1.9.0a9 — the notebook, designed

An opt-in preview of 1.9.0. Stable is 1.8.9. The owner looked at co rem and said it read like a wiki and looked generic: People should open like a CRM, facts should be cards you can scan, and the whole thing should be designed. An expert critique of the old reader named its ten biggest problems (#2065); this preview answers them.

The reader opens on the night

co rem open now opens on a dark "last night" band: what the last pass read and rewrote, the week's runs drawn as a small hypnogram, and the pages that changed. Under it, what is open: waiting on you, oldest first with its age, and waiting on others. Then this week's changes, and the notebook by kind.

People as a sheet

People, Organisations and Projects open as tables you can sort and filter: name, what's open (who owes whom), company, role, email, phone, last contact, mails. "Something open" and "Yours to answer" filter to what needs you; a row opens the person (#2064).

A person page opens on what is owed

A page starts with one line on the balance between you ("You owe Mara the signed data-sharing addendum — 9 days"), then Insight (Now, At stake, Changed, Pattern), open threads as cards, and a Facts panel where every value is cited and a fact that was not found says so. History is a dated timeline of at most eight milestones (#2059); citations jump to their source (#2054); a page says "you", not "the user". Designed light and dark themes, phone width, no network.

Leaner pages

• A person page is for someone you correspond with: on the owner's notebook 381 people became 85, and 142 organisations 18, archived, not deleted (#2057).
• Lines about the tool rather than the subject are removed (#2058); the first mention of a person with a page links to it, project pages read the README, and every page is in English (#2060).
• Evidence is a month of one mailbox per file, so investigation reads less: one page went from 2.77M to 1.48M input tokens on the same mail (#2080).

The terminal, designed

co rem status leads with today, lines every value up in one column, and shows the notebook as written-of-mapped meters; init, sync and investigate use the same layout and glyphs with meaning (● written, ○ mapped, ✓, ✗, ↻, →) (#2070).

A SQLite index beside the pages

The notebook keeps .state/rem.db, an owner-only index of people, orgs, projects, messages and runs, rebuilt from its files after every map and sync (under a second on the owner's notebook). The People sheet reads it, and co rem list people --table prints it. Mail threads now carry the provider's own thread id, ready for a conversation view (#2067).

Install

python -m pip install --upgrade 'connectonion==1.9.0a9'
co rem open

Known limits

• Investigation does not yet write the structured Facts and Insight blocks the reader is built for; pages written before show their Contact lines in the Facts panel (#2068, next preview).
• Conversations do not yet open as a chat history (#2066).
• The owner's identity is still spread over several person pages (#2078).