Audited the template against 514 real Claude sessions (1503 top-level
prompts) joined to the 49 notes in BACKLOG.md. Sections were judged on
whether the agent actually read them, not on fill rate — four of them
said "leave blank if none" in their own helper, so a low fill rate was
the section working correctly.
Measured over the 22 note/session pairs:
estimate filled 22, referenced 1 (4%)
done filled 22, quoted back 4 (18%)
refs filled 14, URLs fetched 5 (35%)
tech the agent opened pubspec.yaml/CLAUDE.md anyway in 54%
ask 100% ask rate with it, 92% without — no measurable effect
Kept: title, what, where, must, done. Dropped: tech (into `where`),
ask, nice and never (into `must` as `optional:` / `must not:` lines),
depends, estimate. Renamed `refs` -> `read first`. Added `verify`, the
only addition: "test it yourself, on the phone" was the single most
repeated correction in the corpus, and 3 of the 7 filled `never`
sections were already smuggling it in.
Fixes a latent data-loss bug found while testing this. parse() treats
an unknown `## heading` as content on purpose (values may contain
subheadings), so a legacy `## tech` block was folded into the preceding
section's value AND the note still reported conforming — opening any
old note in the stepper would have swallowed it on the next save.
NoteTemplate.retiredLabels now makes those notes explicitly
non-conforming, so they open raw and untouched.
tool/migrate_backlog.dart converts an old export (export -> migrate ->
import). It is idempotent and gated: it throws if a rewritten note does
not conform or if any source line vanishes. All 49 notes migrated on
the desktop and merged to the phone (0 new, 25 updated, 24 unchanged).
Also formats the few files dart format had never been run over, and
extracts a local in frame_stats_io.dart so the reflowed line stays
under 80 chars.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two things found while verifying the >=100fps done-condition at 4K.
`bool.fromEnvironment` only accepts the literal `true`, so
`--dart-define=TODO_FRAME_STATS=1` silently evaluated to false and the web
instrument emitted nothing at all -- a whole measurement run produced no data
and looked like the callback was broken. It now reads the value as a string and
accepts either form.
The wrapper gains --backlog-path/--log-path. Verification needs to point the
server somewhere harmless: it starts an app whose store may be empty, and an
empty store exports over the real ~/todo/BACKLOG.md through the very endpoint
being tested.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
First step of moving the desktop app off Flutter's Linux embedder, which tops
out at ~20fps at 4K (see docs/desktop-performance-findings.md). Android is
unaffected and keeps every existing code path.
The blocker was that `dart:io` was imported by note_repository, capture_screen
and settings_screen. On web it compiles to a stub and then throws at runtime --
the first web build rendered a blank white window. So each `dart:io` use now
sits behind a conditional export, with the shared logic hoisted into pure Dart:
- note_repository loses `dart:io`/sqlite entirely. Platform wiring moves to
repository_factory{,_io,_web}, and the legacy sqlite import moves to its own
io-only library. The HLC-from-updated_at seeding is preserved verbatim, so
independently-migrating devices still resolve pre-cutover edits by real edit
time.
- Notes persist to IndexedDB on web, not localStorage: the log is the primary
copy of the backlog and localStorage caps at ~5-10MB and is evicted eagerly.
- BACKLOG.md and the explicit Export keep working through a local wrapper
(added next). A browser cannot write `~/todo/BACKLOG.md`, and the user's
tooling plus the todo MCP server read that path, so leaving it to rot was not
an option. Writes are best-effort so the app still works with no wrapper.
- Notes are also mirrored to the wrapper's on-disk copy, so a wiped Chrome
profile is not a total-loss event for notes that have not reached GitHub yet.
`openRepository` is split so `openRepositoryIn` keeps the migration tests; the
suite stays at 174 green and 100% coverage.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
