First Light

Current product scope

Hosted AI and semantic search were retired on 2026-10-18. See docs/PUBLIC_CONTENT_FACTS.md and src/lib/product-availability.ts. Earlier AI setup notes below are historical.

First Light

Cloud engineering, isolated checks and release gates: operating workflow | prioritized backlog.

A calm place to get things done. Tasks, calendar, habits, Pomodoro — synced anywhere. task-manager–class, self-hosted, and yours. Web first; the architecture extends naturally to mobile (Capacitor) and desktop (Tauri / Electron) without changing the core code.

What's in v1

• Auth — email/password + magic link via Supabase
• Smart views — Today, Tomorrow, Next 7 Days, Inbox
• Lists (projects) with colors
• Tags auto-extracted from quick-add (#tag)
• Quick add with natural-language parsing — "Email Sam tomorrow 9am #work !1 ~Inbox"
• Priorities (4 levels)
• Calendar view with drag-to-reschedule
• Pomodoro timer with focus / short break / long break, session log
• Habits tracker with weekly grid
• Eisenhower matrix (urgency × importance)
• Search + command palette (⌘K / Ctrl K)
• Real-time sync across tabs/devices via Supabase Realtime
• Dark / light theme
• PWA (installable; offline shell)

Stack

• Next.js 14 (App Router) + TypeScript
• Tailwind CSS
• Supabase (Postgres + Auth + Realtime)
• TanStack Query (server state) + Zustand (UI state)
• @dnd-kit (drag/drop)
• date-fns + chrono-node
• lucide-react icons
• next-themes, sonner

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Getting started

1. Prerequisites

• Node.js 18+ and npm
• A free Supabase project

2. Install

npm install

3. Create the Supabase database

1. Go to your Supabase project → SQL Editor
2. Open supabase/migrations/0001_init.sql from this repo
3. Paste it into the SQL editor and Run

This creates all tables, indexes, RLS policies, and the trigger that creates a profile + default list when a new user signs up. It also enables Realtime on the relevant tables.

4. Configure environment

Copy .env.example → .env.local and fill in:

NEXT_PUBLIC_SUPABASE_URL=https://YOUR-PROJECT.supabase.co
NEXT_PUBLIC_SUPABASE_ANON_KEY=YOUR-ANON-KEY
# Optional — enables AI features (Daily Edition, Weekly Retro, LLM quick-add,
# Smart Eisenhower). The app works without this; AI features are skipped.
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=sk-ant-...

You'll find Supabase keys under Supabase → Project Settings → API. Get an Anthropic key at https://console.anthropic.com/.

AI features

When ANTHROPIC_API_KEY is set, the app turns on:

• Daily Edition — editorial morning briefing on the Today page, in a calm, magazine-style voice. Cached server-side per user per local date.
• Weekly review (/app/retro) — last week's edition: what shipped, what slipped, what's worth dropping.
• LLM quick-add parser — quick-add and every inline "Add task" row run a Claude Haiku parse on submit, with the existing chrono-node parser as fallback. Understands richer natural language ("the Friday before the offsite", "after dentist before kids pickup").
• Smart Eisenhower — AI · suggest button on the matrix page proposes moves for tasks that look misplaced; one-click apply.
• Voice capture — microphone button on every Add Task input. Uses the browser's built-in webkitSpeechRecognition (no API key, no server round-trip).
• Anti-overload banner — Today view warns plainly when the day is over your daily capacity (default 4h), and offers to defer the lowest-priority task.

Costs are designed to be small: Haiku for parsing/quadrants, Sonnet for editorial briefings; daily and weekly outputs are cached.

5. Run

npm run dev

Open http://localhost:3000 — sign up, then you're in.

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Keyboard shortcuts

Shortcut	Action
⌘K / Ctrl K	Command palette / search
q	Quick-add task
Esc	Close any open dialog

Quick-add syntax

Email Sam tomorrow 9am #work !1 ~Inbox

Token	Meaning
free text	task title
tomorrow 9am, next monday, in 2 days	due date/time (chrono-node)
#tag	adds a tag (creates if missing)
!1–!4	priority: 1 = High, 2 = Medium, 3 = Low, 4 = None
~ListName	route to list (creates if missing)

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Deploy to Vercel

1. Push this folder to GitHub.
2. Import in Vercel → set the same env vars.
3. Add your production URL to Supabase → Authentication → URL Configuration:
   • Site URL: https://yourdomain.com
   • Redirect URLs: https://yourdomain.com/auth/callback

That's it — clean cloud sync from any device that can open the URL.

Add PWA icons (optional but recommended)

Drop two PNGs in public/icons/:

• icon-192.png (192 × 192)
• icon-512.png (512 × 512)

Anything visual will do — the manifest references them. (You can generate them quickly from any logo with a tool like realfavicongenerator.net.)

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Roadmap — features still to build

This is a strong v1. Major task-management features still to build:

• Recurring tasks (RRULE wiring — column already exists; UI editor + materialization on completion)
• Reminders / push notifications (web push + service worker scheduling)
• Subtasks UI (table column already exists)
• Kanban view per list (projects.view_mode already exists)
• Timeline / Gantt view
• Sharing & collaborators (add a members table + RLS)
• Attachments (Supabase Storage)
• Smart lists / saved filters
• Bulk edit, multi-select
• Sticky note widget, focus statistics dashboard
• Import from TickTick / Todoist / Apple Reminders / Google Tasks
• Quick capture from email (Postmark inbound parse)

Extending to other devices

You picked "decide later" — here's the easy path when you're ready:

• PWA — already enabled. Visit on mobile Chrome / iOS Safari → "Add to Home Screen". Done.
• Native iOS/Android — wrap with Capacitor: npx cap init && npx cap add ios && npx cap add android. The web app runs unchanged inside the shell; you only add native plugins for things like push notifications.
• Native desktop — wrap with Tauri or Electron. Same web bundle.
• Pure native rewrite — would replace this UI but keep Supabase, schema, RLS, and the realtime channel layout exactly as-is.

Project layout

first-light/
├── middleware.ts
├── next.config.mjs
├── package.json
├── tailwind.config.ts
├── tsconfig.json
├── public/
│   ├── manifest.webmanifest
│   ├── sw.js
│   └── icons/                    # add icon-192.png and icon-512.png
├── supabase/
│   └── migrations/0001_init.sql
└── src/
    ├── app/
    │   ├── layout.tsx
    │   �