Merge pull request #57 from kristianwind/site-charcoal-features

docs(site): Charcoal theme, offline, and the star that comes off
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@@ -39,8 +39,17 @@ forward mail to, and an MCP endpoint so Claude can work your task list directly.
- **Live sync** — a change made by somebody else appears without a refresh.
- **Repeating tasks** as RRULE, comments and attachments, and reminders that go
out as Web Push to an iPhone or a Mac.
- **[Calendar](caldav.md), [mail](mail.md) and [Claude](mcp.md)** connected over
open standards rather than private formats.
- **[Your mail as an inbox](mailboxes.md).** Star a mail in Gmail, or flag one
over IMAP in iCloud or Fastmail, and it becomes a task — and the star or flag
comes off once it has, so a starred inbox empties as the tasks are made instead
of only filling up.
- **[Calendar](caldav.md) and [Claude](mcp.md)** connected over open standards
rather than private formats.
- **Six themes**, three dark and three light — including *Charcoal*, a warm
near-black after Apple Notes — and a size and typeface chosen apart from them.
- **Holds through a short network drop.** A save rides out a few seconds of no
signal and goes through when it comes back; a reload opens from what it last saw
rather than the browser's offline page. It installs as a PWA.
## What it looks like
@@ -60,6 +69,12 @@ columns.*
marked with an arrow to them, so a delegated task reads as delegated wherever you
meet it.*
![Notes in the Charcoal theme](screenshots/notes-charcoal.png)
*Charcoal, the newest of six themes — a warm near-black after Apple Notes, with
amber where the accent green usually is. Three dark themes and three light, and a
typeface and size chosen apart from them.*
![Settings, integrations](screenshots/settings.png)
*Where [Gmail](mailboxes.md), the [calendar feed](caldav.md) and the
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<figure class="shot">
<img
src="screenshots/themes.webp"
alt="The settings page showing five themes as swatches and, below them, four looks written in the typeface each one selects."
alt="The settings page showing six themes as swatches and, below them, four looks written in the typeface each one selects."
width="1400"
height="900"
loading="lazy"
/>
<figcaption>Five themes and four looks: how bright, and how it reads.</figcaption>
<figcaption>Six themes and four looks: how bright, and how it reads.</figcaption>
</figure>
<figure class="shot">
<img
src="screenshots/notes-charcoal.webp"
alt="Notes in the Charcoal theme: a warm near-black modelled on Apple Notes, the note list on the left and a note open on the right, with amber where the accent green usually is."
width="1400"
height="900"
loading="lazy"
/>
<figcaption>Charcoal — the newest theme, a warm near-black after Apple Notes, amber for the accent.</figcaption>
</figure>
<figure class="shot">
<img
@@ -1120,6 +1130,15 @@
by itself — without touching when it is actually due.
</p>
</div>
<div class="cell">
<h3>Holds through a drop</h3>
<p>
A tunnel, a lift, a base station handing over — the app does not go
blank when the signal does. A save you make rides out a few seconds of
no connection and goes through when it comes back, and a reload opens
from what it last saw rather than the browser's offline page.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<p class="group-label">Connected to what you already use</p>
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<h3>Your mail, as an inbox</h3>
<p>
Star a mail in Gmail, or flag one over IMAP in iCloud or Fastmail, and
it becomes a task. Forward one to your own address instead and the
subject is parsed like anything else you type. One way: unstarring it
later does nothing to the task you made.
it becomes a task — and the star or flag comes off once it has, so a
starred inbox empties as the tasks are made instead of only filling up.
Forward one to your own address instead and the subject is parsed like
anything else you type.
</p>
</div>
<div class="cell">
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<a href="https://github.com/kristianwind/verdande/releases">the releases page</a>.
</p>
<ul class="lately">
<li>
<span class="ver">0.42</span>
A sixth theme, <strong>Charcoal</strong> — a warm near-black after Apple
Notes, with amber for the accent. And the app now holds through a short
network drop: a save rides out a few seconds of no signal, and a reload
opens from what it last saw rather than the browser's offline page.
</li>
<li>
<span class="ver">0.42</span>
A starred Gmail message loses its star once it has become a task, the way
a flagged IMAP mail already did — so a starred inbox empties itself as the
tasks are made instead of only filling up.
</li>
<li>
<span class="ver">0.42</span>
Notes read as three lines, the last one the project they are filed under;
the calendar lightened to pastel days with today marked at the top; and
two-factor set-up shows a QR code to scan.
</li>
<li>
<span class="ver">0.41</span>
A task you have delegated is marked where you meet it, not only on the
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{ name: 'detail', path: (ids) => `/opgave/${ids.detail}`, theme: 'dark' },
{ name: 'notes', path: '/noter', theme: 'dark', prepare: openMeetingNote },
{ name: 'notes-source', path: '/noter', theme: 'dark', prepare: showNoteSource },
// Charcoal, the newest theme — a warm near-black modelled on Apple Notes, with
// amber where the green usually is. Today and the notes list are the two views
// that show a theme's surfaces, text and one accent at once, so those are the two
// the landing page carries it in.
{ name: 'today-charcoal', path: '/', theme: 'charcoal' },
{ name: 'notes-charcoal', path: '/noter', theme: 'charcoal', prepare: openMeetingNote },
// The new work, and in the light theme, which is what most people want to look
// at a landing page in. The calendar drawing tasks to their length, and a note
// somebody shared into the "Shared with me" group.