Symptom Daniel reported: "note recording, not working nor going into
textbox". Root cause was on the server side — /api/notes/from-voice
asked the AI for HTML in its prompt, but real-world models return
markdown ~25% of the time. Tiptap's setContent only renders HTML;
markdown comes through as literal text or a partial render, looking
like the textbox didn't fill.
Server (src/routes/notes.js):
• New toHtmlBody() helper. If the AI returned real HTML (any
block tag), pass through. Otherwise run through `marked` so
markdown becomes <p>/<h*>/<strong>/etc.
• Strips ```json / ```html code fences before JSON parsing.
• Stricter JSON-recovery: only accepts {title|body} parsed shape;
falls back to wrapping the AI's full reply via toHtmlBody().
• Final guard: if body would be empty after sanitisation, wrap
the raw transcript so the user can at least edit it manually.
Client (public/js/notes.js):
• applyGeneratedNote prefers _editor.commands.setContent over a
full remount — avoids the toolbar-reattach flicker + the brief
window where the body looked empty.
• Logs to console when the editor target is missing or Tiptap
setContent throws, so a future regression is greppable.
Plus the two infra fixes Daniel approved earlier in the same
session — keeping them in this commit since they're already
deployed and tested:
• src/db/database.js: cleanup interval handle exposed; server
shutdown now clearInterval()s it before pool.end(). Removes
the SIGTERM → 9-second-hang → Docker SIGKILL race.
• src/routes/audioBackups.js: switch multer.memoryStorage() to
diskStorage with cleanup. 10 concurrent 25 MB uploads no
longer pin 250 MB of RAM. Identical user-visible perf since
upload is wire-bound.
New dep: marked@latest (used server-side only in toHtmlBody).
Soft-delete for notes — Daniel asked for "deleted notes go to trash"
so a slip of the finger doesn't lose work.
Schema: migrations/1777090000000_notes-trash.js adds a deleted_at
timestamptz column to personal_notes (NULL = active) plus an index
on (user_id, deleted_at).
Server (src/routes/notes.js):
GET /api/notes now filters deleted_at IS NULL
GET /api/notes/trash new — list trashed items, newest-
deleted first
DELETE /api/notes/:id now soft-deletes (sets deleted_at)
DELETE /api/notes/:id?hard=1 hard-delete, only allowed on items
already in trash (UI bug can't
erase an active note)
POST /api/notes/:id/restore pull a note out of trash
POST /api/notes/trash/empty hard-delete every trashed note for
the user
Frontend (public/components/notes.html + public/js/notes.js +
public/css/styles.css):
• Sidebar gets two tabs — "Notes" / "Trash (n)" with live count
• Trash tab shows deleted-at timestamps, Restore + delete-forever
per row, Empty-trash button at the bottom
• Active list and trash count refresh in parallel after every
save / delete / restore
• Delete button in the editor now says "Move to trash" and uses
the showConfirm helper (no native dialogs)
Sanitizer swap (public/js/notes.js):
Replaced the homegrown allowlist walker with DOMPurify (already
loaded from cdnjs in index.html, used by learningHub.js too).
Custom HTML sanitizers historically have bypasses; DOMPurify is
the right primitive.
Tests (test/notes-sanitize.test.js — node:test + jsdom + dompurify
as new dev deps):
9 contract tests covering script-tag stripping, inline event
handlers, img onerror, iframe/object, style attributes, every
preserved tag in the allowlist, javascript: URI rejection,
null/undefined input, and nested-script-inside-paragraph. Total
test count: 37 → 46 passing.
SW cache bumped to pedscribe-v12-notes5.
1. flushAutosave dropped brand-new unsaved notes.
The guard was `if (_dirty && _activeId != null)` but _activeId is
null until the first POST succeeds. So tap-New-Note → type → tap-
Back went through flushAutosave → skipped → closeToList → lost
the typed content. saveNote() already handles isNew via POST;
the guard only needs to check _dirty.
2. beforeunload sendBeacon used wrong HTTP method.
navigator.sendBeacon is POST-only by spec, but my code used it to
target PUT /api/notes/:id. Beacons silently hit a 404 route and
the note didn't save. For brand-new notes the URL resolved to
/api/notes/undefined. Replaced with fetch({ keepalive: true })
which browsers queue + ship even across unload, supports PUT,
and handles POST for new notes correctly.
3. Mobile: empty-state card stacked below the sidebar in list view.
The mobile media-query hid .notes-reader + .notes-editor when
data-view="list" but didn't include .notes-empty-state, so the
big "new note" card appeared below the list on phones. Added
the missing selector.
4. Delete fallback used window.confirm.
The `else if (window.confirm(...))` branch in deleteActive was
a rule violation even as a fallback — feedback_no_native_dialogs
says no native dialogs anywhere in frontend. Dropped it;
showConfirm is loaded by app.js before any tab activates so the
fallback path is unreachable in practice. Also upgraded the
confirm call to use the danger + confirmText options so the
modal renders red "Delete" button instead of neutral "Confirm".
5. Recorder kept running after switching tabs or notes.
Dictating, then tapping another clinical-tools tab (or opening
another note) left the MediaRecorder active and the mic stream
open — wasted battery, privacy surprise. Added stopRecording
(silent=true) to the non-notes branch of tabChanged, to
startCreate, and to openReader so any in-flight recording
cancels cleanly when the user moves on.
Minor:
• Dead "'Saving…' : 'Saving…'" ternary in saveNote simplified.
SW cache bumped to pedscribe-v12-notes4.
Removed the "your note saves as you type" / "encrypted at rest" /
tip-list filler that telegraphs AI-generated code. UI now reads
the way a real app reads — names where names go, no paragraphs
explaining what a button does.
• Module header: "Notes" — removed the paragraph tagline.
• Empty state: icon + "New note" button only — removed the
"Hello 👋" heading, the description, and the three-tip list.
• Placeholders: "Title" / "Search" — removed the "…" ellipses
and the "Note title" / "Search notes" verbosity.
• Status + meta: emptied the "New note — will save automatically
once you type" meta string and the "This note is empty. Tap
Edit to add content" reader placeholder.
• Empty-list copy trimmed to just "No matches" when the search
filter is active.
SW cache bumped to pedscribe-v12-notes3.
Four changes landing together so the UX flows properly.
1. Fix voice-generation model error.
/api/notes/from-voice was passing `req.body.model` (undefined)
through to callAI, which resolved to LITELLM_DEFAULT_MODEL (empty
for LiteLLM deployments with no explicit default) → `model=""` →
LiteLLM 400 "Invalid model name". Server now reads the admin-
configured `models.default` setting, falls back to the
LITELLM_DEFAULT_MODEL env var, and only passes a model if one
resolved. Empty string never reaches the provider.
2. Read mode as the default post-save.
Opening an existing note or saving a new one now lands on a
clean, read-only rendering of the body (sanitized HTML with an
allowlist — p/h2/h3/strong/em/u/s/a/ul/ol/li/blockquote/code/pre).
Click the "Edit" button to switch to the Tiptap editor. Matches
the mental model of "notes are documents I review, not drafts I'm
always editing."
3. Autosave during edit.
Title-input + Tiptap onUpdate trigger a 1.2-second-debounced save.
In-flight saves coalesce: if the user types more while a save is
in progress, a follow-up fires right after it lands so the last
keystroke never gets stranded. beforeunload uses navigator.
sendBeacon to best-effort flush on tab close. The manual Save
button is kept as a "save + switch to reader" shortcut. Ctrl/
Cmd+S still works in the editor.
4. Mobile layout.
The two-pane layout collapses to a single-pane view below 900px,
driven by a data-view attribute on .notes-layout. Back buttons
appear in the reader + editor heads on mobile to return to the
list. Desktop layout unchanged (sidebar + right pane always
visible).
Also:
• CSS specificity fix — .hidden{display:none} was losing to
.notes-rec-indicator{display:inline-flex} on source order, so
the "Recording" indicator was showing when idle. Added explicit
.notes-rec-indicator.hidden + .notes-voice-bar .btn-sm.hidden
overrides at higher specificity.
• Reader-body sanitizer — allowlist of safe tags + attributes;
<a> links get target=_blank + rel=noopener.
• SW cache bumped to pedscribe-v12-notes2 so clients pick up the
new module / component / CSS.
New "Notes" tab under Clinical Tools — a per-user scratchpad that's
explicitly NOT fed into AI prompts (distinct from user_memories).
Two-pane layout: searchable list on the left, rich-text editor with
title + save/edit/delete on the right.
Backend:
migrations/…_add-personal-notes.js — personal_notes table
(id, user_id → users ON DELETE CASCADE, title, body, created_at,
updated_at) with indexes on user_id + (user_id, updated_at).
src/routes/notes.js — CRUD + one AI endpoint:
GET /api/notes list, newest-updated first
GET /api/notes/:id fetch one
POST /api/notes create (title + body required)
PUT /api/notes/:id update
DELETE /api/notes/:id remove
POST /api/notes/from-voice transcript → { title, body }
via callAI (admin-controlled
provider — never selectable by
the clinician).
Body + title encrypted at rest via the same cryptoUtil used for
user_memories; 500-note per-user cap; 200-char title / 50 KB
body limits.
Frontend:
public/components/notes.html — empty-state card ("Hello 👋"),
sidebar list with search, editor head with voice-bar (Dictate /
Pause / Resume / Stop + live timer + pulse indicator), Tiptap
body, metadata footer. Uses existing .tp-* toolbar classes.
public/js/notes.js — lazy-init on first tab activation; Tiptap
editor built from window.Tiptap (same bundle the Content
Manager uses); delegated list clicks; Ctrl/Cmd+S to save;
uses app.js's AudioRecorder + transcribeAudio so the STT
pipeline is shared. On stop → transcribe → /api/notes/from-
voice → drop the AI-structured title + body into the editor;
clinician reviews then saves.
public/css/styles.css — 70 lines of .notes-* styles (card
layout, warm empty-state with gradient icon + tips, pulse
animation for the recording indicator, focus states, hover
nudges).
public/sw.js — bump cache from pedscribe-v12 → pedscribe-v12-
notes1 so clients pick up the new module/component.
Admin-controlled STT provider: the recorder posts its audio blob
to the existing /api/transcribe (Google / LiteLLM / ElevenLabs /
Browser Whisper — whatever admin wired up in Settings). Users
cannot pick the provider from this UI.
