Replace the header/status-bar layout with a full-height writing column
plus an always-visible side panel holding all metadata. Canonicalize the
new region vocabulary in CONTEXT.md (Writing column, Side panel) and retire
header / status line / edit area as terms-to-avoid.
Consequent sweeps: rewrite the Error UX section in side-panel terms and
give keyboard-disconnect a home (⌨ ✗, disconnect-only); drop the "line N"
readout; reconcile the render module ops and region shadow; sweep the
status-line/edit-area wording across the technical, roadmap, qfd, notes,
README, and ADR-003 docs (incl. the ~11→~13 line-count figure).
The user's mental model of Publish is a Google Doc backed by git, not a
curated commit log. Branches fall out of scope under that framing; the
device tracks one stream of work on whichever branch the remote was
cloned on, and never switches. Drops :Gbranch from v0.7 to match.
Spell out the Normal-vs-Insert distinction (relative with current line
absolute / absolute everywhere) so it's clear the gutter behaves like
Neovim's number+relativenumber combo, not flat absolute numbering.
Move light/dark theme from v1.x stretch into v1.0 Polish as a
runtime-switchable, persisted setting, and extend font selection to
cover adjustable font size with the same persistence. Drop spell-check
from the stretch list — no longer in scope.
Two coupled changes that emerged from one /deep-design session, both touching
the same v0.1 paragraphs:
(1) Align Ctrl-G with the user's existing gct shell alias: git add . ->
short-circuit if nothing staged -> commit with an ISO-8601 timestamp (no
wip prefix) -> push -> on push failure, git pull --no-edit then retry.
Atomic from the user's view. Recorded as ADR-010. The previously-planned
v0.7 commit-message-prompt item is removed; it contradicts the
gct/timestamp model.
(2) Replace the v0.1 captive-portal first-run with build-time env-var
config: build.rs reads TW_* env vars and embeds them as constants. No
NVS read, no LittleFS mount, no AP mode, no HTTP server. The v0.1
target user is the dev themselves; the first release usable by non-dev
users is v0.9, and the v0.9 settings entry is reframed accordingly.
ADR-005 updated to describe the build-time path and the v0.9 migration.
The two changes share files because the v0.1 spec is one interlocked
document; splitting further would require line-level surgery without
improving auditability.
Macro-plan dates start 2026-06-01 with `after` dependencies between
versions. Per-version checklists move to docs/roadmap.md so the README
stays synthetic.
