Three visual/structural changes:
- Grid cards without a thumbnail (nearly all real courses in this
library) showed the same generic graduation-cap icon, making the
poster grid hard to visually scan. Replace it with a deterministic
color+initial per course name (same idea as Slack/Google Photos
default avatars), so cards without real cover art still look
distinct from each other.
- Notes/Help/Settings only existed as small footer text links,
meaning a scroll to the bottom of every page to navigate. Add a
persistent bottom tab bar (Home/Notes/Help/Settings, current page
highlighted via a new active_tab context var) to the dashboard,
Notes Hub, Settings, and Help pages. Deliberately left the lesson
page alone - it already has its own fixed-bottom notes panel, and a
second fixed bar there would just eat into an already content-dense
page.
- The no-course dashboard stacked five informational/queue cards
(Library Stats, Next Up, Pick Back Up, Recently Added, Continue
Watching, Recently Viewed) before "Your Courses," so the actual
library browser was the last thing on the page. Move it up to right
after the Surprise Me banner - it was already unconditional, so this
only changes where it renders, not when.
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Three quality-of-life additions to the Library browser and course
pages:
- A course page shows a "Resume: <lesson>" button when there's a
last-visited lesson, using Course.last_accessed_path (already
populated by apply_progress_to_tree, just not surfaced before) -
no more scrolling the tree to find where you left off.
- "Surprise Me" picks a random not-yet-fully-watched course and loads
it, for when there's too much library to decide what to watch.
Reuses the already-cached get_all_course_dirs() and the same
per-course completed/total shape _scan_library_activity() already
computes for Stale Courses - no new scanning.
- A select-mode toggle in the Library browser adds checkboxes to every
row/card (list and grid) with a bulk-action bar to hide or queue
several courses/folders at once, via two new endpoints
(/api/hidden-paths/bulk, /api/next-up/bulk) that reuse the existing
single-item set_path_hidden()/set_path_queued() in a loop. Selection
is scoped to the current folder view and clears on navigation.
Also fixes runTranscriptSearch() going silently blank on zero results
instead of showing a "no matches" message, and updates the Help page
to cover all of this.
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Templates only, no backend changes:
- Fixed the real bug: JS-generated status/loading text and a few component
styles used hardcoded hex (#007acc, #999/#666, #28a745, #ff6b6b) instead
of the CSS variables the theme system already provides, so they didn't
track the user's chosen theme/accent - most visible on Light or any named
theme other than the default. Added --success/--error to all 5 templates'
:root blocks and replaced every non-:root occurrence. Left the
.lesson-type badge colors and generic UI chrome grays alone (intentional,
not theme-dependent). Verified live by switching to Nord and Light themes.
- Dashboard cards (Library Stats, Next Up, Pick Back Up, Recently Added,
Continue Watching, Recently Viewed) are now collapsible, state remembered
per device via localStorage - the no-course dashboard had grown to 7
stacked cards.
- Course page's three action buttons get consistent compact sizing and
icons instead of a plain stack.
- Library browser and transcript search show shimmering skeleton rows
instead of bare "Loading..."/"Searching..." text while a fetch is in
flight.
- Hover treatment made consistent: transcript results get the same lift
.lesson-item already had, heatmap cells get a GitHub-style hover
scale-up, and Notes Hub links get a background-chip hover.
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Six more dashboard features, all built on the per-course progress-file
scanning infrastructure from earlier sessions:
- Notes Hub (/notes): every lesson note across the library in one place,
newest first, reusing the existing /recent/open cross-course jump route.
- Transcript search: opt-in checkbox on the Library search box, searching
inside .srt/.vtt files. Kept cheap by doing a raw substring match as the
filter step and only extracting a snippet for files that actually match.
- Stale course nudges ("Pick Back Up"): courses with progress that haven't
been touched in 14+ days.
- Study guide export: compiles a course's notes into one downloadable
markdown file, section/lesson structure preserved.
- Next Up queue: an ordered, persisted "what to tackle next" list with
up/down reordering and a queue button on every course row.
- Activity heatmap: a 90-day contribution-style calendar in the Library
Stats card.
_scan_library_activity() now does one walk over every course's progress
file per dashboard load; library stats, stale courses, and the heatmap all
derive from that single scan instead of three independent ones.
Also refactored the duplicated lesson-progress-key lookup (used in three
places now) into _resolve_lesson_progress_key(), and flagged a pre-existing
bug found along the way (not fixed here, kept out of scope): subtitle files
never actually attach to a Lesson object, so the video player's caption
track has never had anything to render.
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Eight usability additions on top of the mobile redesign: course cover-image
thumbnails, a debounced library search, a Continue Watching section split
from Recently Viewed, per-lesson playback speed control, an installable
PWA manifest/icons, name sort in the library browser, per-lesson notes, and
a bulk mark-course-as-watched action. Also fixes two real bugs found along
the way: lesson_view.html was missing the viewport meta tag (so lesson
pages weren't actually mobile-responsive), and update_lesson_progress
always overwrote the whole progress entry, which would have silently
deleted a saved note on the next routine autosave.
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