Sync conversation notes via Git Sync, add discard shortcut to crash-recovery prompt

Notes files now export to notes/ + notes.json alongside conversations.json,
matching folders.json's manifest pattern: matched by conversation ID, never
overwrites notes a machine already has locally, same empty-state orphan-
cleanup safety guard as the existing conversation/folder sync code. Also
adds Cmd+D to the "Discard" button on the crash-recovery restore prompt.

Fixes two Swift 6 actor-isolation build warnings surfaced along the way:
ConversationNotesService and the String filename-sanitizing extension are
pure, state-free helpers called from nonisolated contexts (DatabaseService,
GitSyncService) but defaulted to @MainActor — marked nonisolated.
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2026-08-04 08:31:16 +02:00
parent 3414e37e24
commit d93c233453
7 changed files with 195 additions and 6 deletions
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@@ -86,6 +86,20 @@ nonisolated struct FolderSyncManifest: Codable {
var assignments: [String: String]
}
/// Serialized as `notes.json` at the sync repo root, alongside a `notes/` directory holding the
/// raw note file content (same format as `~/Library/Application Support/oAI/notes/`, see
/// ConversationNotesService). Matching is by conversationId via this manifest, not by parsing the
/// embedded `**ID**:` header inside each note file same approach as `FolderSyncManifest`.
nonisolated struct NotesSyncManifest: Codable {
nonisolated struct Entry: Codable {
let filename: String
let enabled: Bool
}
/// conversationId -> notes entry. Only present for conversations that have ever had notes.
var notes: [String: Entry]
}
nonisolated struct ConversationExport {
let id: String
let name: String
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@@ -33,8 +33,8 @@ import AppKit
/// All operations are best-effort a missing or unreadable file is never an error,
/// since notes files are explicitly meant to tolerate being renamed, edited, or
/// deleted by hand outside the app.
final class ConversationNotesService {
nonisolated static let shared = ConversationNotesService()
nonisolated final class ConversationNotesService {
static let shared = ConversationNotesService()
private let baseDirectory: URL = {
let appSupport = FileManager.default.urls(for: .applicationSupportDirectory,
@@ -62,6 +62,21 @@ final class ConversationNotesService {
return Self.stripIDHeader(from: content)
}
/// Returns the file's exact on-disk content, ID header included used by GitSyncService to
/// export the note byte-for-byte without needing to know the header format.
func readRaw(filename: String) -> String? {
let url = baseDirectory.appendingPathComponent(filename)
return try? String(contentsOf: url, encoding: .utf8)
}
/// Writes content exactly as given, with no header wrapping used by GitSyncService to import
/// a pulled note file byte-for-byte (it already carries its own embedded ID header).
func writeRaw(content: String, filename: String) {
ensureDirectory()
let url = baseDirectory.appendingPathComponent(filename)
try? content.write(to: url, atomically: true, encoding: .utf8)
}
/// Writes the full notes body, prefixed with the conversation's embedded ID header.
func write(body: String, filename: String, conversationId: UUID) {
ensureDirectory()
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@@ -218,9 +218,50 @@ class GitSyncService {
try manifestData.write(to: URL(fileURLWithPath: localPath + "/folders.json"))
log.debug("Exported folders.json (\(allFolders.count) folders)")
// Export per-conversation notes (see ConversationNotesService), same manifest + directory
// shape as folders.json: notes/<filename> holds the raw file content byte-for-byte (its
// embedded **ID** header included), notes.json maps conversationId -> {filename, enabled}
// so import can match without parsing file content.
let notesDir = localPath + "/notes"
try FileManager.default.createDirectory(atPath: notesDir, withIntermediateDirectories: true)
var notesEntries: [String: NotesSyncManifest.Entry] = [:]
for conversation in conversations {
guard let filename = conversation.notesFilename,
let content = ConversationNotesService.shared.readRaw(filename: filename)
else { continue }
try content.write(toFile: notesDir + "/" + filename, atomically: true, encoding: .utf8)
notesEntries[conversation.id.uuidString] = NotesSyncManifest.Entry(filename: filename, enabled: conversation.notesEnabled)
}
let notesManifest = NotesSyncManifest(notes: notesEntries)
let notesManifestData = try encoder.encode(notesManifest)
try notesManifestData.write(to: URL(fileURLWithPath: localPath + "/notes.json"))
log.debug("Exported notes.json (\(notesEntries.count) notes)")
// Remove sync-repo note files for conversations that no longer exist locally same
// orphan cleanup and empty-state safety guard as orphanedExportFilenames above.
let existingNoteFiles = (try? FileManager.default.contentsOfDirectory(atPath: notesDir)) ?? []
let currentNoteFilenames = Set(notesEntries.values.map { $0.filename })
for filename in Self.orphanedNoteFilenames(currentFilenames: currentNoteFilenames, existingFiles: existingNoteFiles) {
try? FileManager.default.removeItem(atPath: notesDir + "/" + filename)
log.info("Removed orphaned note file: \(filename)")
}
await updateStatus()
}
/// Given the note filenames currently referenced by local conversations and the filenames
/// found on disk in the sync repo's notes directory, returns the filenames safe to delete
/// because no local conversation references them anymore (conversation deleted, or its notes
/// file was replaced). Same empty-state guard as orphanedExportFilenames/orphanedLocalFolderIds
/// an empty currentFilenames set is indistinguishable from "haven't loaded local
/// conversations yet" (e.g. right after a fresh clone), so treating it as "every note file was
/// orphaned" would repeat the exact class of mass-deletion bug that hit conversation sync.
nonisolated static func orphanedNoteFilenames(currentFilenames: Set<String>, existingFiles: [String]) -> [String] {
guard !currentFilenames.isEmpty else { return [] }
return existingFiles.filter { $0.hasSuffix(".md") && !currentFilenames.contains($0) }
}
/// Given the current conversation IDs and the (filename, markdown content) pairs found in
/// the sync repo's conversations directory, returns the filenames whose export ID doesn't
/// match any current conversation i.e. files safe to delete because their conversation
@@ -396,6 +437,40 @@ class GitSyncService {
}
}
// Import per-conversation notes (see ConversationNotesService) runs after the
// conversations loop above so a conversation created in this same import pass already
// exists locally by the time we try to match notes.json against it. Missing/unparsable
// notes.json (older sync repos, or a fresh clone before the first export) is treated as
// "no notes to import," not an error.
let notesManifestPath = localPath + "/notes.json"
if let notesManifestData = try? Data(contentsOf: URL(fileURLWithPath: notesManifestPath)),
let notesManifest = try? JSONDecoder().decode(NotesSyncManifest.self, from: notesManifestData) {
var notesImported = 0
for (conversationIdString, entry) in notesManifest.notes {
guard let conversationId = UUID(uuidString: conversationIdString),
let (existingConversation, _) = try? db.loadConversation(id: conversationId)
else { continue }
// Never overwrite notes the user has already touched locally same
// never-clobber-existing-content philosophy as skipping already-imported
// conversation content, and the folder-assignment backfill-only-if-unset above.
guard existingConversation.notesFilename == nil, !existingConversation.notesEnabled else {
continue
}
guard let content = try? String(contentsOfFile: localPath + "/notes/" + entry.filename, encoding: .utf8) else {
continue
}
ConversationNotesService.shared.writeRaw(content: content, filename: entry.filename)
try? db.setNotesFilename(id: conversationId, filename: entry.filename)
try? db.setNotesEnabled(id: conversationId, enabled: entry.enabled)
notesImported += 1
}
if notesImported > 0 {
log.info("Imported notes for \(notesImported) conversations")
}
}
log.info("Import complete: \(imported) imported, \(skipped) skipped, \(errors) errors")
return (imported, skipped, errors)
}
@@ -435,12 +510,13 @@ class GitSyncService {
- Confab saves conversations to its local database
- Auto-sync exports conversations to `conversations/*.md`
- Your folder structure (if you organize conversations into folders) is exported to `folders.json`
- Per-conversation notes (if you've turned on `/notes on` for a conversation) are exported to `notes/*.md`, tracked in `notes.json`
- Files are committed and pushed to this git repository
### Import (On New Machine)
- Clone this repository on a new machine
- Confab imports markdown files and folders.json into its database
- Your conversation history and folder structure are restored
- Confab imports markdown files, folders.json, and notes.json into its database
- Your conversation history, folder structure, and conversation notes are restored
### Sync Across Machines
- Machine A: Chat → Auto-save → Export → Push to git
@@ -448,6 +524,9 @@ class GitSyncService {
- Conversations stay in sync across all machines
- Folder renames/moves also sync between machines; a conversation's folder is only set
the first time it's imported onto a new machine
- Conversation notes sync the same way; a conversation's notes are only adopted the first
time it's imported onto a new machine — if that machine already has its own notes for the
same conversation, they're left alone rather than overwritten
## File Structure
@@ -455,6 +534,9 @@ class GitSyncService {
/
├── README.md # This file
├── folders.json # Your folder structure (auto-managed, don't edit)
├── notes.json # Per-conversation notes index (auto-managed, don't edit)
├── notes/ # Per-conversation notes files
│ └── ...
└── conversations/ # Your conversations
├── conversation-1.md
├── conversation-2.md
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
import Foundation
extension String {
nonisolated extension String {
// MARK: - Command Parsing
var isSlashCommand: Bool {
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@@ -2294,7 +2294,9 @@ Don't narrate future actions ("Let me...") - just use the tools.
alert.messageText = "Restore unsaved conversation?"
alert.informativeText = "Confab didn't close properly last time. Would you like to restore the conversation you were working on?"
alert.addButton(withTitle: "Restore")
alert.addButton(withTitle: "Discard")
let discardButton = alert.addButton(withTitle: "Discard")
discardButton.keyEquivalent = "d"
discardButton.keyEquivalentModifierMask = .command
if alert.runModal() == .alertFirstButtonReturn {
messages = draft.messages