The design_book tool says in one sentence that layouts: 'templates' lays
every page on the Studio's designed templates in the archetype of the
book's theme, as the Studio's Auto layout does, and that each plan row then
names its template; style classic alone stays the old built-in Auto
layout. The field comes from the directives contract in @trek/shared, so
the tool's schema takes it without a zod line of its own, and the answer's
plan row gains an optional template. The REST draft routes take no
directives, so nothing changes there. Without the field the answer is the
same as before, no row naming a template.
A new optional directive, layouts: 'templates', lays every entry on the
decorated spreads of the book theme's archetype and its kin
(design-templated.ts). An entry's photos are cut into page-sized parts that
leave no frame empty, at most twelve of them, the first part carrying its
story; each part takes the template that suits it best, poured from a page
of the entry's photos and story so the title, place, date and story stay
bound to the journal. A story longer than its frame is cut at a sentence
and goes on over a page of words. Date marks are set as stamps, never in
the classic styles. Loose gallery photos go to the entry they are linked
to, then to the entry of their day, then to the entry with the fewest
(shareGalleryByDay, beside distributeGallery, which stays as it is); what
no entry has room for closes the book on up to three pages of more
moments, and anything past that is said to be left out, so no photo is
dropped without a word.
The rest is the composer's: scope, the photo picker, the page budget, the
stored pages kept, repair and findings. A book can bring its own theme
object (BookDesignInput.theme), recoloured or not, and it is kept whole.
Plan rows name the template a page was laid on. Without the directive
every design is composed exactly as before, and classic is still buildBook.
AUTODSN-001..015 cover the rules, and AUTODSN-020 pins a digest of every
page on the auto layout's parity journeys and a fourth one in three themes.
design-templated.parity.json was computed with the spec's own canonical form
and digest over these inputs, run through tsx; CI checks it from here on.
design-templated-framing.ts builds the pages around the chapters of a book
laid on the designed templates. The cover is laid on one of the theme
archetype's cover templates, poured from a page whose title and subtitle
are bound to the journey, so the binding survives; an archetype with no
cover for the photos there are has its cover composed as before. The
journey at a glance is its map with a photo at every stop beside the
figures as a poster (tiles for the collage and grid books, a sign for the
postcard ones), a ticket stub of how far and how long, and the furthest
point on an odometer. The countries are one country's map cut to its shape
beside its stamp, a card each for up to twelve, one panel of stamps past
that. The back cover adds a band of days, places and photos and a row of
country stamps. A page of words, where no template takes a story, sets it
beside the stop's map, its day as a stamp and its country as a tag. None of
these sets a summary, a country or a mark in the classic look.
design-template-pick.ts says which decorated template a page of the auto
layout is laid on. Every built-in theme belongs to an archetype
(THEME_ARCHETYPE, the five new themes to their own five), and a book picks
from that archetype's spreads and from those of the archetypes that sit
well beside it (ARCHETYPE_KIN). A template that would leave a photo frame
empty, lose the story, draw a map with nothing to draw, repeat the page
before or follow a busy page loudly is never a candidate; of the rest the
best fit wins: the photos all used, the theme's own archetype, the story
fitting its frame (bodyCapacity measures each frame once per format and
face), the first frame the shape of the first photo, not used a few pages
back, and calm where the book should breathe. Equal ones are chosen by the
design's seed. chunkPhotos cuts an entry's photos into page-sized parts
that leave no frame empty, and pickCoverTemplate does the same for the
cover.
matchDecoratedTemplate reads a page's elements by kind and frame, rounded
to the millimetre, and compares them with every template laid on the same
page format: a template is the page's when nearly all of its design is
there and it explains most of the page, and of those the one explaining the
most wins. A page rearranged by hand reads as none. The auto layout's
"this spread" uses it to offer a template other than the one on screen.
The factories behind the Travel panel's cards (a summary as a poster, a
ticket or a sign, a figure on a medal or an odometer, a map of the journey
or of one country, a mark as a stamp or a tag, a country as a stamp, a visa
or a postcard, each dressed in the book's theme) move to
book/travel/book-travel-looks.ts, so the auto layout can build its framing
pages from the same looks. Where an element lands stays the caller's: the
panel still centres it on the spread on screen, through the same wrapper and
the same API, and a designed page names its frame. A mark can now also take
an entry's value rather than the journey's.
In a theme whose second ink is a mid tone (riviera's olive), neither white nor
near black reached 4.5:1 on the year's band. The band is taken towards the dark
until the year reads, as the other covers do for small words.
Figures a template draws as design, a film's timecode or a frame number, came
back as the page's words when another template was laid on the page, and took
its date line. Texts with no letter that are not a date and are bound to
nothing are design now, and the new templates spell their plate numbers and
REC marks so they read as such.
Every style now has four covers and five double spreads, 108 in all, and the
spreads of each style take different photo counts, from a words-only page to
eight photos, so a book can be laid on them without an empty frame. The five
new styles come with their own themes: Riso (overprinted spot inks), Magazine
(a travel magazine), Retro travel (vintage posters), Midnight (a dark film
look) and Field notes (a traveller's notebook). Each new style has a cover
composer for the design engine and a recipe for the assistant, and its chip,
theme and template names are translated into every language.
The filled buttons set their label in text-accent-on, the accent used as
text on a plain surface, which on the accent's own ground is the same
colour: a black button with black words. They take text-accent-text, the
colour made for words on the accent, and a test pins it.
The release notes in Admin read ## as the version and ### as a section,
and printed a #### line as plain text. A release that heads each feature
inside a section with #### (Tours, TREK Studio under Added) now shows it
as a feature heading between the section and its text, on desktop and on
the phone.
The card that opened claude.ai's custom connector dialog for this instance
goes, with its phone twin, the line in the assistant setup that jumped to it,
its endpoint and its contract. Anyone who wants Claude uses TREK's MCP
server under Integrations, or an Anthropic key in the assistant. It came with
the assistant and never shipped in a release.
The app only sets days in the years it shows, so the tab that made the change
never needs the new year; the assistant, MCP and plugins send no socket and
reach everyone.
Opening the year sent vacay:settings from inside the day's transaction, so
a client could reload the years before they were there. The rows go in
with the day, and the broadcast follows the commit. The helpers file is
formatted the way the server's Prettier wants it.
The broadcast parity cases toggle a day in 2027, which the seeded plan does
not hold, so both MCP and REST now send vacay:settings for the opened year
before vacay:update.
The holiday feeds' limits and patterns and the colour palette move to
vacay.helpers.ts, which holds the vacay domain's pure half already. That
keeps the service under its line budget after the missing-year fix.
The calendar offers only the plan's years, but a vacation day or company
holiday could be written for any date. A day set months ahead, as the
assistant did for 6 January 2027, was stored and counted yet never shown,
because 2027 was not a year of the plan. Writing a day now adds its year,
with every member's allowance, the way opening it by hand does; the year
is the writer's leave period that holds the date. This holds for the app,
MCP, plugins and the assistant alike, since they all write through here.
Every notification gets a tile in the colour of what it is about (a trip, a
message, a booking, packing, a to-do, Vacay, a collection, shared photos, a
tour, an update or an alert) with the sender's face on its corner, the page
and the bell's panel group the list under Today, Yesterday, the weekday or
the date, and answering or following a notification is a proper button.
The server's UTC timestamps are read as UTC for the grouping and the time.
Three photo frames in the templates kept the photo ids of the journey the
templates were read out of (68 and 69). Only empty frames take an entry's
photos, so every book laid out on those templates pointed at those ids: a
broken picture on most installs, and on one where the id exists, someone
else's photo or an unrelated one of the user's own. The frames are empty
now and take the entry's photos like the others. The parity digests of the
five spreads that use them are written anew, as the spec asks for a
deliberate layout change.
A new question is held at the top of the view, so its answer reads from its
first line. When the answer carries steps, a strip of places and cards, its
closing words and the changes to apply ended below the view, and the user
saw only the places found. Once the answer is written, the thread now
scrolls to where those closing blocks begin, or to the bottom when they are
shorter than the view, unless the user scrolled it by hand meanwhile.
The screen texts name the top bar, the rail and the workbench as they are
after the redesign, the travel guide walks through the four tabs, and six
new guides cover what Studio gained since its help was written. Every
Studio picture is taken again, and all texts are translated.
The addons sit in a card per type now, the way every other admin tab sets
its cards, instead of three columns nested in one card. A head card shows
how many of each type are on and finds an addon by its name or description,
with a switch between all, the ones on and the ones off.
Absent means the classic look. Defaulting it wrote the field into every
element the auto layout and the templates build, which moved their parity
fixtures and grew the page tools past their schema ceiling; the new
descriptions are also shorter for the same reason.
The travel tab is four tabs now, figures, maps, countries and marks, and
offers only the newer looks, each dressed in the book's theme and linked to
it. The looks books already hold still draw on their pages exactly as
before; they are just no longer offered.
- Figures: a summary as a poster, a ticket, tiles, a road sign, an
odometer, a handwritten note, a pencil sketch or a band, and each figure
on its own as a medal, on odometer drums or ringed by hand.
- Maps: the route with its photographs, its stops numbered, its two ends
marked or on a dark ground, over satellite or relief imagery, a map per
trip, and a map of each country with its stops alone, cut to its shape.
- Countries: each country as a passport stamp, a visa, an airmail
postcard, its flag in cloth, a map pin, a luggage label or a sketch.
- Marks: the date, the day, the distance, the coordinates and the flag as
stamps, tags, pills, ribbons, die-cut stickers, embroidered patches and
sketches.
The schema gains a summary's and a country's look, seven mark styles and
the numbered and ends stops of a map, all additive, as revision 11.
Also in Studio: the save state is a tile beside who is here, a book a newer
Studio saved is said by an overlay that holds the whole Studio until it
reloads, and the page rail draws the first and the last page beside the
blank inside of their cover. The notifications page and the bell's panel
take the dialogs' look: a head with a tile, cards with an unread dot, and
tools that come forward on hover.
Every piece of the head row is one raised tile of one height: the format
picker moved beside the tools, the assistant and help stand alone, the
close button is square like the rest, and the beta mark is gone. The
layouts tab lays the book's own and the built-in layouts out in sections
and in the same grid as the designed pages. In the theme panel the accent
dots sit in the sheet's corner, the three accents share one name, a font
keeps its name ahead of its kind, a doubled rule is gone, and the
inspector's empty hint is shorter.
The index holds a mountain as many pins named by whoever listed it, at its
foot as much as on top, so a hike up Mt. Takao listed it five times under
names like Mt.Takao, 東京都 高尾山 and 高尾山 (Mt. Takao). Rows that are one
place now merge as a group: like names in one spot for every kind, and for a
summit of the index like names anywhere on the mountain, linked through a
name that carries both scripts. The row kept is an OpenStreetMap object over
an index pin, then the plainest name. Two OpenStreetMap summits stay two.
- Dashboard: a browser that names no time zone (Chrome on Windows for a zone
it cannot map) crashed the world clocks and the whole dashboard. One helper
now reads the browser zone and every reader picks its fallback; a stored
zone the browser does not know is left out instead of throwing (#2694).
- Phone: a leg of a multi-leg train or flight showed only its route, and its
sheet showed the first leg's seat. The day plan subtitle is one helper for
desktop and phone now, so a leg names its own train or flight, platform and
seat, translated instead of the hardcoded "Gl."/"Sitz"; the sheet opened
from a leg shows that leg's number, seat, platform and times (#2701). The
PDF export translates platform and seat too.
- Journey list: the year badge named the year a journey was written, not the
years of its trips; a trip over New Year shows both (#2685).
- A place's description and notes are markdown in the planner but printed as
raw syntax in the PDF export and on a shared trip. Both render it now through
the app's sanitized markdown pipeline, raw HTML stays text (#2692).
Closes#2694Closes#2701Closes#2685Closes#2692
Maurice