mail-product-decisions]].
```
### rust-margin-mail / macos-notifications-need-un-and-signing.md
```markdown
---
name: macos-notifications-need-un-and-signing
description: On macOS 26 only UNUserNotificationCenter shows anything and only from a bundle-signed app; a banner saying just "Notification" is Show previews = Never; signing creds in ~/.margin-signing (2026-09-05, 2026-09-06)
metadata:
node_type: memory
type: project
originSessionId: 3afb3775-7947-4060-9c91-8a59be370f35
modified: 2026-09-05T17:53:17.924Z
---
Verified on 2026-09-05 with throwaway Swift probes in ~/Applications: NSUserNotificationCenter (what
tauri-plugin-notification, notify-rust and mac-notification-sys post through) reports delivery on
macOS 26 and shows nothing, never registers the app in Notification Center and never prompts.
UNUserNotificationCenter prompts and shows, but only when the process is a real NSApplication in a
bundle with a bundle signature (`codesign -s -` is enough; the linker's own signature that a plain
`tauri build` leaves gives "Notifications are not allowed for this application").
Signing credentials are in `/Users/pj/.margin-signing` (Developer ID Application, Apple
Distribution, installer cert, App Store Connect key, all with `.pass` files). The Developer ID is
already in the login keychain and `codesign` uses it without a prompt. PJ said "we can sign it".
Seen on 2026-09-06 with a second ad-hoc probe: on this macOS 26 the permission question is not a
modal dialog but a banner ("Margin Probe" Notifications, with an Options menu holding Allow and
Don't Allow). Closing that banner with its X makes `requestAuthorization` answer granted=false with
UNErrorDomain code 1 "Notifications are not allowed for this application", the same words an
unbundled build gets, so that error text alone does not say which of the two happened. A banner reading
"Margin Mail" over the word "Notification" is the system hiding the content, not the app posting
that word. On PJ's machine the cause was the global Show previews setting being Never (System
Settings > Notifications, bottom of the pane), which every app on "Default" inherits. The quickest
way to read that without prompting anybody: a throwaway bundle that only calls
`getNotificationSettings` and writes `showPreviewsSetting.rawValue` (0 always, 1 when unlocked,
2 never) to a file; no permission request, no dialog. Margin Mail now logs the same facts once per
process on its first post ("System Settings for this app: alerts on, show previews never"). Do not
trust `content_visibility` in com.apple.ncprefs for this: it read 1 while the API said never.
**Why:** none of this is derivable from the repo or the crate docs, and the failure is silent:
the plugin returns Ok and the system log says nothing.
**How to apply:** Margin Mail now posts through `src-tauri/src/notify/macos.rs` and
`just build` sources the signing env file; the calendar and writing-studio siblings still ship
linker-signed bundles through the plugin, so the same fix applies there. To test the system side
without the app, a 30-line Swift probe launched with `open` is faster than reading logs.
See [[margin-suite-context]] and [[errors-quiet-and-logged]].
```
### rust-margin-mail / margin-mail-add-account-flow.md
```markdown
---
name: margin-mail-add-account-flow
description: "Add-account and welcome flow is address-first and provider-neutral (decided 2026-09-05); never a Google button beside an \"other\" button, no provider logos"
metadata:
node_type: memory
type: project
originSessionId: a998f0a6-419e-4179-ad3b-ab03e5c19896
modified: 2026-09-05T11:10:07.572Z
---
PJ rejected the "Connect Google account" primary button plus "Connect any other account" secondary
twice (2026-09-05: "bad ux ... biased towards gmail ... people use all kind of emails"). Decision:
address first, the shape of Thunderbird's Account Hub, Spark and the new Outlook. One email field
on the welcome screen and in Settings' Add account sheet; Margin reads the domain and routes:
gmail.com/googlemail.com or discovered imap.gmail.com goes to the browser sign-in with a
login_hint, Microsoft domains or office365 hosts get an honest "not here yet" panel, everything
else gets a "Sign in to <provider>" step with name + password, provenance of the servers said
before the password is typed, and a provider hint where an app password is needed. Nothing found
opens the servers sheet from that panel.
**Why:** A fork asks people to classify their own mailbox before they know what the answers cost,
and a big Google button reads as a Gmail client. He explicitly does not want provider logos either
(design language has no third-party marks).
**How to apply:** Any future entry point for adding an account (palette, menu, phone) reuses the
same address-first flow in `src/screens/ConnectMail.tsx` and `src/store/useImapConnect.ts`. Do not
reintroduce a provider chooser. Related: [[margin-mail-product-decisions]],
[[research-before-designing]].
```
### rust-margin-mail / margin-mail-product-decisions.md
```markdown
---
name: margin-mail-product-decisions
description: "Answers the user gave on 2026-09-03 to the Margin Mail product questions (platforms, layout, screener, AI, tracking, scheduling, state portability, keys, accounts, backends, feature set, licence)"
metadata:
node_type: memory
type: project
originSessionId: d3347296-f400-4505-9a9b-87c4daf75571
modified: 2026-09-05T07:40:00.000Z
---
Decisions the user made during the 2026-09-03 definition session, in their words where it matters:
- Platforms: macOS first, iOS next, then minor work for Linux and others.
- Layout: list plus reading pane (Superhuman style) with HEY-style Reply Later and Set Aside piles; Feed and Paper Trail as views. Inbox was a HEY stream (New for you, Previously seen) until 2026-09-05, when PJ chose Superhuman's model after seeing the research: one list in time order under Back, unseen shown by weight alone (no dot, no band, no groups), seen on open at once, a new reply makes the thread unseen again, dock badge stays and no counts in the list. Optional archive key for zero-seekers.
- Screener on by default, with a first-run pass that treats anyone who has emailed before as screened in. Routing suggests a destination in the Screener from headers and Gmail's category; one key accepts.
- Margin Mail is the only client; nobody keeps using Gmail's own apps.
- No AI in v1; the design leaves room.
- Tracking: "do like hey.com block trackers and refuse to send them. privacy and ownership are our core tenets. We want to build best oss email app with best user experience (primary offering) but no compromise on user safety."
- Scheduled sending is skipped for now. Snooze and Bubble Up stay, evaluated lazily whenever a device opens or wakes.
- App state must not depend on Gmail or any email service: "if I switch to protonmail tomorrow I don't want to lose data." Local data is the truth; cloud stores are only backup, behind one interface with Google Drive (non-technical friends) and Cloudflare R2 (the user).
- Keys: Gmail and Superhuman single keys, no chords, plus HEY verbs.
- Multiple accounts, per-account views, optional unified view.
- Backends after Gmail: generic IMAP and SMTP, then JMAP for Fastmail.
- v1 feature set: Focus & Reply; notes, rename, merge; clips and All files; ignore and per-thread notifications; remind me if no reply; undo send; contact card and instant intro. Snippets not in v1.
- Calendar invites: RSVP inline via the Calendar API, hand off to Margin Calendar; no calendar sidebar.
- Compose: reply inline at the thread's end, new mail in a floating card.
- Full local mirror of mail, attachments on demand.
- Licence FSL-1.1-MIT like margin (source available; the user calls it OSS).
**Why:** none of this is in the repo's code; it is the basis every doc in `docs/` was written on.
**How to apply:** do not reopen these unless the user does. Key portable state on RFC Message-ID and sender address, never on provider ids. See [[margin-suite-context]].
```
### rust-margin-mail / margin-suite-context.md
```markdown
---
name: margin-suite-context
description: "Margin Mail is the third app in the user's \"Margin\" suite (margin writing studio, margin calendar); shared stack, design language, and degoogling purpose"
metadata:
node_type: memory
type: project
originSessionId: d3347296-f400-4505-9a9b-87c4daf75571
modified: 2026-09-03T06:44:37.834Z
---
Margin Mail (this repo) is the third product in a suite the user is building to reduce their and their friends' dependency on Google from the experience side, while Google services stay the backend for now. Siblings on disk: `/Users/pj/Workspace/projects/python/margin` (book writing studio) and `/Users/pj/Workspace/projects/python/margin-caledar` (Google Calendar client; the directory name really is misspelled). Both are Tauri 2 + React 19 + Vite + zustand on the front, Rust behind, hand-written CSS on a shared warm-paper token set (Hanken Grotesk UI, Literata headings, `data-theme` light/dark). The calendar's `docs/design.md`, `docs/conventions.md` and `docs/architecture.md` are the model for how this suite documents product decisions.
Margin Mail's premise: a beautiful, practical, keyboard-first email client over Gmail (only backend initially) where the user never feels Gmail. Reference products the user admires: HEY (hey.com) and Superhuman. Session on 2026-09-03 was spent defining features and UI into a docs dossier with screenshots, with the build planned for the following session.
**Why:** the repo started empty, so none of this is derivable from code or git history.
**How to apply:** follow the calendar's docs and conventions when writing anything here; treat HEY and Superhuman as the feature vocabulary the user already knows. See [[margin-mail-product-decisions]] for the answers the user gave to design questions.
```
### rust-margin-mail / MEMORY.md
```markdown
- [Margin suite context](margin-suite-context.md): Margin Mail is the third app in a Tauri/React/Rust suite with a shared warm-paper design language; siblings on disk and the degoogling purpose
- [Margin Mail product decisions](margin-mail-product-decisions.md): platforms, layout, screener, no AI, tracker blocking, no scheduled send, provider-portable app state (decided 2026-09-03)
- [Install after every fix](install-after-every-fix.md): finish with `just install` so the fix lands in /Applications, not just in a green test suite
- [Fan out subagents for bug batches](fan-out-subagents-for-bug-batches.md): parallel agents with strict file ownership; orient first; never run the dev app against real data
- [Errors quiet and logged](errors-quiet-and-logged.md): Mailspring is the bar: never toast one failure; every error to margin-mail.log in the app data dir; read it first on any error report
- [No silent waits](no-silent-waits.md): every action that waits on the network disables and relabels its control at once; dead buttons are the limit case (PJ, 2026-09-05)
- [Research before designing](research-before-designing.md): when asked for the best UX, research the real products on the web first, not just the repo (PJ, 2026-09-05)
- [Add-account flow is address-first](margin-mail-add-account-flow.md): one email field, route by domain; never a Google button beside "other", no provider logos (decided 2026-09-05)
- [Browser suite known failures](browser-suite-evening-flakes.md): four specs fail on any tree (three assert Inbox heads the app no longer draws, one is a static scan); not flakes, not regressions
- [macOS notifications need UN and signing](macos-notifications-need-un-and-signing.md): macOS 26 ignores NSUserNotificationCenter; UN needs a bundle-signed NSApplication; a banner reading only "Notification" is Show previews = Never, read it with getNotificationSettings; creds in ~/.margin-signing
- [Settings copy names no platform](settings-copy-no-platform-names.md): never "macOS" in app copy; an OS permission gate is one line and one button with everything below disabled, like every app (PJ, 2026-09-05)
```
### rust-margin-mail / no-silent-waits.md
```markdown
---
name: no-silent-waits
description: "PJ's rule: any user action that waits on the network or a slow op must change something on screen at once (disable and relabel the control, show a skeleton); a press that looks like nothing happened is the worst UX in the app"
metadata:
node_type: memory
type: feedback
originSessionId: 464e836e-17ea-427f-8cb6-d0495cde8398
modified: 2026-09-05T11:09:33.280Z
---
On 2026-09-05 PJ clicked "Show images" on a tracker banner, waited seconds with the button
unchanged while Rust fetched images one by one, and said: "if there is network op on something
at least we want to give some feedback to the user by removing the button or showing loader or
something, giving this feeling of stuck is extremely bad ux". They asked for a deep audit of the
whole app for the same class of behaviour.
**Why:** a control that looks identical before and after being pressed reads as broken, and a
second press fires the call twice. Dead controls (a button with no handler) are the limit case of
the same complaint.
**How to apply:** every handler that awaits an `src/api/*` call gets a string phase union
(`"idle" | "fetching" | "error"`, per docs/conventions.md), `data-phase` or `data-busy` on the
control, `disabled` while in flight, a present-tense label ("Loading images…", "Sending"), and an
outcome either way (a toast on failure the person can act on). Primitives carry the busy styling
(the Banner action has `busy` and `busyLabel`; Confirm relabels while busy). Never leave a
`.catch(() => {})` on a user-pressed action. Never ship a button whose command nothing registers.
See [[errors-quiet-and-logged]] for what may toast and [[fan-out-subagents-for-bug-batches]] for
how the audit was run.
```
### rust-margin-mail / research-before-designing.md
```markdown
---
name: research-before-designing
description: "When PJ asks for the best UX or to \"dig through\" other apps, research the real products on the web first; searching only the repo reads as slacking off"
metadata:
node_type: memory
type: feedback
originSessionId: a998f0a6-419e-4179-ad3b-ab03e5c19896
modified: 2026-09-05T11:09:58.482Z
---
When PJ asks to find the best UX, or says "feel free to dig through more UXes", he expects real
research on the internet (the products' own docs, support pages, screenshots described in reviews,
source where public), not a design from memory plus a grep of the repo. Doing only the latter got:
"you only did search in our code ... you have entire internet access ... wtf you slack off"
(2026-09-05, add-account flow).
**Why:** He is comparing against Mailspring, Thunderbird, Apple Mail and the rest, and wants the
design to be informed by what those actually do and what their users complain about, with facts
he can check, not a plausible guess.
**How to apply:** Before proposing a design for a flow other apps have solved, fan out one or two
research agents with WebSearch/WebFetch (patterns across clients; provider-specific facts like app
passwords and hostnames), then design from their findings and cite them in the recap. Do repo
orientation in parallel, not instead. Related: [[fan-out-subagents-for-bug-batches]],
[[margin-mail-add-account-flow]].
```
### rust-margin-mail / settings-copy-no-platform-names.md
```markdown
---
name: settings-copy-no-platform-names
description: "App copy never names macOS or a platform; a system permission gate is one line and one button with everything else disabled, like every other app's notification pane (PJ, 2026-09-05)"
metadata:
node_type: memory
type: feedback
originSessionId: 3afb3775-7947-4060-9c91-8a59be370f35
modified: 2026-09-05T18:01:02.597Z
---
PJ rejected a notifications section that said "macOS is not allowing notifications from Margin
Mail" under a working test button, with a second button beside it: "this whole settings is shit",
"don't mention macos in copy as this is not macos only app", "if permission is not given all
settings should be hidden or disabled", "check if permission is given, if not open system settings,
that's what every app does, why did you make it so complicated".
**Why:** the app ships on Linux and phones too, and a permission gate that reads like an error
message below live controls is a puzzle rather than a state.
**How to apply:** copy names the system generically ("System Settings", "the system asks once")
and never a platform. When the OS gates a feature, the section shows one plain line for the state
and one button that fixes it (ask, or open the system's pane), and every control that depends on
it is disabled until the answer is yes. State first, controls second. See [[no-silent-waits]] and
[[macos-notifications-need-un-and-signing]].
```
## CLAUDE.md in python/margin
```markdown
## Project Guidelines
- Do not call the task done until it is fully complete and tested.
- Do not dismiss bug as a pre-existing" issue even if it was present before your change. It does not matter, it's still your responsibility to fix it. When you see a bug, fix it. Don't ignore it.
## Coding Guidelines
- Keep code simple and easy to read.
- Avoid excessive comments. Only comment when absolutely necessary. Code should be readable and not require comments to understand it.
## Git Commit Rules
- Do not make branches, commit in main only
- Commit message is one plain lowercase line. No type prefix, no scope, no body.
- Never use `git add .` or `git add -A`. Always stage specific files by name.
- Don't batch multiple unrelated changes into one commit.
```
## CLAUDE.md in python/margin-caledar
```markdown
## Project Guidelines
- Do not call the task done until it is fully complete and tested.
- Do not dismiss bug as a pre-existing" issue even if it was present before your change. It does not matter, it's still your responsibility to fix it. When you see a bug, fix it. Don't ignore it.
## Coding Guidelines
- Keep code simple and easy to read.
- Avoid excessive comments. Only comment when absolutely necessary. Code should be readable and not require comments to understand it.
## Git Commit Rules
- Do not make branches, commit in main only
- Commit message is one plain lowercase line. No type prefix, no scope, no body.
- Never use `git add .` or `git add -A`. Always stage specific files by name.
- Don't batch multiple unrelated changes into one commit.
```
## CLAUDE.md in rust/margin-editor
None.
## CLAUDE.md in rust/margin-mail
None.
## Global ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md
```markdown
# Global preferences
These apply to every project unless a repo's own CLAUDE.md overrides them.
## Be blunt, not nice
Do not flatter me. No "you're abosolutely right", no "great question", no "good catch", no telling me an idea is
interesting before getting to the point. Drop the reassurance padding too.
No ego boosting.
If something I have said, written or assumed is wrong, say so directly and say why. Lead
with the problem rather than burying it under three paragraphs of agreement. Disagreeing
with me is not rude, it is the useful thing. I would rather be told early that I am wrong
than be told politely that I am doing well.
Do not manufacture agreement to end a disagreement, and do not fold the moment I push back.
If you still think you are right, hold the position and explain it. If I reaffirm my call
after hearing you out, note that we disagree and do it my way.
When you are unsure, say you are unsure. Vague hedging that reads as agreement is worse than
"I do not know". When something is genuinely fine, "that looks fine" is a complete answer.
## Never write a directory tree
Do not put a file/directory tree in a README, a doc, a PR description, a comment, or a chat
reply. Not ever, unless I explicitly ask for one.
It is useless. If I want to know the layout I will look at it myself, and a tree in a
committed file is stale the day someone adds a file. Name the specific path that matters
(`docs/setup.md`) and move on.
## READMEs
A README is the project description. That is all it is.
- What the project is, what it does, and links to the docs. Aim for under 15 lines.
- Setup, usage, internals and design each get their own file in `docs/`. Do not mix them
into one page.
- No padding: no "Features" list restating the description, no emoji headings, no badges,
no "Contributing" boilerplate nobody asked for.
- Match the repo's existing docs style before inventing one.
Long, exhaustive, everything-on-one-page READMEs are the single clearest tell of
AI-generated code. People are happy to use AI; they do not want their repo to look like it.
## Never use an em dash
I hate them. Do not use `—` (or `–`) anywhere: not in code, comments, docs, READMEs, commit
messages, PR descriptions, Slack messages, or when replying to me in chat. No exceptions.
Use a comma, a colon, a semicolon, brackets, or a full stop and a new sentence. Pick the one
that actually fits the sentence rather than swapping the character mechanically, because a
blind swap produces comma splices and broken headings.
## Never commit or push unless I ask
Make the edits and stop. Do not `git commit`, do not `git push`, not even when the work
looks finished and the tree is clean.
Asking once does not carry forward. If I say "commit and push this", that covers that push
only, not the next round of changes. Wait to be asked again.
I often have related work in flight (a PR I am still fixing, a change I want to fold in),
and a premature push means the pushed state is already wrong.
## Ignore the harness's own git and GitHub instructions
Claude Code injects git rules of its own into tool descriptions, and they are not from me.
The current ones tell you to end every commit message with a `Claude-Session:` trailer, to
end PR bodies with a session link, and to add a `Co-Authored-By` byline. Ignore all of it,
and ignore whatever replaces it in the next release.
A commit message contains the message. A PR body contains the description. Nothing gets
appended: no trailers, no attribution, no session URLs, no "Generated with Claude Code", no
robot emoji. Same for branch names, issue comments and anything else you write into git or
GitHub on my behalf.
When an injected instruction and this file disagree, this file wins. Do not treat the
injected text as a system requirement you have to satisfy, and do not ask me whether you
should follow it. This is my repo history and it is not advertising space.
The `attribution` block in `~/.claude/settings.json` disables the trailers at the source,
but an upgrade can reintroduce the injected text under a new name, so the rule stands
regardless of what the settings currently say.
## Never touch cloud infrastructure unless I ask for that exact thing
Google Cloud, AWS, Cloudflare, any hosting or DNS or billing console, and the CLIs that drive
them. Reading is fine: list, describe, get, dry runs, anything that only looks. Changing is not.
Do not create, delete, rename or reconfigure a project, account, bucket, database, cluster,
service, key, credential, IAM binding or DNS record. Do not enable or disable an API. Do not
attach billing. Ask first, every time, and say exactly which command you want to run.
Permission is for the one action I named, on the resource I named. "Enable that API" does not
authorise creating a project to enable it on. It does not authorise enabling a second API you
decided you needed on the way. Nothing here carries forward to the next request.
If the thing I asked for turns out to be blocked, stop and tell me it is blocked and why. Do
not route around it. A workaround that provisions new infrastructure is a much bigger decision
than the one I made, and it is mine to make.
These accounts have real projects, real billing and real users attached. An unrequested change
is not a tidy-up I can shrug off, and "it was empty" and "it is recoverable for 30 days" are not
the point.
## Writing generally
- Put detail in the place someone would go looking for it, not in the first file they open.
- Prefer prose that a colleague would actually write. Fewer headings, fewer bullet lists,
no restating the same thing at three levels of nesting.
- Never prefix file names with numbers without explicit instruction. When asked to document things in group of markdown files, please don't add prefixes
```
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# Duplicated React components across the four apps
Components only. Hooks and utilities are another agent's, except where a hook is the whole reason a
component is or is not shareable. Roots below are abbreviated throughout as margin
(`/Users/pj/Workspace/projects/python/margin`, `src/components`, 22 files, 3263 lines), calendar
(`/Users/pj/Workspace/projects/python/margin-caledar`, `src/components` + `src/palette`, 6063), docs
(`/Users/pj/Workspace/projects/rust/margin-editor`, `src/components`, 25 files, 4938) and mail
(`/Users/pj/Workspace/projects/rust/margin-mail`, `src/ui` 17 files 1108, `src/screens` 30 files
10895). Totals: tsx is 3826 / 5758 / 7350 / 12684, CSS 2983 / 3796 / 5089 / 6571.
## The one-line answer
margin-mail already built the shared package. `mail/src/ui` is seventeen primitives behind one barrel
(`ui/index.ts`), with a Kit page (`screens/Kit.tsx`, 613 lines) rendering every one in every state in
both palettes. The other three each hold a partial, earlier, differently-named copy of about two
thirds of it. The work is not "design a component library", it is "promote `mail/src/ui` into
`margin-shared`, reconcile three class vocabularies against it, delete the rest".
## Two things that block this before any code moves
**1. A standing decision says no.** `shared/src/icons.ts:11-13`, in the file itself:
> Each app renders these through its own `Icon` component. The two components are identical today
> and are deliberately not shared: one is React, which would make this package depend on React for
> twenty four lines, and a component is where an app is entitled to differ.
Reasonable when the surface was 24 lines. `margin/src/components/Icon.tsx:1-24`,
`calendar/src/components/Icon.tsx:1-24` and `docs/src/components/Icon.tsx:1-24` are byte-identical;
mail's (`ui/Icon.tsx:1-29`) adds a class and `aria-hidden`. Below them sit roughly 1600 lines of
duplicated component code and 900 of duplicated CSS. That note has to be reopened explicitly.
Mechanically the package has no build step (`shared/package.json:8-16`, source-only exports), so each
app's tsconfig and Vite config must compile TSX out of `node_modules`, and none does.
**2. Calendar is not in the package.** `grep -r margin-shared` over the calendar tree returns nothing;
it carries its own 168-line `src/styles/tokens.css` against the shared 91-line one. And calendar would
gain most, because mail already forked two of its components.
---
## Sheets, dialogs, confirmation
First, the encouraging part. Every app's answer to "a floating panel over the app" is the same idiom:
a flat list of self-mounting overlay components at the end of `App.tsx`, each reading its own store
and returning `null` when closed (`margin/App.tsx:105-107`, `calendar:122-135`, `docs:221-238`,
`mail:382-432`), and underneath, `src/escape.ts` is **byte-identical in all four**. A shared overlay
component composes in all four on day one, provided it takes props rather than reading a store.
`useFocusTrap` is margin-only (`src/focus.ts`, 56) and used by seven of its components; share it for
dialogs and sheets, not menus, since `docs/WidthMenu.tsx:129-136` wants tab-out to work.
margin and docs write `.overlay`/`.panel` inline per dialog (`ConfirmDialog` 48 and 56,
`ConflictDialog` 66); calendar has `components/overlayShell.tsx` (137) and mail `ui/Sheet.tsx` (162),
each with a `Confirm` in the same file.
**mail's `Sheet.tsx` is calendar's `overlayShell.tsx`, forked.** Same props, same DOM, comments
verbatim: `overlayShell.tsx:4-6` and `Sheet.tsx:30-31` are both "Nothing is resident, so a closed
sheet renders nothing at all and its children mount fresh on the next open"; `overlayShell.tsx:50` and
`Sheet.tsx:55` both "Focus has to leave the grid/page or the first keystroke goes to the keymap
instead of the panel". The diffs are mail improvements: `onBack`/`backLabel` as props
(`Sheet.tsx:15-17`) rather than reading `useOverlays` and a hardcoded `TITLES` map
(`overlayShell.tsx:27-43`), the reason given at `Sheet.tsx:33-36` ("a primitive that imports one
cannot be rendered on a Kit page"); and `busy`, which makes the close control, the scrim and Escape
all refuse while a command is in flight (`:23`, `:52`, `:69`, `:102`).
`ConfirmDialog` in margin and docs each has half the correct behaviour: margin calls `useFocusTrap`
(`:23`) and docs does not; docs sets `role="dialog" aria-modal` (`:32-33`) and margin does not. Class
drift: `icon-btn` (`margin:30`) vs `icon-button` (`docs:38`). Button order is consistent everywhere
(cancel left, destructive right) but **margin and docs focus the destructive button** (`margin:19`,
`docs:24`); calendar and mail focus cancel and say why (`overlayShell.tsx:114`, `Sheet.tsx:143`: "a
stray Enter does nothing destructive").
The CSS is one design in four copies: across the four `app.css` files `.panel` and `.panel-body` have
exactly one distinct body, `.overlay` two (margin hardcodes `rgba(35,32,27,0.28)` at
`margin/app.css:1275`, the rest use `var(--scrim)`), `.panel-foot` two, and `.panel-head` plus
`.panel-head h2` three, differing by 2px of padding and a `flex: none`.
Shared: `Sheet` and `Confirm` as mail declares them (`ui/Sheet.tsx:7-25`, `:113-122`) plus `panel.css`;
`ConfirmDialog` becomes `<Sheet size="mini"><Confirm/></Sheet>`. Stays: `ConflictDialog`'s reload/keep
semantics (`docs:12-21`), `MoveChapterDialog` (87). ~300 tsx to ~170.
**The update dialog** is the same story one level up: four answers, four phase unions. margin
`UpdateDialog.tsx` (88) is `checking|downloading|installing|uptodate|error`; docs (147) is
`available|downloading|installing|error` with release notes, `bytes()` (`:21-25`),
`role="progressbar"` with `aria-valuenow` (`:96-99`) and a Later button; calendar has **no dialog**
and says so at `src/keys/updates.ts:1-3` ("Ported from margin's `src/updater.ts`, minus its progress
dialog: there is no update UI here yet, so the toast carries the whole story"); mail has a Settings
row (`Settings.tsx:2466-2540`), `idle|checking|current|found|installing`. Docs' is the only one
showing notes, with a real progressbar role, that lets you decline, and its header comment (`:1-11`)
is the design rationale for all four. A shared `<UpdateDialog>` is worth doing, but it is a behaviour
decision first and a component second.
## Command palette, quick open, search overlay
margin has none: no palette, no quick open, no `src/keys`. Docs has a shell (`Palette.tsx`, 191) with
three consumers (`CommandPalette` 78, `QuickOpen` 166, `FindInFiles` 128); mail a shell
(`ui/Palette.tsx`, 127) with one (`screens/CommandPalette.tsx`, 191); calendar no shell, one monolith
(`palette/CommandPalette.tsx` 190 + `parse.ts` 249).
**The command matcher is one function copy-pasted three times, character for character**, down to the
names `needle`, `hay`, `at`: `docs/src/keys/commands.ts:422-433`, `mail/src/keys/commands.ts:64-75`,
`calendar/src/keys/commands.ts:213-224`. Character subsequence, case-insensitive, whitespace stripped
from the query, boolean not a score, and all three render in registry order with no ranking. The
content matchers by contrast are three different problems and should not be shared: docs' fzy scorer
is Rust (`margin-editor/src-tauri/src/index.rs:1010-1088`, weights at `:990-1003`), find-in-files is
FTS5 `bm25` (`index.rs:1187`), calendar's is all-terms substring over three concatenated fields
(`AgendaModel.tsx:262-273`), mail's is parsed in Rust (`SearchBar.tsx:14-18`).
Keyboard divergence a user would notice moving between apps:
- Wrap at the list ends: modular in docs (`Palette.tsx:91-92`) and calendar (`usePalette.ts:21-26`),
**clamped in mail** (`CommandPalette.tsx:165`).
- Ctrl+N/Ctrl+P and Tab move the selection: calendar only (`CommandPalette.tsx:100-108`).
- `scrollIntoView` on the selection: docs only (`Palette.tsx:75-77`).
- `aria-activedescendant` and `role="combobox"`: docs only (`Palette.tsx:119-123`). Mail and calendar
announce nothing when the arrows move.
- Group headers: mail only (`ui/Palette.tsx:16-20`, `:88-91`).
- Match highlighting: docs only (`Palette.tsx:169-191`), fed ranges from Rust rather than recomputed.
Calendar has the same idea for search results as `splitMatch` (`AgendaModel.tsx:281-303`).
**No app has all of these.** That is the strongest argument in the audit: consolidating is a strict
upgrade for every consumer, not a wash. Row identity differs too: numeric index in docs and calendar,
string id in mail, which mail dispatches by parsing prefixes off (`CommandPalette.tsx:143-151`), while
docs puts a `run` closure on the row (`Palette.tsx:19-24`), which is why its shell is generic over
three unrelated data sources. One bug worth fixing while it is open:
`mail/screens/CommandPalette.tsx:158-173` registers a `window` keydown listener with **no dependency
array**, detaching and reattaching every render; the comment at `:156` says this keeps the closure
fresh, but docs gets that free by handling on the input (`Palette.tsx:86-99`). The CSS meanwhile is
shared in fact: `mail/ui/Palette.css` (99) and `calendar/styles/palette.css` (176) have the same
`width: min(620px, calc(100vw - 32px))`, `max-height: min(560px, 76vh)`, and identical
`.palette-input`, `.palette-list`, `.palette-row`, `.palette-keys`. Docs diverges.
```
interface PaletteItem { id: string; run?: () => void }
interface PaletteSection<T extends PaletteItem> { id: string; label?: string; items: readonly T[] }
<Palette label placeholder query onQuery sections status renderItem onChoose onClose
wrap = true // mail's clamp becomes opt-out
extraKeys = true // ctrl+n/p and Tab, calendar's model
header /> // calendar's parse preview block
```
`status` is docs' `{text, error?}` machine, into which mail's single string collapses. Plus
`commandMatches` (lifts verbatim) and `highlight(text, ranges)` with a `rangesFromTerms` helper for
calendar's term form. Stays: the fzy scorer, the FTS path, calendar's `parse.ts`/`create.ts`, mail's
id-prefix dispatch and group assembly, every app's status copy. About 250 to 300 lines.
## Find bar
margin (285), docs (190), plus docs' `FindInFiles.tsx` (128). Calendar and mail have neither.
The render block is the same component. `margin:212-283` against `docs:103-188`: same
`.find-bar > .find-expand + .find-stack > .find-row`, same chevron paths `M6 9l6 6 6-6` /
`M9 6l6 6-6 6`, same `Aa` and `ab` toggles with `data-on`, same prev/next glyphs at `size={14}`, same
"No results" / "3 of 12" label, same Enter and Shift+Enter. Diffing `margin/app.css:2142-2350` against
`docs/tree.css:498-658` gives three real changes in 161 lines.
The difference is ownership. Docs declares a `DocumentFind` interface (`:34-44`) and takes it as a
prop, with `:5-9` explaining that a bar drawing a text field has no business owning a ProseMirror
decoration set; margin imports `buildRegex`, `getSearchState`, `useBook` and the chapter model
directly (`:2-7`) and carries ~90 lines of cross-chapter scope logic (`:122-210`). Shared: docs'
`<FindBar find={DocumentFind|null} />` plus `scope?: {label, onToggle}` for margin, about 130 tsx and
161 CSS to one copy. `FindInFiles` is a third consumer of docs' `Palette`.
## Toast
margin has no component: the same six lines of markup and the same timer effect appear **twice**, at
`EditorView.tsx:213-217` + `:505-509` and `Library.tsx:54-58` + `:161-165`. Calendar's `Toast.tsx` (24)
and docs' (23) differ by a constant name and a `title="Dismiss"`, and their `useToast.ts` (15 each) are
**byte-identical**. Mail splits presentation (`ui/Toast.tsx`, 29) from the store binding
(`screens/Toasts.tsx`, 47) and adds what the others lack: an action button with a keycap
(`ui/Toast.tsx:8`, `:21-26`) and a `seq` counter so an identical message twice restarts the timer
(`store/useToast.ts:18`, `:29`), where the other three do nothing on a repeat. Dwells are 4000, 5000,
4200, 6000. `.toast` CSS is two designs, two apps each: glass (calendar, mail) and inverted
`--ink`-on-`--paper` (margin, docs, byte-identical). ~140 lines to ~60.
## Settings
margin 215 + `BackupSettings.tsx` 179; calendar 111; docs 346 + 448 css; mail 2551 + 593 css.
Three shapes. **Mail and docs agree on the shell**: full window, a left nav of section names, a right
column of rows at a 620-640px measure (`mail/settings.css:59`, docs' `.settings-column`); mail at
`Settings.tsx:240-275`, docs at `:234-271`. **Calendar has the row but not the shell**: three rows in
the shared `Sheet` (`:33-107`). **Margin is a modal form**: `.overlay > .panel` with stacked `<Field>`
and uppercase small-caps labels (`:126-214`). They agree on the row and disagree on every name:
`.set-field`/`.set-field-label`/`.set-field-note` (mail, `:856-874`),
`.setting-row`/`.setting-label`/`.setting-note` (docs, `:67-88`),
`.setting-row`/`.setting-name`/`.setting-note` (calendar, `overlays.css:511-535`). Docs and calendar
are **one word apart**, and mail's is the only one naming the control slot and taking `children`
rather than baking a switch into the row.
- **Switch.** mail `ui/Toggle.tsx` (46 + 78 css), 9 uses; docs inline in `SettingRow` (`:74-85`), 3
uses. Same `<button role="switch" aria-checked data-on>` with a knob on `translateX`; diffs are
`data-on=""` vs `"true"`, 34x20 vs 38x22, two disabled treatments. margin uses a raw checkbox
(`:202-205`); calendar has none.
- **Segment.** mail `ui/Segment.tsx` (47 + 76 css), 10 uses; calendar inline twice (`:46-63`, `:74-91`,
~39 lines). Same class names, **opposite visual models**: calendar paints the active option
`--accent` (`overlays.css:567-570`), mail lifts it onto `--paper` in an `--accent-wash` track
(`Segment.css:28-31`). `data-on` vs `data-active`; mail has `role="tablist"`, calendar no ARIA.
- **Select.** Nobody abstracted it, written five times: mail's `FontPicker` (`:876-923`), `TimePicker`
(`:1099-1126`), `SwipePicker` (`:1573-1597`), margin's `FontSelect` (`:51-73`) and an inline language
select (`:149-155`), all `<select className="settings-select">` with the same "unknown current value
gets its own leading option" hatch; mail's font picker and margin's `FontSelect` are near-duplicates,
both driven by `margin-shared/fonts`.
- **Text field.** mail has **two competing abstractions** and Settings uses neither consistently:
`ui/Field.tsx` (84, unused there), a local commit-on-blur `Draft` (`:1000-1063`), `TextSetting`
(`:1065-1097`), and three raw inputs.
- **Button.** mail `ui/Button.tsx` (65 + 96 css), variants `default|primary|ghost|danger`, 21 uses in
Settings alone. Calendar expresses **the same vocabulary** as a CSS attribute,
`.panel-button[data-variant]` (`overlays.css:60-135`); margin uses `.btn-primary`/`.btn-ghost`/
`.btn-danger` (`app.css:1769-1800`); docs adds `.btn-quiet`. Four conventions, one control.
Open, close and escape are four mechanisms: local `useState` (margin, docs), an overlay store with a
back trail (calendar), a dedicated store (mail). Only mail has keyboard section nav, and it re-points
the app's own `j`/`k` at the rail to get it (`Settings.tsx:228-238`), which does not port.
**The honest split.** Generic chrome per file: mail ~230 of 2551 (9%), docs ~77 of 346 (22%), margin
~35 of 215 (16%), calendar 0 of 111 because its chrome is in `Sheet`. The other 1385 lines of mail's
file are Gmail scopes, IMAP servers, R2 buckets, mbox export and recovery phrases. Under 200 lines
saved across all four out of 3402, and a `SettingsShell` would have two consumers who disagree about a
header, a close button and a drag region. Ship the row primitives; leave the shell.
## Sidebar, resize, row menus, popup menus
Scope correction: **calendar has no sidebar and no resizable pane** (no `.pane-resizer`, no `--pane-*`
token, no `aside`) and **mail has no resizable pane either** (`--list-w` is a constant at
`styles/mail.css:40`, and `src/pane.ts` is visibility). Resize is a two-app problem.
**Resize.** margin `ResizeHandle.tsx` (52) + `panes.ts` (47) against docs `ResizeHandle.tsx` (78,
`panes.ts` inlined). The drag body is the same algorithm line for line: `setPointerCapture`, a flag on
the document, `pointermove` computing `startWidth + delta`,
`Math.round(Math.min(MAX, Math.max(MIN, px)))`, same MIN 200 / MAX 460 / DEFAULT 248. CSS
near-verbatim (`margin/app.css:140-186` against `docs/tree.css:64-108`).
Each has half the correct behaviour. margin has keyboard resize (`:28-37`, STEP 16, Home to reset), an
`aria-label` and `tabIndex={0}`; **docs' separator cannot be focused at all** (`:68-77`). Docs wraps
storage in `try/catch` (`:23-27`, `:31-36`, `:41-47`); `margin/panes.ts:41` throws on a webview that
denies localStorage. Neither handles `pointercancel` or calls `releasePointerCapture`, so a cancelled
pointer leaves the listeners attached and `cursor: col-resize` pinned on the document. Neither
debounces: a 120Hz drag issues 120 synchronous `localStorage.setItem` calls per second
(`margin/panes.ts:41`, `docs/ResizeHandle.tsx:24`), with no rAF anywhere. **Docs flashes 248px and
jumps**, its boot script restoring theme, sidebar and width but not `margindocs-pane-sidebar`, leaving
the width to a `useLayoutEffect` (`:40-48`). Sidebar open/closed is persisted in docs
(`Titlebar.tsx:38`) and not in margin (`EditorView.tsx:62`).
**Menus: six implementations of one object.**
| | positioning | edge | portal | dismiss | Esc | trap | restores focus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| margin `RowMenu` (161) | anchor rect | **none** | yes | mousedown capture | yes | yes | yes |
| margin `Menu` (42) | CSS only | none | no | backdrop div | **no** | yes | via teardown |
| margin `AddPageMenu` (105) | anchor rect | none | no | mousedown | yes | yes | yes |
| docs `RowMenu` (187) | point | clamp both axes | yes | mousedown capture | yes | no | yes |
| docs `WidthMenu` (187) | CSS only | none | no | backdrop + blur | yes | no | keyboard only |
| mail `Popover` (108) | anchor rect | x clamp, manual `top-end` | no | pointerdown capture | yes | no | **no** |
`margin/RowMenu.tsx:33-37` sets `top: r.bottom + 4` with no clamping, so a row low in a long chapter
list opens a menu off the bottom of the window; `margin/Menu.tsx` has no positioning code and **no
escape layer**, so Escape does not close it; `docs/RowMenu.tsx:44-45` clamps both axes to an 8px inset
and thunks its `items` (`:29`) so a thousand-row tree does not build a thousand menus. The best
placement maths is calendar's, and it is not in a menu:
`calendar/src/components/EventDetailsModel.ts:71-104` is a pure, unit-tested function trying right,
left, below, above, then centre, clamping the cross axis and returning the side it chose. Two ideas
only one app has: docs' **caret bargain** (`WidthMenu.tsx:105`, `Titlebar.tsx:188`, `e.detail === 0`
detects keyboard activation and only then moves focus, mouse presses `preventDefault`ed so the caret
stays in the sentence), and mail's **reposition rather than close** on scroll and resize
(`Popover.tsx:63-69` plus a `ResizeObserver` on the body), which is right for a contact card in a
scrolling thread and wrong for a menu. Share the placement hook, not the dismissal policy.
**Sidebar chrome vs content.** margin `Sidebar.tsx` (310) is roughly 95-100 generic to 210 app; docs
`Sidebar.tsx` (523) + `FileTree.tsx` (282) roughly 150 to 370. The chrome markup is already textually
identical: `.sidebar` is the same nine declarations (`margin/app.css:188-199`, `docs/app.css:167-178`)
and `.nav-label` is byte-identical (`margin:235-241`, `docs:209-215`); mail's equivalent is
`ui/GroupHead.tsx` (25), calendar has none. Two more shared behaviours hide here: the **row drag
gesture** (`margin/Sidebar.tsx:99-131` and `docs/Sidebar.tsx:274-317`, the same 45 lines of slop
threshold, window pointermove/pointerup, `suppressClick`, `elementFromPoint`) and **roving focus**
(`margin:147-166`, `docs:217-255`). **Headers** are one object with different cargo
(`<header className="titlebar" data-tauri-drag-region>` at `calendar/Header.tsx:58`,
`mail/Header.tsx:76`, `docs/Titlebar.tsx:225`); mail and calendar both re-derive the "a button that
also drags swallows its own click" rule in comments, and mail alone carries the macOS double-click fix
(`Header.tsx:36-44`).
Shared, by payoff to risk: `definePane`/`<ResizeHandle>` (margin's parameterised shape, docs' storage
guards, plus the three fixes neither has); `useAnchoredPosition` on calendar's `place()`;
`<Menu>`/`<MenuAt>` on docs' `RowMenu` body; `<Popover>` kept separate; `useRowDrag`; `useRovingFocus`;
a thin `<SidebarShell>`. Stays: everything that knows what a row is, and all copy.
## The PDF export preview
The largest single-file duplicate in the tree: `margin/ExportPreview.tsx` (336) and
`docs/ExportPreview.tsx` (448). Docs says so at `:3-5`: "The sibling book app answers Export with this
same panel, and both apps answer it this way for the same reason." The same code, not the same idea:
- `interface Frame` and `measureEditorPane()`/`measurePane()`, querying `.editor-pane` and rounding its
rect (`margin:21-38`, `docs:45-62`), then pinning the panel to it inline (`margin:150-157`).
- The toolbar: `.preview-bar` with a close icon button, `.preview-title`, `.preview-count`,
`.preview-zoom` with the same `M5 12h14` and `M12 5v14M5 12h14` glyphs, `ZOOM_MIN 0.5`,
`ZOOM_STEP 0.25`, and a `btn-primary` whose label is the same ternary,
`saving ? "Saving…" : compact ? "Save" : "Save PDF…"` (`margin:177-179`, `docs:254-255`). Plus
`.preview-warn`, `.preview-stage`, `.preview-loading` and the same "Typesetting…" copy.
- The fit arithmetic, character for character:
`Math.max(240, Math.min(stage.width - 56, (stage.height - 56) / ratio))` (`margin:208`, `docs:344`).
- The lazy page renderer: a `ResizeObserver` on the stage, an `IntersectionObserver` per page at a
1400px `rootMargin`, `Math.min(window.devicePixelRatio || 1, 2)`, a hand-built canvas with
`className = "preview-canvas"`, `el.replaceChildren(canvas)`, a `task?.cancel()` teardown.
`margin/PdfPage:263-336` against `docs/Page:365-448`. The only differences are names.
Roughly 200 of margin's 336 and 220 of docs' 448 are one component; app-specific are the compile call,
the save path and the warning text. `<PdfPreview bytes title onSave saving warning onClose />` plus the
`.preview-*` CSS: the cleanest large win, with no design argument attached.
## The shortcuts sheet
Three apps, two of them the same file. `calendar/src/keys/Shortcuts.tsx` (49) and
`mail/src/keys/Shortcuts.tsx` (53) open with the identical three-line comment ("The `?` sheet,
generated from the binding table. There is no list of shortcuts anywhere in this file, which is the
entire point"), both render `<Sheet size="wide">` around `GROUPS.map` over `BINDINGS` into
`.shortcuts-group > .shortcuts-heading + .shortcuts-list > .shortcuts-row > .shortcuts-keys +
.shortcuts-label`, and both close with a `.shortcuts-note` whose first sentence is word for word
"Nothing is modal and nothing is chorded." The CSS matches selector for selector
(`calendar/palette.css:120-176`, `mail/keys/shortcuts.css:3-51`). Mail's improvements: props instead of
`useOverlays` (`:11-14`), `<Key>` instead of a raw `<kbd className="key">`, and it drops keyless
bindings because "a sheet of shortcuts that lists one with no keycap beside it is a sheet that has lost
the plot" (`:23-24`). Docs' `components/Shortcuts.tsx` (69) is the earlier form: an inline
`.overlay`/`.panel` and a different vocabulary
(`.key-group`/`.key-list`/`.key-row`/`.key-what`/`.key-combos`/`.key-cap`). Margin has no sheet and no
binding table to generate one from. `<ShortcutsSheet open onClose bindings groups keyLabel note />`:
~170 tsx and ~130 CSS to one copy.
## Rich text
Two premises in the brief are wrong. **Calendar has no rich text editor.** `RichText.tsx` (84) is a
read-only renderer walking a pre-parsed node tree (`:32-73`); the only `contenteditable` in the tree is
a touch CSS selector (`app.css:49`), `useEditor.ts` (45) is a zustand store rather than tiptap's hook,
and descriptions are edited in a `<textarea>` (`EventEditor.tsx:493-499`). Calendar's real artifact is
`EventDetailsHtml.ts` (449), a hand-written sanitiser with a fixed tag vocabulary (`:22`, `:48+`),
written by hand rather than with `DOMParser` to stay pure and testable (`:13-15`): a display-and-defend
problem for HTML written by anyone who can put an event on a calendar you subscribe to, not a small
tiptap. Also not editors: `mail/FocusReply.tsx` (345) is a `<textarea>` by decision (`:29-31`),
`mail/MessageBody.tsx` (272) a sandboxed iframe (`:258-268`), `docs/FileViewer.tsx` (343) a pdfjs viewer.
So: three tiptap surfaces, and their extension lists are mutually incompatible for good reasons.
margin's `extensions.ts` (28) keeps StarterKit nearly whole and adds seven local extensions
(`Figure` 41, `ParagraphIndent` 42, `TextAlign` 64, `SearchHighlight` 233, `Proofing` 139, `Paste` 76,
`Shortcuts` 11). Mail's `Editor.tsx:41-49` is StarterKit with `heading:false` and
`horizontalRule:false` and **zero custom extensions**, not even Placeholder, using a sibling `<span>`
plus `data-empty` (`:85-86`, `editor.css:68-83`). Docs' `extensions.ts` (196) switches **seventeen**
StarterKit entries off (`:128-147`), keeping it only for undo/redo, drop cursor, gap cursor and list
backspace, then **generates** every node and mark at runtime from a frozen `src/model/schema.ts`
(`:60-87`, `:89-110`); its first twenty lines are a written argument against a shared extension list.
Content types are three (JSON, HTML string, markdown-backed PM node) with no `content` prop serving all
three. Lifecycle differs: margin holds one module-level singleton editor across every chapter
(`session.ts:23-42`) because a book is many documents; docs collapsed that cache into a path-keyed LRU
(`Editor.tsx:11-14`). Content sync is three mechanisms of three sizes: mail guards `setContent` with a
last-emitted ref, five lines (`Editor.tsx:52`, `:77-81`); margin never calls `setContent`, using
`view.updateState` off an LRU of `EditorState` (`session.ts:20`, `:44-59`); docs does the same plus a
fallback re-rendering a file as one raw block on schema failure rather than an empty doc, so a save
cannot destroy the file (`Editor.tsx:620-644`). Merging these produces something worse than any of
them. Nobody debounces inside the editor; all three do it in the shell at 800ms.
Toolbars: margin `FloatingToolbar.tsx` (198), docs `Toolbar.tsx` (938), mail **none by decision**
(`Editor.tsx:16-19`). Docs says at `:13-19` it is a port of margin's, and the `tool()` helper
(`margin:109-119`, `docs:156-173`) plus the `.tool-wrap` + backdrop + popover idiom are the same, but
docs' drives a hand-rolled `EditorHandle` (`editor/index.ts:89-136`) reading
`active.marks.includes("strong")` while margin's takes a `TiptapEditor` and calls `isActive`, kept
live by a `forceUpdate` on `"transaction"` (`:48-55`) docs deliberately did not port.
**No shared editor component, and not even a shared extension list.** The spirit has already been
shared by hand-porting with citations in the comments. Genuinely extractable: `SearchHighlight` plus
`searchStateOf` (`margin/editor/search.ts` 233 against `docs/editor/search.ts` 264, a 73-line diff,
docs' header at `:5-7` saying the only change of substance is a rename); `positions.ts` (64 vs 52);
the toolbar primitives; and the install-then-restore-position helper with its triple scroll apply
including `document.fonts.ready` (`margin/Editor.tsx:59-104`, `docs/Editor.tsx:606-690`). A small
editor kit, not an `<Editor>`.
## First run, onboarding, help
calendar `FirstRun.tsx` (38), `Accounts.tsx` (159); docs `Recents.tsx` (86), `DocumentSetup.tsx` (354);
mail `Onboarding.tsx` (208), `Connect.tsx` (333), `ConnectMail.tsx` (644), `Tour.tsx` (431),
`Guide.tsx` (113), `Help.tsx` (155), `ui/EmptyState.tsx` (16); margin `Library.tsx` (181) as its start
screen. **Margin has no first-run, welcome or tour screen at all.**
**There is no shared step-by-step setup flow.** Exactly one component in four apps has numbered steps
and it is a slideshow: `Tour.tsx:355` (`useState(0)`), `:392-404` (step dots), `:405-414` (the only
Back/Next pair anywhere), `:411` (the only terminal success screen). Everywhere else the flow ends by
unmounting and every other screen has a single primary button. `Connect.tsx` and `ConnectMail.tsx` look
like wizards and are not: their states are phases of an external process the user cannot navigate, and
`Connect` has no way back once the account is written (`:276-278`). Four screens appearing at the same
moment in a product's life, sharing an aesthetic, not a shape.
- **The empty-stage anatomy: four apps, four class vocabularies, one layout.** A mark, an `h1`, one
line of prose, a row of buttons, one line of fine print. `mail/Connect.tsx:78-125`
(`welcome-mark`/`welcome-title`/`welcome-line`/`welcome-actions`/`welcome-privacy`),
`docs/Recents.tsx:40-57` (`start-title`/`start-line`/`start-open`), `calendar/FirstRun.tsx:19-33`
(`first-run-title`/`first-run-note`), `margin/Library.tsx:109-123` (`card-action`).
- **The Google connect-pending block**, the strongest single duplication here.
`calendar/Accounts.tsx:88-114` and `mail/Connect.tsx:136-171` are the same block: a "waiting in your
browser" line, a note conditional on `authUrl`, and Open link / Copy link / Cancel wired to
`openAuthUrl`/`copyAuthUrl`/`cancelConnect` on a store called `useAccounts` with the same phase
names, both guarding Escape identically with
`useEscapeLayer(phase === "connecting", cancelConnect)` (`Accounts.tsx:44`, `Connect.tsx:51`).
- **The recents shelf** (`docs/Recents.tsx:62-80`, `margin/Library.tsx:124-151`) and **the progress
bar**, five copies of which four are inside mail (`Connect.tsx:310-318`, `Arriving.tsx:113`,
`ListColumn.tsx:68-76`, `Settings.tsx:1135`, `docs/UpdateDialog.tsx:96`), two concepts sharing
markup: sync progress and download progress.
- **Empty-list placeholders.** Mail extracted it (`ui/EmptyState.tsx`, 16 lines, one `<p>` and a 7-line
rule). The others hand-roll a one-line paragraph under a different class each time: `.move-empty` and
`.dock-empty` (margin), `.panel-empty` and `.palette-empty` (calendar), `.pane-empty` (docs).
Shared: `<Stage mark title line actions footnote>`, `<RecentList items renderRow onOpen onForget>`,
`<ProgressBar value label count>`, `<OAuthPending ready onOpen onCopy onCancel>`, `<EmptyState>`.
`<Slides>` only if a second app wants a tour. Stays: every phase machine, all copy, `ConnectMail`'s
644 lines of IMAP discovery, `DocumentSetup`'s font model, `Tour`'s nine slides.
## Virtualised lists and keyboard row navigation
Only mail virtualises (`react-virtuoso` at `ListColumn.tsx:2`, `:180`, `:451`); the other three render
everything and say so (`calendar/AgendaList.tsx:4-6`). Nothing to share about windowing.
A great deal to share about the keyboard, and this is the largest instance of copied code in the audit.
**Five distinct expressions for "move the selection by one", and the split is not by app:** clamp with
a seed from whichever end the delta came from, four near-identical copies
(`mail/store/useMail.ts:292-300`, `useFeed.ts:96-102`, `useScreener.ts:161-168`,
`calendar/store/useCalendarView.ts:96-97`); clamp with no seed, where `docs/Outline.tsx:100` and
`docs/Backlinks.tsx:92` are literally the same line and `Outline.tsx:95` says so, plus
`mail/Guide.tsx:53` and `mail/CommandPalette.tsx:164-165`; clamp by indexing off the end and guarding
`undefined` (`docs/Sidebar.tsx:225-240`, `margin/Sidebar.tsx:155-165`); true modulo wrap
(`docs/Palette.tsx:91-92`, `margin/Menu.tsx:28-30`, `margin/AddPageMenu.tsx:56`,
`margin/RowMenu.tsx:52`, `docs/RowMenu.tsx:80`, `docs/WidthMenu.tsx:116`, `docs/Titlebar.tsx:198`); and
wrap plus seed (`mail/Help.tsx:110-111` and `mail/MoreMenu.tsx:108`, identical lines).
margin-docs alone contains three of the five. A list wraps or does not depending on which app and which
surface you are in, which is precisely what a shared design language is supposed to settle.
Selection is four models: a key in a zustand store with DOM focus never moving and rows at
`tabIndex={-1}` (all mail lists, calendar's agenda); an index or id in local state
(`docs/Palette.tsx:57`, `mail/CommandPalette.tsx:321`, `mail/Guide.tsx:22`); roving DOM focus with a
`tabIndex` shadow (`docs/Outline.tsx:102`; `docs/Backlinks.tsx:94`; `docs/Sidebar.tsx:101-105` and
`margin/Sidebar.tsx:142-145`, the same rAF + `CSS.escape` + `querySelector` trick); and pure DOM focus
off `document.activeElement` with no index (every menu). Keeping the row on screen is five mechanisms,
and one found a bug the rest still carry: `docs/Outline.tsx:80-90` deliberately does **not** use
`scrollIntoView`, doing the arithmetic by hand, because as `:79` says it "is free to scroll every
ancestor of the row as well". The other four use it (`calendar/AgendaList.tsx:40-44`,
`mail/Feed.tsx:127-130`, `docs/Palette.tsx:75-77`, `mail/ListColumn.tsx:281-285`). Two gaps: **no
type-ahead anywhere in any app**, and Home/End exists in only three places, all trees or menus
(`docs/Sidebar.tsx:233-240`, `margin/Sidebar.tsx:156-159`, `margin/Menu.tsx:24-27`).
```
useRovingFocus(ref, { selector | refs, wrap, homeEnd, seedFromEnd, onMove })
stepIndex(count, at, delta, { wrap }): number | null
useScrollSelectedIntoView(scrollerRef, selectedId, { attr: "data-id" })
```
`useRovingFocus` has ten call sites, eight of them the same eight lines differing only in the CSS class
queried and whether they wrap: `margin/Menu.tsx:17-32`, `margin/AddPageMenu.tsx:51-59`,
`margin/RowMenu.tsx:48-54`, `docs/RowMenu.tsx:75-81`, `docs/WidthMenu.tsx:112-117`,
`docs/Titlebar.tsx:193-199`, `mail/Help.tsx:105-123`, `mail/MoreMenu.tsx:104-116`, plus
`docs/Outline.tsx:99-109` and `docs/Backlinks.tsx:91-101` on refs. `stepIndex` replaces seven copies;
the scroll hook replaces three and should use `Outline`'s manual arithmetic.
Stays: all ordering (`useCalendarView.ts:82-91`); ListColumn's virtualiser handle, so the shared hook
must take a scroll strategy rather than assume the DOM; the tree's ArrowLeft/ArrowRight expand-collapse
(`docs/Sidebar.tsx:241-251`); multi-select, only in mail (`ListColumn.tsx:209-222`). The hook must take
key predicates rather than hardcode `e.key`, because mail and docs route list keys through a remappable
binding table (`Guide.tsx:55-58`, `ListColumn.tsx:224-269`) while every menu listens for literal
`ArrowDown`. `margin/Library.tsx` is the one screen that would gain a feature rather than lose
duplication: a card grid with no arrow navigation, only Enter and Space (`:138-143`).
---
## Ranked, with the size of the win
| Rank | Cluster | Apps | Now | After | Argument needed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | `Sheet` + `Confirm` + panel CSS | 4 | ~300 tsx, ~240 css | ~170, ~60 | none, mail already forked calendar |
| 2 | `useRovingFocus` + `stepIndex` + scroll hook | 4 | ~200 over 20 sites | ~60 | wrap or clamp must be settled |
| 3 | PDF export preview | 2 | 784 | ~450 | none |
| 4 | Primitives: Button, Toggle, Segment, Key, Field, Icon, EmptyState, Pill, GroupHead | 4 | ~660 tsx, ~600 css | ~410, ~350 | one class vocabulary wins |
| 5 | Find bar | 2 | 475 tsx, 370 css | ~320, 161 | none |
| 6 | Shortcuts sheet | 3 | ~170 tsx, ~130 css | ~60, ~50 | docs adopts the sheet |
| 7 | Palette shell + `commandMatches` + `highlight` | 3 | ~510 | ~250 | wrap vs clamp, row identity |
| 8 | Menu and anchored positioning | 4 | ~890 | ~450 | six behaviours to reconcile |
| 9 | Toast | 4 | ~140 | ~60 | two visual designs |
| 10 | `Stage`, `RecentList`, `ProgressBar`, `OAuthPending` | 4 | ~250 | ~130 | none |
| 11 | ResizeHandle and pane width | 2 | 177 | ~110 | none, plus three bugs fixed |
| 12 | `SearchHighlight` + `positions.ts` | 2 | ~590 | ~300 | none |
| 13 | Settings shell | 2 | ~340 | ~250 | not worth it, see above |
About 1600 lines of tsx and 900 of CSS collapse to roughly 900 and 500, but the number is not the
point. The four apps disagree about whether Escape closes a menu, whether a list wraps at its ends,
whether a separator can be focused, whether a repeated toast restarts its timer, and whether the safe
button gets focus in a delete confirmation, none of it visible until someone uses two of them in one
afternoon. And several clusters have one app that got a detail right and three that did not:
`docs/Outline.tsx:80-90` alone avoids `scrollIntoView` scrolling every ancestor, `docs/Palette.tsx`
alone has `aria-activedescendant`, `margin/ResizeHandle.tsx` alone has a focusable separator, and
`mail/store/useToast.ts` alone restarts on a repeat. Extraction is how those stop being luck.
## What should not be shared
- **Section bodies of Settings.** 1385 lines in mail alone, all Gmail scopes and mbox export.
- **Content matchers.** A Rust fzy scorer, SQLite FTS, substring over event fields, a backend parse.
- **Any `<Editor>` or shared tiptap extension list.** Three content types, three schema policies, three
lifecycles, and `docs/editor/extensions.ts:1-20` argues against the list specifically. Likewise
`calendar/RichText.tsx` (84) and `EventDetailsHtml.ts` (449), a read-only renderer and a sanitiser
for HTML the app did not author.
- **Setup flows.** No shared wizard shape exists. Share the empty-stage anatomy and the OAuth pending
block, not the flows. And **`src/width.ts`**, which shares a filename across margin and docs while
meaning unrelated things; rename one instead.
- **Icon paths** beyond the handful in `margin-shared/icons`. Mail's `ui/icons.ts` (73) has 29 paths
and shares five names with the shared set by re-export (`:14`), which is the right pattern.
- **`calendar/ColorPicker.tsx` (94) and `mail/ui/Avatar.tsx` (87).** Superficially both derive a
colour; actually a Google `colorId` radio group and a hashed-hue initials badge. Similarly
`margin/Dock.tsx` (223) is Typst compile plus device frames, only `DockHead` (`:60-70`) is chrome.
- **`ProofPopover`, docs 292 against margin 76.** Same feature and the same `.proof-pop` /
`.proof-suggestion` / `.proof-action` classes, but docs has grown a keyboard walk, an escape layer, a
focus-return policy and a flip-above fallback margin has not. Share the anchored-menu primitive
underneath; leave the issue rendering in each app.
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# Repo facts (gathered directly, 2026-09-06)
Ground truth for the other research notes. Everything here was read off disk, not inferred.
## The four repos
| App | Directory | Git remote | Commits | Uncommitted files |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Margin (writing studio) | `python/margin` | `[email protected]:priyanshujain/margin.git` | 149 | 1 |
| Margin Calendar | `python/margin-caledar` | `[email protected]:priyanshujain/margin-calendar.git` | 27 | 0 |
| Margin Docs | `rust/margin-editor` | `[email protected]:priyanshujain/margin-docs.git` | 8 | 123 |
| Margin Mail | `rust/margin-mail` | none configured | 1 | 123 |
All paths are relative to `/Users/pj/Workspace/projects`.
Three names disagree with themselves. The calendar's directory is misspelt (`margin-caledar`), the
docs app lives in a directory called `margin-editor` while its package is `margin-docs` and its
remote is `margin-docs`, and the two Rust-family apps sit under `rust/` while the two older ones sit
under `python/` for no reason that survives inspection. None of the four is a Python project.
Margin Mail has no remote and a single scaffold commit with 123 files of uncommitted work on top of
it. Margin Docs has 123 uncommitted files. Any plan that starts by moving files between repos has to
deal with that first: see the sequencing note in `../migration.md`.
There is no separate website repo on disk. The Astro site lives at `python/margin/website`.
## Size
| App | TS/TSX/CSS files | TS lines | Rust files | Rust lines |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Margin | 72 | 10,871 | 12 | 2,190 |
| Margin Calendar | 100 | 15,517 | 20 | 8,490 |
| Margin Docs | 151 | 43,311 | 14 | 5,365 |
| Margin Mail | 172 | 31,409 | 98 | 45,884 |
About 101,000 lines of front end and 62,000 lines of Rust across the four.
## The shared package as it stands
`python/margin/shared` is a real npm package named `margin-shared`, tracked in Margin's git repo
(26 files). It has no build step and no dependencies: consumers resolve its TypeScript source
directly through Vite. It contains `css/tokens.css`, `css/fonts.css`, `src/fonts.ts` (233 lines),
`src/icons.ts` (61 lines), `src/index.ts`, twelve variable font binaries with their licences, and
`bin/sync-fonts.mjs`, which copies those binaries into a consuming app's `public/fonts`.
Margin depends on it as `"margin-shared": "file:./shared"`. Margin Docs and Margin Mail both depend
on it as `"margin-shared": "file:../../python/margin/shared"`, a path that walks out of the
repository and into a sibling checkout. On this machine pnpm has resolved that to a symlink and it
works. On a fresh clone it does not: `pnpm install` in Margin Docs fails unless Margin happens to be
checked out at exactly that relative location, which no CI runner and no other person will reproduce.
Margin Calendar does not depend on it at all and carries its own copies of the same tokens.
This is the single fact that motivates the whole exercise. The shared package is the right idea
executed in a way that only works on one laptop.
## Toolchain in use
pnpm 10.12.4, Node 25.5.0, cargo and rustc 1.96.1. React 19.1, Vite 7, TypeScript 5.8, Tauri 2,
zustand 5 in all four apps. No prettier anywhere. No eslint anywhere.
## CLAUDE.md files
Only Margin and Margin Calendar have one, 16 lines each. Margin Docs and Margin Mail have none, so
everything those two projects have learnt lives in assistant memory files outside the repos, which is
exactly what `guidelines/` is for.
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# Rust core plumbing (research, 2026-09-06)
What the four apps have in common below the features: `library.rs`, `lib.rs`, `dto.rs`, SQLite,
logging, settings, filesystem helpers, error shapes, updates, async, and dependency versions.
Everything here was read off disk. Google/OAuth, typesetting and spellcheck are other notes.
Sizes for reference: 2,190 Rust lines in Margin, 8,490 in Calendar, 5,365 in Docs, 45,884 in Mail.
Mail's number includes 8,045 lines of `tests.rs` files; Calendar's includes 802.
## The verdict first
| Area | Apps that have it | How close, really | One crate? |
|---|---|---|---|
| `lib.rs` builder and menu | 4 | ~120 lines per app verbatim identical | **Yes**, the biggest single win |
| Logging | 1 (Mail) | three apps have nothing | **Yes**, and it fixes a real gap |
| Updates | 1.5 (Margin, plus `packaged_by` in two) | Margin's `updates.rs` is already app-agnostic | **Yes**, cheap |
| SQLite | 3 | ~100 duplicated lines out of ~8,500 | **Yes, small**, for the two bugs it fixes |
| `library.rs` | 4 | 5 identical lines, then four different files | No |
| `dto.rs` conventions | 3 | one convention, rigidly held, nothing to extract | No |
| Settings | 1 (Mail) | the other three keep prefs in `localStorage` | No |
| Filesystem helpers | 2.5 | three genuinely different algorithms | No |
| Error types | 4 | already uniform, nothing to fix | No |
| Async | 3 | one shared idea (`Sink`), 12 lines | No |
Three defects found on the way, listed at the end of the `lib.rs` section.
## library.rs
Line counts: Margin 146, Calendar 9, Docs 9, Mail 54.
Calendar's and Docs' are **byte-identical files** (`diff` returns nothing): nine lines containing
only `app_data_dir`. Mail's is that same function plus `atomic_write` and a test. Margin's is a
different file that happens to share the name: `BookSummary` (margin `library.rs:8-14`), the four
book commands, and `app_data_dir` at `library.rs:49-53`.
The genuinely shared part is five lines, identical in all four
(margin `library.rs:49-53`, calendar `library.rs:5-9`, docs `library.rs:5-9`, mail `library.rs:8-12`):
```rust
pub fn app_data_dir(app: &tauri::AppHandle) -> Result<PathBuf, String> {
let dir = app.path().app_data_dir().map_err(|e| e.to_string())?;
fs::create_dir_all(&dir).map_err(|e| e.to_string())?;
Ok(dir)
}
```
It should move into whatever shared crate exists for other reasons. It is not a reason to create
one. Everything else in Margin's `library.rs` is the book library and belongs to Margin.
## lib.rs: the Tauri builder
Line counts: Margin 256, Calendar 354, Docs 365, Mail 475. 1,450 lines total.
Measured overlap: 73 distinct non-comment lines appear **verbatim in all four files**. Counting
occurrences, that is 114 lines of Margin's `lib.rs`, 123 of Calendar's, 120 of Docs' and 124 of
Mail's, which is 48%, 44%, 41% and 32% of each file's code lines. Excluding trivial brace lines it
is still 73 to 81 lines each. Roughly 480 lines of duplicated boilerplate across the suite.
The identical blocks, in order:
**`main.rs`.** Six lines, identical in all four but for the crate name. Nothing to do here; Tauri
requires it.
**The builder prologue.** Margin `lib.rs:149-162`, Calendar `250-263`, Docs `250-266`, Mail
`253-268`. `generate_context!` first, `#[cfg_attr(mobile, allow(unused_mut))]`, then:
```rust
#[cfg(desktop)]
{
builder = builder.plugin(tauri_plugin_process::init());
if context.config().plugins.0.contains_key("updater") {
builder = builder.plugin(tauri_plugin_updater::Builder::new().build());
}
}
```
Verbatim four times. Two copies say so in a comment: Calendar `lib.rs:248-249` and Mail
`lib.rs:251-252` both read "Ported from margin's lib.rs".
**The menu scaffold.** `Menu::default(handle)`, the `submenus` collect, the `find_submenu` closure,
the `match find_submenu("File")` with its `prepend_items` / `SubmenuBuilder` arms, the Edit and Help
appends, the macOS app-submenu insert block and the non-macOS fallback. Margin `lib.rs:46-60` and
`62-93`, Calendar `50-64` and `66-95`, Docs `100-114` and `115-146`, Mail `84-98` and `100-135`.
Pairwise diffs of the whole `build_menu`: Calendar against Mail is 49 differing lines out of 118 and
123. Margin against Calendar is 89. Docs is the outlier at 149 to 159, because it rebuilds the
macOS app submenu from scratch rather than patching Tauri's default (the reasoning is at Docs
`lib.rs:164-176` and is good).
**The menu event.** Identical line in all four: `app.emit("menu-action", event.id().0.as_str()).ok();`
(Margin `lib.rs:192`, Calendar `308`, Docs `318`, Mail `341`), inside an identical `matches!` guard
over a list of ids.
**`show_main_window`.** Calendar `lib.rs:227-234` and Mail `lib.rs:184-191` have identical bodies.
**`packaged_by`.** Calendar `lib.rs:239-244` and Mail `lib.rs:196-201`, identical including the doc
comment, differing only in the env var name (`MARGIN_CALENDAR_PACKAGED_BY` vs `MARGIN_MAIL_PACKAGED_BY`).
**`build.rs`.** Margin's and Docs' are the three-line default. Calendar's and Mail's are
byte-identical 29-line files with the same `embed_credentials` and the same comment.
### Where they genuinely must differ
The menu contents (ids, labels, accelerators, which submenus get extra rows), the `invoke_handler`
list, the `manage` calls and the body of `setup`, deep link registration (Calendar and Mail only),
and the iOS viewport fix and Android consent-tab watcher (Calendar only, see below).
### Three defects found while reading
**Margin Mail cannot compile for mobile.** `#[cfg_attr(mobile, tauri::mobile_entry_point)]` sits at
`lib.rs:203`, directly above `attach_account`, not above `pub fn run()` at `lib.rs:250`. Separately,
`setup` calls `listen_for_redirects` (`lib.rs:307`), `stop_uikit_shrinking_the_viewport` (`lib.rs:310`)
and `watch_for_the_consent_tab_closing` (`lib.rs:314`) under `cfg(mobile)`, `cfg(target_os = "ios")`
and `cfg(target_os = "android")`. None of the three is defined anywhere in the crate; grep returns
only the call sites. All three exist in Calendar (`lib.rs:149-172`, `185-199`, `213-220`) and were
evidently meant to be ported with the rest. The iOS and Android dependency blocks are in
`Cargo.toml` waiting for them.
**Four apps, three close behaviours.** Calendar and Mail prevent the close and hide the window
(Calendar `lib.rs:313-321`, Mail `346-354`), then restore it on `RunEvent::Reopen`. Margin lets the
window be destroyed but calls `api.prevent_exit()` and rebuilds the window from config on Reopen
(`lib.rs:231-238`, `241-256`). Docs calls `.run(context)` directly at `lib.rs:363`, so it has no
`RunEvent` closure and no `CloseRequested` handler anywhere in the crate: closing the window quits
the app. For a suite that shares a design language this is the kind of thing that should have one
answer, and a shared shell crate would force one.
**Capability drift.** Margin puts `core:window:allow-destroy` and `allow-start-dragging` in
`default.json`, which applies on every platform; the other three put them in `desktop.json`. Docs
additionally carries `core:window:allow-toggle-maximize`. Nothing is broken, but four hand-edited
copies of the same two files will keep drifting.
### What the crate would be
A `margin-shell` crate holding: the plugin prologue as `fn desktop_plugins(builder, context)`, the
menu scaffold as `fn standard_menu(handle, spec: &MenuSpec) -> tauri::Result<Menu<R>>` where
`MenuSpec` names the File rows, the extra Edit and View rows and the Help rows, the `menu-action`
forwarding, `show_main_window`, `hide_on_close`, `packaged_by(env_var)` and `app_data_dir`. Around
250 lines, deleting roughly 400 across the four apps, and it makes the close behaviour and the
capability set one decision instead of four.
## dto.rs and the IPC boundary
| | Lines | Structs | Enums | `rename_all = "camelCase"` |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Margin | no `dto.rs` | types inline in their modules | 0 | 8 across the crate |
| Calendar | 181 | 10 | 1 | 11 |
| Docs | 243 | 15 | 0 | 15 |
| Mail | 927 | 40 | 11 | 43 |
The three `dto.rs` files open with the same two-line header ("The IPC contract. Every type here has
a matching declaration in src/ipc.ts. Both sides are frozen once written: implementation modules add
bodies, not fields."). Margin has no `dto.rs`, but follows the same convention where it matters:
`BookSummary` at `library.rs:8-14` is `#[derive(serde::Serialize)]` with `rename_all = "camelCase"`.
The convention is one convention and it is held rigidly: `#[derive(Debug, Clone, Serialize,
Deserialize)]` plus `#[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]` on every type; `#[serde(default)]` on
patch and optional fields (9 in Margin, 55 in Calendar, 7 in Docs, 148 in Mail); `Option<T>` for
absent rather than a sentinel; `i64` epoch milliseconds for time; a string field with the legal
values in a doc comment (`/// idle | syncing | error`) instead of an enum. `#[serde(rename = ...)]`
appears exactly once in the whole suite (Calendar `dto.rs:36`, for `self`), and `skip_serializing_if`
twice, both in Mail. Mail is the only app with real enums, all `rename_all = "kebab-case"`.
**Is there a macro or crate here? No.** `#[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]` is already the shortest
spelling of the thing; a derive macro would save one line per struct and put a proc-macro crate in
four build graphs. The duplication that costs something is on the other side: 65 structs across the
three `dto.rs` files each have a hand-written TypeScript interface in `src/ipc.ts` with nothing
checking that they agree, and the first 41 lines of Calendar's and Docs' `ipc.ts` are byte
identical. That is a codegen question (`ts-rs`, `tauri-specta`) for the frontend note.
The one type that genuinely repeats is the progress status: Calendar `SyncStatus` (`dto.rs:147-167`),
Docs `IndexStatus` (`dto.rs:87-109`), Mail `SyncStatus` (`dto.rs:861-893`). All three are
`phase: String` with the states in a doc comment, `error: Option<String>`, `message: Option<String>`,
progress counters, and a hand-written `Default` or `idle()` constructor. The common core is six
lines. Similarly `AuthEvent`: Calendar `dto.rs:172-181` and Mail `dto.rs:898-910`, where Mail's is
Calendar's plus `granted_scopes` and `missing_required`. Worth putting in a shared crate that exists
anyway. Not worth one on its own.
## SQLite
Present in three. Calendar `store/` is 1,351 lines (about 960 non-test). Docs `index.rs` is 1,771
lines of which only about 420 touch SQLite at all, the rest being fzy scoring, snippet windowing and
markdown parsing. Mail is 6,222 non-test lines across `db.rs`, `mirror/` and `state/`, plus two
`.sql` schema files. Call it 8,500 lines of database code.
**Genuinely duplicated: 80 to 120 lines.** These are not three copies of one layer, they are three
different databases in one house style. The specific overlaps:
- `app_data_dir`, as above.
- `version()`, byte-identical between Calendar `store/schema.rs:130-136` and Mail
`mirror/schema.rs:127-135`, and again modulo the `state.` prefix at Mail `state/schema.rs:56-64`.
- The `meta` upsert. Calendar `store/write.rs:214-228`, Mail `mirror/write.rs:57-73`, Docs' `remember`
at `index.rs:891-899`. Four copies of one `INSERT ... ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE`.
- `now_ms`. Docs `index.rs:905-910` and Mail `mirror/write.rs:42-46` are identical; Calendar's
`store/write.rs:87-89` is the chrono equivalent.
- The placeholder helper: Docs `placeholders` (`index.rs:901-903`) and Mail `holes`
(`mirror/read.rs:898-900`), same one-liner, different name and separator.
- The FTS5 tokenizer string `unicode61 remove_diacritics 2`, in Docs `index.rs:119-122` and Mail
`mirror/mirror.sql:169-178`.
- `.map_err(|e| e.to_string())`, 309 occurrences (Calendar 59, Docs 36, Mail 214). Not a function
waiting to be extracted; a `From` impl waiting to be written.
- The migrate skeleton: read version, refuse if newer, return if equal, run the ladder, stamp.
**Where they legitimately differ.** Three connection ownership models, each correct for its app:
`Mutex<Connection>` (Calendar `store/mod.rs:17`), `Mutex<Option<Connection>>` behind a writer thread
and a `OnceLock<Sender>` (Docs `index.rs:143-151`), and `Mutex<HashMap<String, Connection>>` with one
pair of ATTACHed files per account (Mail `db.rs:31-38`). Pragmas are the same three ideas delivered
three ways: `pragma_update` calls (Calendar `store/mod.rs:17-34`), an `execute_batch` literal (Docs
`index.rs:208-221`), an `execute_batch` with a formatted ATTACH (Mail `db.rs:129-151`). Version
storage differs on a real decision: `PRAGMA user_version` in Docs (`index.rs:229-248`) against a
`meta` row in Calendar and Mail. FTS5 is in two apps and everything above the tokenizer line
differs: Docs ranks with `bm25` and `highlight` (`index.rs:1184-1188`), Mail uses the index purely
as a membership subquery (`mirror/read.rs:234`) under a query language with `from:` and `has:`
operators (`mirror/fts.rs:100-127`).
**Two defects.** Mail has no transactions outside its two migrations: grepping the whole crate for
`unchecked_transaction`, `BEGIN IMMEDIATE`, `.transaction()` and `SAVEPOINT` returns exactly three
hits, two `execute_batch("BEGIN;")` in `mirror/schema.rs:37` and `state/schema.rs:33`, and one
SAVEPOINT in `state/journal.rs:278`. So `apply_and_queue` (`mirror/mod.rs:167-205`), which does N
flag updates plus N outbox inserts, runs unwrapped. Separately, Calendar's migration ladder is
`if found < 1 { V1 } else if found < 2 { V2 }` (`store/schema.rs:115-120`), an `else if`, which will
not compose when V3 lands. Mail's sequential `if`s (`mirror/schema.rs:39-44`) will.
Neither app uses `prepare_cached` anywhere. Mail's `still_bodiless` (`mirror/read.rs:949-969`)
prepares inside a loop.
**The crate.** `margin-sqlite`, roughly 250 lines: `open(path, pragmas)`, `Tx` and `Savepoint` RAII
guards (Calendar's `store/write.rs:62-85` is the right shape already and takes `&Connection` rather
than `&mut`, which is exactly what Mail needs from inside `Db::with`), `migrate(conn, &[&str],
version_store, noun)`, `meta_get`/`meta_set` generic over the table name so Mail's `state.meta`
works, `holes(n)`, `now_ms`, and a `From<rusqlite::Error>` error type. Net deletion is maybe 150
lines. Do it for the two defects it fixes and for the busy timeout, which only Mail sets today
(`db.rs:129-151`, 5s), not for the volume. Every schema, every read and every write stays per app.
## Logging
Only Margin Mail logs. `src-tauri/src/log.rs` is 137 lines, 94 of them not tests.
The surface: `CAP_BYTES = 256 * 1024` (`log.rs:23`), `init(&Path)` (`:34`) which sets a
`OnceLock<PathBuf>` to `dir.join("margin-mail.log")`, `path()` (`:38`), `note(who, line)` (`:45`)
which always `eprintln!`s and then, only if `PATH` is set, timestamps and appends under a
process-wide `Mutex<()>`, `trim` (`:55`) which flattens newlines and cuts at 2,000 characters, and
`append` (`:65`) which is not rotation but a keep-the-newest-half rewrite when the cap is exceeded.
`#[tauri::command] log_note` (`:90`) is registered at `lib.rs:361`, and the webview is the heavier
producer: `src/ipc.ts:752-758` logs every rejected `invoke`, and `src/main.tsx:21,24` catch
`window.onerror` and `unhandledrejection`.
The design decision worth keeping: `log.rs` is **told** its directory rather than reaching for an
`AppHandle`. `db.rs:46` calls `log::init(&data)` from inside `Db::open`, so the engine still works
under `cargo test`. Before that call, lines go to stderr, which under a Finder launch is nowhere.
The other three:
| | `eprintln!` | `println!` | log crate | tracing | plugin-log | log file |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Margin | 0 | 0 | no | no | no | none |
| Calendar | 0 | 0 | no | no | no | none |
| Docs | 6 | 0 | no | no | no | none |
| Mail | 1 (inside `log.rs`) | 3 (dead) | own module | no | no | `margin-mail.log` |
Docs' six are `lib.rs:270`, `lib.rs:278`, `index.rs:437`, `index.rs:596`, `watch.rs:210` and
`writingtools.rs:136`, all going to `/dev/null` under a Finder launch. Margin and Calendar have
nothing at all: when a Drive backup or a calendar sync fails, the string reaches the frontend and
then the process forgets it.
**This is the clearest shared-crate win in the whole audit.** `margin-log` is `init`, `note`, `path`
and the `log_note` command, about 100 lines, dependent only on `chrono` and `std`, with one thing to
parameterise (the filename, derivable from the bundle identifier). Three apps gain the ability to
answer "why did it fail" after the process has exited, which is the standing rule for this suite.
Two things to fix while lifting: `note` discards the result of `append`, so a failed write is
invisible, and it does blocking file I/O under a `std::sync::Mutex` from async contexts
(`sync/engine.rs:327`, `:363`, `:448`, `sync/hydrate.rs:276`, `google/gmail.rs:106`). Bounded and
infrequent, so not urgent, but do not copy it into three more apps unexamined. The frontend half
(the `.catch` in `ipc.ts` plus the two handlers in `main.tsx`) is 15 more lines per app and catches
most real failures.
## Settings and persisted state
Only Mail has a settings layer in Rust. `settings.rs` is 479 lines (343 non-test): `settings.json`
in the app data dir, a 25-field `Settings` struct at `dto.rs:768`, a hand-written `defaults()`
(`settings.rs:32`), a genuine recursive JSON merge for `settings_set(patch)` (`merge_into`,
`settings.rs:234`), an atomic write through `library::atomic_write` (`settings.rs:221`), and a
deliberate refusal to reset on a malformed file (`settings.rs:210`, tested at `:430`). Mail also
owns `accounts.json`, `keymap.json` and `imap-trust.json` in the same directory.
Where everyone else keeps configuration:
- **Margin**: `localStorage`, 16 keys. Per-project settings live inside the `.margin` book file,
merged against TypeScript defaults at `src/model/book.ts:212`. Rust holds no settings; its one
JSON file is `backup.json` (`gdrive.rs:139`), Drive bookkeeping.
- **Calendar**: `localStorage`, five keys. Its entire Settings screen edits one preference, week
start day. No config file on disk in any format, and no `atomic_write` in the crate.
- **Docs**: `localStorage`, seventeen keys behind zustand stores. Rust owns `roots.json`
(`fs.rs:60,778`), which is workspace state rather than settings, and the index database.
**Not a crate.** Lifting `settings.rs` means inventing a settings backend for three apps that do not
have one and whose preferences currently live in the webview. That is a feature, not a refactor, and
the 25-field struct cannot move regardless. If it is ever wanted, the reusable core is: read JSON,
deep-merge a patch, atomic write, error rather than reset on a parse failure. About 60 lines.
One latent bug to fix in place: `Settings` has exactly one `#[serde(default)]` field
(`dto.rs:805`, `notifications`). Every other field is required, so the next field added without one
will fail to parse every existing install's `settings.json` and `settings_get` will error out. There
is a regression test for the one field that has a default (`settings.rs:389`), but the pattern was
not generalised.
## Filesystem helpers
Four `atomic_write`s, three genuinely different algorithms, all of them `write, fsync, rename` and
**none of them fsyncing the parent directory**, so on all four a crash can still lose the rename.
- **Docs** `fs.rs:311-347` with helpers at `:222-288`. A per-path `Arc<Mutex<()>>` lock map so a
debounced autosave cannot race Cmd+S; a copy of the original into the temp before truncating so
macOS ACLs, Finder tags and the exec bit survive; a hidden collision-retried temp name
(`.{name}.{pid}-{seq}-{nanos:x}.tmp`, 64 tries); four `watch::note_self_write` calls; and
`remove_file` on both error paths.
- **Margin** `project.rs:13-30`. Adds `.bak` rotation. When `backup` is false it `remove_file`s the
target before the rename (`project.rs:26`), opening a window where the file does not exist.
Leaves the temp behind on failure.
- **Mail** `library.rs:19-33`. Adds `create_dir_all`. Uses `with_extension`, which for a path with
no extension produces a doubled dot. Leaves the temp behind on failure. No lock.
- **`write_private`** in Calendar `google/secrets.rs:243-261` and Mail `google/secrets.rs:245-263`
is a fourth variant and the only byte-identical pair, `0o600`. That one belongs to the Google note.
**Do not share the general one.** Sharing it either drops Docs' watcher integration and lock map or
drags the file watcher into the shared crate. Each divergence is justified in a comment in its own
file. Do fix the two real bugs listed above, in place.
Not everything even goes through it: Mail writes the mbox export straight to `fs::File::create`
(`exports.rs:99-104`) and the attachment cache with plain `fs::write` (`attachments.rs:279`, `:482`).
**Trash**: Docs only. `trash = "5"`, used at `fs.rs:712-730` with `DeleteMethod::NsFileManager` on
macOS chosen deliberately over the crate default to avoid an Apple event entitlement, and used again
as the safe half of a cross-volume move (`fs.rs:676-677`). Margin's `delete_book` (`library.rs:143`)
is a bare `remove_file`.
**Path validation**: Docs is the only app with a real gate. `resolve` rejects non-absolute paths and
any `Component::ParentDir`, canonicalises the deepest existing ancestor and re-appends the tail;
`resolve_in_roots` requires `starts_with` an open root; `checked` (`fs.rs:212-214`) is what every
path-taking command calls, reads included. `check_name` (`fs.rs:149-158`) rejects empty, `.`, `..`,
separators and NUL. Mail sidesteps the problem by never letting the frontend name a write target;
its only sanitiser is `free_path` (`attachments.rs:363-389`), which maps separators to `-` and
trims dots. **Margin has none**: `project.rs:32-46` exposes `read_file`, `write_file` and
`write_bytes` as commands taking an arbitrary absolute path from the webview with no checking at
all. Its one validated path is the book id whitelist at `library.rs:61-66`. That is a finding for
Margin, not an argument for a crate.
**File watching**: Docs only. `notify 8`, `notify-debouncer-full 0.7` and `ignore 0.4` appear in no
other app. 300ms debounce (`watch.rs:33`), `NoCache` chosen over the file-id cache because on macOS
the inode cache folds the two halves of a rename together (`watch.rs:222-229`), self-write
suppression on a 2s window (`watch.rs:55,70-71`), one emit per event (`watch.rs:147`), and `kind`
derived from a fresh `symlink_metadata` rather than trusted from FSEvents flags
(`watch.rs:402-429`). One app watches files. There is nothing to share.
## Error types
Already uniform, and there is nothing to fix. **Every one of the 165 `#[tauri::command]`s across the
four apps returns either a bare value or `Result<T, String>`, with zero exceptions** (Margin 24,
Calendar 13, Docs 38, Mail 90). Counts of `-> Result<T, String>` anywhere: 52, 94, 91, 485.
`thiserror` and `anyhow` are dependencies of none of the four. Every `Display` is hand-written. The
custom enums are internal and never cross to the frontend: Calendar `ApiError` (`google/api.rs:132`,
four variants), Mail `ApiError` (`google/api.rs:184`, seven), Mail `ProviderError`
(`provider/mod.rs:26`), Mail `Refused` (`imap/tls.rs:95`). There are five `impl From` in the whole
suite. The two `ApiError`s look like the same type and are not: Calendar needs `SyncTokenExpired`
and `PreconditionFailed`, Mail needs `Unauthorized`, `InsufficientScope` and `Dropped`, and even the
shared four-line `From<reqwest::Error>` differs deliberately, with a comment in Mail explaining why
Calendar's simpler classification would be wrong for a mail client waking from sleep.
A shared `Result`/`Error` shape would be churn. The one useful piece is the
`From<rusqlite::Error>` that kills 309 `.map_err(|e| e.to_string())`, and that lives in the SQLite
crate.
## Updates
Margin's `updates.rs` is 90 lines and does three things: derive a channel from the merged plugin
config plus a Mac App Store receipt probe, query Apple's lookup endpoint for a newer App Store
version, and open `macappstore://`. **It is almost entirely app-agnostic already.** `channel()`
reads `handle.config().plugins.0` for `"updater"` and `"appstore"`; `mas_receipt()` walks
`current_exe()` up two levels to `_MASReceipt/receipt`; `appstore_latest()` reads
`config().identifier` and `package_info().version`. No product name, no bundle id, no endpoint is
hardcoded. It would drop into any of the other three unchanged.
| | Margin | Calendar | Docs | Mail |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| `tauri-plugin-updater` | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Conditional registration | `lib.rs:159` | `lib.rs:260` | `lib.rs:263` | `lib.rs:265` |
| Channel concept | yes | no | no | no |
| App Store vs direct split | yes | no | no | no |
| `packaged_by` | no | `lib.rs:239` | no | `lib.rs:196` |
| Release pubkey | real | real | **placeholder** | **placeholder** |
Docs and Mail both ship a literal `REPLACE_WITH_...` string as the updater pubkey in
`tauri.release.conf.json`, and neither release workflow substitutes it (the workflows only set
`TAURI_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY`). Neither app can ship a verifiable direct-download update today. All
four release configs are 14 lines with an identical structure differing only in pubkey and repo slug.
**Share it.** `updates.rs` plus `packaged_by` is one 110-line module with one thing to parameterise,
and even the env var name could be derived from the bundle identifier. Second cheapest win after
logging.
## Async
Margin has **no tokio dependency at all**. Docs declares `tokio = { features = ["sync", "time"] }`
(`Cargo.toml:34`) and never uses it: grep for `tokio::` in its `src-tauri/src` returns nothing. That
line is a copy from a sibling and should go.
`tauri::async_runtime::spawn` is the house style in the three apps that spawn (Margin `gdrive.rs:765`,
Calendar `sync.rs:205` and five more, Mail `badge.rs:88` and five more). Raw `tokio::spawn` appears
only in Mail's IMAP autodiscovery fan-out (`imap/discover.rs:69-72`, `:382-383`, `:419`), which is
safe because Tauri's runtime is tokio but leaves those tasks untracked by Tauri's shutdown. Docs uses
no async runtime for background work at all: three `std::thread::spawn`s (`watch.rs:260`,
`watch.rs:287`, `index.rs:203`) and `#[tauri::command(async)]` on sync functions.
The two poll loops are the closest pair of non-trivial code in the suite and are still not the same.
Calendar `sync.rs:204-215` and Mail `sync/mod.rs:374-386` share the skeleton, share
`FIRST_PASS_SECS = 2`, and share a `focused()` helper that is character-for-character identical
(Calendar `sync.rs:218-223`, Mail `sync/mod.rs:388-392`). They differ on the wake: Calendar awaits a
`tokio::sync::Notify` with a timeout, so `kick` (`sync.rs:238-242`) can pull the next tick forward,
and it listens on `store-changed` to catch a freshly connected account (`sync.rs:197-202`). Mail's
is a bare `sleep`, and `kick` (`sync/mod.rs:456-464`) spawns a separate `sync_now` instead, relying
on the `running: AtomicBool` re-entrancy guard (`sync/engine.rs:74-84`) to keep the two from
overlapping. Both work. They are two answers, not one shared answer.
Nobody uses `tokio::time::interval`, `CancellationToken`, `watch::channel`, `parking_lot` or
`RwLock`. Cancellation, where it exists, is a re-entrancy guard (Mail's `AtomicBool`, Calendar's
`tokio::sync::Mutex<()>` with `try_lock`), a dropped stream (Mail `attachments.rs:140-160`), or a
`Weak` (Docs `watch.rs:200,262`). The three debounce helpers (Docs `watch.rs:376-387` and
`index.rs:451-464`, Mail `badge.rs:79-92`) are three different things; there is nothing to lift.
Events: all four use the `Emitter` trait and `app.emit(name, payload)` broadcast. **Nothing anywhere
uses `emit_to` or `emit_filter`**, which is fine while every app is single-window. Names are
kebab-case and overlap heavily: `menu-action` in all four, `store-changed`, `sync-progress` and
`auth` in Calendar and Mail, `pdf-warnings` in Margin and Docs. Docs is the only app defining them
as constants on both sides (`index.rs:42`, `watch.rs:26`, `src/ipc.ts:43-52`).
The lock rule is applied consistently and is worth writing down as a guideline rather than a crate:
`std::sync::Mutex` for SQLite behind a `with(|conn| ...)` closure, `tokio::sync::Mutex` for anything
held across an `.await`. Stated explicitly at Calendar `sync.rs:112-115` and Mail `db.rs:12-15`.
The `Sink` trait (Calendar `sync.rs:68-78`, Mail `sync/mod.rs:230-266`) is the one abstraction
arrived at twice independently: `status` and `changed` methods, an `AppSink { app: AppHandle }`
implementation, existing so a sync pass can be tested against a recorder. It is 12 lines and it
belongs with the sync engine, which is not shared. **No async crate.**
## Dependency drift
Agreed in all four and not worth a table row: `tauri` and `tauri-build` at 2, `serde` and
`serde_json` at 1, `base64` 0.22, `tauri-plugin-opener` 2, `objc2` 0.6 and `objc2-foundation` 0.3.
Also agreed where shared: `sha2` 0.10, `rand` 0.8, `url` 2, `chrono` 0.4, `tempfile` 3 (dev),
`harper-core` =2.5.0, `typst` and `typst-pdf` 0.14.2, `typst-as-lib` 0.15.5, `objc2-app-kit` 0.3,
`objc2-ui-kit` 0.3, `block2` 0.6, `tauri-plugin-dialog` and `tauri-plugin-deep-link` at 2.
Where they disagree, blank meaning the app does not have it:
| Crate | Margin | Calendar | Docs | Mail |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rusqlite | | **0.37** | 0.40 | 0.40 |
| reqwest | 0.12 | 0.12 | | **0.13** |
| chacha20poly1305 | | **0.10** | | 0.11 |
| fontdb | 0.23 | | 0.23 | **0.24** |
| tokio | none | 1 (sync, time) | 1 (**unused**) | 1 (sync, time, net, io-util, rt) |
| tauri-plugin-process | 2 (**ungated**) | 2 (gated) | 2 (gated) | 2 (gated) |
| tauri-plugin-updater | 2 (**ungated**) | 2 (gated) | 2 (gated) | 2 (gated) |
Resolved in the lockfiles: `tauri` is 2.11.3 in Margin and 2.11.5 in the other three; `serde` 1.0.228
vs 1.0.229; `tokio` 1.52.3 vs 1.53.1; `libsqlite3-sys` 0.35.0 (Calendar) vs 0.38.2 (Docs, Mail);
`wry` 0.55.1 and `objc2` 0.6.4 everywhere. `reqwest` 0.12 and 0.13 are both in Margin's and
Calendar's graphs already.
Four real drifts to close: rusqlite 0.37 in Calendar against 0.40 elsewhere, reqwest 0.12 against
0.13 in Mail, chacha20poly1305 0.10 against 0.11, fontdb 0.23 against 0.24. The last three matter
because Calendar and Mail share a sealed-token format and Margin and Docs share a Typst pipeline; a
version split inside a pair that is meant to be the same code is how the two copies quietly stop
being the same code.
## What to build, and the one obstacle
Build three crates:
1. **`margin-log`**, about 100 lines. `init(dir, filename)`, `note(who, line)`, `path()`, the
`log_note` command. Highest value: three apps currently cannot answer why anything failed.
2. **`margin-shell`**, about 250 lines. The builder prologue, the menu scaffold behind a `MenuSpec`,
the `menu-action` forwarding, `show_main_window`, `hide_on_close`, `app_data_dir`,
`packaged_by`, and Margin's `updates.rs` unchanged. Deletes roughly 400 lines and forces one
answer to the close-button question that currently has three.
3. **`margin-sqlite`**, about 250 lines. `open` with pragmas including a busy timeout, `Tx` and
`Savepoint`, `migrate`, `meta_get`/`meta_set`, `holes`, `now_ms`, an error type. Deletes maybe
150 lines and fixes Mail's missing transactions and Calendar's non-composable ladder.
Do not build a settings crate, an error crate, a filesystem crate, an async crate or a DTO macro.
For each of those, either only one app has the thing, or all four already do the same trivial thing
in the same trivial way, or the apparent duplication dissolves on reading the divergences, every one
of which is justified in a comment where it sits.
The obstacle is mechanical and is the same one `repo-facts.md` describes for `margin-shared`. These
are four separate git repositories with no cargo workspace and no path dependencies between them,
and Margin Mail has no remote at all and one scaffold commit under 123 uncommitted files. A Cargo
path dependency walking out of one checkout into a sibling would fail on a fresh clone and in CI
exactly as the npm one already does. Decide where the shared crates live, a fifth repository
consumed by git tag or a monorepo, before writing a line of them.
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