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Claudio Schaad be421d83cb Rename Book to Topic throughout the app
The book/topic field was really always a general-purpose tag, and now
that notes can come from more than just books (camera-scanned pages,
free text), "book" was misleading in the UI as well as the code.
Renames files, functions, variables, the API route (/api/books ->
/api/topics), the note payload field, and the cache TTL env var
(BOOK_CACHE_TTL_MS -> TOPIC_CACHE_TTL_MS) for consistency.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01C3DGg1pvmvf81zXs4pk1J7
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Notes

A small PWA for jotting down short notes while reading — e.g. an interesting sentence from a book. Each note is tagged with a topic (existing or new) and can optionally include a page number. Notes are saved as markdown directly into pages of a Nextcloud Collective, one page per topic, nested under a parent page (default: "Reading Notes"). A note's text can be typed by hand or filled in by scanning a photo of the page (on-device OCR via tesseract.js — no image or text ever leaves the device for this step).

Stack

npm workspaces monorepo:

  • shared/ — TypeScript types & Zod schemas shared by client and server
  • server/ — Express API: session auth, and a Nextcloud integration that talks to both the Collectives OCS API (page metadata/creation) and WebDAV (page content read/append)
  • client/ — React + Vite PWA

Setup

  1. Copy .env.example to .env and fill in:
    • SESSION_SECRET, ADMIN_USERNAME, ADMIN_PASSWORD — the app's own login
    • NEXTCLOUD_URL, NEXTCLOUD_USERNAME, NEXTCLOUD_APP_PASSWORD — generate an app password under Nextcloud Settings → Security → App passwords
    • COLLECTIVE_NAME — the exact name of an existing collective the user has access to
  2. Install dependencies: npm install
  3. Run in dev mode: npm run dev (client on http://localhost:5173, proxies /api to the server on port 3000)

Build & run

npm run build
npm run start

Docker

docker compose up --build

Reads secrets from .env in the project root (same variables as above).