The box at the top puts things in the project with no section, which is right for
capturing. But a project has sections because the work belongs somewhere, and
dragging every new task down into the right one is a second gesture for something
you already knew when you typed it.
Two ways in, because they answer different moments. A field at the foot of each
section and each board column — standing there is enough, no syntax to know. And
`/section` in quick add, for the box at the top and for Today and Upcoming, where
you are not standing in a section at all.
The field goes through quick add rather than createTask, so a line written there
still parses its dates, priorities and labels.
The sigil needed care: '#' and '@' never turn up in a Danish task line by accident
and '/' turns up constantly. It has to follow whitespace and be followed
immediately by the name, which "km/t", "3/4" and "20 kr / stk" all fail. The bare
form is greedy, because "Kunder/Ordrer" is a real section name and the sigil is
inside it.
A section id from the client is checked against the project the task actually
landed in. A `#project` in the same line can move the task elsewhere, and the id
would otherwise follow it into a project that section does not belong to.
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Comments and attachments close out phase 2. Files are stored
content-addressed by hash, so the path never contains anything the
uploader chose — a filename is attacker-controlled text, and building a
path from it is how "../" becomes a write outside the data directory.
Everything downloads as application/octet-stream: an uploaded SVG served
inline would run its own script on this origin with the session cookie
attached.
Web Push is written directly against RFC 8030/8291/8292 rather than
pulled in — it is three specs' worth of well-defined crypto and about
two hundred lines, and the alternatives carry a JWT and crypto stack
each larger than the file.
Phase 4 imports Todoist's CSV and exports it back. Todoist numbers
priorities the opposite way to how it displays them — its 4 is P1 — so
the two are converted rather than copied; getting it backwards silently
inverts the urgency of every imported task. Nesting is positional, so
the reader keeps an indent stack and the writer never sorts.
The round trip is tested as the brief asks: a CSV in, out, and back
produces an identical project, and two exports of one project are
byte-identical.
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Reminders are absolute or relative ("10 minutes before"). A relative one
is resolved against the task in SQL, so moving a task moves its reminders
too. They are marked sent before delivery, not after: a reminder that
goes out unrecorded repeats every minute forever, which is worse than
one recorded that fails to send.
The calendar feed is a per-user token in the path, because Apple Calendar
and Google fetch with no credentials and no way to prompt for any. Tasks
go out as VTODO — the same component CalDAV will serve — and timed ones
also as VEVENT, since Google ignores VTODO entirely.
Templates store relative day offsets rather than dates, which is what
makes them reusable: an onboarding checklist is "day 1, day 3, day 14",
not three dates in March. Building a project from one is a single
transaction, so a failure cannot leave half a checklist.
Backups use SQLite's VACUUM INTO, not a file copy — a copy of a live
WAL database can miss recent writes or catch a page mid-update, and the
result looks like a database right up until it is needed. Rotation keeps
fourteen by count, not by age: a container that was off for a month must
not come back and delete every backup it has.
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"today & p1", "#Firma & @regnskab", "overdue | (today & assigned to: me)".
The grammar is Todoist's, so the import path from it does not require
relearning anything, and both languages' keywords are accepted.
It compiles to parameterised SQL rather than filtering in Go: one
indexed query instead of ten thousand rows crossing the boundary. No
typed text is ever concatenated into the statement — this is a language
people write by hand, which makes it exactly where string-building would
become an injection.
An expression is compiled before it is saved. A filter that cannot run
is worse than none: it is discovered later, as a list that is empty for
a reason nobody can see.
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"vand planterne hver mandag" becomes FREQ=WEEKLY;BYDAY=MO. The stored
form is RFC 5545, not a private format, so the same field will drive the
CalDAV server and the ICS feed without a translation layer.
Ticking off a repeating task advances it instead of closing it, keeping
the same row — so its sub-tasks and comments stay attached. A weekly
review is one thing that recurs, not fifty-two things. The clock time
survives the move, and the completion is still written to the activity
log, because "what did I get done this week" has to include the chores
that repeat.
Recurrence is parsed before dates, and that ordering is load-bearing:
"hver mandag" contains a weekday, so a date parser reading it first
would claim Monday as a one-off and strand "hver" in the title. It is
also resolved before the time-only case, or "hver mandag kl 9" typed
after nine would land tomorrow morning instead of on Monday.
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CI runs in UTC and the API resolves due dates in the user's timezone,
which defaults to Europe/Copenhagen. For two hours out of every
twenty-four those disagree, so tests written against time.Now() passed
all day locally and failed on a late-evening push.
The application was right; the tests were asking it the wrong question.
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Completes the MVP surface: project and section CRUD, task CRUD with
sub-trees, drag-and-drop ordering, the quick-add endpoint over the
natural-language parser, Today and Upcoming, search, sharing with roles,
an activity log and a WebSocket for live updates.
Permission checks are route middleware rather than a first line in each
handler, so an endpoint is guarded by where it sits instead of by the
author remembering. Anything the caller may not see answers 404, never
403 — a 403 confirms the thing exists. Visibility is enforced inside the
list query, so another user's project cannot be reached by filtering or
searching at it.
Ordering is a float, so a drop writes one row instead of renumbering the
list. When repeated drops into one gap exhaust the precision, the
section is spread out again and the move retried — in a separate
transaction, since the attempt that discovered the problem rolls back.
The connection pool is not 1: a single connection makes the pool a lock,
and a query run while an earlier result set is still open then waits for
a connection it is itself holding. The store now closes its rows before
querying again, and the pool leaves that mistake slow rather than fatal.
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