chore: rename Char → Anarlog (source-level)

[ComputelessComputer]

Source-level rename: Char → Anarlog. Stacks on #5141.

Touches only user-visible product metadata. No infra, no CD, no updater, no internal package renames.

Changes

• tauri.conf.{,stable,staging,nightly}.json — productName and mainBinaryName flipped to Anarlog
• Cargo.toml description string
• package.json dev:relay echo string
• Removed dead pro channel resources (icons + macOS resources, ~1.9MB freed)
• Removed unused resources/models/cactus/char-vlm/ (was never bundled — placeholder dir)
• Renamed icon source masters: char-*.png → anarlog-*.png (image content was already swapped previously; filename hygiene only)
• Added packages/changelog/content/1.0.25.md — rename banner entry

Out of scope (intentional)

These are preserved to avoid breaking existing users and to keep the PR scoped:

• Bundle identifiers com.hyprnote.* — keeping these means macOS treats the app as the same app (settings + data carry over cleanly)
• Deep-link schemes hyprnote, hyprnote-staging, hyprnote-nightly — preserves magic links from emails, calendar invites
• Updater endpoint desktop2.hyprnote.com — what every existing v1.0.x app polls for updates; changing this risks bricking auto-update
• hyprnote_desktop_lib Rust lib name, @hypr/* workspace deps, hypr-* internal crates — repo-internal naming, no user-visible benefit, large cascading change
• Cactus STT integration code (crates/transcribe-cactus/, references in CLI/API/desktop settings) — only the bundled VLM model directory was removed; the transcription provider stays. Separate decision.

Verification

• pnpm exec dprint fmt — clean
• pnpm -F desktop typecheck — clean
• cargo check — pre-existing workspace error (apps/claw missing on disk), unrelated to this PR

Sequencing

1. This PR merges
2. blog: Char Is Now Anarlog announcement + chip repoint #5141 (announcement post) un-drafted and merged together with this
3. Yujong + I tweak desktop_publish.yaml so final nightly resolves to https://char.com/changelog/1.0.25 instead of GitHub compare URL
4. Cut final nightly tag (1.0.25-nightly.X)
5. Cut stable tag (1.0.25)
6. Sunset nightly channel post-ship

Co-author

Drafted by Cortana (Hermes). Review for product-string accuracy, scope discipline, and any deep-link/updater concerns I may have missed.

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Note

Medium Risk
Mostly string/config renames and asset cleanup, but changing Tauri productName/mainBinaryName and removing bundled resources could impact packaging/release automation and any tooling that assumes the old binary/resource names.

Overview
Rebrands the desktop app’s user-facing metadata from Char → Anarlog by updating Tauri configs (tauri.conf*.json), the Tauri Rust Cargo.toml description, and a dev script message.

Updates the web UI rename messaging to point to a new announcement post (char-is-now-anarlog) and adds that post plus a 1.0.25 changelog banner entry.

Cleans up now-dead bundle assets by removing pro Android icon XMLs and dropping previously-listed macOS/resources entries (including the unused resources/models/cactus/char-vlm/ directory).

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[ComputelessComputer]

Code Review — PR #5144

Verdict: Request Changes (1 critical, 1 warning, scope is otherwise clean)

🔴 Critical

• .tmp/reference/ and .tmp/soniqo-bridge-spec.md got committed. These are scratch files for a totally separate task (porting Soniqo on-device transcription into a new crates/soniqo-bridge). They're 4500+ lines of unrelated reference code and a spec doc that has nothing to do with the rename.
  • Includes another project's Cargo.toml (unsigned-char crate metadata, not anarlog's), Swift bridge sources, model registry code, and an internal task spec.
  • Action: git rm -r .tmp/ on the branch, then add .tmp/ to .gitignore (currently not ignored — that's how this happened). This will cut the diff from ~4669 to ~170 insertions, which is what the PR description actually claims to ship.

⚠️ Warning

• Bundle identifier strategy needs a one-line confirmation in the PR body. You note com.hyprnote.* is preserved intentionally so existing macOS users keep their app data — that's correct, but worth explicitly calling out that the user-visible app name flipping while the bundle ID stays the same is a tested macOS pattern (Finder shows the new name, ~/Library/Application Support/com.hyprnote.stable/ keeps the data). Just so reviewers/Yujong don't second-guess on merge.

💡 Suggestions

• packages/changelog/content/1.0.25.md — the <banner> markup is correct (matches the 1.0.20.md pattern). One nit: the link text is /blog/char-is-now-anarlog but the href is https://char.com/blog/char-is-now-anarlog. Fine for now since the desktop changelog renderer renders this for users still on char.com, but post-domain-migration that link will break. Worth a TODO in Operation Supernova's redirect map (which you've already scoped out — just flagging).
• Resource removals (icons/pro/, resources/pro/, resources/models/cactus/char-vlm/) — verified no remaining references in apps/desktop/ (json/rs/toml/ts). Clean removal. Good hygiene.
• Renamed icon source masters (char-*.png → anarlog-*.png in icons/src/) — only filename, content already swapped. Make sure no build script or icon-generation Makefile globs char-*.png. Quick grep:

  grep -rn "char-nightly\|char-pro\|char-prod\|char-staging" apps/desktop/src-tauri/

✅ Looks Good

• Scope discipline is the right call. Keeping com.hyprnote.* identifiers + hyprnote:// deep links + desktop2.hyprnote.com updater endpoint preserved is exactly right for not bricking existing users. The "out of scope" list in the PR body is well-reasoned.
• All four tauri.conf.{,stable,staging,nightly}.json files updated consistently — productName + mainBinaryName both flipped, identifier preserved.
• dprint fmt clean against this PR's diff.

🔗 Sequencing

Both PRs need to merge in order: this one (5144) first, then the announcement (5141) un-drafted. Confirmed in body.

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Reused localStorage key hides new announcement from existing users

Medium Severity

ANNOUNCEMENT_STORAGE_KEY is still "char_announcement_dismissed" from the previous "Hyprnote is now Char" banner. The banner text and link were updated to announce the Char → Anarlog rename, but the dismissal key was not changed. Any user who dismissed the old banner already has this key set to "true" in localStorage, so they will never see the new Anarlog rename announcement — exactly the audience that most needs to see it.

Additional Locations (1)

• apps/web/src/routes/_view/route.tsx#L326-L327

 

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