PDFs live in a studyset's new Files tab: uploaded from Add material
(a file the studyset holds already asks first), each row with its
pages, cards, notes and size, how far it is read and its reading
deadline; renamed, given a deadline (a page or a chapter by a day),
marked as read, started afresh, deleted with a moment to undo.
The reader (/pdfs/:id) opens where reading left off: on wide windows
a rail of tools (search, fit, zoom, fullscreen), a page counter with
the chapter, and a sidebar; on phones a top bar, a page scrubber and
a sheet. The sidebar holds the PDF's flashcards, by page or chapter,
made from selected text or written there, each tied to its page and
tagged with its chapter; and the page's note, an ordinary note tied
to the page. Screenshots of a region become images that know their
page. Cards and screenshots lead back to their page; reading on past
a chapter with cards suggests studying it. Home shows the deadlines
running and to come, and a timeline of them.
Server: pdf_source rows (content in the payload, last writer wins)
and an append-only pdf_reading log, the furthest page derived from
it so devices never conflict. Files up to 50 MB for PDFs (20 MB for
others; a larger file that isn't a PDF is deleted once stored). A
deleted PDF takes its file's asset row along unless another PDF has
the same file. Card payload 4 and note payload 2 keep the page.
The reader draws with pdfrx (PDFium) behind PdfEngine in
Dependencies; widget tests use a fake, and
integration_test/pdf_engine_test.dart checks the real engine on a
device or the desktop.
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Signed-off-by: Tizian 「ティツィアーン」 <raisondetredev@pm.me>
An anonymous person may keep 100 MB of images and sounds, an identified one
500 MB, and one person more by a file_allowance row the operator adds; all
of them together 15 GB, since every file is in the database and in each dump
the server keeps (decided 2026-10-02). Each comes from the environment
(FILE_LIMIT_*_MB), with these defaults, documented in deploy/.env.example.
The server checks when an upload starts, counting unfinished uploads so they
can't fill the disk unnoticed, and again when it finishes, counting what is
kept, so uploads started side by side can't overshoot; a refusal is a
FileLimitExceededException, and an upload refused as it finishes is deleted.
deletePerson deletes the allowance with the person. Migration: the new
table file_allowance, only added.
The app keeps a refused file waiting on the device and stops that round of
uploads; the Anki import warns when a deck's files may not fit in the room
left (asset.usage()).
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Signed-off-by: Tizian 「ティツィアーン」 <raisondetredev@pm.me>
The asset endpoint (login required) takes a file into the caller's own space
by its SHA-256 and serves an asset row's file only to its space's owner and
members; anyone else, and a deleted row, gets NotFoundException as for a
missing file. startUpload hands out Serverpod's upload description, or null
when the file is there already (claiming it anew); finishUpload keeps the
upload only if its content has the announced hash. Files are stored in the
private database storage at spaces/<space>/<sha256>, at most 20 MB.
deletePerson deletes the person's files in its transaction, and a daily
future call deletes the files no live asset row refers to, and uploads never
finished, 7 days after they were last claimed (ADR 0004, rule 5).
The tests run on the sync engine's database, as the server does, without
rollback: its writes take transactions of their own.
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Signed-off-by: Tizian 「ティツィアーン」 <raisondetredev@pm.me>
