🚀 Notesify v1.1.0 — Offline-First Desktop & Sync

🚀 Notesify v1.1.0 — Offline-First Architecture & Native Desktop Sync

This release brings a major architectural upgrade to Notesify: the desktop application is now fully usable offline, with durable local persistence and automatic synchronization when connectivity is restored.

💾 Offline-First Workspace

• Notes and folders are persisted locally using Dexie/IndexedDB.
• The desktop application can launch and load the workspace without an internet connection.
• Cached authentication state allows previously authenticated users to continue using Notesify offline.
• Local changes are available immediately without waiting for the backend.

🔄 Durable Offline Synchronization

• Offline CREATE, UPDATE, and DELETE operations are persisted in a durable sync queue.
• Pending operations survive completely closing and reopening the application.
• Changes are automatically synchronized when connectivity is restored.
• Remote server changes are pulled back into the local database.
• Optimistic concurrency and conflict-handling mechanisms protect against conflicting edits.
• Idempotent handling prevents individual failed operations from unnecessarily blocking the synchronization queue.

🖥️ Native Electron Offline Support

• The React frontend is now packaged directly inside the Electron application.
• The desktop application no longer depends on the hosted web application to render its UI.
• Electron has its own synchronization trigger layer while sharing the same core synchronization engine as the web application.
• Synchronization is triggered on application startup, window focus, and network reconnection.

⚡ Local-First Architecture

User actions now follow a local-first flow:

User Action → Dexie/IndexedDB → syncQueue → Immediate UI Update → Background Sync → Backend

The network is no longer on the critical path for everyday note-taking.

🧱 Shared Synchronization Architecture

Web and Electron clients share the same synchronization engine while using platform-specific trigger adapters:

WebSyncTriggers ──────┐
├──> SyncCoordinator ──> SyncService
ElectronSyncTriggers ─┘

This keeps synchronization logic centralized while allowing each platform to respond to its own lifecycle events.

🧪 Verified End-to-End

• ✅ Launch desktop app offline
• ✅ Restore authenticated session offline
• ✅ Read existing notes and folders offline
• ✅ Create notes offline
• ✅ Update notes offline
• ✅ Delete notes offline
• ✅ Persist pending operations across application restart
• ✅ Restore network connectivity
• ✅ Automatically drain the synchronization queue
• ✅ Synchronize changes with the backend

Notesify is now genuinely offline-first, with local persistence, durable synchronization, and native desktop support.

Full Changelog: v1.0.2...v1.1.0