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Summary

Makes split-view tabs behave like VS Code preview tabs, and lets the user choose where a
link inside a document opens.

Today, clicking a note in the sidebar opens a preview tab (italic title) that the next
click replaces, and double-clicking promotes it — but a Shift+Click split always produced a
permanent tab, so following several links from one page left a trail of tabs to close by
hand. Split opens are now preview tabs too, each pane keeping its own, and the behaviour is
configurable.

Two new rows in Settings → Preferences → Interface Preferences:

  • Open Links Inside DocumentsSplit View (default) or Current Pane. In split-view
    mode a plain click on a link inside a document opens it beside the page you are reading
    and Shift+Click inverts (opens in the current pane); in current-pane mode it is the
    other way round. Sidebar, search and home clicks are unaffected.
  • Split-View Tabs Are Preview Tabs — on by default. Preview tabs show in italics and are
    replaced by the next one; double-click a tab to keep it.

Ctrl/Cmd+Click still means a permanent new tab in both modes; Ctrl/Cmd+Shift a permanent
tab beside.

Related Issues

None.

Type of Change

New feature, plus fixes for pre-existing defects in tab routing that this feature exposed
(listed separately below).

Changes

The feature

  • apps/web/src/components/Layout/tabs/utils.tsresolveTabAction gains isInDocument,
    documentLinkTarget and splitTabsArePreview inputs. Split opens become
    preview-eligible, the preview action can target the opposite pane, and split-by-default
    inverts Shift for in-document links. The tab store needed no changes: openTab already
    resolves 'opposite' before its per-pane preview lookup.
  • TabSync.tsx / LinkButton.tsx — pass the new inputs (isInDocument is
    link.closest('.editor-input'); LinkButton is UI chrome, so false).
  • store/ui-slice.tsdocumentLinkTarget (default 'split-view') and
    splitTabsArePreview (default true).
  • InterfacePreferencesSettings.tsx — the two rows.

Pre-existing defects fixed along the way — each surfaced because preview tabs made
them visible; each was verified live in the browser before and after:

  1. Persisted state hydration was shallow (store/store.ts). Zustand's default merge
    replaced a whole slice from storage, so any key added to a slice's initial state later
    was undefined for existing users — the folder-colour preferences shipped with this
    latent bug, masked only because their defaults were falsy. Persisted state is now
    merged per slice. Also bumps the persist version to 5 with a migrate that rewrites the
    split-view default; safe because the key has never shipped, so only pre-release browsers
    hold the old value.
  2. In-document links are addressed by document id (/view/<id>?id=true, so they
    survive renames) and the route redirects to the handle. The tab used to be created with
    the id path, its title loader looked the id up as a handle, 404'd, raised "Document not
    found" and auto-closed the tab; the redirect then opened a fresh permanent one. Every
    in-document link click was creating, killing and replacing a tab. TabSync now resolves
    the id to the handle before routing, so the tab is born with its canonical URL — no
    404, no toast, and links finally match already-open tabs. The redirect handling in the
    URL sync and the title loader stay as defensive code for tabs persisted from older builds.
  3. data-new-tab was conflated with Ctrl+Click. The editor stamps every internal
    link with data-new-tab ("never replace the document being read"); the router treated
    it like a forced new tab, which blocked preview for in-document links entirely and also
    made an already-open target open a duplicate instead of activating. Only the real
    modifier now forces a new tab.

How to Test

Manual (no test harness in the repo). Run pnpm dev, hard-refresh, open a document that
links to other notes.

  1. Plain-click a link → opens beside the page, italic. Click another link → it
    replaces the first; the split pane still holds one tab.
  2. Double-click that tab → italics clear; the next link opens a new tab beside it.
  3. Click a link to a note already open in the split pane → it is activated, not
    duplicated.
  4. Shift+Click a link → opens in the current pane (the inversion).
  5. Sidebar: plain click → preview in the current pane (unchanged); Shift+Click → preview in
    the split pane.
  6. Ctrl/Cmd+Click → permanent tab in the current pane; Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+Click → permanent
    beside. Same in both modes.
  7. Settings → set "Open Links Inside Documents" to Current Pane: plain click now opens
    in the current pane, Shift+Click beside. Turn "Split-View Tabs Are Preview Tabs" off:
    split opens are permanent again.
  8. No "Document not found" toast at any point; the network log shows no 404 on
    /api/documents/handle/<uuid>.
  9. Reload: both preferences persist; existing settings and open tabs are intact (preview
    state is deliberately session-only, unchanged).
  10. pnpm lint && pnpm check-types && pnpm build — clean.

Expected result: split-view tabs behave like VS Code preview tabs, the two preferences
do what their labels say, and in-document links open without flicker, toast or duplicates.

Verification already performed

  • A decision-matrix script exercising resolveTabAction over 18 combinations of mode,
    modifier, link origin, pane and already-open state — all passing. It caught one real
    bug before release (Ctrl+Click inverting with the mode) and was corrected once to model
    links the way the editor actually renders them.
  • All flows above were driven live in a browser against the dev stack, reading the tab
    store and the network log rather than relying on screenshots.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added preferences to open document links in the current pane or a split view.
    • Added an option to use preview tabs in split views.
    • Improved document link navigation, including links that reference document IDs.
    • Preserved preview state when links redirect to the matching document.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved tab activation and split-view behavior for document links, including keyboard shortcuts.

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Walkthrough

Document link preferences now control current-pane or split-view routing and split-tab preview behavior. Tab synchronization resolves document IDs to handles, supports ID-based metadata queries, and updates active tabs when document URLs redirect.

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Document link routing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Routing preferences and persistence
apps/web/src/store/ui-slice.ts, apps/web/src/store/store.ts, apps/web/src/components/Settings/Preferences/InterfacePreferencesSettings.tsx
The UI store adds document link target and split-tab preview settings. Persistence migrates older state and merges slice defaults. Interface preferences expose both settings.
Tab action resolution
apps/web/src/components/Layout/tabs/utils.ts, apps/web/src/components/Layout/tabs/LinkButton.tsx
Tab routing now applies document context, split-view inversion, preview eligibility, pane selection, and exact-match activation rules.
Document URL synchronization
apps/web/src/components/Layout/tabs/TabSync.tsx, apps/web/src/components/Layout/tabs/resolveTabMetadata.ts
Internal document ID links resolve to handles before routing. Metadata queries select ID or handle lookup based on route parameters. Active tabs update in place for matching ID redirects.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant LinkButton
  participant TabSync
  participant QueryClient
  participant resolveTabAction
  LinkButton->>TabSync: link interaction
  TabSync->>QueryClient: resolve document ID
  QueryClient-->>TabSync: document handle or original location
  TabSync->>resolveTabAction: resolve tab action with UI settings
  resolveTabAction-->>TabSync: tab action
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`@apps/web/src/components/Settings/Preferences/InterfacePreferencesSettings.tsx`:
- Around line 207-231: Associate the “Open Links Inside Documents” Label with
the SelectTrigger by assigning the matching documentLinkTarget id to the
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