refactor: enhance TimerPage layout and functionality; update theme and tokens for improved design consistency

- Refactored TimerPage component to improve layout and user experience.
- Updated theme configuration to utilize design tokens for better maintainability.
- Introduced new tokens for colors and typography to align with design principles.
- Simplified state management and improved timer functionality.
- Enhanced accessibility and responsiveness of UI elements.

README.md

@@ -33,19 +33,24 @@ and taking **all** of them:
 
 * **Jira** — every open issue across the site (not just what is due today), with
   the due date, the "Start date" custom field, the status, the priority, the
-  project. Finishing a Jira-backed task here **transitions the issue to Done**.
-* **Todoist** — every open task, or your own filter query. Finishing closes it in
-  Todoist.
-* **Google Tasks** — every incomplete task, including undated ones. Finishing
-  marks it completed in Google.
+  project.
+* **Todoist** — every open task, or your own filter query.
+* **Google Tasks** — every incomplete task, including undated ones.
 * **Laundry bookings** (`4ka.inbicst.ru`) — the slots you booked today, because
   they are blocks of time that will interrupt your pomodoros.
 * **Local tasks** — the "and this too" you type at 9am.
 
+**You cannot tick a task off here.** Completion belongs to the tool the task
+lives in — close it in Jira, Todoist or Google Tasks and the next refresh
+notices (an item that comes back done, or that a healthy source stops returning
+at all, is credited to that day). Two places to mark something done is two
+places to be wrong.
+
 Every source is pulled independently: an expired laundry cookie or a Jira outage
 costs you that one source and shows up as a warning next to it, never as an
-empty list. The list is mirrored into the database on every refresh, so the UI is
-instant and the daily report still works when a source is down.
+empty list — and nothing is ever counted as closed on a source that failed. The
+list is mirrored into the database on every refresh, so the UI is instant and
+the daily report still works when a source is down.
 
 ### A focus guard that actually blocks
 Rules live on the server (edit them in the web app or the desktop app); the
@@ -54,8 +59,14 @@ native desktop app enforces them on your machine:
 * **Websites** — `/etc/hosts` is rewritten through a tiny privileged helper under
   polkit. No browser extension, no proxy, works for every app on the machine, and
   you can audit it with `cat /etc/hosts`.
+* **Masks** — `youtube.com` blocks the site plus `www.` and `m.`; `*.google.com`
+  blocks every subdomain in your expansion list (a hosts file has no wildcards,
+  so the app expands them for you and tells you when a pattern like `*gram*`
+  cannot be expressed that way). Exceptions take masks too, so `*.google.com`
+  blocked plus `*.docs.google.com` allowed does what you would expect.
 * **Applications** — `/proc` is watched and blocked apps are closed (or just
-  reported, if you prefer a warning).
+  reported, if you prefer a warning). Entries here are globs as well: `steam*`,
+  `*discord*`, matched against the process name and its command line.
 * **When** — only while a focus interval runs (the default), always, or on a
   schedule. Breaks can keep the block on or let it go.
 * Every attempt that gets turned away is recorded — and teased about in the
@@ -192,6 +203,12 @@ and you can fill everything in from **Settings**.
   per integration; `app/api/` is a thin HTTP layer. 44 tests under `backend/tests`.
 * `frontend/` — React + TypeScript + MUI, built by Vite into the backend image and
   served from the same origin (so there is no CORS to configure).
+* **The look** — warm paper, ink type, hairline rules instead of boxes and
+  shadows, Fraunces for figures and headings, Inter for everything else, one
+  ember accent. The desktop app's `Theme` singleton carries the same tokens as
+  the web app's `tokens.ts`, so the two clients are one product. Chart colours
+  come from a separate, validated data palette: the brand is warm, but a chart
+  has to stay readable for colour-blind readers in both themes.
 * `desktop/` — the native app. See [`desktop/README.md`](desktop/README.md).
 
 ---

backend/app/api/routes_tasks.py

@@ -1,11 +1,15 @@
-"""Task endpoints: the aggregated list, refreshing it, and acting on it."""
+"""Task endpoints: the aggregated list and the refresh that keeps it honest.
+
+There is no "mark done" here on purpose — a task is closed where it lives, and
+the refresh notices. See `app.services.tasks_service`.
+"""
 
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 from fastapi import APIRouter, HTTPException, Query
 
 from app.api.deps import DbSession, Settings
-from app.api.schemas import TaskCreateRequest, TaskDoneRequest, TaskUpdateRequest
+from app.api.schemas import TaskCreateRequest, TaskUpdateRequest
 from app.models import TaskRecord
 from app.services import tasks_service
 from app.sources.registry import SOURCE_LABELS, check_source
@@ -40,12 +44,15 @@ def task_dict(record: TaskRecord, today) -> dict:
 
 
 def _bucket_of(record: TaskRecord, today) -> str:
-    if record.due_date is None:
-        return "someday"
-    if record.due_date < today:
+    if record.due_date is not None and record.due_date < today:
         return "overdue"
     if record.due_date == today:
         return "today"
+    if record.start_date is not None and record.start_date <= today:
+        # Started, but not due today — in progress rather than "upcoming".
+        return "active"
+    if record.due_date is None:
+        return "someday"
     return "upcoming"
 
 
@@ -99,15 +106,6 @@ def update(task_id: int, body: TaskUpdateRequest, session: DbSession, settings:
     return task_dict(record, local_date(settings.timezone))
 
 
-@router.post("/{task_id}/done")
-def mark_done(task_id: int, body: TaskDoneRequest, session: DbSession, settings: Settings) -> dict:
-    try:
-        record, warning = tasks_service.complete_task(session, settings, task_id, done=body.done)
-    except LookupError as exc:
-        raise HTTPException(status_code=404, detail=str(exc)) from exc
-    return {"task": task_dict(record, local_date(settings.timezone)), "warning": warning}
-
-
 @router.delete("/{task_id}")
 def delete(task_id: int, session: DbSession) -> dict:
     tasks_service.delete_task(session, task_id)

backend/app/api/schemas.py

@@ -50,10 +50,6 @@ class TaskUpdateRequest(BaseModel):
     pinned: bool | None = None
 
 
-class TaskDoneRequest(BaseModel):
-    done: bool = True
-
-
 class BlockEventRequest(BaseModel):
     kind: Literal["domain", "app"] = "domain"
     target: str = Field(min_length=1, max_length=255)

backend/app/config.py

@@ -16,15 +16,20 @@ ever opening the settings page, and anything you later change in the UI wins.
 
 from __future__ import annotations
 
+import os
 from functools import lru_cache
 
 from pydantic import Field
 from pydantic_settings import BaseSettings, SettingsConfigDict
 
+# Tests set this so a developer's real `.env` — with live Jira and Telegram
+# credentials in it — can never leak into a test run.
+_DOTENV_FILES = () if os.environ.get("KADENCE_NO_DOTENV") else (".env", "../.env")
+
 
 class EnvSettings(BaseSettings):
     model_config = SettingsConfigDict(
-        env_file=(".env", "../.env"),
+        env_file=_DOTENV_FILES,
         env_file_encoding="utf-8",
         extra="ignore",
     )

backend/app/models.py

@@ -90,9 +90,12 @@ class PomodoroSession(Base):
 class TaskRecord(Base):
     """A todo item, wherever it came from.
 
-    External tasks are cached here on every refresh so the UI is instant and the
-    daily report still works when Jira is down. Locally created tasks live here
-    too, with `source = "local"` — they are the only ones we own outright.
+    External tasks are mirrored here on every refresh so the UI is instant and
+    the daily report still works when Jira is down. Locally created tasks live
+    here too, with `source = "local"`.
+
+    Completion is never recorded from this app: you close a task where it lives,
+    and the next refresh notices. That keeps one source of truth per task.
     """
 
     __tablename__ = "tasks"
@@ -119,8 +122,12 @@ class TaskRecord(Base):
     is_done: Mapped[bool] = mapped_column(Boolean, default=False, index=True)
     completed_at: Mapped[datetime | None] = mapped_column(DateTime(timezone=True))
     completed_date: Mapped[date | None] = mapped_column(Date, index=True)
-    completed_here: Mapped[bool] = mapped_column(Boolean, default=False)
-    """True when *this app* closed it — what the daily report counts."""
+    """The day the task was seen to close, in your timezone.
+
+    Tasks are never ticked off here — Jira, Todoist and Google Tasks own that —
+    so this is set when a refresh finds a task closed, or finds it gone from a
+    source that was otherwise healthy. That is what the daily report counts.
+    """
 
     estimated_pomodoros: Mapped[int | None] = mapped_column(Integer)
     pinned: Mapped[bool] = mapped_column(Boolean, default=False)

backend/app/services/blocker_service.py

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ and a second machine running the desktop app obeys the same list.
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 from datetime import date, datetime
+from fnmatch import fnmatch
 from typing import Any
 
 from sqlalchemy import func, select
@@ -21,27 +22,73 @@ from app.settings_schema import AppSettings
 from app.timeutil import ensure_utc, in_window, local_date, local_time
 
 
+def is_allowed(host: str, allow_masks: list[str]) -> bool:
+    """Whether an allow-list entry (plain or masked) covers this hostname."""
+    return any(fnmatch(host, mask) for mask in allow_masks)
+
+
+def expand_entry(raw: str, subdomains: list[str]) -> tuple[list[str], str | None]:
+    """Turn one blocklist entry into concrete hostnames.
+
+    A hosts file has no wildcards, so a mask has to be expanded into real names:
+
+    * `youtube.com`    → `youtube.com`, `www.youtube.com`, `m.youtube.com`
+    * `*.youtube.com`  → the bare domain plus every configured subdomain
+    * `*gram*`         → nothing expandable; returned as a leftover pattern so the
+                         UI can say so instead of silently dropping it
+
+    Returns `(hostnames, unexpandable_pattern)`.
+    """
+    entry = raw.strip().lower().lstrip(".")
+    if not entry:
+        return [], None
+
+    if entry.startswith("*."):
+        base = entry[2:]
+        if not base or "*" in base:
+            return [], entry
+        return [base, *[f"{prefix}.{base}" for prefix in subdomains]], None
+
+    if "*" in entry:
+        return [], entry
+
+    return [entry, f"www.{entry}", f"m.{entry}"], None
+
+
 def expand_domains(settings: AppSettings) -> list[str]:
     """Every hostname the desktop app should point at the redirect IP.
 
-    A rule like `youtube.com` is meant as "that site", so `www.` and the common
-    subdomains come along; anything in `allowed_domains` is removed again, which
-    is how `youtube.com` blocked + `music.youtube.com` allowed works.
+    `youtube.com` means "that site", so `www.` and `m.` come along; masks are
+    expanded as described above; and anything the allow list covers — itself
+    maskable — is taken back out, which is how `*.google.com` blocked plus
+    `*.docs.google.com` allowed works.
     """
     blocker = settings.blocker
-    allowed = {entry.strip().lower().lstrip(".") for entry in blocker.allowed_domains if entry.strip()}
+    allow_masks = [
+        entry.strip().lower().lstrip(".") for entry in blocker.allowed_domains if entry.strip()
+    ]
+    subdomains = [part.strip().lower() for part in blocker.subdomain_expansions if part.strip()]
 
     hosts: list[str] = []
     for raw in blocker.blocked_domains:
-        domain = raw.strip().lower().lstrip(".")
-        if not domain or domain in allowed:
-            continue
-        for candidate in (domain, f"www.{domain}", f"m.{domain}"):
-            if candidate not in allowed and candidate not in hosts:
-                hosts.append(candidate)
+        expanded, _ = expand_entry(raw, subdomains)
+        for host in expanded:
+            if host not in hosts and not is_allowed(host, allow_masks):
+                hosts.append(host)
     return hosts
 
 
+def unexpandable_masks(settings: AppSettings) -> list[str]:
+    """Blocklist entries a hosts file cannot express, so the UI can flag them."""
+    subdomains = [part.strip().lower() for part in settings.blocker.subdomain_expansions if part.strip()]
+    leftovers: list[str] = []
+    for raw in settings.blocker.blocked_domains:
+        _, pattern = expand_entry(raw, subdomains)
+        if pattern and pattern not in leftovers:
+            leftovers.append(pattern)
+    return leftovers
+
+
 def schedule_active(settings: AppSettings, moment: datetime | None = None) -> bool:
     now_time = local_time(settings.timezone, moment)
     weekday = (moment or datetime.now()).weekday()
@@ -86,6 +133,7 @@ def policy(session: Session, settings: AppSettings) -> dict[str, Any]:
         "redirect_ip": blocker.redirect_ip,
         "domains": expand_domains(settings) if active else [],
         "apps": [app.strip() for app in blocker.blocked_apps if app.strip()] if active else [],
+        "unexpandable": unexpandable_masks(settings),
         "kill_apps": blocker.kill_blocked_apps,
         "notify_on_block": blocker.notify_on_block,
         "poll_seconds": blocker.app_poll_seconds,
@@ -148,10 +196,10 @@ def events_for_day(session: Session, settings: AppSettings, day: date | None = N
 
 
 DEFAULT_DOMAINS = [
-    "youtube.com",
+    "*.youtube.com",
     "twitter.com",
     "x.com",
-    "instagram.com",
+    "*.instagram.com",
     "tiktok.com",
     "reddit.com",
     "facebook.com",
@@ -162,4 +210,4 @@ DEFAULT_DOMAINS = [
     "pikabu.ru",
 ]
 
-DEFAULT_APPS = ["steam", "discord", "telegram-desktop", "spotify"]
+DEFAULT_APPS = ["steam*", "discord", "telegram-desktop", "spotify"]

backend/app/services/pomodoro.py

@@ -115,7 +115,9 @@ def start(
     task_id: int | None = None,
     note: str | None = None,
 ) -> PomodoroSession:
-    """Begin an interval, abandoning whatever was still running."""
+    if not settings.pomodoro.timer_enabled:
+        raise TimerError("Timer is disabled (view-only mode).")
+
     running = current_session(session)
     if running is not None:
         _finish(session, settings, running, status="abandoned", reason="superseded")
@@ -317,6 +319,7 @@ def state(session: Session, settings: AppSettings) -> dict[str, Any]:
             "long_break": settings.pomodoro.long_break_minutes,
         },
         "server_time": utcnow().isoformat(),
+        "timer_enabled": settings.pomodoro.timer_enabled,
     }
 
 

backend/app/services/report.py

@@ -115,6 +115,7 @@ def build_daily(session: Session, settings: AppSettings, day: date) -> dict[str,
         "open_tasks": {
             "overdue": len(buckets["overdue"]),
             "today": len(buckets["today"]),
+            "active": len(buckets["active"]),
             "upcoming": len(buckets["upcoming"]),
             "someday": len(buckets["someday"]),
         },
@@ -209,7 +210,7 @@ def render_daily_telegram(payload: dict[str, Any], settings: AppSettings) -> str
     if report_settings.include_task_list and tasks:
         lines.append("")
         lines.append(
-            f"<b>{'✅ Закрытые задачи' if ru else '✅ Tasks closed'} ({len(tasks)})</b>"
+            f"<b>{'✅ Закрыто за день' if ru else '✅ Closed today'} ({len(tasks)})</b>"
         )
         for task in tasks[: report_settings.max_tasks_listed]:
             label = SOURCE_LABELS.get(task["source"], task["source"])
@@ -355,6 +356,7 @@ def render_morning_briefing(session: Session, settings: AppSettings) -> str:
 
     section("Просрочено" if ru else "Overdue", buckets["overdue"], "🔴")
     section("На сегодня" if ru else "Due today", buckets["today"], "🟡")
+    section("Было бы неплохо начать" if ru else "Would be nice to start", buckets["active"], "🟢")
     section("Скоро" if ru else "Coming up", buckets["upcoming"][:5], "🔵")
 
     laundry = [task for task in tasks if task.source == "laundry"]

backend/app/services/stats.py

@@ -66,12 +66,10 @@ def day_metrics(session: Session, settings: AppSettings, day: date) -> dict[str,
     dropped_seconds = sum(r.actual_seconds for r in work_dropped)
 
     by_hour = Counter(to_local(r.started_at, tz_name).hour for r in work_done)
+    # Closed in Jira / Todoist / Google and noticed by a refresh — this app
+    # never ticks a task off itself.
     tasks = list(
-        session.scalars(
-            select(TaskRecord).where(
-                TaskRecord.completed_date == day, TaskRecord.completed_here.is_(True)
-            )
-        )
+        session.scalars(select(TaskRecord).where(TaskRecord.completed_date == day))
     )
 
     blocks = list(
@@ -272,7 +270,7 @@ def lifetime(session: Session, settings: AppSettings) -> dict[str, Any]:
         )
     ).one()
     tasks = session.scalar(
-        select(func.count(TaskRecord.id)).where(TaskRecord.completed_here.is_(True))
+        select(func.count(TaskRecord.id)).where(TaskRecord.completed_date.is_not(None))
     )
     blocked = session.scalar(select(func.count(BlockEvent.id)))
     return {

backend/app/services/tasks_service.py

@@ -1,9 +1,14 @@
-"""The task list: refreshing it from every source, and acting on it.
+"""The task list: refreshing it from every source, and reading it.
 
 External tasks are mirrored into the `tasks` table on each refresh. The mirror
-buys three things a live call cannot: the UI stays instant, the daily report
-still works when a source is down, and "I finished this" is recorded locally
-even if the write-back to Jira fails.
+buys two things a live call cannot: the UI stays instant, and the daily report
+still works when a source is down.
+
+Nothing here closes a task. Jira, Todoist and Google Tasks each own completion
+for their own items, and a second place to tick things off is a second place to
+be wrong — so the refresh *detects* what you closed in those tools instead:
+an item that comes back done, or that a healthy source stops returning at all,
+is recorded as closed today.
 """
 
 from __future__ import annotations
@@ -19,7 +24,7 @@ from sqlalchemy.orm import Session
 from app.models import TaskRecord, utcnow
 from app.settings_schema import AppSettings
 from app.sources.base import SourceResult, TodoItem
-from app.sources.registry import SOURCE_LABELS, complete_remote, fetch_all
+from app.sources.registry import SOURCE_LABELS, fetch_all
 from app.timeutil import local_date
 
 log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
@@ -30,7 +35,12 @@ LOCAL_SOURCE = "local"
 # --------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Refresh
 # --------------------------------------------------------------------------
-def _upsert(session: Session, item: TodoItem) -> TaskRecord:
+# Laundry slots vanish from the grid when they finish; that is the washing
+# machine's business, not a task you completed.
+_TRANSIENT_SOURCES = frozenset({"laundry"})
+
+
+def _upsert(session: Session, item: TodoItem, today: date) -> TaskRecord:
     record = session.scalar(
         select(TaskRecord).where(
             TaskRecord.source == item.source,
@@ -54,18 +64,24 @@ def _upsert(session: Session, item: TodoItem) -> TaskRecord:
     record.last_seen_at = utcnow()
     record.stale = False
     if item.is_done and not record.is_done:
-        # Closed in the source, not here: it counts as done but not as "mine".
-        record.is_done = True
-        record.completed_at = record.completed_at or utcnow()
+        _mark_closed(record, today)
     return record
 
 
+def _mark_closed(record: TaskRecord, today: date) -> None:
+    """Record that a task is finished, as of the first refresh that saw it so."""
+    record.is_done = True
+    record.completed_at = record.completed_at or utcnow()
+    record.completed_date = record.completed_date or today
+
+
 def refresh_tasks(session: Session, settings: AppSettings) -> dict[str, Any]:
     """Pull every enabled source and reconcile the mirror.
 
-    Tasks a source stops returning are flagged `stale` rather than deleted: the
-    history behind "you finished 6 things today" has to survive a source that
-    quietly drops an item.
+    A task a *healthy* source stops returning has left your plate — Jira drops
+    it from "open issues" the moment you move it to Done — so it is recorded as
+    closed today rather than deleted. Nothing is ever dropped on a source that
+    failed: an outage must not look like a productive afternoon.
     """
     results: list[SourceResult] = fetch_all(settings)
     today = local_date(settings.timezone)
@@ -86,7 +102,7 @@ def refresh_tasks(session: Session, settings: AppSettings) -> dict[str, Any]:
 
         seen_ids: set[str] = set()
         for item in result.items:
-            _upsert(session, item)
+            _upsert(session, item, today)
             seen_ids.add(item.external_id)
 
         existing = session.scalars(
@@ -94,9 +110,15 @@ def refresh_tasks(session: Session, settings: AppSettings) -> dict[str, Any]:
                 TaskRecord.source == result.source, TaskRecord.is_done.is_(False)
             )
         ).all()
+        closed = 0
         for record in existing:
-            if record.external_id not in seen_ids:
+            if record.external_id in seen_ids:
+                continue
+            if result.source in _TRANSIENT_SOURCES:
                 record.stale = True
+                continue
+            _mark_closed(record, today)
+            closed += 1
 
         summary.append(
             {
@@ -105,6 +127,7 @@ def refresh_tasks(session: Session, settings: AppSettings) -> dict[str, Any]:
                 "ok": True,
                 "error": None,
                 "count": len(result.items),
+                "closed": closed,
             }
         )
 
@@ -114,6 +137,7 @@ def refresh_tasks(session: Session, settings: AppSettings) -> dict[str, Any]:
         "date": today.isoformat(),
         "sources": summary,
         "total": sum(entry["count"] for entry in summary),
+        "closed": sum(entry.get("closed", 0) for entry in summary),
     }
 
 
@@ -155,26 +179,28 @@ def bucket_tasks(records: Iterable[TaskRecord], today: date) -> dict[str, list[T
     buckets: dict[str, list[TaskRecord]] = {
         "overdue": [],
         "today": [],
+        "active": [],
         "upcoming": [],
         "someday": [],
     }
     for record in records:
-        if record.due_date is None:
-            buckets["someday"].append(record)
-        elif record.due_date < today:
+        if record.due_date is not None and record.due_date < today:
             buckets["overdue"].append(record)
         elif record.due_date == today:
             buckets["today"].append(record)
+        elif record.start_date is not None and record.start_date <= today:
+            # Started, but not due today — in progress rather than "upcoming".
+            buckets["active"].append(record)
+        elif record.due_date is None:
+            buckets["someday"].append(record)
         else:
             buckets["upcoming"].append(record)
     return buckets
 
 
-def completed_on(session: Session, day: date, *, only_here: bool = True) -> list[TaskRecord]:
-    query = select(TaskRecord).where(TaskRecord.completed_date == day)
-    if only_here:
-        query = query.where(TaskRecord.completed_here.is_(True))
-    return list(session.scalars(query))
+def completed_on(session: Session, day: date) -> list[TaskRecord]:
+    """Tasks seen to close on `day`, whichever tool they were closed in."""
+    return list(session.scalars(select(TaskRecord).where(TaskRecord.completed_date == day)))
 
 
 # --------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -209,53 +235,6 @@ def create_local_task(
     return record
 
 
-def complete_task(
-    session: Session, settings: AppSettings, task_id: int, *, done: bool = True
-) -> tuple[TaskRecord, str | None]:
-    """Mark a task done (or undone) here, and try to mirror it to its source.
-
-    Returns the record plus a warning when the write-back failed — the local
-    state still changes, because the alternative is losing the fact that you
-    finished something because Jira hiccupped.
-    """
-    record = session.get(TaskRecord, task_id)
-    if record is None:
-        raise LookupError(f"no task {task_id}")
-
-    warning: str | None = None
-    if done:
-        record.is_done = True
-        record.completed_here = True
-        record.completed_at = utcnow()
-        record.completed_date = local_date(settings.timezone)
-        if record.source != LOCAL_SOURCE:
-            item = TodoItem(
-                source=record.source,
-                external_id=record.external_id,
-                title=record.title,
-                raw=record.raw or {},
-            )
-            wrote, error = complete_remote(settings, item)
-            if error:
-                warning = (
-                    f"Marked done here, but {SOURCE_LABELS.get(record.source, record.source)}"
-                    f" did not accept it: {error}"
-                )
-            elif not wrote:
-                warning = (
-                    f"Marked done here only — write-back is off for "
-                    f"{SOURCE_LABELS.get(record.source, record.source)}."
-                )
-    else:
-        record.is_done = False
-        record.completed_here = False
-        record.completed_at = None
-        record.completed_date = None
-
-    session.commit()
-    return record, warning
-
-
 def update_task(session: Session, task_id: int, **changes: Any) -> TaskRecord:
     record = session.get(TaskRecord, task_id)
     if record is None:

backend/app/services/telegram_bot.py

@@ -41,7 +41,6 @@ HELP_EN = """<b>Kadence</b>
 /pause · /resume — hold the clock
 /status — what is running right now
 /today — your todo list, grouped
-/done &lt;number&gt; — close task N from /today
 /report — today's report, now
 /week — the weekly review
 /streak — streak and all-time totals
@@ -56,7 +55,6 @@ HELP_RU = """<b>Kadence</b>
 /pause · /resume — пауза и продолжение
 /status — что идёт сейчас
 /today — список задач по группам
-/done &lt;номер&gt; — закрыть задачу N из /today
 /report — отчёт за сегодня
 /week — итоги недели
 /streak — серия и общая статистика
@@ -171,7 +169,7 @@ def _cmd_resume(session, settings: AppSettings, _args: str) -> str:
 
 
 def _cmd_today(session, settings: AppSettings, _args: str) -> str:
-    """The todo list, numbered so `/done 3` has something to refer to."""
+    """The todo list, grouped by deadline and numbered for reading."""
     ru = settings.notifications.report.language == "ru"
     today = local_date(settings.timezone)
     tasks = tasks_service.list_tasks(session)
@@ -180,7 +178,6 @@ def _cmd_today(session, settings: AppSettings, _args: str) -> str:
     if not ordered:
         return "✨ Задач нет." if ru else "✨ Nothing on the list."
 
-    _INDEX[settings.notifications.telegram.chat_id] = [task.id for task in ordered]
     limit = settings.notifications.report.max_tasks_listed
     lines = [f"<b>{'📋 Задачи' if ru else '📋 Your tasks'}</b>"]
     marks = {"overdue": "🔴", "today": "🟡", "upcoming": "🔵", "someday": "⚪"}
@@ -196,30 +193,9 @@ def _cmd_today(session, settings: AppSettings, _args: str) -> str:
             )
     if position > limit:
         lines.append(("… и ещё " if ru else "… and ") + f"{position - limit}")
-    lines.append("")
-    lines.append("<i>/done N</i>")
     return "\n".join(lines)
 
 
-_INDEX: dict[str, list[int]] = {}
-
-
-def _cmd_done(session, settings: AppSettings, args: str) -> str:
-    ru = settings.notifications.report.language == "ru"
-    chat_id = settings.notifications.telegram.chat_id
-    index = _INDEX.get(chat_id)
-    if not args.strip().isdigit():
-        return "Укажи номер: /done 3" if ru else "Give me a number: /done 3"
-    if not index:
-        return "Сначала /today." if ru else "Run /today first."
-    position = int(args.strip())
-    if not 1 <= position <= len(index):
-        return "Нет такого номера." if ru else "No task with that number."
-    record, warning = tasks_service.complete_task(session, settings, index[position - 1])
-    text = f"✅ {report._esc(record.title)}"
-    return text + (f"\n⚠️ {report._esc(warning)}" if warning else "")
-
-
 def _cmd_report(session, settings: AppSettings, _args: str) -> str:
     today = local_date(settings.timezone)
     _, payload = report.get_or_build_daily(session, settings, today, rebuild=True)
@@ -283,7 +259,6 @@ COMMANDS: dict[str, Callable] = {
     "resume": _cmd_resume,
     "today": _cmd_today,
     "tasks": _cmd_today,
-    "done": _cmd_done,
     "report": _cmd_report,
     "week": _cmd_week,
     "streak": _cmd_streak,

backend/app/settings_schema.py

@@ -49,6 +49,9 @@ class PomodoroSettings(BaseModel):
     alarm_sound: bool = True
     alarm_volume: int = Field(default=70, ge=0, le=100)
 
+    timer_enabled: bool = True
+    """When false the timer controls are hidden — the app becomes view-only."""
+
     desktop_notifications: bool = True
     keep_on_top_during_work: bool = False
     """Desktop app: float the window above everything while a work interval runs."""
@@ -76,12 +79,6 @@ class JiraSourceSettings(BaseModel):
 
     max_issues: int = Field(default=200, ge=1, le=2000)
 
-    writeback_done: bool = True
-    """Completing a Jira task here transitions the issue to Done in Jira."""
-
-    done_transition_name: str = "Done"
-    """Preferred transition name when writing back; falls back to any 'done' one."""
-
 
 class GoogleTasksSourceSettings(BaseModel):
     """Google Tasks, via an OAuth refresh token (see jira-helper's README)."""
@@ -96,8 +93,6 @@ class GoogleTasksSourceSettings(BaseModel):
     include_undated: bool = True
     """Keep tasks with no due date (jira-helper drops them; here they are todos)."""
 
-    writeback_done: bool = True
-
 
 class TodoistSourceSettings(BaseModel):
     """Todoist, via a personal API token."""
@@ -110,8 +105,6 @@ class TodoistSourceSettings(BaseModel):
     filter_query: str = ""
     """Override the server-side filter. Empty = all open tasks."""
 
-    writeback_done: bool = True
-
 
 class LaundrySourceSettings(BaseModel):
     """Campus laundry bookings — not a todo, but a thing that owns your time."""
@@ -157,13 +150,23 @@ class BlockerSettings(BaseModel):
 
     block_during_breaks: bool = False
     blocked_domains: list[str] = Field(default_factory=list)
-    """Bare hostnames, e.g. `youtube.com`. `www.` and subdomains are added for you."""
+    """Hostnames or masks.
+
+    `youtube.com` blocks the site (plus `www.` and `m.`); `*.youtube.com` blocks
+    its subdomains too, expanded with `subdomain_expansions` because a hosts file
+    has no wildcards of its own.
+    """
 
     allowed_domains: list[str] = Field(default_factory=list)
-    """Exceptions that survive a wildcard entry, e.g. `music.youtube.com`."""
+    """Exceptions, masks allowed: `music.youtube.com`, `*.docs.google.com`."""
+
+    subdomain_expansions: list[str] = Field(
+        default_factory=lambda: ["www", "m", "mobile", "app", "web", "i", "old", "new"]
+    )
+    """What `*.example.com` turns into. Add the subdomains you actually visit."""
 
     blocked_apps: list[str] = Field(default_factory=list)
-    """Process names, e.g. `steam`, `discord`, `Telegram`."""
+    """Process names or masks: `steam`, `*discord*`, `telegram-*`."""
 
     kill_blocked_apps: bool = True
     """Terminate a blocked app when it appears; otherwise only warn and log."""

backend/app/sources/base.py

@@ -63,8 +63,5 @@ class TodoSource(Protocol):
     def fetch(self) -> list[TodoItem]:
         """Every open todo this source knows about."""
 
-    def complete(self, item: TodoItem) -> bool:
-        """Close the task in the external system. False = not supported."""
-
     def check(self) -> str:
         """Verify credentials; return a short human description of the account."""

backend/app/sources/google_tasks.py

@@ -142,25 +142,6 @@ class GoogleTasksSource:
     def check(self) -> str:
         return f"{len(self._task_lists())} Google task list(s) visible"
 
-    def complete(self, item: TodoItem) -> bool:
-        """PATCH the task's status — Google Tasks has no dedicated close verb."""
-        if not self._config.writeback_done:
-            return False
-        list_id, _, task_id = item.external_id.partition(":")
-        if not (list_id and task_id):
-            raise SourceError(f"Unusable Google task id: {item.external_id!r}")
-        try:
-            resp = self._client.patch(
-                f"{_API_BASE}/lists/{list_id}/tasks/{task_id}",
-                json={"status": "completed"},
-                headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {self._token()}"},
-            )
-        except httpx.HTTPError as exc:
-            raise SourceError(f"Google is unreachable: {exc}") from exc
-        if not resp.is_success:
-            raise SourceError(f"Google could not complete the task: {resp.status_code}")
-        return True
-
     def close(self) -> None:
         self._client.close()
 

backend/app/sources/jira.py

@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ over from jira-helper's client. The difference is the query: jira-helper asks
 "what is due today", this asks "what is open at all", because you need
 something to start a pomodoro on even when nothing is due.
 
-Writing back is new here: finishing a Jira-backed pomodoro task transitions the
-issue to Done, so the app is not a second place to keep your task list in sync.
+Nothing is written back: you close an issue in Jira, and the next refresh
+notices it has left the "open issues" query. One owner per task.
 """
 
 from __future__ import annotations
@@ -110,45 +110,6 @@ class JiraSource:
         me = self._request("GET", "/rest/api/3/myself") or {}
         return f"{me.get('displayName', 'unknown')} on {self._base_url}"
 
-    def complete(self, item: TodoItem) -> bool:
-        """Transition the issue into a Done-category status.
-
-        Jira has no generic "close" verb: every project defines its own workflow,
-        so we ask the issue which transitions it offers and pick the one named in
-        the settings, else any transition landing in the Done category.
-        """
-        if not self._config.writeback_done:
-            return False
-        key = item.external_id
-        data = self._request("GET", f"/rest/api/3/issue/{key}/transitions") or {}
-        transitions = data.get("transitions", [])
-        wanted = self._config.done_transition_name.strip().lower()
-
-        chosen = next(
-            (t for t in transitions if (t.get("name") or "").lower() == wanted),
-            None,
-        ) or next(
-            (
-                t
-                for t in transitions
-                if ((t.get("to") or {}).get("statusCategory") or {}).get("key") == "done"
-            ),
-            None,
-        )
-        if chosen is None:
-            raise SourceError(
-                f"{key} has no transition to a Done status"
-                + (f" named {self._config.done_transition_name!r}" if wanted else "")
-                + ". Available: "
-                + ", ".join(t.get("name", "?") for t in transitions)
-            )
-        self._request(
-            "POST",
-            f"/rest/api/3/issue/{key}/transitions",
-            json={"transition": {"id": chosen["id"]}},
-        )
-        return True
-
     def close(self) -> None:
         self._client.close()
 

backend/app/sources/laundry.py

@@ -133,9 +133,6 @@ class LaundrySource:
         self._check_session()
         return f"signed in at {self._base_url}"
 
-    def complete(self, item: TodoItem) -> bool:
-        return False  # the washing machine finishes on its own
-
     def close(self) -> None:
         self._client.close()
 

backend/app/sources/registry.py

@@ -93,21 +93,6 @@ def fetch_all(settings: AppSettings) -> list[SourceResult]:
             _close(source)
 
 
-def complete_remote(settings: AppSettings, item: TodoItem) -> tuple[bool, str | None]:
-    """Close a task in its own system. Returns `(did_write, error)`."""
-    sources = build_sources(settings)
-    source = sources.get(item.source)
-    if source is None:
-        return False, None
-    try:
-        return bool(source.complete(item)), None
-    except SourceError as exc:
-        return False, str(exc)
-    finally:
-        for built in sources.values():
-            _close(built)
-
-
 def check_source(settings: AppSettings, name: str) -> tuple[bool, str]:
     """Verify one source's credentials — what the settings page's Test button calls."""
     sources = build_sources(settings)

backend/app/sources/todoist.py

@@ -117,18 +117,6 @@ class TodoistSource:
         projects = self._projects()
         return f"{len(projects)} Todoist project(s) visible"
 
-    def complete(self, item: TodoItem) -> bool:
-        """`POST /tasks/{id}/close` — the same verb the apps' checkbox uses."""
-        if not self._config.writeback_done:
-            return False
-        try:
-            resp = self._client.post(f"/tasks/{item.external_id}/close")
-        except httpx.HTTPError as exc:
-            raise SourceError(f"Todoist is unreachable: {exc}") from exc
-        if not resp.is_success:
-            raise SourceError(f"Todoist could not close the task: {resp.status_code}")
-        return True
-
     def close(self) -> None:
         self._client.close()
 

backend/tests/conftest.py

@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ import tempfile
 
 import pytest
 
+# Before anything imports the settings: no `.env`, ever. A developer's real
+# file would otherwise point the suite at live Jira, Telegram and laundry.
+os.environ["KADENCE_NO_DOTENV"] = "1"
 os.environ.setdefault("DATABASE_URL", "sqlite:///" + tempfile.mktemp(suffix=".db"))
 os.environ["SCHEDULER_ENABLED"] = "false"
 os.environ["TELEGRAM_BOT_ENABLED"] = "false"

backend/tests/test_api.py

@@ -24,9 +24,6 @@ def test_a_whole_pomodoro_through_the_api(client):
     assert done["finished"]["status"] == "completed"
     assert done["completed_today"] == 1
 
-    marked = client.post(f"/api/tasks/{task['id']}/done", json={"done": True}).json()
-    assert marked["task"]["is_done"] is True
-
     report = client.get("/api/reports/daily").json()
     assert report["report"]["metrics"]["pomodoros"] == 1
     assert "Daily report" in report["telegram_preview"]
@@ -37,6 +34,18 @@ def test_timer_errors_are_400_not_500(client):
     assert client.post("/api/timer/complete", json={}).status_code == 400
 
 
+def test_tasks_cannot_be_ticked_off_here(client):
+    """Completion belongs to Jira / Todoist / Google — we only notice it.
+
+    405 rather than 404 because the SPA catch-all claims unknown paths for GET;
+    either way there is no way to close a task through the API.
+    """
+    task = client.post("/api/tasks", json={"title": "Not yours to close"}).json()
+    response = client.post(f"/api/tasks/{task['id']}/done", json={"done": True})
+    assert response.status_code in (404, 405)
+    assert client.get("/api/tasks").json()["tasks"][0]["is_done"] is False
+
+
 def test_task_crud(client):
     created = client.post("/api/tasks", json={"title": "Temporary", "priority": "p2"}).json()
     listing = client.get("/api/tasks").json()

backend/tests/test_blocker.py

@@ -60,3 +60,38 @@ def test_events_are_grouped_for_the_report(session, settings):
     summary = blocker_service.events_for_day(session, settings)
     assert summary["total"] == 4
     assert summary["by_target"][0] == {"target": "youtube.com", "count": 3}
+
+
+def test_masked_subdomains_are_expanded(session, settings):
+    """A hosts file has no wildcards, so `*.x` has to become real names."""
+    settings.blocker.blocked_domains = ["*.google.com"]
+    settings.blocker.subdomain_expansions = ["www", "mail"]
+    hosts = blocker_service.expand_domains(settings)
+    assert hosts == ["google.com", "www.google.com", "mail.google.com"]
+
+
+def test_allow_masks_carve_holes_in_block_masks(session, settings):
+    settings.blocker.blocked_domains = ["*.google.com", "reddit.com"]
+    settings.blocker.subdomain_expansions = ["www", "docs"]
+    settings.blocker.allowed_domains = ["docs.*", "m.reddit.com"]
+    hosts = blocker_service.expand_domains(settings)
+    assert "docs.google.com" not in hosts
+    assert "m.reddit.com" not in hosts
+    assert "www.google.com" in hosts and "reddit.com" in hosts
+
+
+def test_patterns_a_hosts_file_cannot_express_are_reported(session, settings):
+    settings.blocker.blocked_domains = ["*gram*", "youtube.com", "*.x.com"]
+    assert blocker_service.unexpandable_masks(settings) == ["*gram*"]
+    hosts = blocker_service.expand_domains(settings)
+    assert "youtube.com" in hosts and "x.com" in hosts
+
+
+def test_app_masks_are_passed_through_untouched(session, settings):
+    """Process matching happens on the desktop, where globs work directly."""
+    settings.blocker.enabled = True
+    settings.blocker.mode = "always"
+    settings.blocker.blocked_apps = ["steam*", "*discord*"]
+    settings_service.save_settings(session, settings)
+    policy = blocker_service.policy(session, settings)
+    assert policy["apps"] == ["steam*", "*discord*"]

backend/tests/test_pomodoro.py

@@ -91,3 +91,12 @@ def test_reap_closes_intervals_left_running(session, settings):
     assert pomodoro.reap_stale(session, settings) == 1
     session.refresh(row)
     assert row.status == "abandoned"
+
+
+def test_timer_disabled_prevents_start(session, settings):
+    settings.pomodoro.timer_enabled = False
+    settings_service.save_settings(session, settings)
+    with pytest.raises(pomodoro.TimerError, match="view-only"):
+        pomodoro.start(session, settings, kind="work")
+    st = pomodoro.state(session, settings)
+    assert st["timer_enabled"] is False

backend/tests/test_reports.py

@@ -5,8 +5,16 @@ from __future__ import annotations
 from datetime import timedelta
 
 from app.models import utcnow
-from app.services import pomodoro, report, settings_service, stats, tasks_service
 from app.timeutil import local_date
+from app.services import pomodoro, report, settings_service, stats, tasks_service
+
+
+def _close(session, settings, task) -> None:
+    """Simulate what a refresh does when a task has been closed in its own tool."""
+    task.is_done = True
+    task.completed_at = utcnow()
+    task.completed_date = local_date(settings.timezone)
+    session.commit()
 
 
 def _run_pomodoros(session, settings, count: int, *, minutes: int = 25) -> None:
@@ -57,7 +65,7 @@ def test_report_payload_has_the_pieces_the_ui_draws(session, settings):
     settings_service.save_settings(session, settings)
     _run_pomodoros(session, settings, 2)
     task = tasks_service.create_local_task(session, title="Ship the thing")
-    tasks_service.complete_task(session, settings, task.id)
+    _close(session, settings, task)
 
     payload = report.build_daily(session, settings, local_date(settings.timezone))
     assert payload["metrics"]["pomodoros"] == 2
@@ -69,7 +77,7 @@ def test_report_payload_has_the_pieces_the_ui_draws(session, settings):
 
 def test_rendered_report_escapes_borrowed_text(session, settings):
     task = tasks_service.create_local_task(session, title="Fix <b>&</b> ship")
-    tasks_service.complete_task(session, settings, task.id)
+    _close(session, settings, task)
     payload = report.build_daily(session, settings, local_date(settings.timezone))
     text = report.render_daily_telegram(payload, settings)
     assert "Fix &lt;b&gt;&amp;&lt;/b&gt; ship" in text

backend/tests/test_telegram_bot.py

@@ -28,25 +28,19 @@ def test_stop_without_a_timer_explains_itself(session):
     assert "No interval is running" in telegram_bot.handle_text("/stop")
 
 
-def test_today_numbers_tasks_and_done_closes_them(session):
+def test_today_lists_and_numbers_the_tasks(session):
     settings_service.load_settings(session)
-    first = tasks_service.create_local_task(session, title="Alpha task")
+    tasks_service.create_local_task(session, title="Alpha task")
     tasks_service.create_local_task(session, title="Beta task")
 
     listing = telegram_bot.handle_text("/today")
     assert "Alpha task" in listing and "<b>1.</b>" in listing
 
-    reply = telegram_bot.handle_text("/done 1")
-    assert "Alpha task" in reply
-    session.expire_all()
-    assert session.get(type(first), first.id).is_done is True
 
-    assert "No task with that number" in telegram_bot.handle_text("/done 99")
-
-
-def test_done_without_a_listing_asks_for_one(session):
-    telegram_bot._INDEX.clear()
-    assert "/today" in telegram_bot.handle_text("/done 1")
+def test_there_is_no_done_command(session):
+    """Tasks are closed in their own tool; the bot must not pretend otherwise."""
+    assert telegram_bot.handle_text("/done 1") is None
+    assert "/done" not in telegram_bot.handle_text("/help")
 
 
 def test_report_and_streak_render(session):

desktop/README.md

@@ -7,7 +7,9 @@ system package `python-pyqt6`; everything else — HTTP, config, process scannin
 is the Python standard library.
 
 It is also the piece that *enforces* things, because it is the only part running
-on your machine.
+on your machine. The interface is the same warm, hairline-ruled design as the
+web app — the `Theme` singleton in `qml/` holds the same tokens as the web
+app's `tokens.ts`.
 
 ```bash
 sudo pacman -S --needed python-pyqt6 qt6-declarative     # Arch
@@ -24,6 +26,9 @@ Run it straight from the checkout instead: `python3 -m kadence_desktop`.
 
 | Feature | How |
 | --- | --- |
+| **A floating mini timer** | A small pill with the countdown, the task you are on, and the controls — *Pause / Resume / Finish / +5*, or *Start focus / Break* when idle — all on their own rows and all visible without hovering. Open it with **Ctrl+M**, the tray menu, or `kadence-desktop --mini`; it also appears by itself while an interval runs and the main window is away. Dragging moves it (through the compositor, so it works on Wayland) and double-clicking opens the main window. It is **not** a `Qt.Tool` window — Qt hides those whenever the application is deactivated, which made it vanish on every click in another app — and it refuses keyboard focus instead. |
+| **Where it appears** | Settings → *Mini timer appears*: any of the four corners, the top/bottom edge centres, the centre of the screen, or *where I last dragged it*, with a configurable gap from the edges. It is placed on the screen the app is on, inside the usable area (panels excluded), and it returns to that spot every time it comes up. On X11 the app positions the window; on Wayland — where a client may not — the point is written into the same KWin rule. |
+| **Above everything, on Wayland** | Wayland gives an application no way to ask for "always on top", so on KDE the app installs a **KWin window rule** (keep above, skip task bar, skip switcher, skip pager) and asks KWin to re-read its config over D-Bus. The rule matches the window title as a **substring**: Qt appends the application's display name, so KWin sees `Kadence mini — Kadence`, and an exact match silently never fires. The app backs the file up first, leaves your other rules alone, re-writes the rule when an upgrade changes it, and *Settings → Keep the mini timer above everything* removes it. Verify with `busctl --user call org.kde.KWin /Scripting org.kde.kwin.Scripting loadScript …` or simply: the mini timer should stay on top of a maximised window. |
 | **Tray icon that *is* the timer** | `QSystemTrayIcon` (a StatusNotifierItem on KDE). The icon is painted at runtime: a ring that drains as the interval runs, tinted by focus / break / idle, with a pause glyph when held. Middle-click toggles the timer. |
 | **Real notifications with buttons** | `org.freedesktop.Notifications` over D-Bus, with actions: *Start break* · *Another pomodoro* · *+5 min*. Replaced in place, so a day of pomodoros never stacks a column of toasts. |
 | **Scriptable over D-Bus** | `org.kadence.Desktop` exports `StartWork`, `Toggle`, `Pause`, `Complete`, `Extend`, `Interrupt`, `Status`, `SendReport`, `Raise`. Bind any of them to a global shortcut in System Settings — no key-grabbing hacks. |
@@ -52,6 +57,8 @@ edit them and a second machine obeys the same list. This app enforces them:
 * **Applications** — `/proc` is scanned every few seconds for your own processes
   matching the list; they are terminated (SIGTERM, then SIGKILL) or merely
   reported, and every attempt is sent to the backend for the evening report.
+  List entries may be globs — `steam*`, `*discord*`, `telegram-?` — matched
+  against both the process name and its command line.
 * Everything is released when the interval ends — and on exit, including a crash,
   because `shutdown()` clears the block and the inhibits.
 
@@ -76,6 +83,45 @@ sudo ./helper/install.sh --uninstall      # unblocks first, then removes itself
 
 ---
 
+## Application menu and rofi
+
+```bash
+./packaging/install-desktop.sh
+```
+
+That writes `~/.local/share/applications/kadence.desktop`, the icon, and a
+`~/.local/bin/kadence-desktop` launcher, then refreshes the caches each
+launcher keeps (`update-desktop-database`, `gtk-update-icon-cache`,
+`kbuildsycoca6` for KDE's menu).
+
+Two details that decide whether an entry shows up at all:
+
+* **`Exec`/`TryExec` are written as absolute paths.** Launchers run with the
+  *session* PATH, which usually does not include `~/.local/bin`; an entry whose
+  `TryExec` cannot be resolved is silently hidden. Absolute paths cannot be.
+* **One main category.** `Categories=Office;ProjectManagement;` — listing both
+  `Utility` and `Office` makes the app appear twice in some menus.
+
+It then shows up in KDE's launcher under *Office* and in `rofi -show drun`
+(search for *pomodoro*, *timer* or *focus*), with the right-click actions
+*Start a pomodoro* / *Start a break* / *Start / pause* / *Send today's report*.
+
+If your rofi runs in **`run` mode** rather than `drun`, it lists binaries from
+`PATH`, so `~/.local/bin` has to be on the session PATH:
+
+```bash
+printf 'PATH=$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH\n' > ~/.config/environment.d/10-local-bin.conf
+# for the session you are already in:
+systemctl --user set-environment PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"
+dbus-update-activation-environment --systemd PATH
+```
+
+To see the entry (and its actions) in rofi with its icon instead, add `drun`:
+`modes: "drun,run";` in `~/.config/rofi/config.rasi`, plus
+`drun-show-actions: true;` if you want the actions listed too.
+
+---
+
 ## Global shortcuts
 
 System Settings → Shortcuts → Custom Shortcuts → New → D-Bus command:
@@ -94,13 +140,35 @@ kadence-desktop --toggle      # start → pause → resume
 kadence-desktop --start       # start a focus interval
 kadence-desktop --break
 kadence-desktop --complete
+kadence-desktop --mini        # show/hide the floating mini timer
 kadence-desktop --status      # "Focus 18:42 · Write the docs · 3/8 today"
 kadence-desktop --report      # send today's report to Telegram
 ```
 
+On Qt 6 the command-line D-Bus tool is **`qdbus6`** (plain `qdbus` is the Qt 5
+one and may not be installed):
+
+```bash
+qdbus6 org.kadence.Desktop /Timer org.kadence.Timer.Status
+busctl --user introspect org.kadence.Desktop /Timer   # lists every verb
+```
+
+The verbs live on a `QDBusAbstractAdaptor` carrying
+`pyqtClassInfo("D-Bus Interface", "org.kadence.Timer")`. That detail matters:
+export a plain `QObject` instead and Qt names the interface after the class
+(`local.kadence.TimerDBusService`), so every documented command fails with
+*"No such interface"*.
+
 In-window shortcuts: **Space** start/pause · **Ctrl+Enter** finish ·
-**Ctrl+E** +5 min · **Ctrl+R** refresh sources · **Ctrl+1…5** pages ·
-**Ctrl+W** hide to tray.
+**Ctrl+E** +5 min · **Ctrl+R** refresh sources · **Ctrl+M** mini timer ·
+**Ctrl+1…5** pages · **Ctrl+W** hide to tray.
+
+> **Wayland note.** The mini timer's placement and "always on top" are a KWin rule written to
+> `~/.config/kwinrulesrc` (backed up once as `kwinrulesrc.kadence-backup`); you
+> can see it in System Settings → Window Management → Window Rules as *Kadence
+> mini timer*, and the switch in Settings removes it. Its position is remembered
+> on X11; on Wayland the compositor places it and dragging goes through
+> `startSystemMove()`.
 
 ---
 

desktop/kadence_desktop/__main__.py

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ talk to a *running* instance over D-Bus instead of starting a second one, which
 is what makes them usable as global shortcuts:
 
     kadence-desktop --toggle     # bind this to a key in System Settings
+    kadence-desktop --mini       # show/hide the floating mini timer
     kadence-desktop --status     # prints "Focus 18:42 · Write the docs · 3/8 today"
 """
 
@@ -27,6 +28,7 @@ REMOTE_VERBS = {
     "interrupt": "Interrupt",
     "status": "Status",
     "report": "SendReport",
+    "mini": "ToggleMini",
     "show": "Raise",
 }
 
@@ -53,6 +55,9 @@ def _remote(verb: str) -> int:
 def main() -> int:
     parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(prog="kadence-desktop", description=__doc__)
     parser.add_argument("--minimized", action="store_true", help="start in the tray only")
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--view-only", action="store_true", help="start in view-only mode with timer turned off"
+    )
     parser.add_argument("--verbose", action="store_true")
     for verb in REMOTE_VERBS:
         parser.add_argument(
@@ -77,7 +82,7 @@ def main() -> int:
         print("Kadence is already running — raised its window.")
         return 0
 
-    return KadenceApp(sys.argv, minimized=args.minimized).run()
+    return KadenceApp(sys.argv, minimized=args.minimized, view_only=args.view_only).run()
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":

desktop/kadence_desktop/api.py

@@ -100,8 +100,9 @@ class Api:
     def refresh_tasks(self) -> dict:
         return self._request("POST", "/api/tasks/refresh", {})
 
-    def task_done(self, task_id: int, done: bool = True) -> dict:
-        return self._request("POST", f"/api/tasks/{task_id}/done", {"done": done})
+    def patch_task(self, task_id: int, patch: dict) -> dict:
+        """Edit a task's local fields (pinning, estimate). Completion is not ours."""
+        return self._request("PATCH", f"/api/tasks/{task_id}", patch)
 
     def create_task(self, title: str, due_date: str | None = None) -> dict:
         return self._request("POST", "/api/tasks", {"title": title, "due_date": due_date})

desktop/kadence_desktop/app.py

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ os.environ.setdefault("QT_QUICK_CONTROLS_MATERIAL_VARIANT", "Normal")
 
 from PyQt6.QtCore import QObject, QTimer, QUrl
 from PyQt6.QtGui import QIcon
-from PyQt6.QtQml import QQmlApplicationEngine
+from PyQt6.QtQml import QQmlApplicationEngine, QQmlComponent
 from PyQt6.QtQuick import QQuickWindow
 from PyQt6.QtWidgets import QApplication, QSystemTrayIcon
 
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ from kadence_desktop import APP_ID, __version__
 from kadence_desktop.config import DesktopConfig
 from kadence_desktop.controller import Controller
 from kadence_desktop.integrations import dbus_service
+from kadence_desktop.integrations.placement import Rect, point_for
 from kadence_desktop.tray import Tray, render_icon
 
 log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
@@ -36,7 +37,9 @@ QML_DIR = Path(__file__).resolve().parent / "qml"
 
 
 class KadenceApp(QObject):
-    def __init__(self, argv: list[str], *, minimized: bool = False) -> None:
+    def __init__(
+        self, argv: list[str], *, minimized: bool = False, view_only: bool = False
+    ) -> None:
         super().__init__()
         # QApplication (not QGuiApplication): the tray icon and its menu are
         # widgets, and they are what makes the app usable with no window open.
@@ -52,6 +55,8 @@ class KadenceApp(QObject):
         self._app.setQuitOnLastWindowClosed(False)
 
         self._config = DesktopConfig.load()
+        if view_only:
+            self._config.view_only = True
         self._controller = Controller(self._config)
 
         self._engine = QQmlApplicationEngine()
@@ -63,6 +68,8 @@ class KadenceApp(QObject):
             raise SystemExit("Could not load the QML interface.")
         self._window: QQuickWindow = self._engine.rootObjects()[0]
 
+        self._mini = self._create_mini_window()
+
         self._tray: Tray | None = None
         if self._config.tray_icon and QSystemTrayIcon.isSystemTrayAvailable():
             self._tray = Tray(self._controller, self)
@@ -73,6 +80,15 @@ class KadenceApp(QObject):
         self._controller.showWindowRequested.connect(self.show_window)
         self._app.aboutToQuit.connect(self._controller.shutdown)
 
+        # Anything that can change "should the mini timer be up?" lands here.
+        self._controller.miniChanged.connect(self._update_mini)
+        self._controller.miniPlacementChanged.connect(self._place_mini)
+        self._controller.stateChanged.connect(self._update_mini)
+        self._controller.configChanged.connect(self._update_mini)
+        self._window.visibleChanged.connect(self._update_mini)
+        self._update_mini()
+        self._place_mini()
+
         if self._config.dbus_service:
             self._register_dbus()
 
@@ -88,6 +104,73 @@ class KadenceApp(QObject):
         self._wakeup.start(500)
         self._wakeup.timeout.connect(lambda: None)
 
+    # ---- the floating mini timer --------------------------------------------
+
+    def _create_mini_window(self) -> QObject | None:
+        """Build MiniTimer.qml as a top-level window of its own."""
+        component = QQmlComponent(self._engine, QUrl.fromLocalFile(str(QML_DIR / "MiniTimer.qml")))
+        if component.isError():  # pragma: no cover - a QML typo, caught in dev
+            for error in component.errors():
+                log.error("mini timer: %s", error.toString())
+            return None
+        # No parent on purpose: a parented QML Window becomes transient and
+        # cannot outlive — or out-show — its parent. The Python reference on
+        # `self._mini` is what keeps it alive.
+        window = component.create()
+        if window is not None:
+            window.setProperty("objectName", "miniTimer")
+        return window
+
+    def _update_mini(self) -> None:
+        """Show it when pinned, or when an interval runs with the window away."""
+        if self._mini is None:
+            return
+        config = self._config
+        wanted = bool(config.mini_timer) and (
+            self._controller.miniVisible
+            or (config.mini_timer_auto and self._controller.running and not self._window.isVisible())
+        )
+        if bool(self._mini.property("visible")) != wanted:
+            if wanted:
+                # Each time it comes up it lands where you asked for, even if it
+                # was dragged elsewhere during the last interval.
+                self._place_mini()
+            self._mini.setProperty("visible", wanted)
+
+    def _mini_screen_rect(self) -> Rect:
+        """The usable area of the screen the app is on — panels excluded."""
+        screen = self._window.screen() or self._app.primaryScreen()
+        area = screen.availableGeometry()
+        return Rect(area.x(), area.y(), area.width(), area.height())
+
+    def _place_mini(self) -> None:
+        """Put the mini timer in the configured corner.
+
+        Setting `x`/`y` is what works on X11; on Wayland the client may not
+        place itself, so the same point goes into the KWin rule, which is
+        honoured when the window is mapped.
+        """
+        if self._mini is None:
+            return
+        config = self._config
+        if config.mini_timer_corner == "remember":
+            self._controller.ensure_keep_above(None)
+            if config.mini_timer_x >= 0 and config.mini_timer_y >= 0:
+                self._mini.setProperty("x", config.mini_timer_x)
+                self._mini.setProperty("y", config.mini_timer_y)
+            return
+
+        size = (
+            int(self._mini.property("width") or 252),
+            int(self._mini.property("height") or 152),
+        )
+        point = point_for(
+            config.mini_timer_corner, self._mini_screen_rect(), size, config.mini_timer_margin
+        )
+        self._mini.setProperty("x", point[0])
+        self._mini.setProperty("y", point[1])
+        self._controller.ensure_keep_above(point)
+
     # ---- window ------------------------------------------------------------
 
     def show_window(self) -> None:
@@ -117,6 +200,7 @@ class KadenceApp(QObject):
             "interrupt": lambda: (controller.interrupt(), "noted")[1],
             "status": controller.statusLine,
             "send_report": lambda: (controller.sendReport(), "sending")[1],
+            "toggle_mini": controller.toggleMini,
             "raise_window": lambda: (self.show_window(), "shown")[1],
         }
         self._dbus = dbus_service.TimerDBusService(actions, self)
@@ -126,6 +210,8 @@ class KadenceApp(QObject):
     # ---- lifecycle ---------------------------------------------------------
 
     def quit(self) -> None:
+        if self._mini is not None:
+            self._mini.setProperty("visible", False)
         self._controller.shutdown()
         if self._tray:
             self._tray.hide()

desktop/kadence_desktop/blocking/processes.py

@@ -5,9 +5,11 @@ the cmdline, matches against the configured names, and either terminates the
 process (SIGTERM, then SIGKILL if it ignores us) or just reports it, depending
 on the setting.
 
-Matching is deliberately forgiving — `steam` should catch `steamwebhelper`, and
-`telegram` should catch `Telegram` — but it never matches ourselves, PID 1, or
-anything outside the current user's processes.
+Matching is deliberately forgiving — `steam` catches `steamwebhelper`, and
+`telegram` catches `Telegram` — and an entry containing `*` or `?` is treated as
+a glob (`steam*`, `*discord*`, `telegram-?`), matched against both the process
+name and its command line. It never matches ourselves, PID 1, or anything
+outside the current user's processes.
 """
 
 from __future__ import annotations
@@ -16,6 +18,7 @@ import logging
 import os
 import signal
 import time
+from fnmatch import fnmatch
 from dataclasses import dataclass
 from pathlib import Path
 
@@ -24,6 +27,21 @@ log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 _SELF_MARKERS = ("kadence", "python3 -m kadence_desktop")
 
 
+def matches(pattern: str, name: str, cmdline: str) -> bool:
+    """Whether one block-list entry matches a process.
+
+    A mask is anchored to the process *name* (so `steam*` does not match every
+    command that merely mentions steam) but also tried against the whole command
+    line, which is how `*discord*` catches an Electron app launched by path.
+    """
+    pattern = pattern.strip().lower()
+    if not pattern:
+        return False
+    if any(char in pattern for char in "*?["):
+        return fnmatch(name, pattern) or fnmatch(cmdline, pattern)
+    return pattern in name or pattern in cmdline
+
+
 @dataclass(slots=True)
 class RunningApp:
     pid: int
@@ -65,11 +83,11 @@ def scan(patterns: list[str]) -> list[RunningApp]:
         if not comm:
             continue
         cmdline = _read(entry / "cmdline").replace("\x00", " ").strip()
-        haystack = f"{comm} {cmdline}".lower()
-        if any(marker in haystack for marker in _SELF_MARKERS):
+        name, command = comm.lower(), cmdline.lower()
+        if any(marker in f"{name} {command}" for marker in _SELF_MARKERS):
             continue
 
-        match = next((pattern for pattern in wanted if pattern in haystack), None)
+        match = next((pattern for pattern in wanted if matches(pattern, name, command)), None)
         if match:
             found.append(RunningApp(pid=pid, name=comm, cmdline=cmdline[:200], matched=match))
     return found

desktop/kadence_desktop/config.py

@@ -38,6 +38,38 @@ class DesktopConfig:
 
     start_minimized: bool = False
     close_to_tray: bool = True
+    view_only: bool = False
+    """When true, the app runs in view-only mode with the timer turned off."""
+
+    # ---- the floating mini timer ------------------------------------------
+    mini_timer: bool = True
+    """Allow the small always-on-top countdown window at all."""
+
+    mini_timer_auto: bool = True
+    """Show it by itself while an interval runs and the main window is away."""
+
+    mini_timer_keep_above: bool = True
+    """On KDE, install a KWin rule so it really floats above every window.
+
+    Wayland gives an application no way to ask for "always on top", so this is
+    the only honest route; see `integrations.keep_above`. Switching it off
+    removes the rule again.
+    """
+
+    mini_timer_corner: str = "bottom-right"
+    """Where it appears: a screen corner, an edge centre, or `remember`.
+
+    One of: top-left, top-centre, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-centre,
+    bottom-right, centre, remember. `remember` puts it back where you last
+    dragged it instead.
+    """
+
+    mini_timer_margin: int = 24
+    """Gap between the mini timer and the screen edges, in pixels."""
+
+    mini_timer_x: int = -1
+    mini_timer_y: int = -1
+    """Where it was last dragged to. -1 = let the compositor place it."""
 
     # ---- system integration (each one is a real desktop feature) -----------
     tray_icon: bool = True

desktop/kadence_desktop/controller.py

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ from PyQt6.QtGui import QDesktopServices
 from kadence_desktop.api import Api
 from kadence_desktop.blocking.manager import BlockerManager
 from kadence_desktop.config import DesktopConfig
-from kadence_desktop.integrations import autostart
+from kadence_desktop.integrations import autostart, keep_above
 from kadence_desktop.integrations.inhibit import DoNotDisturb, ScreensaverInhibitor
 from kadence_desktop.integrations.launcher import LauncherEntry
 from kadence_desktop.integrations.mpris import MediaController
@@ -53,6 +53,8 @@ class Controller(QObject):
     blockerChanged = pyqtSignal()
     connectionChanged = pyqtSignal()
     configChanged = pyqtSignal()
+    miniChanged = pyqtSignal()
+    miniPlacementChanged = pyqtSignal()
     toast = pyqtSignal(str)
     showWindowRequested = pyqtSignal()
 
@@ -77,6 +79,7 @@ class Controller(QObject):
         self._last_status = ""
         self._completing = False
         self._paused_by_lock = False
+        self._mini_visible = False
 
         # ---- system integrations -------------------------------------------
         self._notifier = Notifier()
@@ -119,6 +122,9 @@ class Controller(QObject):
         self._tick.timeout.connect(self._on_tick)
         self._tick.start()
 
+        # A Wayland compositor ignores "stay on top", so ask KWin properly.
+        self.ensure_keep_above()
+
         self._idle_check = QTimer(self)
         self._idle_check.setInterval(30_000)
         self._idle_check.timeout.connect(self._check_idle)
@@ -219,6 +225,14 @@ class Controller(QObject):
     def nextKindLabel(self) -> str:
         return KIND_LABELS.get(str(self._state.get("next_kind", "work")), "Focus")
 
+    @pyqtProperty(bool, notify=settingsChanged)
+    def timerEnabled(self) -> bool:
+        """When False the app is in view-only mode — no timer controls."""
+        if self._config.view_only:
+            return False
+        pomodoro = self._settings.get("pomodoro", {})
+        return bool(pomodoro.get("timer_enabled", True))
+
     @pyqtProperty("QVariantList", notify=tasksChanged)
     def tasks(self) -> list[dict[str, Any]]:
         return self._tasks
@@ -263,6 +277,11 @@ class Controller(QObject):
     def blockerError(self) -> str:
         return self._blocker.last_error or ""
 
+    @pyqtProperty(bool, notify=miniChanged)
+    def miniVisible(self) -> bool:
+        """Whether the floating mini timer is pinned open by the user."""
+        return self._mini_visible
+
     @pyqtProperty("QVariantMap", notify=configChanged)
     def config(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
         from dataclasses import asdict
@@ -270,6 +289,8 @@ class Controller(QObject):
         data = asdict(self._config)
         data["autostart"] = autostart.autostart_enabled()
         data["service_enabled"] = autostart.service_enabled()
+        data["keep_above_supported"] = keep_above.supported()
+        data["keep_above_installed"] = keep_above.installed()
         return data
 
     # ======================================================================
@@ -289,6 +310,8 @@ class Controller(QObject):
     @pyqtSlot()
     @pyqtSlot(int)
     def startWork(self, minutes: int = 0) -> None:
+        if not self.timerEnabled:
+            return
         args: dict[str, Any] = {"kind": "work"}
         if minutes:
             args["minutes"] = minutes
@@ -301,12 +324,16 @@ class Controller(QObject):
 
     @pyqtSlot()
     def startBreak(self) -> None:
+        if not self.timerEnabled:
+            return
         kind = str(self._state.get("next_kind", "short_break"))
         self._send("start", {"kind": "long_break" if kind == "long_break" else "short_break"})
 
     @pyqtSlot()
     def toggle(self) -> None:
         """One verb for a global hotkey: start → pause → resume."""
+        if not self.timerEnabled:
+            return
         if not self.running:
             self.startWork()
         elif self.status == "paused":
@@ -314,6 +341,14 @@ class Controller(QObject):
         else:
             self.pause()
 
+    @pyqtSlot(bool)
+    def setTimerEnabled(self, enabled: bool) -> None:
+        """Toggle view-only mode on or off."""
+        self._config.update(view_only=not enabled)
+        self.configChanged.emit()
+        self.settingsChanged.emit()
+        self.patchSettings({"pomodoro": {"timer_enabled": enabled}})
+
     @pyqtSlot()
     def pause(self) -> None:
         self._send("pause")
@@ -345,8 +380,9 @@ class Controller(QObject):
         self._send("attach_task", {"task_id": task_id if task_id >= 0 else None})
 
     @pyqtSlot(int, bool)
-    def setTaskDone(self, task_id: int, done: bool) -> None:
-        self._send("task_done", {"task_id": task_id, "done": done})
+    def setTaskPinned(self, task_id: int, pinned: bool) -> None:
+        """Pinning is the only task edit this app makes — closing one is not."""
+        self._send("patch_task", {"task_id": task_id, "patch": {"pinned": pinned}})
 
     @pyqtSlot(str, str)
     def createTask(self, title: str, due_date: str) -> None:
@@ -413,10 +449,66 @@ class Controller(QObject):
                 self._blocker.enforce_hosts = bool(value)
             elif key == "block_apps":
                 self._blocker.enforce_apps = bool(value)
+            elif key == "mini_timer_keep_above":
+                ok, message = keep_above.apply() if value else keep_above.remove()
+                self.toast.emit(message)
+                if not ok:
+                    self._config.update(mini_timer_keep_above=not value)
+            elif key in ("mini_timer_corner", "mini_timer_margin"):
+                self.miniPlacementChanged.emit()
             elif key == "enforce_blocking" and not value:
                 self._blocker.release()
         self.configChanged.emit()
 
+    @pyqtSlot()
+    @pyqtSlot(bool)
+    def setMiniVisible(self, visible: bool = True) -> None:
+        if visible == self._mini_visible:
+            return
+        self._mini_visible = visible
+        self.miniChanged.emit()
+
+    @pyqtSlot(result=str)
+    def toggleMini(self) -> str:
+        """Tray menu, Ctrl+M and the D-Bus verb all land here."""
+        if not self._config.mini_timer:
+            self._config.update(mini_timer=True)
+            self.configChanged.emit()
+        self.setMiniVisible(not self._mini_visible)
+        if self._mini_visible:
+            self.ensure_keep_above()
+        return "shown" if self._mini_visible else "hidden"
+
+    def ensure_keep_above(
+        self, position: tuple[int, int] | None = None, *, announce: bool = False
+    ) -> None:
+        """Install or refresh the KWin rule, including where to place the window.
+
+        A no-op when the rule already says exactly this, so it can be called
+        freely — it only ever touches KWin when something really changed.
+        """
+        config = self._config
+        if not (config.mini_timer and config.mini_timer_keep_above):
+            return
+        if not keep_above.supported() or keep_above.up_to_date(position):
+            return
+        ok, message = keep_above.apply(position)
+        log.info("keep-above rule: %s", message)
+        if announce or not ok:
+            self.toast.emit(message)
+        self.configChanged.emit()
+
+    @pyqtSlot(int, int)
+    def saveMiniPosition(self, x: int, y: int) -> None:
+        """Remember where it was dragged to — only in "remember" mode.
+
+        In corner mode the app places the window itself, and recording that
+        placement would quietly overwrite the position you had dragged it to.
+        """
+        if self._config.mini_timer_corner != "remember":
+            return
+        self._config.update(mini_timer_x=int(x), mini_timer_y=int(y))
+
     @pyqtSlot()
     def openWebUi(self) -> None:
         QDesktopServices.openUrl(QUrl(self._config.server_url))
@@ -431,6 +523,8 @@ class Controller(QObject):
         """One line for the tray tooltip and the D-Bus `Status` method."""
         if not self._connected:
             return "Kadence — backend unreachable"
+        if not self.timerEnabled:
+            return f"Kadence — view mode · {self.completedToday}/{self.goal} today"
         if not self.running:
             return f"Kadence — idle · {self.completedToday}/{self.goal} today"
         return (
@@ -503,11 +597,14 @@ class Controller(QObject):
             self.toast.emit("Daily report sent" if result.get("sent") else "Report not sent — check Telegram settings")
         elif name == "refresh_sources":
             failed = [item for item in result.get("sources", []) if not item.get("ok")]
+            closed = result.get("closed", 0)
             self.toast.emit(
-                f"{len(failed)} source(s) failed" if failed else f"{result.get('total', 0)} tasks pulled"
+                f"{len(failed)} source(s) failed"
+                if failed
+                else f"{result.get('total', 0)} open · {closed} closed since last refresh"
             )
-        elif name == "task_done" and result.get("warning"):
-            self.toast.emit(str(result["warning"]))
+        elif name == "refresh_sources" and result.get("closed"):
+            self.toast.emit(f"{result['closed']} task(s) closed in your tools")
 
     # ======================================================================
     # Transitions → the system integrations

desktop/kadence_desktop/integrations/dbus_service.py

@@ -8,6 +8,12 @@ hotkey for "start a pomodoro" needs no X11 key-grabbing hack:
 
 Owning the name also gives single-instance behaviour for free: a second launch
 sees the name is taken, calls `Raise()` on the first, and exits.
+
+The verbs live on a **QDBusAbstractAdaptor**, not on the exported object
+itself. Qt only honours the "D-Bus Interface" class info on an adaptor; export
+a plain QObject and the interface is named after its class
+(`local.kadence.TimerDBusService`), which is exactly the "No such interface"
+every documented command then hits.
 """
 
 from __future__ import annotations
@@ -15,8 +21,8 @@ from __future__ import annotations
 import logging
 from typing import Callable
 
-from PyQt6.QtCore import QObject, pyqtSlot
-from PyQt6.QtDBus import QDBusConnection
+from PyQt6.QtCore import QObject, pyqtClassInfo, pyqtSlot
+from PyQt6.QtDBus import QDBusAbstractAdaptor, QDBusConnection
 
 log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
@@ -26,13 +32,14 @@ INTERFACE = "org.kadence.Timer"
 
 
 class TimerDBusService(QObject):
-    """The exported object. Every slot is a verb you can bind to a key."""
+    """Holds the actions; the adaptor below is what the bus sees."""
 
     def __init__(self, actions: dict[str, Callable[[], object]], parent: QObject | None = None) -> None:
         super().__init__(parent)
         self._actions = actions
+        self.adaptor = TimerAdaptor(self)
 
-    def _run(self, name: str) -> str:
+    def run(self, name: str) -> str:
         action = self._actions.get(name)
         if action is None:
             return f"unknown action: {name}"
@@ -43,71 +50,113 @@ class TimerDBusService(QObject):
             log.exception("D-Bus action %s failed", name)
             return f"error: {exc}"
 
+
+# Qt generates no introspection XML for a Python adaptor, and without it
+# `busctl introspect` and KDE's D-Bus shortcut browser have nothing to list —
+# so the interface describes itself. Every verb takes no arguments and returns
+# one string.
+VERBS = (
+    "StartWork",
+    "StartBreak",
+    "Toggle",
+    "Pause",
+    "Resume",
+    "Complete",
+    "Stop",
+    "Extend",
+    "Interrupt",
+    "Status",
+    "SendReport",
+    "ToggleMini",
+    "Raise",
+)
+
+INTROSPECTION = "\n".join(
+    [f'<interface name="{INTERFACE}">']
+    + [
+        f'  <method name="{verb}">\n    <arg type="s" direction="out"/>\n  </method>'
+        for verb in VERBS
+    ]
+    + ["</interface>"]
+)
+
+
+@pyqtClassInfo("D-Bus Interface", INTERFACE)
+@pyqtClassInfo("D-Bus Introspection", INTROSPECTION)
+class TimerAdaptor(QDBusAbstractAdaptor):
+    """The published interface. Every slot is a verb you can bind to a key."""
+
+    def __init__(self, parent: TimerDBusService) -> None:
+        super().__init__(parent)
+        self._service = parent
+
+    # D-Bus methods are PascalCase by convention.
     @pyqtSlot(result=str)
-    def StartWork(self) -> str:  # noqa: N802 - D-Bus methods are PascalCase
+    def StartWork(self) -> str:  # noqa: N802
         """Start a focus interval."""
-        return self._run("start_work")
+        return self._service.run("start_work")
 
     @pyqtSlot(result=str)
     def StartBreak(self) -> str:  # noqa: N802
-        return self._run("start_break")
+        return self._service.run("start_break")
 
     @pyqtSlot(result=str)
     def Toggle(self) -> str:  # noqa: N802
         """Start if idle, pause if running, resume if paused — one hotkey."""
-        return self._run("toggle")
+        return self._service.run("toggle")
 
     @pyqtSlot(result=str)
     def Pause(self) -> str:  # noqa: N802
-        return self._run("pause")
+        return self._service.run("pause")
 
     @pyqtSlot(result=str)
     def Resume(self) -> str:  # noqa: N802
-        return self._run("resume")
+        return self._service.run("resume")
 
     @pyqtSlot(result=str)
     def Complete(self) -> str:  # noqa: N802
-        return self._run("complete")
+        return self._service.run("complete")
 
     @pyqtSlot(result=str)
     def Stop(self) -> str:  # noqa: N802
-        return self._run("stop")
+        return self._service.run("stop")
 
     @pyqtSlot(result=str)
     def Extend(self) -> str:  # noqa: N802
-        return self._run("extend")
+        return self._service.run("extend")
 
     @pyqtSlot(result=str)
     def Interrupt(self) -> str:  # noqa: N802
         """Count a distraction without stopping the clock."""
-        return self._run("interrupt")
+        return self._service.run("interrupt")
 
     @pyqtSlot(result=str)
     def Status(self) -> str:  # noqa: N802
         """One line: what is running and how much is left."""
-        return self._run("status")
+        return self._service.run("status")
 
     @pyqtSlot(result=str)
     def SendReport(self) -> str:  # noqa: N802
-        return self._run("send_report")
+        return self._service.run("send_report")
+
+    @pyqtSlot(result=str)
+    def ToggleMini(self) -> str:  # noqa: N802
+        """Show or hide the floating mini timer."""
+        return self._service.run("toggle_mini")
 
     @pyqtSlot(result=str)
     def Raise(self) -> str:  # noqa: N802
-        """Show the window (used by the second instance)."""
-        return self._run("raise_window")
+        """Show the main window (used by a second instance)."""
+        return self._service.run("raise_window")
 
 
 def register(service: TimerDBusService) -> bool:
-    """Own the name and export the object. False means another instance has it."""
+    """Own the name and export the adaptor. False means another instance has it."""
     bus = QDBusConnection.sessionBus()
     if not bus.registerService(SERVICE_NAME):
         return False
-    bus.registerObject(
-        OBJECT_PATH,
-        service,
-        QDBusConnection.RegisterOption.ExportAllSlots | QDBusConnection.RegisterOption.ExportAllInvokables,
-    )
-    log.info("D-Bus service %s%s is up", SERVICE_NAME, OBJECT_PATH)
+    bus.registerObject(OBJECT_PATH, service, QDBusConnection.RegisterOption.ExportAdaptors)
+    log.info("D-Bus service %s%s is up as %s", SERVICE_NAME, OBJECT_PATH, INTERFACE)
     return True
 
 

desktop/kadence_desktop/integrations/keep_above.py

@@ -0,0 +1,215 @@
+"""Keeping the mini timer above everything else — on Wayland, for real.
+
+Wayland has no "always on top" an ordinary application can ask for: the
+`Qt.WindowStaysOnTopHint` flag is honoured on X11 and quietly ignored by a
+Wayland compositor. KWin does have the mechanism, but it lives in *window
+rules*, so the only honest way to float above other applications on KDE is to
+install one — which is what this module does, reversibly and with a backup.
+
+The rule matches this one window (title `Kadence mini`, app id `kadence`) and
+forces: keep above, skip the task bar, skip the switcher, skip the pager. KWin
+is asked to re-read its configuration over D-Bus, so it takes effect at once
+without logging out.
+
+Everywhere else this is a no-op and the Qt flag does the job.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import configparser
+import logging
+import os
+import shutil
+import uuid
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from PyQt6.QtDBus import QDBusConnection, QDBusInterface
+
+log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+DESCRIPTION = "Kadence mini timer"
+WINDOW_TITLE = "Kadence mini"
+WINDOW_CLASS = "kadence"
+
+# KWin's rule-policy codes: 2 is "Force".
+_FORCE = "2"
+# KWin's string-match codes: 1 is "Exact Match", 2 is "Substring Match".
+_EXACT = "1"
+_SUBSTRING = "2"
+
+# Matched on the window title, as a **substring**.
+#
+# Two traps here, both found by asking KWin what it actually sees:
+#   * Qt appends the application's display name, so the window KWin knows is
+#     "Kadence mini — Kadence", and an exact match on "Kadence mini" never
+#     fired;
+#   * the app id depends on how the app was started (`kadence` from the desktop
+#     entry, `python3` from a bare `python3 -m ...`), so requiring the class as
+#     well would make the rule stop matching for some launches.
+RULE = {
+    "Description": DESCRIPTION,
+    "above": "true",
+    "aboverule": _FORCE,
+    "skiptaskbar": "true",
+    "skiptaskbarrule": _FORCE,
+    "skipswitcher": "true",
+    "skipswitcherrule": _FORCE,
+    "skippager": "true",
+    "skippagerrule": _FORCE,
+    "title": WINDOW_TITLE,
+    "titlematch": _SUBSTRING,
+    "wmclassmatch": "0",
+}
+
+
+def rules_path() -> Path:
+    base = os.environ.get("XDG_CONFIG_HOME") or str(Path.home() / ".config")
+    return Path(base) / "kwinrulesrc"
+
+
+def supported() -> bool:
+    """Only KDE has this mechanism; elsewhere the Qt flag is all there is."""
+    desktop = os.environ.get("XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP", "")
+    return "KDE" in desktop.upper()
+
+
+def _parser() -> configparser.RawConfigParser:
+    parser = configparser.RawConfigParser(strict=False)
+    # KDE keys are case-sensitive ("Description" must not become "description").
+    parser.optionxform = str  # type: ignore[assignment]
+    return parser
+
+
+def _load() -> configparser.RawConfigParser:
+    parser = _parser()
+    path = rules_path()
+    if path.exists():
+        parser.read(path, encoding="utf-8")
+    if not parser.has_section("General"):
+        parser.add_section("General")
+    return parser
+
+
+def _our_section(parser: configparser.RawConfigParser) -> str | None:
+    for section in parser.sections():
+        if section == "General":
+            continue
+        if parser.get(section, "Description", fallback="") == DESCRIPTION:
+            return section
+    return None
+
+
+def _save(parser: configparser.RawConfigParser) -> None:
+    path = rules_path()
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    # One backup, before the first time we ever touch the file.
+    backup = path.with_suffix(path.suffix + ".kadence-backup")
+    if path.exists() and not backup.exists():
+        shutil.copy2(path, backup)
+
+    temp = path.with_suffix(path.suffix + ".kadence-tmp")
+    with temp.open("w", encoding="utf-8") as handle:
+        parser.write(handle, space_around_delimiters=False)
+    temp.replace(path)
+
+
+def _reconfigure() -> None:
+    """Ask KWin to re-read its rules; without it the change waits for a relogin."""
+    interface = QDBusInterface("org.kde.KWin", "/KWin", "org.kde.KWin", QDBusConnection.sessionBus())
+    if interface.isValid():
+        interface.call("reconfigure")
+
+
+def _wanted(position: tuple[int, int] | None) -> dict[str, str]:
+    """The rule as it should be, with the forced position when there is one."""
+    rule = dict(RULE)
+    if position is not None:
+        # KWin stores a forced position as "x,y" — this is what places the
+        # window on Wayland, where a client may not place itself.
+        rule["position"] = f"{position[0]},{position[1]}"
+        rule["positionrule"] = _FORCE
+    return rule
+
+
+def installed() -> bool:
+    try:
+        return _our_section(_load()) is not None
+    except (configparser.Error, OSError):
+        return False
+
+
+def up_to_date(position: tuple[int, int] | None = None) -> bool:
+    """Whether the installed rule matches what this version would write.
+
+    An older build wrote an exact title match that never fired; without this
+    check an upgrade would leave the broken rule in place forever, because the
+    rule *exists*. The position is part of the comparison, so moving the mini
+    timer to another corner rewrites the rule — and nothing else does.
+    """
+    try:
+        parser = _load()
+        section = _our_section(parser)
+        if section is None:
+            return False
+        wanted = _wanted(position)
+        if any(parser.get(section, key, fallback=None) != value for key, value in wanted.items()):
+            return False
+        # A position left over from a previous corner must not linger.
+        if position is None and parser.has_option(section, "position"):
+            return False
+        return True
+    except (configparser.Error, OSError):
+        return False
+
+
+def apply(position: tuple[int, int] | None = None) -> tuple[bool, str]:
+    """Install (or refresh) the rule, optionally forcing a position."""
+    if not supported():
+        return False, "Keeping a window above others this way needs KWin (KDE)."
+    try:
+        parser = _load()
+        section = _our_section(parser) or str(uuid.uuid4())
+        if not parser.has_section(section):
+            parser.add_section(section)
+        for key in ("position", "positionrule"):
+            parser.remove_option(section, key)
+        for key, value in _wanted(position).items():
+            parser.set(section, key, value)
+
+        listed = [item for item in parser.get("General", "rules", fallback="").split(",") if item]
+        if section not in listed:
+            listed.append(section)
+        parser.set("General", "rules", ",".join(listed))
+        parser.set("General", "count", str(len(listed)))
+        _save(parser)
+    except (configparser.Error, OSError) as exc:
+        log.warning("could not write the KWin rule: %s", exc)
+        return False, f"Could not write {rules_path()}: {exc}"
+
+    _reconfigure()
+    if position is not None:
+        return True, "KWin keeps the mini timer above other windows, in the corner you chose."
+    return True, "KWin will now keep the mini timer above other windows."
+
+
+def remove() -> tuple[bool, str]:
+    """Take the rule back out, leaving the rest of the file alone."""
+    try:
+        parser = _load()
+        section = _our_section(parser)
+        if section is None:
+            return True, "No KWin rule to remove."
+        parser.remove_section(section)
+        listed = [
+            item
+            for item in parser.get("General", "rules", fallback="").split(",")
+            if item and item != section
+        ]
+        parser.set("General", "rules", ",".join(listed))
+        parser.set("General", "count", str(len(listed)))
+        _save(parser)
+    except (configparser.Error, OSError) as exc:
+        return False, f"Could not update {rules_path()}: {exc}"
+
+    _reconfigure()
+    return True, "Removed the KWin rule; the mini timer floats only as far as Qt can ask."

desktop/kadence_desktop/integrations/placement.py

@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+"""Where the mini timer appears.
+
+Two mechanisms, because one is not enough:
+
+* **X11** — the application may place its own window, so the computed point is
+  applied directly.
+* **Wayland** — it may not: a client cannot position an xdg-toplevel, and
+  setting `x`/`y` is quietly ignored. KWin *can* place it, through the same
+  window rule that already forces "keep above", so the point is written there.
+
+The geometry maths is a pure function so it can be checked without a screen.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+
+CORNERS = (
+    "top-left",
+    "top-centre",
+    "top-right",
+    "bottom-left",
+    "bottom-centre",
+    "bottom-right",
+    "centre",
+    "remember",
+)
+
+# What the settings page shows, in the order it shows them.
+CORNER_LABELS = {
+    "top-left": "Top left",
+    "top-centre": "Top centre",
+    "top-right": "Top right",
+    "bottom-left": "Bottom left",
+    "bottom-centre": "Bottom centre",
+    "bottom-right": "Bottom right",
+    "centre": "Centre of the screen",
+    "remember": "Where I last dragged it",
+}
+
+
+@dataclass(frozen=True, slots=True)
+class Rect:
+    """A screen's usable area — panels and docks already taken off."""
+
+    x: int
+    y: int
+    width: int
+    height: int
+
+
+def point_for(corner: str, screen: Rect, size: tuple[int, int], margin: int = 24) -> tuple[int, int]:
+    """Top-left point that puts a `size` window in `corner` of `screen`."""
+    width, height = size
+    margin = max(0, margin)
+
+    vertical, _, horizontal = corner.partition("-")
+    if corner == "centre":
+        vertical, horizontal = "centre", "centre"
+
+    if horizontal == "left":
+        x = screen.x + margin
+    elif horizontal == "right":
+        x = screen.x + screen.width - width - margin
+    else:  # centre
+        x = screen.x + (screen.width - width) // 2
+
+    if vertical == "top":
+        y = screen.y + margin
+    elif vertical == "bottom":
+        y = screen.y + screen.height - height - margin
+    else:  # centre
+        y = screen.y + (screen.height - height) // 2
+
+    # Never place it off-screen, however small the screen or large the margin.
+    x = max(screen.x, min(x, screen.x + max(screen.width - width, 0)))
+    y = max(screen.y, min(y, screen.y + max(screen.height - height, 0)))
+    return int(x), int(y)

desktop/kadence_desktop/qml/BlockerPage.qml

@@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
-// What the blocker is doing right now, and what it will do.
+// The focus guard: what is blocked, when, and what it caught.
 //
-// The rules themselves are server-side (edit them in the web UI or below); this
-// page is about *enforcement on this machine* — the helper, the hosts file and
-// the process watcher.
+// Lists accept masks. A hosts file has no wildcards of its own, so `*.x.com` is
+// expanded server-side into real hostnames; this page shows that count and says
+// plainly when a pattern cannot be expressed that way.
 import QtQuick
-import QtQuick.Controls.Material
+import QtQuick.Controls
 import QtQuick.Layouts
 
+import "."
 import "components"
 
 ScrollView {
@@ -15,176 +16,308 @@ ScrollView {
     clip: true
 
     ColumnLayout {
-        width: page.availableWidth
-        spacing: 16
+        width: page.availableWidth - 56
+        x: 28
+        y: 26
+        spacing: 22
 
-        Banner {
-            Layout.fillWidth: true
-            visible: !controller.helperInstalled
-            text: "The privileged helper is not installed, so websites cannot be blocked. "
-                  + "Run: sudo desktop/helper/install.sh"
-            actionText: ""
+        PageHeader {
+            eyebrow: controller.blockerReason
+            title: controller.blockerActive ? "Blocking is on" : "Blocking is off"
+            caption: "Rules are shared with the web app; this machine enforces them."
+
+            Switch {
+                text: "Enabled"
+                checked: controller.settings.blocker ? controller.settings.blocker.enabled : false
+                onToggled: controller.patchSettings({ blocker: { enabled: checked } })
+            }
         }
 
         Banner {
-            Layout.fillWidth: true
+            visible: !controller.helperInstalled
+            text: "The privileged helper is not installed, so websites cannot be blocked. "
+                  + "Run: sudo desktop/helper/install.sh"
+        }
+        Banner {
             visible: controller.blockerError !== ""
             text: controller.blockerError
         }
 
-        ColumnLayout {
-            Layout.fillWidth: true
-            Layout.margins: 20
-            spacing: 16
-
-            Card {
-                title: controller.blockerActive ? "🛡  Blocking is ON" : "Blocking is off"
-                subtitle: controller.blockerReason
-
-                RowLayout {
-                    Layout.fillWidth: true
-                    spacing: 20
-                    StatTile {
-                        label: "Domains"
-                        value: controller.blockedDomains.length
-                        caption: "redirected to 127.0.0.1"
-                    }
-                    StatTile {
-                        label: "Apps"
-                        value: controller.blockedApps.length
-                        caption: "closed on sight"
-                    }
-                    StatTile {
-                        label: "Attempts today"
-                        value: controller.stats.today ? controller.stats.today.blocked_attempts : 0
-                        caption: "and counting"
-                    }
-                }
-
-                RowLayout {
-                    Layout.fillWidth: true
-                    Switch {
-                        text: "Enforce on this machine"
-                        checked: controller.config.enforce_blocking
-                        onToggled: controller.setConfig("enforce_blocking", checked)
-                    }
-                    Switch {
-                        text: "Websites"
-                        checked: controller.config.block_hosts_file
-                        onToggled: controller.setConfig("block_hosts_file", checked)
-                    }
-                    Switch {
-                        text: "Apps"
-                        checked: controller.config.block_apps
-                        onToggled: controller.setConfig("block_apps", checked)
-                    }
-                }
-            }
-
-            Card {
-                title: "Blocked websites"
-                subtitle: "One hostname per line. `www.` and `m.` are added automatically."
-
-                TextArea {
-                    id: domainsArea
-                    Layout.fillWidth: true
-                    Layout.minimumHeight: 140
-                    wrapMode: TextArea.NoWrap
-                    font.family: "Roboto Mono, monospace"
-                    text: (controller.settings.blocker ? controller.settings.blocker.blocked_domains : []).join("\n")
-                    placeholderText: "youtube.com\nreddit.com\ntwitter.com"
-                }
-                RowLayout {
-                    PrimaryButton {
-                        text: "Save websites"
-                        onClicked: {
-                            var list = domainsArea.text.split("\n").map(function (s) { return s.trim() })
-                                .filter(function (s) { return s.length > 0 })
-                            controller.patchSettings({ blocker: { blocked_domains: list } })
-                        }
-                    }
-                    Item { Layout.fillWidth: true }
-                }
-            }
-
-            Card {
-                title: "Blocked applications"
-                subtitle: "Process names, matched loosely: `steam` also catches `steamwebhelper`."
-
-                TextArea {
-                    id: appsArea
-                    Layout.fillWidth: true
-                    Layout.minimumHeight: 100
-                    wrapMode: TextArea.NoWrap
-                    font.family: "Roboto Mono, monospace"
-                    text: (controller.settings.blocker ? controller.settings.blocker.blocked_apps : []).join("\n")
-                    placeholderText: "steam\ndiscord\ntelegram-desktop"
-                }
-                RowLayout {
-                    PrimaryButton {
-                        text: "Save applications"
-                        onClicked: {
-                            var list = appsArea.text.split("\n").map(function (s) { return s.trim() })
-                                .filter(function (s) { return s.length > 0 })
-                            controller.patchSettings({ blocker: { blocked_apps: list } })
-                        }
-                    }
-                    Item { Layout.fillWidth: true }
-                }
-            }
-
-            Card {
-                title: "When to block"
-                subtitle: "Server-side, so every device agrees."
-
-                RowLayout {
-                    Layout.fillWidth: true
-                    Switch {
-                        text: "Blocking enabled"
-                        checked: controller.settings.blocker ? controller.settings.blocker.enabled : false
-                        onToggled: controller.patchSettings({ blocker: { enabled: checked } })
-                    }
-                    ComboBox {
-                        Layout.preferredWidth: 220
-                        model: ["During focus intervals", "Always", "On a schedule"]
-                        currentIndex: {
-                            var mode = controller.settings.blocker ? controller.settings.blocker.mode : "during_work"
-                            return mode === "always" ? 1 : (mode === "scheduled" ? 2 : 0)
-                        }
-                        onActivated: function (index) {
-                            var modes = ["during_work", "always", "scheduled"]
-                            controller.patchSettings({ blocker: { mode: modes[index] } })
-                        }
-                    }
-                    Switch {
-                        text: "Keep blocking during breaks"
-                        checked: controller.settings.blocker ? controller.settings.blocker.block_during_breaks : false
-                        onToggled: controller.patchSettings({ blocker: { block_during_breaks: checked } })
-                    }
-                }
-            }
-
-            Card {
-                title: "Today's temptations"
-                subtitle: "Every attempt the blocker turned away — this is what the daily report jokes about."
-
+        Panel {
+            padding: 0
+            RowLayout {
+                Layout.fillWidth: true
+                spacing: 0
                 Repeater {
-                    model: controller.stats.today ? controller.stats.today.blocked_top : []
+                    model: [
+                        { label: "Hostnames", value: "" + controller.blockedDomains.length, caption: "after expansion" },
+                        { label: "Apps", value: "" + controller.blockedApps.length, caption: "closed on sight" },
+                        { label: "Attempts today",
+                          value: controller.stats.today ? "" + controller.stats.today.blocked_attempts : "0",
+                          caption: "turned away" },
+                        { label: "Enforcing",
+                          value: controller.config.enforce_blocking ? "Yes" : "No",
+                          caption: "on this computer" }
+                    ]
                     delegate: RowLayout {
+                        required property int index
                         required property var modelData
                         Layout.fillWidth: true
-                        Label { text: modelData.target; Layout.fillWidth: true }
-                        Label { text: "× " + modelData.count; font.weight: Font.DemiBold }
+                        spacing: 0
+                        Rectangle {
+                            visible: index > 0
+                            width: 1
+                            Layout.preferredHeight: 70
+                            color: Theme.rule
+                        }
+                        Stat {
+                            Layout.fillWidth: true
+                            Layout.margins: 18
+                            label: modelData.label
+                            value: modelData.value
+                            caption: modelData.caption
+                        }
                     }
                 }
-                Label {
-                    visible: !controller.stats.today || controller.stats.today.blocked_top.length === 0
-                    text: "Nothing yet today. Either the blocker is off, or you are behaving."
-                    opacity: 0.6
-                    font.pixelSize: 12
-                }
             }
         }
+
+        ColumnLayout {
+            Layout.fillWidth: true
+            spacing: 12
+            SectionTitle { text: "When" }
+            RowLayout {
+                Layout.fillWidth: true
+                spacing: 16
+                ComboBox {
+                    Layout.preferredWidth: 240
+                    font.pixelSize: 13
+                    model: ["While a focus interval runs", "Always", "On a schedule"]
+                    currentIndex: {
+                        var mode = controller.settings.blocker ? controller.settings.blocker.mode : "during_work"
+                        return mode === "always" ? 1 : (mode === "scheduled" ? 2 : 0)
+                    }
+                    onActivated: function (index) {
+                        var modes = ["during_work", "always", "scheduled"]
+                        controller.patchSettings({ blocker: { mode: modes[index] } })
+                    }
+                }
+                Switch {
+                    text: "Through breaks"
+                    checked: controller.settings.blocker ? controller.settings.blocker.block_during_breaks : false
+                    onToggled: controller.patchSettings({ blocker: { block_during_breaks: checked } })
+                }
+                Switch {
+                    text: "Close blocked apps"
+                    checked: controller.settings.blocker ? controller.settings.blocker.kill_blocked_apps : true
+                    onToggled: controller.patchSettings({ blocker: { kill_blocked_apps: checked } })
+                }
+                Item { Layout.fillWidth: true }
+            }
+        }
+
+        ColumnLayout {
+            Layout.fillWidth: true
+            spacing: 12
+            SectionTitle { text: "Masks" }
+            Panel {
+                spacing: 0
+                Repeater {
+                    model: [
+                        { pattern: "youtube.com", meaning: "the site itself, plus www. and m." },
+                        { pattern: "*.google.com", meaning: "every subdomain in the expansion list" },
+                        { pattern: "*gram*", meaning: "matches apps; a hosts file cannot express it" }
+                    ]
+                    delegate: RowLayout {
+                        required property var modelData
+                        Layout.fillWidth: true
+                        spacing: 16
+                        Label {
+                            text: modelData.pattern
+                            color: Theme.ink
+                            font.pixelSize: 12
+                            font.family: Theme.monoFamily
+                            Layout.preferredWidth: 140
+                        }
+                        Label {
+                            text: modelData.meaning
+                            color: Theme.muted
+                            font.pixelSize: 12
+                            font.family: Theme.sansFamily
+                            Layout.fillWidth: true
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        GridLayout {
+            Layout.fillWidth: true
+            columns: page.width > 900 ? 3 : 1
+            columnSpacing: 18
+            rowSpacing: 18
+
+            ColumnLayout {
+                Layout.fillWidth: true
+                spacing: 8
+                SectionTitle { text: "Blocked websites" }
+                Rectangle {
+                    Layout.fillWidth: true
+                    Layout.preferredHeight: 160
+                    radius: 10
+                    color: Theme.surface
+                    border.width: 1
+                    border.color: domainsArea.activeFocus ? Theme.ember : Theme.rule
+
+                    ScrollView {
+                        anchors.fill: parent
+                        anchors.margins: 8
+                        clip: true
+
+                        TextArea {
+                            id: domainsArea
+                            background: null
+                            wrapMode: TextArea.NoWrap
+                            font.family: Theme.monoFamily
+                            font.pixelSize: 12
+                            color: Theme.ink
+                            placeholderText: "youtube.com\n*.reddit.com"
+                            text: (controller.settings.blocker ? controller.settings.blocker.blocked_domains : []).join("
+")
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+
+            ColumnLayout {
+                Layout.fillWidth: true
+                spacing: 8
+                SectionTitle { text: "Exceptions" }
+                Rectangle {
+                    Layout.fillWidth: true
+                    Layout.preferredHeight: 160
+                    radius: 10
+                    color: Theme.surface
+                    border.width: 1
+                    border.color: allowArea.activeFocus ? Theme.ember : Theme.rule
+
+                    ScrollView {
+                        anchors.fill: parent
+                        anchors.margins: 8
+                        clip: true
+
+                        TextArea {
+                            id: allowArea
+                            background: null
+                            wrapMode: TextArea.NoWrap
+                            font.family: Theme.monoFamily
+                            font.pixelSize: 12
+                            color: Theme.ink
+                            placeholderText: "music.youtube.com\n*.docs.google.com"
+                            text: (controller.settings.blocker ? controller.settings.blocker.allowed_domains : []).join("
+")
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+
+            ColumnLayout {
+                Layout.fillWidth: true
+                spacing: 8
+                SectionTitle { text: "Blocked applications" }
+                Rectangle {
+                    Layout.fillWidth: true
+                    Layout.preferredHeight: 160
+                    radius: 10
+                    color: Theme.surface
+                    border.width: 1
+                    border.color: appsArea.activeFocus ? Theme.ember : Theme.rule
+
+                    ScrollView {
+                        anchors.fill: parent
+                        anchors.margins: 8
+                        clip: true
+
+                        TextArea {
+                            id: appsArea
+                            background: null
+                            wrapMode: TextArea.NoWrap
+                            font.family: Theme.monoFamily
+                            font.pixelSize: 12
+                            color: Theme.ink
+                            placeholderText: "steam*\n*discord*"
+                            text: (controller.settings.blocker ? controller.settings.blocker.blocked_apps : []).join("
+")
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        RowLayout {
+            Layout.fillWidth: true
+            spacing: 12
+            TextField {
+                id: subdomainField
+                Layout.preferredWidth: 420
+                placeholderText: "*.site expands to: www, m, app…"
+                text: (controller.settings.blocker && controller.settings.blocker.subdomain_expansions
+                       ? controller.settings.blocker.subdomain_expansions : []).join(", ")
+            }
+            Item { Layout.fillWidth: true }
+            PrimaryButton {
+                text: "Save lists"
+                onClicked: {
+                    function split(text, sep) {
+                        return text.split(sep).map(function (s) { return s.trim() })
+                            .filter(function (s) { return s.length > 0 })
+                    }
+                    controller.patchSettings({
+                        blocker: {
+                            blocked_domains: split(domainsArea.text, "\n"),
+                            allowed_domains: split(allowArea.text, "\n"),
+                            blocked_apps: split(appsArea.text, "\n"),
+                            subdomain_expansions: split(subdomainField.text, ",")
+                        }
+                    })
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        ColumnLayout {
+            Layout.fillWidth: true
+            spacing: 8
+            SectionTitle { text: "Today's temptations" }
+            Repeater {
+                model: controller.stats.today ? controller.stats.today.blocked_top : []
+                delegate: RowLayout {
+                    required property var modelData
+                    Layout.fillWidth: true
+                    Label {
+                        text: modelData.target
+                        color: Theme.ink
+                        font.pixelSize: 12
+                        font.family: Theme.monoFamily
+                        Layout.fillWidth: true
+                    }
+                    Label {
+                        text: "× " + modelData.count
+                        color: Theme.muted
+                        font.pixelSize: 12
+                        font.family: Theme.sansFamily
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+            Label {
+                visible: !controller.stats.today || controller.stats.today.blocked_top.length === 0
+                text: "Nothing yet — either the blocker is off, or you are behaving."
+                color: Theme.faint
+                font.pixelSize: 12
+                font.family: Theme.sansFamily
+            }
+        }
+
+        Item { Layout.preferredHeight: 10 }
     }
 
     Component.onCompleted: controller.loadSettings()

desktop/kadence_desktop/qml/Main.qml

@@ -1,46 +1,40 @@
 // The window.
 //
-// Qt Quick Controls' Material style, following the session's own light/dark
-// preference, with a navigation rail on the left and the pages stacked on the
-// right. Everything it shows comes from `controller`, the Python object bound
-// into the QML context — there is no second copy of the state here.
+// A quiet left column — wordmark, navigation as words, and the two things worth
+// knowing from anywhere (what the timer is doing, whether the blocker is on) —
+// with the pages on the right. Qt Quick Controls supply the behaviour; the
+// chrome comes from `Theme`, so the desktop app and the web app are the same
+// product rather than two takes on it.
 import QtQuick
+import QtQuick.Controls
 import QtQuick.Controls.Material
 import QtQuick.Layouts
-import QtQuick.Window
 
+import "."
 import "components"
 
 ApplicationWindow {
     id: window
 
-    width: 1100
-    height: 760
-    minimumWidth: 420
-    minimumHeight: 560
+    width: 1180
+    height: 820
+    minimumWidth: 460
+    minimumHeight: 600
     visible: false
+    color: Theme.paper
     title: controller.running
            ? controller.clockText + " · " + controller.kindLabel + " — Kadence"
            : "Kadence"
 
-    Material.theme: Material.System
-    Material.primary: "#6750A4"
-    Material.accent: "#6750A4"
+    Material.theme: Theme.dark ? Material.Dark : Material.Light
+    Material.primary: Theme.ember
+    Material.accent: Theme.ember
+    Material.background: Theme.paper
+    Material.foreground: Theme.ink
 
-    readonly property color workColor: "#2a78d6"
-    readonly property color shortBreakColor: "#eb6834"
-    readonly property color longBreakColor: "#1baf7a"
     readonly property bool wide: width >= 820
     property int page: 0
 
-    function kindColor(kind) {
-        if (kind === "short_break") return shortBreakColor
-        if (kind === "long_break") return longBreakColor
-        return workColor
-    }
-
-    // Closing the window keeps the app alive in the tray — the timer is still
-    // running, and that is the whole point of a tray icon.
     onClosing: function (close) {
         if (controller.config.close_to_tray && controller.config.tray_icon) {
             close.accepted = false
@@ -54,10 +48,9 @@ ApplicationWindow {
         function onShowWindowRequested() { window.show(); window.raise(); window.requestActivate() }
     }
 
-    // ---- shortcuts ---------------------------------------------------------
-    Shortcut { sequence: "Space"; onActivated: controller.toggle() }
-    Shortcut { sequence: "Ctrl+Return"; onActivated: controller.complete() }
-    Shortcut { sequence: "Ctrl+E"; onActivated: controller.extend(5) }
+    Shortcut { sequence: "Space"; onActivated: if (controller.timerEnabled) controller.toggle() }
+    Shortcut { sequence: "Ctrl+Return"; onActivated: if (controller.timerEnabled) controller.complete() }
+    Shortcut { sequence: "Ctrl+E"; onActivated: if (controller.timerEnabled) controller.extend(5) }
     Shortcut { sequence: "Ctrl+R"; onActivated: controller.refreshSources() }
     Shortcut { sequence: "Ctrl+1"; onActivated: window.page = 0 }
     Shortcut { sequence: "Ctrl+2"; onActivated: window.page = 1 }
@@ -65,143 +58,167 @@ ApplicationWindow {
     Shortcut { sequence: "Ctrl+4"; onActivated: window.page = 3 }
     Shortcut { sequence: "Ctrl+5"; onActivated: window.page = 4 }
     Shortcut { sequence: "Ctrl+W"; onActivated: window.hide() }
-
-    header: ToolBar {
-        visible: !window.wide
-        Material.background: Material.backgroundColor
-        RowLayout {
-            anchors.fill: parent
-            anchors.leftMargin: 12
-            anchors.rightMargin: 12
-            Label {
-                text: ["Timer", "Tasks", "Blocker", "Report", "Settings"][window.page]
-                font.pixelSize: 18
-                font.weight: Font.Medium
-                Layout.fillWidth: true
-            }
-            StatusPill {
-                running: controller.running
-                paused: controller.status === "paused"
-                connected: controller.connected
-                text: controller.connected ? controller.clockText : "offline"
-                accent: window.kindColor(controller.kind)
-            }
-        }
-    }
+    Shortcut { sequence: "Ctrl+M"; onActivated: controller.toggleMini() }
 
     RowLayout {
         anchors.fill: parent
         spacing: 0
 
-        // ---- navigation rail ------------------------------------------------
-        Pane {
+        // ---- the rail --------------------------------------------------------
+        Item {
             visible: window.wide
             Layout.fillHeight: true
             Layout.preferredWidth: 212
-            Material.elevation: 0
-            padding: 12
+
+            Rectangle {
+                anchors.right: parent.right
+                width: 1
+                height: parent.height
+                color: Theme.rule
+            }
 
             ColumnLayout {
                 anchors.fill: parent
-                spacing: 4
+                anchors.margins: 22
+                spacing: 2
 
-                RowLayout {
-                    Layout.bottomMargin: 16
-                    Layout.leftMargin: 8
-                    spacing: 10
-                    Rectangle {
-                        width: 36; height: 36; radius: 18
-                        color: Material.accent
-                        Label { anchors.centerIn: parent; text: "🍅"; font.pixelSize: 18 }
+                ColumnLayout {
+                    Layout.bottomMargin: 26
+                    spacing: 0
+                    Label {
+                        text: "Kadence"
+                        color: Theme.ink
+                        font.pixelSize: 23
+                        font.family: Theme.displayFamily
+                        font.letterSpacing: -0.5
                     }
-                    ColumnLayout {
-                        spacing: 0
-                        Label { text: "Kadence"; font.pixelSize: 17; font.weight: Font.DemiBold }
-                        Label {
-                            text: controller.connected ? "connected" : "offline"
-                            font.pixelSize: 11
-                            opacity: 0.6
-                        }
+                    Label {
+                        text: "find your rhythm"
+                        color: Theme.muted
+                        font.pixelSize: 11
+                        font.family: Theme.sansFamily
                     }
                 }
 
                 Repeater {
-                    model: [
-                        { label: "Timer", icon: "⏱" },
-                        { label: "Tasks", icon: "✓" },
-                        { label: "Blocker", icon: "🛡" },
-                        { label: "Report", icon: "📊" },
-                        { label: "Settings", icon: "⚙" }
-                    ]
-                    delegate: ItemDelegate {
+                    model: ["Timer", "Tasks", "Blocker", "Report", "Settings"]
+                    delegate: Item {
                         required property int index
-                        required property var modelData
+                        required property string modelData
                         Layout.fillWidth: true
-                        height: 44
-                        highlighted: window.page === index
-                        onClicked: window.page = index
+                        implicitHeight: 34
 
-                        background: Rectangle {
-                            radius: 22
-                            color: parent.highlighted ? Material.accent
-                                                      : (parent.hovered ? Material.listHighlightColor : "transparent")
-                            opacity: parent.highlighted ? 0.18 : 1
+                        Rectangle {
+                            anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
+                            width: 2
+                            height: 16
+                            radius: 1
+                            color: Theme.ember
+                            visible: window.page === index
                         }
-                        contentItem: RowLayout {
-                            spacing: 12
-                            Label { text: modelData.icon; font.pixelSize: 16 }
-                            Label {
-                                text: modelData.label
-                                font.weight: parent.parent.highlighted ? Font.DemiBold : Font.Normal
-                                Layout.fillWidth: true
-                            }
+                        Label {
+                            anchors.left: parent.left
+                            anchors.leftMargin: 14
+                            anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
+                            text: modelData
+                            color: window.page === index ? Theme.ink : (mouse.containsMouse ? Theme.ink : Theme.muted)
+                            font.pixelSize: 14
+                            font.weight: window.page === index ? Font.DemiBold : Font.Normal
+                            font.family: Theme.sansFamily
+                        }
+                        MouseArea {
+                            id: mouse
+                            anchors.fill: parent
+                            hoverEnabled: true
+                            cursorShape: Qt.PointingHandCursor
+                            onClicked: window.page = index
                         }
                     }
                 }
 
                 Item { Layout.fillHeight: true }
 
-                StatusPill {
+                Rectangle { Layout.fillWidth: true; height: 1; color: Theme.rule; Layout.bottomMargin: 10 }
+
+                RowLayout {
                     Layout.fillWidth: true
-                    running: controller.running
-                    paused: controller.status === "paused"
-                    connected: controller.connected
-                    text: controller.connected ? (controller.running ? controller.clockText : "idle") : "offline"
-                    accent: window.kindColor(controller.kind)
+                    spacing: 8
+                    Rectangle {
+                        width: 7; height: 7; radius: 3.5
+                        color: controller.running ? Theme.kindColor(controller.kind) : Theme.faint
+                        SequentialAnimation on opacity {
+                            running: controller.running && controller.status === "running"
+                            loops: Animation.Infinite
+                            NumberAnimation { to: 0.35; duration: 900 }
+                            NumberAnimation { to: 1.0; duration: 900 }
+                        }
+                    }
+                    Label {
+                        text: controller.connected
+                              ? (controller.timerEnabled
+                                 ? (controller.running ? controller.clockText : "Idle")
+                                 : "View mode")
+                              : "Offline"
+                        color: Theme.ink
+                        font.pixelSize: 13
+                        font.weight: Font.Medium
+                        font.family: Theme.monoFamily
+                    }
+                    Item { Layout.fillWidth: true }
+                    Label {
+                        text: controller.completedToday + "/" + controller.goal
+                        color: Theme.muted
+                        font.pixelSize: 12
+                        font.family: Theme.sansFamily
+                    }
                 }
                 Label {
-                    Layout.fillWidth: true
-                    Layout.topMargin: 6
-                    text: controller.completedToday + "/" + controller.goal + " today"
-                    font.pixelSize: 12
-                    opacity: 0.7
-                    horizontalAlignment: Text.AlignHCenter
-                }
-                Label {
-                    Layout.fillWidth: true
                     visible: controller.blockerActive
-                    text: "🛡 blocking is on"
-                    font.pixelSize: 12
-                    color: "#e34948"
-                    horizontalAlignment: Text.AlignHCenter
+                    text: "● BLOCKING"
+                    color: Theme.clay
+                    font.pixelSize: 10
+                    font.letterSpacing: 1.1
+                    font.weight: Font.DemiBold
+                    font.family: Theme.sansFamily
                 }
             }
         }
 
-        // ---- pages ----------------------------------------------------------
+        // ---- pages -----------------------------------------------------------
         ColumnLayout {
             Layout.fillWidth: true
             Layout.fillHeight: true
             spacing: 0
 
-            Banner {
+            ToolBar {
+                visible: !window.wide
                 Layout.fillWidth: true
-                visible: !controller.connected
-                text: controller.connectionError !== ""
-                      ? controller.connectionError
-                      : "Cannot reach the backend. Start it with `docker compose up`."
-                actionText: "Settings"
-                onActionClicked: window.page = 4
+                background: Rectangle {
+                    color: Theme.paper
+                    Rectangle { anchors.bottom: parent.bottom; width: parent.width; height: 1; color: Theme.rule }
+                }
+                RowLayout {
+                    anchors.fill: parent
+                    anchors.leftMargin: 16
+                    anchors.rightMargin: 16
+                    Label {
+                        text: "Kadence"
+                        color: Theme.ink
+                        font.pixelSize: 18
+                        font.family: Theme.displayFamily
+                        Layout.fillWidth: true
+                    }
+                    Label {
+                        text: controller.connected
+                              ? (controller.timerEnabled
+                                 ? (controller.running ? controller.clockText : "Idle")
+                                 : "View mode")
+                              : "Offline"
+                        color: Theme.ink
+                        font.pixelSize: 13
+                        font.family: Theme.monoFamily
+                    }
+                }
             }
 
             StackLayout {
@@ -215,20 +232,29 @@ ApplicationWindow {
                 ReportPage {}
                 SettingsPage {}
             }
+
+            TabBar {
+                visible: !window.wide
+                Layout.fillWidth: true
+                currentIndex: window.page
+                onCurrentIndexChanged: window.page = currentIndex
+                background: Rectangle {
+                    color: Theme.paper
+                    Rectangle { width: parent.width; height: 1; color: Theme.rule }
+                }
+                TabButton { text: "Timer" }
+                TabButton { text: "Tasks" }
+                TabButton { text: "Blocker" }
+                TabButton { text: "Report" }
+                TabButton { text: "Settings" }
+            }
         }
     }
 
-    // ---- footer: bottom navigation on a narrow window ----------------------
-    footer: TabBar {
-        visible: !window.wide
-        currentIndex: window.page
-        onCurrentIndexChanged: window.page = currentIndex
-        TabButton { text: "⏱" }
-        TabButton { text: "✓" }
-        TabButton { text: "🛡" }
-        TabButton { text: "📊" }
-        TabButton { text: "⚙" }
-    }
-
     Snackbar { id: snackbar }
+
+    // The floating mini timer is created by app.py as its own top-level window:
+    // nested inside this one it would be transient, and a transient window
+    // cannot be shown while its parent is hidden — which is precisely when the
+    // mini timer earns its keep.
 }

desktop/kadence_desktop/qml/MiniTimer.qml

@@ -0,0 +1,241 @@
+// The floating mini timer.
+//
+// A small pill you keep in a corner while you work: the countdown, what you are
+// working on, and the three controls you actually reach for. It appears on
+// demand (tray, Ctrl+M, the D-Bus verb) and — if you let it — by itself
+// whenever an interval is running and the main window is out of the way.
+//
+// Everything has its own row. An earlier version saved space by swapping the
+// task line for the controls on hover and by drawing the progress bar over the
+// bottom edge; both of those put things on top of each other, and a timer you
+// have to hover to operate is a timer you cannot operate at a glance.
+//
+// Dragging uses the compositor's own move (`startSystemMove`), the only thing
+// that works on Wayland, and the window refuses keyboard focus rather than
+// being a `Qt.Tool` — Qt hides tool windows whenever the application is
+// deactivated, which made this one vanish on every click in another app.
+import QtQuick
+import QtQuick.Controls
+import QtQuick.Layouts
+import QtQuick.Window
+
+import "."
+
+Window {
+    id: mini
+
+    width: 252
+    height: card.implicitHeight + 12
+    color: "transparent"
+
+    // KWin's rule matches a substring of this, so it must stay distinct from
+    // the main window's caption. Qt appends " — Kadence" to it.
+    title: "Kadence mini"
+
+    flags: Qt.Window | Qt.FramelessWindowHint | Qt.WindowStaysOnTopHint
+           | Qt.WindowDoesNotAcceptFocus
+
+    readonly property color accent: Theme.kindColor(controller.kind)
+    readonly property bool paused: controller.status === "paused"
+
+    // Placement is decided in app.py: it is the only piece that knows about
+    // screens, and on Wayland it has to go through a KWin rule anyway.
+    onXChanged: saveTimer.restart()
+    onYChanged: saveTimer.restart()
+    Timer {
+        id: saveTimer
+        interval: 800
+        onTriggered: if (mini.visible) controller.saveMiniPosition(mini.x, mini.y)
+    }
+
+    // A small pill button. `filled` marks the one action you want by default —
+    // Resume when paused, Start when idle.
+    component MiniButton: Rectangle {
+        id: button
+        property string label: ""
+        property bool filled: false
+        signal clicked()
+
+        implicitWidth: buttonText.implicitWidth + 18
+        implicitHeight: 24
+        radius: 7
+        color: filled
+               ? (buttonHover.hovered ? Qt.lighter(mini.accent, 1.08) : mini.accent)
+               : (buttonHover.hovered ? Qt.alpha(mini.accent, 0.12) : "transparent")
+        border.width: filled ? 0 : 1
+        border.color: buttonHover.hovered ? mini.accent : Theme.rule
+        Behavior on color { ColorAnimation { duration: 110 } }
+
+        Label {
+            id: buttonText
+            anchors.fill: parent
+            text: button.label
+            color: button.filled ? "white" : Theme.ink
+            font.pixelSize: 11
+            font.weight: button.filled ? Font.DemiBold : Font.Normal
+            font.family: Theme.sansFamily
+            horizontalAlignment: Text.AlignHCenter
+            verticalAlignment: Text.AlignVCenter
+        }
+        HoverHandler { id: buttonHover; cursorShape: Qt.PointingHandCursor }
+        TapHandler { onTapped: button.clicked() }
+    }
+
+    Rectangle {
+        id: card
+        anchors.fill: parent
+        anchors.margins: 6
+        radius: 14
+        color: Theme.surface
+        border.width: 1
+        border.color: Theme.rule
+        implicitHeight: body.implicitHeight + 24 + progressLane.height + 5
+
+        HoverHandler { id: hover }
+
+        DragHandler {
+            target: null
+            grabPermissions: PointerHandler.CanTakeOverFromAnything
+            onActiveChanged: if (active) mini.startSystemMove()
+        }
+
+        TapHandler {
+            acceptedButtons: Qt.LeftButton
+            onDoubleTapped: controller.showWindowRequested()
+        }
+
+        ColumnLayout {
+            id: body
+            anchors.left: parent.left
+            anchors.right: parent.right
+            anchors.top: parent.top
+            anchors.margins: 12
+            spacing: 3
+
+            // ---- state -------------------------------------------------------
+            RowLayout {
+                Layout.fillWidth: true
+                spacing: 7
+
+                Rectangle {
+                    width: 6; height: 6; radius: 3
+                    color: controller.running ? mini.accent : Theme.faint
+                    SequentialAnimation on opacity {
+                        running: controller.running && !mini.paused
+                        loops: Animation.Infinite
+                        NumberAnimation { to: 0.3; duration: 900 }
+                        NumberAnimation { to: 1.0; duration: 900 }
+                    }
+                }
+                Label {
+                    text: (controller.running ? controller.kindLabel : "Idle").toUpperCase()
+                          + (mini.paused ? " · PAUSED" : "")
+                    color: mini.paused ? Theme.amber : (controller.running ? mini.accent : Theme.muted)
+                    font.pixelSize: 9
+                    font.letterSpacing: 1.2
+                    font.weight: Font.DemiBold
+                    font.family: Theme.sansFamily
+                    Layout.fillWidth: true
+                    elide: Text.ElideRight
+                }
+                Label {
+                    text: controller.completedToday + "/" + controller.goal
+                    color: Theme.faint
+                    font.pixelSize: 10
+                    font.family: Theme.sansFamily
+                }
+                Label {
+                    text: "✕"
+                    color: closeHover.hovered ? Theme.ink : Theme.faint
+                    font.pixelSize: 11
+                    opacity: hover.hovered ? 1 : 0.35
+                    Behavior on opacity { NumberAnimation { duration: 120 } }
+                    HoverHandler { id: closeHover; cursorShape: Qt.PointingHandCursor }
+                    TapHandler { onTapped: controller.setMiniVisible(false) }
+                }
+            }
+
+            // ---- the time ----------------------------------------------------
+            Label {
+                text: controller.clockText
+                color: Theme.ink
+                opacity: mini.paused ? 0.55 : 1
+                font.pixelSize: 32
+                font.family: Theme.displayFamily
+                font.letterSpacing: -1
+                Layout.topMargin: -2
+                Behavior on opacity { NumberAnimation { duration: 150 } }
+            }
+
+            // ---- what you are on ---------------------------------------------
+            Label {
+                Layout.fillWidth: true
+                text: controller.taskTitle !== ""
+                      ? controller.taskTitle
+                      : (controller.running ? "no task attached" : "double-click to open Kadence")
+                color: Theme.muted
+                font.pixelSize: 11
+                font.family: Theme.sansFamily
+                elide: Text.ElideRight
+            }
+
+            // ---- controls, always visible --------------------------------------
+            RowLayout {
+                Layout.fillWidth: true
+                Layout.topMargin: 4
+                spacing: 6
+
+                MiniButton {
+                    label: mini.paused ? "Resume" : "Pause"
+                    filled: mini.paused
+                    visible: controller.running
+                    onClicked: mini.paused ? controller.resume() : controller.pause()
+                }
+                MiniButton {
+                    label: "Finish"
+                    visible: controller.running
+                    onClicked: controller.complete()
+                }
+                MiniButton {
+                    label: "+5"
+                    visible: controller.running
+                    onClicked: controller.extend(5)
+                }
+                MiniButton {
+                    label: "Start focus"
+                    filled: true
+                    visible: !controller.running
+                    onClicked: controller.startWork()
+                }
+                MiniButton {
+                    label: "Break"
+                    visible: !controller.running
+                    onClicked: controller.startBreak()
+                }
+                Item { Layout.fillWidth: true }
+            }
+        }
+
+        // ---- progress, in a lane of its own ----------------------------------
+        Item {
+            id: progressLane
+            objectName: "progressLane"
+            anchors.left: parent.left
+            anchors.right: parent.right
+            anchors.bottom: parent.bottom
+            anchors.leftMargin: 1
+            anchors.rightMargin: 1
+            anchors.bottomMargin: 1
+            height: 3
+            clip: true
+
+            Rectangle {
+                width: parent.width * Math.max(0, Math.min(1, controller.progress))
+                height: parent.height
+                color: mini.accent
+                opacity: controller.running ? (mini.paused ? 0.45 : 1) : 0.25
+                Behavior on width { NumberAnimation { duration: 400 } }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}

desktop/kadence_desktop/qml/ReportPage.qml

@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
-// The day, summarised — the same payload the Telegram message is built from.
+// The day in numbers — the same payload the Telegram message is built from.
 import QtQuick
-import QtQuick.Controls.Material
+import QtQuick.Controls
 import QtQuick.Layouts
 
+import "."
 import "components"
 
 ScrollView {
@@ -14,166 +15,214 @@ ScrollView {
     readonly property var metrics: payload ? payload.metrics : null
 
     ColumnLayout {
-        width: page.availableWidth
-        spacing: 16
+        width: page.availableWidth - 56
+        x: 28
+        y: 26
+        spacing: 22
+
+        PageHeader {
+            eyebrow: controller.report.sent_at ? "sent to Telegram" : "not sent yet"
+            title: page.payload ? "Report · " + page.payload.date : "Report"
+            caption: page.payload ? page.payload.verdict : ""
+
+            GhostButton { text: "Reload"; onClicked: controller.loadReport() }
+            PrimaryButton { text: "Send to Telegram"; onClicked: controller.sendReport() }
+        }
+
+        Panel {
+            padding: 0
+            RowLayout {
+                Layout.fillWidth: true
+                spacing: 0
+                Repeater {
+                    model: [
+                        { label: "Pomodoros",
+                          value: page.metrics ? page.metrics.pomodoros + "/" + page.metrics.goal : "—",
+                          caption: page.metrics && page.metrics.goal_met ? "goal met" : "goal not met yet",
+                          accent: true },
+                        { label: "Focus",
+                          value: page.metrics ? page.metrics.focus_minutes + "m" : "—",
+                          caption: page.metrics ? page.metrics.break_minutes + "m resting" : "" },
+                        { label: "Score",
+                          value: page.payload ? "" + Math.round(page.payload.score) : "—",
+                          caption: "out of 100" },
+                        { label: "Streak",
+                          value: page.payload ? page.payload.streak.current + "d" : "—",
+                          caption: page.payload ? "best " + page.payload.streak.best : "" }
+                    ]
+                    delegate: RowLayout {
+                        required property int index
+                        required property var modelData
+                        Layout.fillWidth: true
+                        spacing: 0
+                        Rectangle {
+                            visible: index > 0
+                            width: 1
+                            Layout.preferredHeight: 84
+                            color: Theme.rule
+                        }
+                        Stat {
+                            Layout.fillWidth: true
+                            Layout.margins: 20
+                            label: modelData.label
+                            value: modelData.value
+                            caption: modelData.caption
+                            size: 38
+                            accent: modelData.accent ? Theme.work : Theme.ink
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
 
         ColumnLayout {
             Layout.fillWidth: true
-            Layout.margins: 20
-            spacing: 16
-
-            RowLayout {
-                Layout.fillWidth: true
-                Label {
-                    text: page.payload ? "Report for " + page.payload.date : "Report"
-                    font.pixelSize: 20
-                    font.weight: Font.Medium
-                    Layout.fillWidth: true
-                }
-                Button { text: "⟳"; flat: true; onClicked: controller.loadReport() }
-                PrimaryButton { text: "Send to Telegram"; onClicked: controller.sendReport() }
-            }
-
-            GridLayout {
-                Layout.fillWidth: true
-                columns: page.width > 760 ? 4 : 2
-                columnSpacing: 12
-                rowSpacing: 12
-
-                StatTile {
-                    label: "Pomodoros"
-                    value: page.metrics ? page.metrics.pomodoros + "/" + page.metrics.goal : "—"
-                    caption: page.metrics && page.metrics.goal_met ? "goal met 🎯" : "keep going"
-                    accent: window.workColor
-                }
-                StatTile {
-                    label: "Focus"
-                    value: page.metrics ? page.metrics.focus_minutes + "m" : "—"
-                    caption: page.metrics ? page.metrics.break_minutes + "m resting" : ""
-                }
-                StatTile {
-                    label: "Score"
-                    value: page.payload ? Math.round(page.payload.score) : "—"
-                    caption: "out of 100"
-                }
-                StatTile {
-                    label: "Streak"
-                    value: page.payload ? page.payload.streak.current + "d" : "—"
-                    caption: page.payload ? "best " + page.payload.streak.best : ""
-                }
-            }
-
-            Card {
-                title: "Last 30 days"
-                subtitle: "Goal line is the dashed row; darker bars cleared it."
+            spacing: 10
+            SectionTitle { text: "Last 30 days"; trailing: "goal line dashed" }
+            Panel {
                 BarRow {
                     Layout.fillWidth: true
                     days: controller.stats.range ? controller.stats.range : []
                     goal: controller.goal
                 }
             }
+        }
 
-            Card {
-                visible: page.payload && page.payload.achievements.length > 0
-                title: "Achievements"
-                Flow {
-                    Layout.fillWidth: true
-                    spacing: 8
-                    Repeater {
-                        model: page.payload ? page.payload.achievements : []
-                        delegate: Pane {
-                            required property var modelData
-                            Material.elevation: 0
-                            Material.roundedScale: Material.SmallScale
-                            padding: 10
-                            background: Rectangle {
-                                radius: 10
-                                color: Material.accent
-                                opacity: 0.14
+        ColumnLayout {
+            Layout.fillWidth: true
+            visible: page.payload && page.payload.achievements.length > 0
+            spacing: 10
+            SectionTitle { text: "Achievements" }
+            Flow {
+                Layout.fillWidth: true
+                spacing: 8
+                Repeater {
+                    model: page.payload ? page.payload.achievements : []
+                    delegate: Rectangle {
+                        required property var modelData
+                        implicitWidth: badge.implicitWidth + 24
+                        implicitHeight: badge.implicitHeight + 18
+                        radius: 10
+                        color: Qt.alpha(Theme.ember, 0.08)
+                        border.width: 1
+                        border.color: Qt.alpha(Theme.ember, 0.22)
+
+                        ColumnLayout {
+                            id: badge
+                            anchors.centerIn: parent
+                            spacing: 1
+                            Label {
+                                text: modelData.emoji + "  " + modelData.title
+                                color: Theme.ink
+                                font.pixelSize: 13
+                                font.weight: Font.DemiBold
+                                font.family: Theme.sansFamily
                             }
-                            ColumnLayout {
-                                spacing: 1
-                                Label {
-                                    text: modelData.emoji + "  " + modelData.title
-                                    font.weight: Font.DemiBold
-                                    font.pixelSize: 13
-                                }
-                                Label {
-                                    text: modelData.detail
-                                    visible: modelData.detail !== ""
-                                    font.pixelSize: 11
-                                    opacity: 0.75
-                                }
+                            Label {
+                                visible: modelData.detail !== ""
+                                text: modelData.detail
+                                color: Theme.muted
+                                font.pixelSize: 11
+                                font.family: Theme.sansFamily
                             }
                         }
                     }
                 }
             }
+        }
 
-            Card {
-                visible: page.payload && page.payload.fun_facts.length > 0
-                title: "The funny part"
-                Repeater {
-                    model: page.payload ? page.payload.fun_facts : []
-                    delegate: Label {
-                        required property var modelData
-                        text: modelData
-                        wrapMode: Text.WordWrap
-                        Layout.fillWidth: true
-                        font.pixelSize: 13
-                    }
-                }
-            }
-
-            Card {
-                visible: page.metrics && page.metrics.tasks_completed.length > 0
-                title: "Closed today"
-                Repeater {
-                    model: page.metrics ? page.metrics.tasks_completed : []
-                    delegate: RowLayout {
-                        required property var modelData
-                        Layout.fillWidth: true
-                        Label { text: "✅"; font.pixelSize: 12 }
-                        Label { text: modelData.title; Layout.fillWidth: true; elide: Text.ElideRight }
-                        Label { text: modelData.source; font.pixelSize: 11; opacity: 0.6 }
-                    }
-                }
-            }
-
-            Card {
-                title: "All time"
-                RowLayout {
+        ColumnLayout {
+            Layout.fillWidth: true
+            visible: page.payload && page.payload.fun_facts.length > 0
+            spacing: 8
+            SectionTitle { text: "The funny part" }
+            Repeater {
+                model: page.payload ? page.payload.fun_facts : []
+                delegate: Label {
+                    required property var modelData
+                    text: modelData
+                    color: Theme.ink
+                    font.pixelSize: 13
+                    font.family: Theme.sansFamily
+                    wrapMode: Text.WordWrap
                     Layout.fillWidth: true
-                    spacing: 12
-                    StatTile {
-                        label: "Pomodoros"
-                        value: controller.stats.lifetime ? controller.stats.lifetime.pomodoros : "—"
-                    }
-                    StatTile {
-                        label: "Hours focused"
-                        value: controller.stats.lifetime ? controller.stats.lifetime.focus_hours : "—"
-                    }
-                    StatTile {
-                        label: "Tasks closed"
-                        value: controller.stats.lifetime ? controller.stats.lifetime.tasks_completed : "—"
-                    }
-                    StatTile {
-                        label: "Blocked"
-                        value: controller.stats.lifetime ? controller.stats.lifetime.blocked_attempts : "—"
-                    }
                 }
             }
-
-            Label {
-                visible: page.payload && page.payload.verdict !== ""
-                text: page.payload ? page.payload.verdict : ""
-                font.italic: true
-                font.pixelSize: 14
-                opacity: 0.85
-                wrapMode: Text.WordWrap
-                Layout.fillWidth: true
-            }
         }
+
+        ColumnLayout {
+            Layout.fillWidth: true
+            visible: page.metrics && page.metrics.tasks_completed.length > 0
+            spacing: 6
+            SectionTitle { text: "Closed today" }
+            Repeater {
+                model: page.metrics ? page.metrics.tasks_completed : []
+                delegate: RowLayout {
+                    required property var modelData
+                    Layout.fillWidth: true
+                    spacing: 12
+                    Label {
+                        text: modelData.title
+                        color: Theme.ink
+                        font.pixelSize: 13
+                        font.family: Theme.sansFamily
+                        elide: Text.ElideRight
+                        Layout.fillWidth: true
+                    }
+                    Label {
+                        text: modelData.source
+                        color: Theme.faint
+                        font.pixelSize: 11
+                        font.family: Theme.sansFamily
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        ColumnLayout {
+            Layout.fillWidth: true
+            spacing: 10
+            SectionTitle { text: "All time" }
+            Panel {
+                padding: 0
+                RowLayout {
+                    Layout.fillWidth: true
+                    spacing: 0
+                    Repeater {
+                        model: [
+                            { label: "Pomodoros",
+                              value: controller.stats.lifetime ? "" + controller.stats.lifetime.pomodoros : "—" },
+                            { label: "Hours focused",
+                              value: controller.stats.lifetime ? "" + controller.stats.lifetime.focus_hours : "—" },
+                            { label: "Tasks closed",
+                              value: controller.stats.lifetime ? "" + controller.stats.lifetime.tasks_completed : "—" },
+                            { label: "Blocked",
+                              value: controller.stats.lifetime ? "" + controller.stats.lifetime.blocked_attempts : "—" }
+                        ]
+                        delegate: RowLayout {
+                            required property int index
+                            required property var modelData
+                            Layout.fillWidth: true
+                            spacing: 0
+                            Rectangle {
+                                visible: index > 0
+                                width: 1
+                                Layout.preferredHeight: 64
+                                color: Theme.rule
+                            }
+                            Stat {
+                                Layout.fillWidth: true
+                                Layout.margins: 18
+                                label: modelData.label
+                                value: modelData.value
+                            }
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        Item { Layout.preferredHeight: 10 }
     }
 
     Component.onCompleted: controller.loadReport()

desktop/kadence_desktop/qml/SettingsPage.qml

@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 // Settings, split by where they live.
 //
-// Anything under "This computer" is local to this machine (and saved in
-// ~/.config/kadence/desktop.json). Everything else is server-side, shared with
-// the web app and the Telegram bot.
+// "This computer" is local to this machine (~/.config/kadence/desktop.json).
+// Everything else is server-side, shared with the web app and the Telegram bot.
 import QtQuick
-import QtQuick.Controls.Material
+import QtQuick.Controls
 import QtQuick.Layouts
 
+import "."
 import "components"
 
 ScrollView {
@@ -29,362 +29,484 @@ ScrollView {
         controller.patchSettings({ notifications: { telegram: patch } })
     }
 
-    ColumnLayout {
-        width: page.availableWidth
-        spacing: 16
+    component Field: ColumnLayout {
+        property string label: ""
+        default property alias content: holder.data
+        spacing: 4
+        Label {
+            text: parent.label
+            color: Theme.muted
+            font.pixelSize: 11
+            font.family: Theme.sansFamily
+        }
+        ColumnLayout { id: holder; spacing: 0 }
+    }
 
+    ColumnLayout {
+        width: page.availableWidth - 56
+        x: 28
+        y: 26
+        spacing: 26
+
+        PageHeader {
+            eyebrow: "Shared with the web app and the Telegram bot"
+            title: "Settings"
+            caption: "Secrets are masked once stored — leave the dots alone to keep the saved value."
+            GhostButton { text: "Open the web app"; onClicked: controller.openWebUi() }
+        }
+
+        // ---- backend ----------------------------------------------------------
         ColumnLayout {
             Layout.fillWidth: true
-            Layout.margins: 20
-            spacing: 16
-
-            // ---- connection --------------------------------------------------
-            Card {
-                title: "Backend"
-                subtitle: controller.connected ? "Connected to " + controller.config.server_url
-                                               : controller.connectionError
-
-                RowLayout {
+            spacing: 12
+            SectionTitle {
+                text: "Backend"
+                trailing: controller.connected ? "connected" : "offline"
+            }
+            RowLayout {
+                Layout.fillWidth: true
+                spacing: 10
+                TextField {
+                    id: serverField
                     Layout.fillWidth: true
-                    TextField {
-                        id: serverField
-                        Layout.fillWidth: true
-                        text: controller.config.server_url
-                        placeholderText: "http://localhost:8000"
-                    }
-                    TextField {
-                        id: tokenField
-                        Layout.preferredWidth: 180
-                        text: controller.config.api_token
-                        placeholderText: "API token (optional)"
-                        echoMode: TextInput.Password
-                    }
-                    PrimaryButton {
-                        text: "Connect"
-                        onClicked: {
-                            controller.setConfig("server_url", serverField.text.trim())
-                            controller.setConfig("api_token", tokenField.text)
-                        }
+                    text: controller.config.server_url
+                    placeholderText: "http://localhost:8000"
+                }
+                TextField {
+                    id: tokenField
+                    Layout.preferredWidth: 180
+                    text: controller.config.api_token
+                    placeholderText: "API token (optional)"
+                    echoMode: TextInput.Password
+                }
+                PrimaryButton {
+                    text: "Connect"
+                    onClicked: {
+                        controller.setConfig("server_url", serverField.text.trim())
+                        controller.setConfig("api_token", tokenField.text)
                     }
                 }
-                RowLayout {
-                    Label { text: "Poll every"; font.pixelSize: 12 }
+            }
+            Label {
+                visible: !controller.connected && controller.connectionError !== ""
+                text: controller.connectionError
+                color: Theme.clay
+                font.pixelSize: 12
+                font.family: Theme.sansFamily
+                Layout.fillWidth: true
+                wrapMode: Text.WordWrap
+            }
+        }
+
+        // ---- timer -------------------------------------------------------------
+        ColumnLayout {
+            Layout.fillWidth: true
+            spacing: 12
+            SectionTitle { text: "Timer" }
+
+            Flow {
+                Layout.fillWidth: true
+                spacing: 20
+                Field {
+                    label: "Focus (min)"
                     SpinBox {
-                        from: 1; to: 60
-                        value: controller.config.poll_seconds
-                        onValueModified: controller.setConfig("poll_seconds", value)
-                    }
-                    Label { text: "seconds"; font.pixelSize: 12 }
-                    Item { Layout.fillWidth: true }
-                    Button { text: "Open the web app"; flat: true; onClicked: controller.openWebUi() }
-                }
-            }
-
-            // ---- timer -------------------------------------------------------
-            Card {
-                title: "Timer"
-                subtitle: "Shared with the web app and the Telegram bot."
-
-                GridLayout {
-                    Layout.fillWidth: true
-                    columns: page.width > 700 ? 4 : 2
-                    columnSpacing: 16
-                    rowSpacing: 8
-
-                    ColumnLayout {
-                        Label { text: "Focus (min)"; font.pixelSize: 11; opacity: 0.7 }
-                        SpinBox {
-                            from: 1; to: 240
-                            value: page.pomodoro ? page.pomodoro.work_minutes : 25
-                            onValueModified: page.patchPomodoro("work_minutes", value)
-                        }
-                    }
-                    ColumnLayout {
-                        Label { text: "Short break"; font.pixelSize: 11; opacity: 0.7 }
-                        SpinBox {
-                            from: 1; to: 120
-                            value: page.pomodoro ? page.pomodoro.short_break_minutes : 5
-                            onValueModified: page.patchPomodoro("short_break_minutes", value)
-                        }
-                    }
-                    ColumnLayout {
-                        Label { text: "Long break"; font.pixelSize: 11; opacity: 0.7 }
-                        SpinBox {
-                            from: 1; to: 240
-                            value: page.pomodoro ? page.pomodoro.long_break_minutes : 15
-                            onValueModified: page.patchPomodoro("long_break_minutes", value)
-                        }
-                    }
-                    ColumnLayout {
-                        Label { text: "Long break every"; font.pixelSize: 11; opacity: 0.7 }
-                        SpinBox {
-                            from: 1; to: 12
-                            value: page.pomodoro ? page.pomodoro.cycles_before_long_break : 4
-                            onValueModified: page.patchPomodoro("cycles_before_long_break", value)
-                        }
-                    }
-                    ColumnLayout {
-                        Label { text: "Daily goal"; font.pixelSize: 11; opacity: 0.7 }
-                        SpinBox {
-                            from: 1; to: 40
-                            value: page.pomodoro ? page.pomodoro.daily_goal_pomodoros : 8
-                            onValueModified: page.patchPomodoro("daily_goal_pomodoros", value)
-                        }
+                        from: 1; to: 240
+                        value: page.pomodoro ? page.pomodoro.work_minutes : 25
+                        onValueModified: page.patchPomodoro("work_minutes", value)
                     }
                 }
-
-                Flow {
-                    Layout.fillWidth: true
-                    spacing: 16
-                    Switch {
-                        text: "Auto-start breaks"
-                        checked: page.pomodoro ? page.pomodoro.auto_start_breaks : true
-                        onToggled: page.patchPomodoro("auto_start_breaks", checked)
+                Field {
+                    label: "Short break"
+                    SpinBox {
+                        from: 1; to: 120
+                        value: page.pomodoro ? page.pomodoro.short_break_minutes : 5
+                        onValueModified: page.patchPomodoro("short_break_minutes", value)
                     }
-                    Switch {
-                        text: "Auto-start next focus"
-                        checked: page.pomodoro ? page.pomodoro.auto_start_work : false
-                        onToggled: page.patchPomodoro("auto_start_work", checked)
+                }
+                Field {
+                    label: "Long break"
+                    SpinBox {
+                        from: 1; to: 240
+                        value: page.pomodoro ? page.pomodoro.long_break_minutes : 15
+                        onValueModified: page.patchPomodoro("long_break_minutes", value)
                     }
-                    Switch {
-                        text: "Allow pausing"
-                        checked: page.pomodoro ? page.pomodoro.allow_pause : true
-                        onToggled: page.patchPomodoro("allow_pause", checked)
+                }
+                Field {
+                    label: "Long break every"
+                    SpinBox {
+                        from: 1; to: 12
+                        value: page.pomodoro ? page.pomodoro.cycles_before_long_break : 4
+                        onValueModified: page.patchPomodoro("cycles_before_long_break", value)
                     }
-                    Switch {
-                        text: "Strict mode"
-                        checked: page.pomodoro ? page.pomodoro.strict_mode : false
-                        onToggled: page.patchPomodoro("strict_mode", checked)
-                        ToolTip.visible: hovered
-                        ToolTip.text: "Abandoning a focus interval requires a reason."
+                }
+                Field {
+                    label: "Daily goal"
+                    SpinBox {
+                        from: 1; to: 40
+                        value: page.pomodoro ? page.pomodoro.daily_goal_pomodoros : 8
+                        onValueModified: page.patchPomodoro("daily_goal_pomodoros", value)
                     }
                 }
             }
 
-            // ---- desktop integration ----------------------------------------
-            Card {
-                title: "This computer"
-                subtitle: "Native desktop features. Stored locally, not on the server."
+            Flow {
+                Layout.fillWidth: true
+                spacing: 18
+                Switch {
+                    text: "Timer enabled (off = view-only mode)"
+                    checked: controller.timerEnabled
+                    onToggled: controller.setTimerEnabled(checked)
+                }
+                Switch {
+                    text: "Auto-start breaks"
+                    checked: page.pomodoro ? page.pomodoro.auto_start_breaks : true
+                    onToggled: page.patchPomodoro("auto_start_breaks", checked)
+                }
+                Switch {
+                    text: "Auto-start next focus"
+                    checked: page.pomodoro ? page.pomodoro.auto_start_work : false
+                    onToggled: page.patchPomodoro("auto_start_work", checked)
+                }
+                Switch {
+                    text: "Allow pausing"
+                    checked: page.pomodoro ? page.pomodoro.allow_pause : true
+                    onToggled: page.patchPomodoro("allow_pause", checked)
+                }
+                Switch {
+                    text: "Strict mode"
+                    checked: page.pomodoro ? page.pomodoro.strict_mode : false
+                    onToggled: page.patchPomodoro("strict_mode", checked)
+                    ToolTip.visible: hovered
+                    ToolTip.text: "Abandoning a focus interval requires a reason."
+                }
+            }
+        }
 
-                Flow {
-                    Layout.fillWidth: true
-                    spacing: 16
+        // ---- this computer ------------------------------------------------------
+        ColumnLayout {
+            Layout.fillWidth: true
+            spacing: 12
+            SectionTitle { text: "This computer"; trailing: "native desktop features" }
 
-                    Switch {
-                        text: "Tray icon"
-                        checked: controller.config.tray_icon
-                        onToggled: controller.setConfig("tray_icon", checked)
-                    }
-                    Switch {
-                        text: "Close to tray"
-                        checked: controller.config.close_to_tray
-                        onToggled: controller.setConfig("close_to_tray", checked)
-                    }
-                    Switch {
-                        text: "Notifications"
-                        checked: controller.config.notifications
-                        onToggled: controller.setConfig("notifications", checked)
-                    }
-                    Switch {
-                        text: "Notification buttons"
-                        checked: controller.config.notification_actions
-                        onToggled: controller.setConfig("notification_actions", checked)
-                        ToolTip.visible: hovered
-                        ToolTip.text: "“Start break” / “Skip” directly on the notification."
-                    }
-                    Switch {
-                        text: "Keep the screen awake"
-                        checked: controller.config.inhibit_screensaver
-                        onToggled: controller.setConfig("inhibit_screensaver", checked)
-                    }
-                    Switch {
-                        text: "Do Not Disturb while focusing"
-                        checked: controller.config.do_not_disturb
-                        onToggled: controller.setConfig("do_not_disturb", checked)
-                    }
-                    Switch {
-                        text: "Pause music when focus starts"
-                        checked: controller.config.pause_media
-                        onToggled: controller.setConfig("pause_media", checked)
-                        ToolTip.visible: hovered
-                        ToolTip.text: "Any MPRIS player: Spotify, VLC, mpv, browsers."
-                    }
-                    Switch {
-                        text: "Taskbar progress"
-                        checked: controller.config.taskbar_progress
-                        onToggled: controller.setConfig("taskbar_progress", checked)
-                    }
-                    Switch {
-                        text: "Pause when the screen locks"
-                        checked: controller.config.pause_on_lock
-                        onToggled: controller.setConfig("pause_on_lock", checked)
-                    }
-                    Switch {
-                        text: "D-Bus control"
-                        checked: controller.config.dbus_service
-                        onToggled: controller.setConfig("dbus_service", checked)
-                        ToolTip.visible: hovered
-                        ToolTip.text: "org.kadence.Desktop — bind it to a global shortcut."
+            Flow {
+                Layout.fillWidth: true
+                spacing: 18
+                Switch {
+                    text: "Start in view-only mode"
+                    checked: controller.config.view_only
+                    onToggled: controller.setConfig("view_only", checked)
+                }
+                Switch {
+                    text: "Tray icon"
+                    checked: controller.config.tray_icon
+                    onToggled: controller.setConfig("tray_icon", checked)
+                }
+                Switch {
+                    text: "Close to tray"
+                    checked: controller.config.close_to_tray
+                    onToggled: controller.setConfig("close_to_tray", checked)
+                }
+                Switch {
+                    text: "Notifications"
+                    checked: controller.config.notifications
+                    onToggled: controller.setConfig("notifications", checked)
+                }
+                Switch {
+                    text: "Notification buttons"
+                    checked: controller.config.notification_actions
+                    onToggled: controller.setConfig("notification_actions", checked)
+                }
+                Switch {
+                    text: "Keep the screen awake"
+                    checked: controller.config.inhibit_screensaver
+                    onToggled: controller.setConfig("inhibit_screensaver", checked)
+                }
+                Switch {
+                    text: "Do Not Disturb while focusing"
+                    checked: controller.config.do_not_disturb
+                    onToggled: controller.setConfig("do_not_disturb", checked)
+                }
+                Switch {
+                    text: "Pause music on focus"
+                    checked: controller.config.pause_media
+                    onToggled: controller.setConfig("pause_media", checked)
+                    ToolTip.visible: hovered
+                    ToolTip.text: "Any MPRIS player: Spotify, VLC, mpv, browsers."
+                }
+                Switch {
+                    text: "Mini timer"
+                    checked: controller.config.mini_timer
+                    onToggled: controller.setConfig("mini_timer", checked)
+                    ToolTip.visible: hovered
+                    ToolTip.text: "A small always-on-top countdown. Ctrl+M, or the tray menu."
+                }
+                Switch {
+                    text: "Mini timer follows the window"
+                    checked: controller.config.mini_timer_auto
+                    onToggled: controller.setConfig("mini_timer_auto", checked)
+                    ToolTip.visible: hovered
+                    ToolTip.text: "Show it while an interval runs and the main window is hidden."
+                }
+                Switch {
+                    text: "Keep the mini timer above everything"
+                    enabled: controller.config.keep_above_supported
+                    checked: controller.config.mini_timer_keep_above
+                    onToggled: controller.setConfig("mini_timer_keep_above", checked)
+                    ToolTip.visible: hovered
+                    ToolTip.text: controller.config.keep_above_supported
+                                  ? "Installs a KWin window rule — the only way to float above "
+                                    + "other apps on Wayland. Switching this off removes it again."
+                                  : "Needs KWin (KDE). Elsewhere the Qt window flag is used."
+                }
+                Switch {
+                    text: "Taskbar progress"
+                    checked: controller.config.taskbar_progress
+                    onToggled: controller.setConfig("taskbar_progress", checked)
+                }
+                Switch {
+                    text: "Pause when the screen locks"
+                    checked: controller.config.pause_on_lock
+                    onToggled: controller.setConfig("pause_on_lock", checked)
+                }
+                Switch {
+                    text: "D-Bus control"
+                    checked: controller.config.dbus_service
+                    onToggled: controller.setConfig("dbus_service", checked)
+                    ToolTip.visible: hovered
+                    ToolTip.text: "org.kadence.Desktop — bind it to a global shortcut."
+                }
+            }
+
+            RowLayout {
+                Layout.fillWidth: true
+                spacing: 20
+                Field {
+                    label: "Mini timer appears"
+                    ComboBox {
+                        implicitWidth: 210
+                        textRole: "label"
+                        valueRole: "key"
+                        model: [
+                            { key: "top-left", label: "Top left" },
+                            { key: "top-centre", label: "Top centre" },
+                            { key: "top-right", label: "Top right" },
+                            { key: "bottom-left", label: "Bottom left" },
+                            { key: "bottom-centre", label: "Bottom centre" },
+                            { key: "bottom-right", label: "Bottom right" },
+                            { key: "centre", label: "Centre of the screen" },
+                            { key: "remember", label: "Where I last dragged it" }
+                        ]
+                        currentIndex: {
+                            var corner = controller.config.mini_timer_corner
+                            for (var i = 0; i < model.length; i++)
+                                if (model[i].key === corner) return i
+                            return 5
+                        }
+                        onActivated: function (index) {
+                            controller.setConfig("mini_timer_corner", model[index].key)
+                        }
                     }
                 }
+                Field {
+                    label: "Gap from the edges (px)"
+                    SpinBox {
+                        from: 0; to: 400; stepSize: 4
+                        value: controller.config.mini_timer_margin
+                        onValueModified: controller.setConfig("mini_timer_margin", value)
+                    }
+                }
+                Item { Layout.fillWidth: true }
+            }
 
-                RowLayout {
-                    Layout.fillWidth: true
-                    Label { text: "Pause after"; font.pixelSize: 12 }
+            RowLayout {
+                Layout.fillWidth: true
+                spacing: 20
+                Field {
+                    label: "Pause after idle (min, 0 = never)"
                     SpinBox {
                         from: 0; to: 120
                         value: controller.config.pause_on_idle_minutes
                         onValueModified: controller.setConfig("pause_on_idle_minutes", value)
                     }
-                    Label { text: "idle minutes (0 = never)"; font.pixelSize: 12 }
-                    Item { Layout.fillWidth: true }
                 }
-
-                RowLayout {
-                    Layout.fillWidth: true
-                    Switch {
-                        text: "Start with the session"
-                        checked: controller.config.autostart
-                        onToggled: controller.setConfig("autostart", checked)
-                    }
-                    Switch {
-                        text: "systemd user service"
-                        checked: controller.config.service_enabled
-                        onToggled: controller.setConfig("service_enabled", checked)
-                        ToolTip.visible: hovered
-                        ToolTip.text: "Restarts the app if it dies; logs to the journal."
-                    }
-                    Switch {
-                        text: "Start minimised"
-                        checked: controller.config.start_minimized
-                        onToggled: controller.setConfig("start_minimized", checked)
+                Field {
+                    label: "Poll the backend every (s)"
+                    SpinBox {
+                        from: 1; to: 60
+                        value: controller.config.poll_seconds
+                        onValueModified: controller.setConfig("poll_seconds", value)
                     }
                 }
+                Item { Layout.fillWidth: true }
             }
 
-            // ---- telegram ----------------------------------------------------
-            Card {
-                title: "Telegram"
-                subtitle: "Daily report, morning briefing and the nudges that get you back to work."
-
-                RowLayout {
-                    Layout.fillWidth: true
-                    Switch {
-                        text: "Enabled"
-                        checked: page.telegram ? page.telegram.enabled : false
-                        onToggled: page.patchTelegram("enabled", checked)
-                    }
-                    TextField {
-                        Layout.fillWidth: true
-                        placeholderText: "Bot token from @BotFather"
-                        text: page.telegram ? page.telegram.bot_token : ""
-                        onEditingFinished: if (text !== "••••••••") page.patchTelegram("bot_token", text)
-                    }
-                    TextField {
-                        Layout.preferredWidth: 160
-                        placeholderText: "Chat id"
-                        text: page.telegram ? page.telegram.chat_id : ""
-                        onEditingFinished: page.patchTelegram("chat_id", text)
-                    }
+            Flow {
+                Layout.fillWidth: true
+                spacing: 18
+                Switch {
+                    text: "Start with the session"
+                    checked: controller.config.autostart
+                    onToggled: controller.setConfig("autostart", checked)
                 }
-
-                Flow {
-                    Layout.fillWidth: true
-                    spacing: 16
-                    Switch {
-                        text: "Daily report"
-                        checked: page.telegram ? page.telegram.daily_report : true
-                        onToggled: page.patchTelegram("daily_report", checked)
-                    }
-                    Switch {
-                        text: "Morning briefing"
-                        checked: page.telegram ? page.telegram.morning_briefing : true
-                        onToggled: page.patchTelegram("morning_briefing", checked)
-                    }
-                    Switch {
-                        text: "Weekly review"
-                        checked: page.telegram ? page.telegram.weekly_report : true
-                        onToggled: page.patchTelegram("weekly_report", checked)
-                    }
-                    Switch {
-                        text: "Nudge me when idle"
-                        checked: page.telegram ? page.telegram.nudge_enabled : true
-                        onToggled: page.patchTelegram("nudge_enabled", checked)
-                    }
-                    Switch {
-                        text: "Chat commands"
-                        checked: page.telegram ? page.telegram.commands_enabled : true
-                        onToggled: page.patchTelegram("commands_enabled", checked)
-                    }
+                Switch {
+                    text: "systemd user service"
+                    checked: controller.config.service_enabled
+                    onToggled: controller.setConfig("service_enabled", checked)
+                    ToolTip.visible: hovered
+                    ToolTip.text: "Restarts the app if it dies; logs to the journal."
                 }
-
-                RowLayout {
-                    Layout.fillWidth: true
-                    ColumnLayout {
-                        Label { text: "Report at (HH:MM)"; font.pixelSize: 11; opacity: 0.7 }
-                        TextField {
-                            text: page.telegram ? page.telegram.daily_report_time : "21:00"
-                            onEditingFinished: page.patchTelegram("daily_report_time", text)
-                        }
-                    }
-                    ColumnLayout {
-                        Label { text: "Briefing at (HH:MM)"; font.pixelSize: 11; opacity: 0.7 }
-                        TextField {
-                            text: page.telegram ? page.telegram.morning_briefing_time : "09:00"
-                            onEditingFinished: page.patchTelegram("morning_briefing_time", text)
-                        }
-                    }
-                    ColumnLayout {
-                        Label { text: "Nudge after (min idle)"; font.pixelSize: 11; opacity: 0.7 }
-                        SpinBox {
-                            from: 10; to: 600
-                            value: page.telegram ? page.telegram.nudge_after_idle_minutes : 90
-                            onValueModified: page.patchTelegram("nudge_after_idle_minutes", value)
-                        }
-                    }
-                    ColumnLayout {
-                        Label { text: "Tone"; font.pixelSize: 11; opacity: 0.7 }
-                        ComboBox {
-                            model: ["friendly", "coach", "drill_sergeant", "dry"]
-                            currentIndex: page.report ? model.indexOf(page.report.tone) : 0
-                            onActivated: function (index) {
-                                controller.patchSettings({ notifications: { report: { tone: model[index] } } })
-                            }
-                        }
-                    }
-                    ColumnLayout {
-                        Label { text: "Language"; font.pixelSize: 11; opacity: 0.7 }
-                        ComboBox {
-                            model: ["en", "ru"]
-                            currentIndex: page.report && page.report.language === "ru" ? 1 : 0
-                            onActivated: function (index) {
-                                controller.patchSettings({ notifications: { report: { language: model[index] } } })
-                            }
-                        }
-                    }
-                }
-            }
-
-            Card {
-                title: "Shortcuts and scripting"
-                subtitle: "The app exposes org.kadence.Desktop on the session bus."
-                Label {
-                    Layout.fillWidth: true
-                    wrapMode: Text.WordWrap
-                    font.family: "Roboto Mono, monospace"
-                    font.pixelSize: 11
-                    text: "qdbus org.kadence.Desktop /Timer org.kadence.Timer.Toggle\n"
-                          + "qdbus org.kadence.Desktop /Timer org.kadence.Timer.Status\n"
-                          + "kadence-desktop --toggle   # same thing from a terminal\n\n"
-                          + "System Settings → Shortcuts → Custom → D-Bus command binds these to a key."
-                }
-                Label {
-                    text: "Kadence " + appVersion + " · sources, blocking rules and reports live on the backend."
-                    font.pixelSize: 11
-                    opacity: 0.6
+                Switch {
+                    text: "Start minimised"
+                    checked: controller.config.start_minimized
+                    onToggled: controller.setConfig("start_minimized", checked)
                 }
             }
         }
+
+        // ---- telegram -------------------------------------------------------------
+        ColumnLayout {
+            Layout.fillWidth: true
+            spacing: 12
+            SectionTitle { text: "Telegram"; trailing: "reports, briefings and nudges" }
+
+            RowLayout {
+                Layout.fillWidth: true
+                spacing: 10
+                Switch {
+                    text: "Enabled"
+                    checked: page.telegram ? page.telegram.enabled : false
+                    onToggled: page.patchTelegram("enabled", checked)
+                }
+                TextField {
+                    Layout.fillWidth: true
+                    placeholderText: "Bot token from @BotFather"
+                    text: page.telegram ? page.telegram.bot_token : ""
+                    onEditingFinished: if (text !== "••••••••") page.patchTelegram("bot_token", text)
+                }
+                TextField {
+                    Layout.preferredWidth: 160
+                    placeholderText: "Chat id"
+                    text: page.telegram ? page.telegram.chat_id : ""
+                    onEditingFinished: page.patchTelegram("chat_id", text)
+                }
+            }
+
+            Flow {
+                Layout.fillWidth: true
+                spacing: 18
+                Switch {
+                    text: "Daily report"
+                    checked: page.telegram ? page.telegram.daily_report : true
+                    onToggled: page.patchTelegram("daily_report", checked)
+                }
+                Switch {
+                    text: "Morning briefing"
+                    checked: page.telegram ? page.telegram.morning_briefing : true
+                    onToggled: page.patchTelegram("morning_briefing", checked)
+                }
+                Switch {
+                    text: "Weekly review"
+                    checked: page.telegram ? page.telegram.weekly_report : true
+                    onToggled: page.patchTelegram("weekly_report", checked)
+                }
+                Switch {
+                    text: "Nudge me when idle"
+                    checked: page.telegram ? page.telegram.nudge_enabled : true
+                    onToggled: page.patchTelegram("nudge_enabled", checked)
+                }
+                Switch {
+                    text: "Chat commands"
+                    checked: page.telegram ? page.telegram.commands_enabled : true
+                    onToggled: page.patchTelegram("commands_enabled", checked)
+                }
+            }
+
+            Flow {
+                Layout.fillWidth: true
+                spacing: 20
+                Field {
+                    label: "Report at (HH:MM)"
+                    TextField {
+                        implicitWidth: 110
+                        text: page.telegram ? page.telegram.daily_report_time : "21:00"
+                        onEditingFinished: page.patchTelegram("daily_report_time", text)
+                    }
+                }
+                Field {
+                    label: "Briefing at (HH:MM)"
+                    TextField {
+                        implicitWidth: 110
+                        text: page.telegram ? page.telegram.morning_briefing_time : "09:00"
+                        onEditingFinished: page.patchTelegram("morning_briefing_time", text)
+                    }
+                }
+                Field {
+                    label: "Nudge after (min idle)"
+                    SpinBox {
+                        from: 10; to: 600
+                        value: page.telegram ? page.telegram.nudge_after_idle_minutes : 90
+                        onValueModified: page.patchTelegram("nudge_after_idle_minutes", value)
+                    }
+                }
+                Field {
+                    label: "Tone"
+                    ComboBox {
+                        implicitWidth: 170
+                        model: ["friendly", "coach", "drill_sergeant", "dry"]
+                        currentIndex: page.report ? model.indexOf(page.report.tone) : 0
+                        onActivated: function (index) {
+                            controller.patchSettings({ notifications: { report: { tone: model[index] } } })
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+                Field {
+                    label: "Language"
+                    ComboBox {
+                        implicitWidth: 110
+                        model: ["en", "ru"]
+                        currentIndex: page.report && page.report.language === "ru" ? 1 : 0
+                        onActivated: function (index) {
+                            controller.patchSettings({ notifications: { report: { language: model[index] } } })
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        // ---- scripting -------------------------------------------------------------
+        ColumnLayout {
+            Layout.fillWidth: true
+            spacing: 12
+            SectionTitle { text: "Shortcuts and scripting" }
+            Panel {
+                Label {
+                    Layout.fillWidth: true
+                    wrapMode: Text.WordWrap
+                    color: Theme.muted
+                    font.pixelSize: 11
+                    font.family: Theme.monoFamily
+                    text: "qdbus org.kadence.Desktop /Timer org.kadence.Timer.Toggle\n"
+                          + "qdbus org.kadence.Desktop /Timer org.kadence.Timer.Status\n"
+                          + "kadence-desktop --toggle"
+                }
+                Label {
+                    Layout.fillWidth: true
+                    wrapMode: Text.WordWrap
+                    color: Theme.faint
+                    font.pixelSize: 11
+                    font.family: Theme.sansFamily
+                    text: "System Settings → Shortcuts → Custom → D-Bus command binds these to a key."
+                }
+            }
+            Label {
+                text: "Kadence " + appVersion
+                color: Theme.faint
+                font.pixelSize: 11
+                font.family: Theme.sansFamily
+            }
+        }
+
+        Item { Layout.preferredHeight: 10 }
     }
 
     Component.onCompleted: controller.loadSettings()

desktop/kadence_desktop/qml/TasksPage.qml

@@ -1,12 +1,19 @@
-// Everything you owe, from every source, grouped by deadline.
+// Everything you owe, grouped by deadline.
+//
+// There is no checkbox: a task is closed in Jira, Todoist or Google Tasks, and
+// the next refresh notices. Two places to tick something off is two places to
+// be wrong.
 import QtQuick
-import QtQuick.Controls.Material
+import QtQuick.Controls
 import QtQuick.Layouts
 
+import "."
 import "components"
 
-Item {
+ScrollView {
     id: page
+    contentWidth: availableWidth
+    clip: true
 
     function bucketTasks(bucket) {
         var out = []
@@ -17,130 +24,170 @@ Item {
         return out
     }
 
-    ColumnLayout {
-        anchors.fill: parent
-        anchors.margins: 20
-        spacing: 12
+    function bucketColor(bucket) {
+        if (bucket === "overdue") return Theme.clay
+        if (bucket === "today") return Theme.amber
+        if (bucket === "active") return Theme.pine
+        if (bucket === "upcoming") return Theme.faint
+        return Theme.rule
+    }
 
-        RowLayout {
-            Layout.fillWidth: true
-            spacing: 8
-            Label {
-                text: controller.tasks.length + " open"
-                font.pixelSize: 13
-                opacity: 0.7
-            }
-            Item { Layout.fillWidth: true }
-            Button { text: "＋ Add"; onClicked: addDialog.open() }
-            PrimaryButton { text: "⟳ Refresh sources"; onClicked: controller.refreshSources() }
+    ColumnLayout {
+        width: page.availableWidth - 56
+        x: 28
+        y: 26
+        spacing: 22
+
+        PageHeader {
+            eyebrow: "From Jira, Todoist, Google Tasks and your own list"
+            title: "Tasks"
+            caption: "Close them where they live — the next refresh credits them to today."
+
+            GhostButton { text: "Add"; onClicked: addDialog.open() }
+            PrimaryButton { text: "Refresh sources"; onClicked: controller.refreshSources() }
         }
 
-        ScrollView {
-            Layout.fillWidth: true
-            Layout.fillHeight: true
-            contentWidth: availableWidth
-            clip: true
+        Repeater {
+            model: [
+                { key: "overdue", label: "Overdue" },
+                { key: "today", label: "Due today" },
+                { key: "active", label: "In progress" },
+                { key: "upcoming", label: "Coming up" },
+                { key: "someday", label: "No deadline" }
+            ]
+            delegate: ColumnLayout {
+                required property var modelData
+                property var items: page.bucketTasks(modelData.key)
+                visible: items.length > 0
+                Layout.fillWidth: true
+                spacing: 2
 
-            ColumnLayout {
-                width: parent.parent.availableWidth
-                spacing: 12
+                SectionTitle { text: modelData.label; trailing: "" + parent.items.length }
 
                 Repeater {
-                    model: [
-                        { key: "overdue", label: "Overdue", mark: "🔴" },
-                        { key: "today", label: "Due today", mark: "🟡" },
-                        { key: "upcoming", label: "Coming up", mark: "🔵" },
-                        { key: "someday", label: "No deadline", mark: "⚪" }
-                    ]
-                    delegate: Card {
+                    model: parent.items
+                    delegate: Item {
                         required property var modelData
-                        property var items: page.bucketTasks(modelData.key)
-                        visible: items.length > 0
-                        title: modelData.mark + "  " + modelData.label + "  (" + items.length + ")"
+                        Layout.fillWidth: true
+                        implicitHeight: row.implicitHeight + 20
 
-                        Repeater {
-                            model: parent.parent.items
-                            delegate: RowLayout {
-                                required property var modelData
+                        Rectangle {
+                            anchors.bottom: parent.bottom
+                            width: parent.width
+                            height: 1
+                            color: Theme.rule
+                        }
+
+                        RowLayout {
+                            id: row
+                            anchors.fill: parent
+                            anchors.topMargin: 10
+                            anchors.bottomMargin: 10
+                            spacing: 14
+
+                            Rectangle {
+                                width: 2
+                                Layout.fillHeight: true
+                                radius: 1
+                                color: page.bucketColor(modelData.bucket)
+                            }
+
+                            ColumnLayout {
                                 Layout.fillWidth: true
-                                spacing: 10
-
-                                CheckBox {
-                                    checked: modelData.is_done
-                                    onToggled: controller.setTaskDone(modelData.id, checked)
-                                }
-                                ColumnLayout {
+                                spacing: 3
+                                Label {
+                                    text: modelData.title
+                                    color: Theme.ink
+                                    font.pixelSize: 14
+                                    font.weight: modelData.pinned ? Font.DemiBold : Font.Normal
+                                    font.family: Theme.sansFamily
+                                    elide: Text.ElideRight
                                     Layout.fillWidth: true
-                                    spacing: 2
+                                }
+                                RowLayout {
+                                    spacing: 12
                                     Label {
-                                        text: modelData.title
-                                        font.pixelSize: 14
-                                        elide: Text.ElideRight
-                                        Layout.fillWidth: true
+                                        text: modelData.source_label
+                                        color: Theme.faint; font.pixelSize: 11
+                                        font.family: Theme.sansFamily
                                     }
-                                    RowLayout {
-                                        spacing: 6
-                                        Label {
-                                            text: modelData.source_label
-                                            font.pixelSize: 10
-                                            opacity: 0.65
-                                        }
-                                        Label {
-                                            visible: !!modelData.project
-                                            text: "· " + modelData.project
-                                            font.pixelSize: 10
-                                            opacity: 0.65
-                                        }
-                                        Label {
-                                            visible: modelData.days_overdue > 0
-                                            text: "· " + modelData.days_overdue + "d overdue"
-                                            font.pixelSize: 10
-                                            color: "#e34948"
-                                        }
-                                        Label {
-                                            visible: !!modelData.due_date && modelData.days_overdue === 0
-                                            text: "· " + modelData.due_date
-                                            font.pixelSize: 10
-                                            opacity: 0.65
-                                        }
-                                        Label {
-                                            visible: !!modelData.priority
-                                            text: "· " + modelData.priority
-                                            font.pixelSize: 10
-                                            opacity: 0.65
-                                        }
+                                    Label {
+                                        visible: !!modelData.project && modelData.project !== modelData.source_label
+                                        text: modelData.project || ""
+                                        color: Theme.faint; font.pixelSize: 11
+                                        font.family: Theme.sansFamily
+                                    }
+                                    Label {
+                                        visible: !!modelData.status
+                                        text: modelData.status || ""
+                                        color: Theme.faint; font.pixelSize: 11
+                                        font.family: Theme.sansFamily
+                                    }
+                                    Label {
+                                        visible: modelData.days_overdue > 0
+                                        text: modelData.days_overdue + "d overdue"
+                                        color: Theme.clay; font.pixelSize: 11
+                                        font.weight: Font.DemiBold
+                                        font.family: Theme.sansFamily
+                                    }
+                                    Label {
+                                        visible: !!modelData.due_date && modelData.days_overdue === 0
+                                        text: "due " + (modelData.due_date || "")
+                                        color: Theme.faint; font.pixelSize: 11
+                                        font.family: Theme.sansFamily
                                     }
                                 }
-                                ToolButton {
-                                    text: "↗"
-                                    visible: !!modelData.url
-                                    onClicked: controller.openUrl(modelData.url)
-                                    ToolTip.visible: hovered
-                                    ToolTip.text: "Open in " + modelData.source_label
-                                }
-                                ToolButton {
-                                    text: "▶"
-                                    onClicked: { controller.attachTask(modelData.id); controller.startWork(); window.page = 0 }
-                                    ToolTip.visible: hovered
-                                    ToolTip.text: "Start a pomodoro on this"
+                            }
+
+                            GhostButton {
+                                text: modelData.pinned ? "Unpin" : "Pin"
+                                implicitHeight: 28
+                                onClicked: controller.setTaskPinned(modelData.id, !modelData.pinned)
+                            }
+                            GhostButton {
+                                visible: !!modelData.url
+                                text: "Open"
+                                implicitHeight: 28
+                                onClicked: controller.openUrl(modelData.url)
+                            }
+                            GhostButton {
+                                text: "Focus"
+                                implicitHeight: 28
+                                onClicked: {
+                                    controller.attachTask(modelData.id)
+                                    controller.startWork()
+                                    window.page = 0
                                 }
                             }
                         }
                     }
                 }
-
-                Card {
-                    visible: controller.tasks.length === 0
-                    title: "Nothing on the list"
-                    subtitle: "Connect Jira, Todoist or Google Tasks in Settings → Sources, "
-                              + "or add something here yourself."
-                    Button {
-                        text: "Open settings"
-                        onClicked: window.page = 4
-                    }
-                }
             }
         }
+
+        Panel {
+            visible: controller.tasks.length === 0
+            ColumnLayout {
+                spacing: 8
+                Label {
+                    text: "Nothing on the list"
+                    color: Theme.ink
+                    font.pixelSize: 17
+                    font.family: Theme.displayFamily
+                }
+                Label {
+                    text: "Connect Jira, Todoist or Google Tasks in Settings, or add something yourself."
+                    color: Theme.muted
+                    font.pixelSize: 12
+                    font.family: Theme.sansFamily
+                    Layout.fillWidth: true
+                    wrapMode: Text.WordWrap
+                }
+                GhostButton { text: "Open settings"; onClicked: window.page = 4 }
+            }
+        }
+
+        Item { Layout.preferredHeight: 10 }
     }
 
     Dialog {
@@ -153,7 +200,7 @@ Item {
 
         ColumnLayout {
             anchors.fill: parent
-            spacing: 10
+            spacing: 12
             TextField {
                 id: titleField
                 Layout.fillWidth: true
@@ -162,8 +209,15 @@ Item {
             TextField {
                 id: dueField
                 Layout.fillWidth: true
-                placeholderText: "Due date (YYYY-MM-DD, optional)"
-                inputMask: ""
+                placeholderText: "Due date — YYYY-MM-DD (optional)"
+            }
+            Label {
+                text: "Local tasks live only here, so they are the one kind you can delete."
+                color: Theme.faint
+                font.pixelSize: 11
+                font.family: Theme.sansFamily
+                Layout.fillWidth: true
+                wrapMode: Text.WordWrap
             }
             PrimaryButton {
                 text: "Add"

desktop/kadence_desktop/qml/Theme.qml

@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+pragma Singleton
+
+import QtQuick
+
+/**
+ * The design tokens, shared with the web app's `tokens.ts`.
+ *
+ * Kadence reads like a well-set page rather than a dashboard: warm paper, ink
+ * type, hairline rules instead of boxes and shadows, one warm accent. Light and
+ * dark follow the desktop's own colour scheme.
+ */
+QtObject {
+    id: theme
+
+    property SystemPalette system: SystemPalette { colorGroup: SystemPalette.Active }
+
+    // The session decides; we only read it.
+    readonly property bool dark: system.window.hslLightness < 0.5
+
+    readonly property color paper:   dark ? "#121110" : "#FAF7F2"
+    readonly property color surface: dark ? "#1A1917" : "#FFFFFF"
+    readonly property color sunken:  dark ? "#201E1B" : "#F3EFE8"
+    readonly property color ink:     dark ? "#F4F1EA" : "#17150F"
+    readonly property color muted:   dark ? "#A79F93" : "#6E675B"
+    readonly property color faint:   dark ? "#776F64" : "#9A9388"
+    readonly property color rule:    dark ? Qt.rgba(0.96, 0.95, 0.92, 0.14) : Qt.rgba(0.09, 0.08, 0.06, 0.12)
+    readonly property color ember:   dark ? "#E0724A" : "#B4441E"
+    readonly property color pine:    dark ? "#6FB394" : "#2F6B55"
+    readonly property color amber:   dark ? "#D9A441" : "#8A6200"
+    readonly property color clay:    dark ? "#E07A6E" : "#A33A2E"
+
+    // Chart colours are the validated data palette, not the brand accent —
+    // a chart has to stay readable for colour-blind readers in both themes.
+    readonly property color work:       dark ? "#d95926" : "#eb6834"
+    readonly property color shortBreak: dark ? "#3987e5" : "#2a78d6"
+    readonly property color longBreak:  dark ? "#199e70" : "#1baf7a"
+    readonly property var sequential: dark
+        ? ["#104281", "#184f95", "#256abf", "#3987e5", "#6da7ec", "#9ec5f4"]
+        : ["#cde2fb", "#9ec5f4", "#6da7ec", "#3987e5", "#256abf", "#184f95"]
+
+    // QML's `font.family` takes one name, so the preference list is resolved
+    // once against what is actually installed on this machine.
+    function pickFamily(candidates) {
+        var available = Qt.fontFamilies()
+        for (var i = 0; i < candidates.length; i++)
+            if (available.indexOf(candidates[i]) >= 0)
+                return candidates[i]
+        return candidates[candidates.length - 1]
+    }
+
+    readonly property string displayFamily: pickFamily(
+        ["Fraunces", "Noto Serif", "DejaVu Serif", "Liberation Serif", "Georgia", "serif"])
+    readonly property string sansFamily: pickFamily(
+        ["Inter", "Noto Sans", "DejaVu Sans", "Liberation Sans", "sans-serif"])
+    readonly property string monoFamily: pickFamily(
+        ["JetBrains Mono", "Noto Sans Mono", "DejaVu Sans Mono", "Liberation Mono", "monospace"])
+
+    readonly property int radius: 12
+    readonly property int gap: 12
+    readonly property int pad: 18
+
+    function kindColor(kind) {
+        if (kind === "short_break") return shortBreak
+        if (kind === "long_break") return longBreak
+        return work
+    }
+
+    function kindLabel(kind) {
+        if (kind === "short_break") return "Short break"
+        if (kind === "long_break") return "Long break"
+        return "Focus"
+    }
+}

desktop/kadence_desktop/qml/TimerPage.qml

@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
-// The timer page: the dial, the controls, and what you are working on.
+// The timer: the dial, the controls, and what you are working on.
 import QtQuick
-import QtQuick.Controls.Material
+import QtQuick.Controls
 import QtQuick.Layouts
 
+import "."
 import "components"
 
 ScrollView {
@@ -10,149 +11,165 @@ ScrollView {
     contentWidth: availableWidth
     clip: true
 
-    property var openTasks: {
+    readonly property var openTasks: {
         var list = []
         for (var i = 0; i < controller.tasks.length; i++)
             if (!controller.tasks[i].is_done) list.push(controller.tasks[i])
         return list
     }
 
+    function suggestion() {
+        var buckets = ["overdue", "today", "upcoming", "someday"]
+        for (var b = 0; b < buckets.length; b++)
+            for (var i = 0; i < openTasks.length; i++)
+                if (openTasks[i].pinned || openTasks[i].bucket === buckets[b]) return openTasks[i]
+        return null
+    }
+
     ColumnLayout {
-        width: page.availableWidth
-        spacing: 16
-        anchors.margins: 20
+        width: page.availableWidth - 56
+        x: 28
+        y: 26
+        spacing: 22
+
+        PageHeader {
+            eyebrow: Qt.formatDate(new Date(), "dddd, d MMMM")
+            title: !controller.timerEnabled ? "View mode" : (controller.running ? controller.kindLabel : "Ready when you are")
+            caption: !controller.timerEnabled
+                     ? "Timer is disabled · view-only mode"
+                     : (controller.taskTitle !== ""
+                        ? "Tracking “" + controller.taskTitle + "”"
+                        : "Cycle " + controller.cyclePosition + " of " + controller.cycleLength
+                          + " before a long break")
+
+            GhostButton {
+                visible: controller.timerEnabled && controller.running && controller.status !== "paused"
+                text: "Pause"
+                onClicked: controller.pause()
+            }
+            GhostButton {
+                visible: controller.timerEnabled && controller.running && controller.status === "paused"
+                text: "Resume"
+                onClicked: controller.resume()
+            }
+            PrimaryButton {
+                visible: controller.timerEnabled && controller.running
+                text: "Finish"
+                onClicked: controller.complete()
+            }
+            PrimaryButton {
+                visible: controller.timerEnabled && !controller.running
+                text: "Start focus"
+                onClicked: controller.startWork()
+            }
+            GhostButton {
+                visible: controller.timerEnabled && !controller.running
+                text: controller.nextKindLabel
+                onClicked: controller.startBreak()
+            }
+            GhostButton {
+                text: controller.timerEnabled ? "Turn off timer" : "Turn on timer"
+                onClicked: controller.setTimerEnabled(!controller.timerEnabled)
+            }
+        }
 
         GridLayout {
             Layout.fillWidth: true
-            Layout.margins: 20
-            columns: page.width > 900 ? 2 : 1
-            columnSpacing: 16
-            rowSpacing: 16
+            columns: page.width > 940 ? 2 : 1
+            columnSpacing: 22
+            rowSpacing: 22
 
-            // ---- dial + controls --------------------------------------------
-            Card {
+            Panel {
                 Layout.fillWidth: true
                 Layout.preferredWidth: 1
+                padding: 28
 
                 TimerDial {
                     Layout.alignment: Qt.AlignHCenter
-                    Layout.preferredWidth: Math.min(300, page.availableWidth * 0.7)
+                    Layout.preferredWidth: Math.min(290, page.availableWidth * 0.62)
                     Layout.preferredHeight: Layout.preferredWidth
-                    progress: controller.progress
-                    clockText: controller.clockText
-                    label: controller.running ? controller.kindLabel : "Next: " + controller.nextKindLabel
-                    sublabel: controller.running
-                              ? (controller.taskTitle !== "" ? controller.taskTitle : " ")
-                              : "Press start when you are ready"
-                    accent: window.kindColor(controller.kind)
+                    progress: controller.timerEnabled ? controller.progress : 0
+                    clockText: controller.timerEnabled ? controller.clockText : "—"
+                    minutes: Math.max(1, Math.round(controller.plannedSeconds / 60))
+                    label: !controller.timerEnabled ? "View mode" : (controller.running ? controller.kindLabel : "Next · " + controller.nextKindLabel)
+                    sublabel: !controller.timerEnabled
+                              ? "Timer disabled"
+                              : (controller.taskTitle !== ""
+                                 ? controller.taskTitle
+                                 : (controller.running ? "" : "Pick something below, or just begin"))
+                    accent: controller.timerEnabled ? Theme.kindColor(controller.kind) : Theme.muted
                     paused: controller.status === "paused"
+                    idle: !controller.timerEnabled || !controller.running
                 }
 
-                Flow {
+                RowLayout {
+                    visible: controller.timerEnabled && controller.running
                     Layout.alignment: Qt.AlignHCenter
-                    Layout.topMargin: 8
-                    spacing: 8
+                    Layout.topMargin: 14
+                    spacing: 6
 
-                    PrimaryButton {
-                        visible: !controller.running
-                        text: "▶  Start focus"
-                        onClicked: controller.startWork()
-                    }
-                    Button {
-                        visible: !controller.running
-                        text: "☕  " + controller.nextKindLabel
-                        onClicked: controller.startBreak()
-                    }
-                    Button {
-                        visible: controller.running && controller.status !== "paused"
-                        text: "⏸  Pause"
-                        onClicked: controller.pause()
-                    }
-                    PrimaryButton {
-                        visible: controller.running && controller.status === "paused"
-                        text: "▶  Resume"
-                        onClicked: controller.resume()
-                    }
-                    PrimaryButton {
-                        visible: controller.running
-                        text: "✓  Done"
-                        onClicked: controller.complete()
-                    }
-                    Button {
-                        visible: controller.running
-                        text: "+5"
+                    GhostButton {
+                        text: "+5 min"
                         onClicked: controller.extend(5)
-                        ToolTip.visible: hovered
-                        ToolTip.text: "Add five minutes"
                     }
-                    Button {
-                        visible: controller.running
-                        text: "🔔"
+                    GhostButton {
+                        text: "Interruption"
                         onClicked: controller.interrupt()
                         ToolTip.visible: hovered
-                        ToolTip.text: "Count an interruption without stopping"
+                        ToolTip.text: "Count a distraction without stopping the clock"
                     }
-                    Button {
-                        visible: controller.running
-                        text: "⏹"
-                        flat: true
-                        Material.foreground: "#e34948"
+                    GhostButton {
+                        text: "Abandon"
                         onClicked: abandonDialog.open()
-                        ToolTip.visible: hovered
-                        ToolTip.text: "Abandon this interval"
                     }
                 }
 
                 Label {
                     Layout.alignment: Qt.AlignHCenter
-                    visible: controller.interruptions > 0
-                    text: controller.interruptions + " interruption(s) this interval"
+                    visible: controller.timerEnabled && controller.interruptions > 0
+                    text: controller.interruptions + " interruption(s) so far"
+                    color: Theme.faint
                     font.pixelSize: 11
-                    opacity: 0.6
+                    font.family: Theme.sansFamily
                 }
                 Label {
                     Layout.alignment: Qt.AlignHCenter
-                    text: "Space start/pause · Ctrl+Enter finish · Ctrl+E +5 min"
+                    visible: controller.timerEnabled
+                    text: "Space start/pause   ·   Ctrl+Enter finish   ·   Ctrl+E +5 min"
+                    color: Theme.faint
                     font.pixelSize: 10
-                    opacity: 0.45
+                    font.family: Theme.sansFamily
                 }
             }
 
-            // ---- today + task picker ----------------------------------------
             ColumnLayout {
                 Layout.fillWidth: true
                 Layout.preferredWidth: 1
                 Layout.alignment: Qt.AlignTop
-                spacing: 16
+                spacing: 20
 
-                Card {
-                    title: "Today"
-                    subtitle: "Cycle " + controller.cyclePosition + " of " + controller.cycleLength
-                              + " before a long break"
+                ColumnLayout {
+                    Layout.fillWidth: true
+                    spacing: 10
+                    SectionTitle { text: "Today" }
 
                     RowLayout {
-                        Layout.fillWidth: true
                         spacing: 8
                         Label {
                             text: controller.completedToday
-                            font.pixelSize: 34
-                            font.weight: Font.Light
+                            color: Theme.ink
+                            font.pixelSize: 40
+                            font.family: Theme.displayFamily
+                            font.letterSpacing: -1
                         }
                         Label {
-                            text: "/ " + controller.goal + " pomodoros"
-                            font.pixelSize: 16
-                            opacity: 0.7
+                            text: "of " + controller.goal + " pomodoros"
+                            color: Theme.muted
+                            font.pixelSize: 14
+                            font.family: Theme.sansFamily
                             Layout.alignment: Qt.AlignBottom
-                            Layout.bottomMargin: 6
+                            Layout.bottomMargin: 7
                         }
-                        Item { Layout.fillWidth: true }
-                    }
-
-                    ProgressBar {
-                        Layout.fillWidth: true
-                        from: 0
-                        to: Math.max(controller.goal, 1)
-                        value: Math.min(controller.completedToday, controller.goal)
                     }
 
                     Flow {
@@ -162,27 +179,45 @@ ScrollView {
                             model: Math.max(controller.goal, controller.completedToday)
                             delegate: Rectangle {
                                 required property int index
-                                width: 14; height: 14; radius: 7
-                                color: index < controller.completedToday ? window.workColor : "transparent"
+                                width: 11; height: 11; radius: 5.5
+                                color: index < controller.completedToday ? Theme.work : "transparent"
                                 border.width: index < controller.completedToday ? 0 : 1
-                                border.color: Material.hintTextColor
+                                border.color: Theme.rule
                             }
                         }
                     }
+
+                    Label {
+                        Layout.fillWidth: true
+                        text: controller.stats.today
+                              ? controller.stats.today.focus_minutes + "m focused · "
+                                + controller.stats.today.break_minutes + "m rested"
+                                + (controller.stats.today.longest_stretch_minutes > 0
+                                   ? " · longest run " + controller.stats.today.longest_stretch_minutes + "m" : "")
+                              : ""
+                        color: Theme.muted
+                        font.pixelSize: 12
+                        font.family: Theme.sansFamily
+                        wrapMode: Text.WordWrap
+                    }
                 }
 
-                Card {
-                    title: "What are you working on?"
+                ColumnLayout {
+                    Layout.fillWidth: true
+                    spacing: 10
+                    SectionTitle { text: "Working on" }
 
                     ComboBox {
                         id: taskPicker
                         Layout.fillWidth: true
+                        font.pixelSize: 13
+                        font.family: Theme.sansFamily
                         model: {
-                            var names = ["No task"]
+                            var names = ["Nothing in particular"]
                             for (var i = 0; i < page.openTasks.length; i++)
-                                names.push((page.openTasks[i].pinned ? "📌 " : "")
+                                names.push((page.openTasks[i].pinned ? "★ " : "")
                                            + page.openTasks[i].title
-                                           + (page.openTasks[i].due_date ? "  ·  " + page.openTasks[i].due_date : ""))
+                                           + (page.openTasks[i].due_date ? "   ·   " + page.openTasks[i].due_date : ""))
                             return names
                         }
                         onActivated: function (index) {
@@ -190,65 +225,76 @@ ScrollView {
                         }
                     }
 
-                    Label {
-                        Layout.fillWidth: true
-                        wrapMode: Text.WordWrap
-                        font.pixelSize: 12
-                        opacity: 0.7
-                        text: controller.taskTitle !== ""
-                              ? "This interval is tracked against “" + controller.taskTitle + "”."
-                              : "Pick a task so the daily report knows where the time went."
-                    }
-
                     RowLayout {
                         Layout.fillWidth: true
-                        spacing: 8
+                        spacing: 14
                         Label {
-                            text: "🔴 " + (controller.taskCounts.overdue || 0) + " overdue"
-                            font.pixelSize: 12
+                            text: (controller.taskCounts.overdue || 0) + " overdue"
+                            color: (controller.taskCounts.overdue || 0) > 0 ? Theme.clay : Theme.muted
+                            font.pixelSize: 11
+                            font.family: Theme.sansFamily
                         }
                         Label {
-                            text: "🟡 " + (controller.taskCounts.today || 0) + " due today"
-                            font.pixelSize: 12
+                            text: (controller.taskCounts.today || 0) + " due today"
+                            color: Theme.muted
+                            font.pixelSize: 11
+                            font.family: Theme.sansFamily
                         }
                         Item { Layout.fillWidth: true }
-                        Button { text: "Tasks"; flat: true; onClicked: window.page = 1 }
+                        GhostButton { text: "All tasks"; onClicked: window.page = 1 }
                     }
                 }
             }
         }
 
-        // ---- the day's numbers ------------------------------------------------
-        GridLayout {
-            Layout.fillWidth: true
-            Layout.leftMargin: 20
-            Layout.rightMargin: 20
-            Layout.bottomMargin: 20
-            columns: page.width > 760 ? 4 : 2
-            columnSpacing: 12
-            rowSpacing: 12
+        // ---- the day's numbers -------------------------------------------------
+        Panel {
+            padding: 0
+            RowLayout {
+                Layout.fillWidth: true
+                spacing: 0
 
-            StatTile {
-                label: "Focus today"
-                value: controller.stats.today ? controller.stats.today.focus_minutes + "m" : "—"
-                caption: controller.completedToday + " pomodoros"
-            }
-            StatTile {
-                label: "Longest stretch"
-                value: controller.stats.today ? controller.stats.today.longest_stretch_minutes + "m" : "—"
-                caption: "unbroken focus"
-            }
-            StatTile {
-                label: "Streak"
-                value: controller.stats.streak ? controller.stats.streak.current + "d" : "—"
-                caption: controller.stats.streak ? "best " + controller.stats.streak.best : ""
-            }
-            StatTile {
-                label: "Blocked"
-                value: controller.stats.today ? controller.stats.today.blocked_attempts : "—"
-                caption: "temptations turned away"
+                Repeater {
+                    model: [
+                        { label: "Focus today",
+                          value: controller.stats.today ? controller.stats.today.focus_minutes + "m" : "—",
+                          caption: controller.completedToday + " intervals" },
+                        { label: "Interruptions",
+                          value: controller.stats.today ? "" + controller.stats.today.interruptions : "—",
+                          caption: controller.stats.today && controller.stats.today.abandoned > 0
+                                   ? controller.stats.today.abandoned + " abandoned" : "none dropped" },
+                        { label: "Closed today",
+                          value: controller.stats.today ? "" + controller.stats.today.tasks_completed_count : "—",
+                          caption: "in your own tools" },
+                        { label: "Blocked",
+                          value: controller.stats.today ? "" + controller.stats.today.blocked_attempts : "—",
+                          caption: "temptations turned away" }
+                    ]
+                    delegate: RowLayout {
+                        required property int index
+                        required property var modelData
+                        Layout.fillWidth: true
+                        spacing: 0
+                        Rectangle {
+                            visible: index > 0
+                            width: 1
+                            Layout.fillHeight: true
+                            Layout.preferredHeight: 70
+                            color: Theme.rule
+                        }
+                        Stat {
+                            Layout.fillWidth: true
+                            Layout.margins: 18
+                            label: modelData.label
+                            value: modelData.value
+                            caption: modelData.caption
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
             }
         }
+
+        Item { Layout.preferredHeight: 10 }
     }
 
     Dialog {
@@ -261,9 +307,12 @@ ScrollView {
 
         ColumnLayout {
             anchors.fill: parent
-            spacing: 10
+            spacing: 12
             Label {
-                text: controller.clockText + " left. The interval is recorded as abandoned."
+                text: controller.clockText + " left. It will be recorded as abandoned."
+                color: Theme.muted
+                font.pixelSize: 12
+                font.family: Theme.sansFamily
                 wrapMode: Text.WordWrap
                 Layout.fillWidth: true
             }
@@ -272,10 +321,8 @@ ScrollView {
                 Layout.fillWidth: true
                 placeholderText: "What happened? (optional)"
             }
-            Button {
+            PrimaryButton {
                 text: "Abandon"
-                Material.background: "#e34948"
-                Material.foreground: "white"
                 Layout.alignment: Qt.AlignRight
                 onClicked: { controller.abandon(reasonField.text); reasonField.text = ""; abandonDialog.close() }
             }

desktop/kadence_desktop/qml/components/Banner.qml

@@ -1,27 +1,34 @@
-// An inline warning strip — used for "the backend is gone" and "the helper is
-// not installed", the two states where the app cannot do its job.
+// An inline warning strip for the two states where the app cannot do its job:
+// the backend is unreachable, or the privileged helper is missing.
 import QtQuick
-import QtQuick.Controls.Material
+import QtQuick.Controls
 import QtQuick.Layouts
 
+import ".."
+
 Rectangle {
     id: banner
     property string text: ""
     property string actionText: ""
     signal actionClicked()
 
+    Layout.fillWidth: true
     implicitHeight: visible ? row.implicitHeight + 20 : 0
-    color: "#e34948"
-    opacity: 0.92
+    radius: Theme.radius
+    color: Qt.alpha(Theme.clay, 0.12)
+    border.width: 1
+    border.color: Qt.alpha(Theme.clay, 0.4)
 
     RowLayout {
         id: row
         anchors.fill: parent
-        anchors.margins: 10
+        anchors.margins: 12
         spacing: 12
         Label {
             text: banner.text
-            color: "white"
+            color: Theme.ink
+            font.pixelSize: 12
+            font.family: Theme.sansFamily
             wrapMode: Text.WordWrap
             Layout.fillWidth: true
         }
@@ -29,7 +36,6 @@ Rectangle {
             visible: banner.actionText !== ""
             text: banner.actionText
             flat: true
-            Material.foreground: "white"
             onClicked: banner.actionClicked()
         }
     }

desktop/kadence_desktop/qml/components/BarRow.qml

@@ -1,18 +1,21 @@
-// A tiny bar chart: magnitude over time, one hue, baseline at zero.
-//
-// The ramp step says "did this day clear the goal" without adding a second
-// colour, and every bar carries its own tooltip, so no bar needs a label.
+// Pomodoros per day: magnitude over time, so bars, one hue, baseline at zero.
+// The goal line is the only reference mark; days that cleared it take a darker
+// step of the same ramp, which keeps "did I hit it" readable without a second
+// colour.
 import QtQuick
-import QtQuick.Controls.Material
+import QtQuick.Controls
 import QtQuick.Layouts
 
+import ".."
+
 Item {
     id: chart
-    property var days: []           // [{date, pomodoros, focus_minutes, goal_met}]
+    property var days: []
     property int goal: 8
-    property int barHeight: 110
+    property int barHeight: 108
 
-    implicitHeight: barHeight + 18
+    Layout.fillWidth: true
+    implicitHeight: barHeight + 16
 
     readonly property int maxValue: {
         var top = goal
@@ -25,8 +28,7 @@ Item {
         anchors.right: parent.right
         y: chart.barHeight - (chart.goal / chart.maxValue) * chart.barHeight
         height: 1
-        color: Material.hintTextColor
-        opacity: 0.45
+        color: Theme.rule
         visible: chart.goal > 0
     }
 
@@ -48,15 +50,16 @@ Item {
                     width: parent.width
                     height: Math.max(modelData.pomodoros > 0
                                      ? (modelData.pomodoros / chart.maxValue) * chart.barHeight : 2, 2)
-                    radius: 4
-                    color: modelData.pomodoros === 0 ? Material.dividerColor
-                                                     : (modelData.goal_met ? "#256abf" : "#6da7ec")
+                    radius: 3
+                    color: modelData.pomodoros === 0
+                           ? Theme.rule
+                           : (modelData.goal_met ? Theme.sequential[4] : Theme.sequential[2])
 
                     ToolTip.visible: hover.hovered
-                    ToolTip.text: modelData.date + ": " + modelData.pomodoros
+                    ToolTip.text: modelData.date + " · " + modelData.pomodoros
                                   + " pomodoros · " + modelData.focus_minutes + " min"
                     HoverHandler { id: hover }
-                    Behavior on height { NumberAnimation { duration: 250 } }
+                    Behavior on height { NumberAnimation { duration: 220 } }
                 }
             }
         }
@@ -68,12 +71,12 @@ Item {
         anchors.right: parent.right
         Label {
             text: chart.days.length ? chart.days[0].date.substring(5) : ""
-            font.pixelSize: 10; opacity: 0.6
+            font.pixelSize: 10; color: Theme.faint; font.family: Theme.sansFamily
         }
         Item { Layout.fillWidth: true }
         Label {
             text: chart.days.length ? chart.days[chart.days.length - 1].date.substring(5) : ""
-            font.pixelSize: 10; opacity: 0.6
+            font.pixelSize: 10; color: Theme.faint; font.family: Theme.sansFamily
         }
     }
 }

desktop/kadence_desktop/qml/components/Card.qml

@@ -1,51 +0,0 @@
-// A Material surface with a title. Used everywhere instead of bare Panes so the
-// pages share one radius, one padding and one elevation.
-import QtQuick
-import QtQuick.Controls.Material
-import QtQuick.Layouts
-
-Pane {
-    id: card
-    property string title: ""
-    property string subtitle: ""
-    default property alias content: inner.data
-
-    Material.elevation: 1
-    Material.roundedScale: Material.LargeScale
-    padding: 18
-    Layout.fillWidth: true
-
-    background: Rectangle {
-        radius: 18
-        color: Material.dialogColor
-        border.width: 1
-        border.color: Material.dividerColor
-    }
-
-    ColumnLayout {
-        anchors.fill: parent
-        spacing: 10
-
-        ColumnLayout {
-            spacing: 2
-            visible: card.title !== ""
-            Layout.fillWidth: true
-            Label { text: card.title; font.pixelSize: 16; font.weight: Font.DemiBold }
-            Label {
-                text: card.subtitle
-                visible: card.subtitle !== ""
-                font.pixelSize: 12
-                opacity: 0.7
-                Layout.fillWidth: true
-                wrapMode: Text.WordWrap
-            }
-        }
-
-        ColumnLayout {
-            id: inner
-            Layout.fillWidth: true
-            Layout.fillHeight: true
-            spacing: 10
-        }
-    }
-}

desktop/kadence_desktop/qml/components/GhostButton.qml

@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+// The outlined button, for everything that is not the primary action.
+import QtQuick
+import QtQuick.Controls
+
+import ".."
+
+Button {
+    id: control
+    implicitHeight: 34
+    leftPadding: 14
+    rightPadding: 14
+
+    background: Rectangle {
+        radius: 8
+        color: control.hovered ? Qt.alpha(Theme.ember, 0.07) : "transparent"
+        border.width: 1
+        border.color: control.hovered ? Theme.ember : Theme.rule
+        Behavior on color { ColorAnimation { duration: 110 } }
+    }
+    contentItem: Label {
+        text: control.text
+        color: control.enabled ? Theme.ink : Theme.faint
+        font.pixelSize: 13
+        font.weight: Font.Medium
+        font.family: Theme.sansFamily
+        horizontalAlignment: Text.AlignHCenter
+        verticalAlignment: Text.AlignVCenter
+    }
+}

desktop/kadence_desktop/qml/components/PageHeader.qml

@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+// Eyebrow, title, actions, rule — the same opening every page uses.
+import QtQuick
+import QtQuick.Controls
+import QtQuick.Layouts
+
+import ".."
+
+ColumnLayout {
+    property string eyebrow: ""
+    property string title: ""
+    property string caption: ""
+    default property alias actions: actionRow.data
+
+    Layout.fillWidth: true
+    spacing: 10
+
+    RowLayout {
+        Layout.fillWidth: true
+        spacing: 16
+
+        ColumnLayout {
+            Layout.fillWidth: true
+            spacing: 2
+            Label {
+                visible: eyebrow !== ""
+                text: eyebrow.toUpperCase()
+                color: Theme.muted
+                font.pixelSize: 10
+                font.letterSpacing: 1.3
+                font.weight: Font.DemiBold
+                font.family: Theme.sansFamily
+            }
+            Label {
+                text: title
+                color: Theme.ink
+                font.pixelSize: 27
+                font.family: Theme.displayFamily
+                font.letterSpacing: -0.6
+            }
+            Label {
+                visible: caption !== ""
+                text: caption
+                color: Theme.muted
+                font.pixelSize: 13
+                font.family: Theme.sansFamily
+                Layout.fillWidth: true
+                wrapMode: Text.WordWrap
+            }
+        }
+
+        RowLayout { id: actionRow; spacing: 8; Layout.alignment: Qt.AlignRight | Qt.AlignVCenter }
+    }
+
+    Rectangle { Layout.fillWidth: true; height: 1; color: Theme.rule }
+}

desktop/kadence_desktop/qml/components/Panel.qml

@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+// A surface with a hairline border. No shadow, no tint — the border does the
+// separating, which is what keeps a page of panels calm.
+import QtQuick
+import QtQuick.Layouts
+
+import ".."
+
+Rectangle {
+    id: panel
+    default property alias content: inner.data
+    property int padding: Theme.pad
+    property alias spacing: inner.spacing
+
+    color: Theme.surface
+    radius: Theme.radius
+    border.width: 1
+    border.color: Theme.rule
+    implicitHeight: inner.implicitHeight + padding * 2
+    implicitWidth: inner.implicitWidth + padding * 2
+    Layout.fillWidth: true
+
+    ColumnLayout {
+        id: inner
+        anchors.fill: parent
+        anchors.margins: panel.padding
+        spacing: 10
+    }
+}

desktop/kadence_desktop/qml/components/PrimaryButton.qml

@@ -1,34 +1,28 @@
-// The filled Material button, painted explicitly.
-//
-// Relying on `highlighted: true` leaves the fill to the style, and under some
-// renderers that fill never appears — white text on a white surface. The
-// primary action on a page is exactly the thing that must never be invisible,
-// so it draws its own pill.
+// The filled button: one per view, painted explicitly so no style can lose it.
 import QtQuick
-import QtQuick.Controls.Material
+import QtQuick.Controls
+
+import ".."
 
 Button {
     id: control
-
-    Material.foreground: "white"
-    font.weight: Font.Medium
-    leftPadding: 20
-    rightPadding: 20
-    implicitHeight: 40
+    implicitHeight: 34
+    leftPadding: 16
+    rightPadding: 16
 
     background: Rectangle {
-        radius: height / 2
-        color: control.enabled ? Material.accent : Material.buttonDisabledColor
+        radius: 8
+        color: control.enabled ? Theme.ember : Theme.rule
         opacity: control.pressed ? 0.82 : (control.hovered ? 0.92 : 1)
-        Behavior on opacity { NumberAnimation { duration: 120 } }
+        Behavior on opacity { NumberAnimation { duration: 110 } }
     }
-
     contentItem: Label {
         text: control.text
-        font: control.font
-        color: control.enabled ? "white" : Material.hintTextColor
+        color: control.enabled ? "white" : Theme.faint
+        font.pixelSize: 13
+        font.weight: Font.Medium
+        font.family: Theme.sansFamily
         horizontalAlignment: Text.AlignHCenter
         verticalAlignment: Text.AlignVCenter
-        elide: Text.ElideRight
     }
 }

desktop/kadence_desktop/qml/components/SectionTitle.qml

@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+// An eyebrow label with a rule running to the right edge.
+import QtQuick
+import QtQuick.Controls
+import QtQuick.Layouts
+
+import ".."
+
+RowLayout {
+    property string text: ""
+    property string trailing: ""
+
+    Layout.fillWidth: true
+    spacing: 10
+
+    Label {
+        text: parent.text.toUpperCase()
+        color: Theme.muted
+        font.pixelSize: 10
+        font.letterSpacing: 1.3
+        font.weight: Font.DemiBold
+        font.family: Theme.sansFamily
+    }
+    Rectangle { Layout.fillWidth: true; height: 1; color: Theme.rule }
+    Label {
+        visible: parent.trailing !== ""
+        text: parent.trailing
+        color: Theme.faint
+        font.pixelSize: 11
+        font.family: Theme.sansFamily
+    }
+}

desktop/kadence_desktop/qml/components/Snackbar.qml

@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
-// Transient messages. Material's own popup, anchored to the bottom.
+// Transient messages, bottom centre, on an ink slab.
 import QtQuick
-import QtQuick.Controls.Material
+import QtQuick.Controls
+
+import ".."
 
 Popup {
     id: snackbar
@@ -13,19 +15,23 @@ Popup {
     }
 
     x: Math.round((parent.width - width) / 2)
-    y: parent.height - height - 72
-    width: Math.min(parent.width - 48, Math.max(260, label.implicitWidth + 48))
-    padding: 16
+    y: parent.height - height - 28
+    width: Math.min(parent.width - 48, Math.max(240, label.implicitWidth + 36))
+    padding: 14
     modal: false
     focus: false
     closePolicy: Popup.NoAutoClose
-    Material.elevation: 6
-    Material.roundedScale: Material.SmallScale
 
-    Label {
+    background: Rectangle {
+        color: Theme.ink
+        radius: 10
+    }
+    contentItem: Label {
         id: label
-        anchors.fill: parent
         text: snackbar.message
+        color: Theme.paper
+        font.pixelSize: 13
+        font.family: Theme.sansFamily
         wrapMode: Text.WordWrap
     }
 

desktop/kadence_desktop/qml/components/Stat.qml

@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+// A number and its name. The figure is set in the display serif, which is what
+// makes a screen of statistics read like a page rather than a readout.
+import QtQuick
+import QtQuick.Controls
+import QtQuick.Layouts
+
+import ".."
+
+ColumnLayout {
+    property string label: ""
+    property string value: "—"
+    property string caption: ""
+    property color accent: Theme.ink
+    property int size: 30
+
+    spacing: 2
+    Layout.fillWidth: true
+
+    Label {
+        text: label.toUpperCase()
+        color: Theme.muted
+        font.pixelSize: 10
+        font.letterSpacing: 1.2
+        font.weight: Font.DemiBold
+        font.family: Theme.sansFamily
+    }
+    Label {
+        text: value
+        color: accent
+        font.pixelSize: size
+        font.family: Theme.displayFamily
+        font.letterSpacing: -0.5
+    }
+    Label {
+        visible: caption !== ""
+        text: caption
+        color: Theme.faint
+        font.pixelSize: 11
+        font.family: Theme.sansFamily
+        Layout.fillWidth: true
+        elide: Text.ElideRight
+        wrapMode: Text.WordWrap
+    }
+}

desktop/kadence_desktop/qml/components/StatTile.qml

@@ -1,38 +0,0 @@
-// One number, read at a glance. Not a chart.
-import QtQuick
-import QtQuick.Controls.Material
-import QtQuick.Layouts
-
-Pane {
-    property string label: ""
-    property string value: "—"
-    property string caption: ""
-    property color accent: Material.foreground
-
-    Material.elevation: 1
-    Material.roundedScale: Material.LargeScale
-    padding: 16
-    Layout.fillWidth: true
-
-    background: Rectangle {
-        radius: 16
-        color: Material.dialogColor
-        border.width: 1
-        border.color: Material.dividerColor
-    }
-
-    ColumnLayout {
-        anchors.fill: parent
-        spacing: 2
-        Label { text: label.toUpperCase(); font.pixelSize: 10; font.letterSpacing: 1; opacity: 0.6 }
-        Label { text: value; font.pixelSize: 26; font.weight: Font.Light; color: accent }
-        Label {
-            text: caption
-            visible: caption !== ""
-            font.pixelSize: 11
-            opacity: 0.7
-            Layout.fillWidth: true
-            elide: Text.ElideRight
-        }
-    }
-}

desktop/kadence_desktop/qml/components/StatusPill.qml

@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-// The little "what is the timer doing" chip, shown in the rail and the toolbar.
-import QtQuick
-import QtQuick.Controls.Material
-
-Rectangle {
-    property bool running: false
-    property bool paused: false
-    property bool connected: true
-    property string text: ""
-    property color accent: "#2a78d6"
-
-    implicitWidth: Math.max(78, label.implicitWidth + 28)
-    implicitHeight: 32
-    radius: 16
-    color: !connected ? "#e34948" : (running ? accent : "transparent")
-    opacity: paused ? 0.6 : 1
-    border.width: running || !connected ? 0 : 1
-    border.color: Material.hintTextColor
-
-    Label {
-        id: label
-        anchors.centerIn: parent
-        text: parent.text
-        font.pixelSize: 13
-        font.weight: Font.DemiBold
-        font.family: "Roboto Mono, monospace"
-        color: (parent.running || !parent.connected) ? "white" : Material.foreground
-    }
-}

desktop/kadence_desktop/qml/components/TimerDial.qml

@@ -1,25 +1,32 @@
-// The countdown ring, drawn with Canvas.
+// The dial.
 //
-// A hero number inside a progress arc: the number is what you read, the arc is
-// the glance. The arc colour is the only thing that says focus vs break.
+// A hairline ring with one tick per minute inside it: the ticks light up as the
+// minutes are spent, so the dial reads as "how much is left" at a glance and as
+// "how long was this?" on a second look. The time is the hero, set in the
+// display serif.
 import QtQuick
-import QtQuick.Controls.Material
+import QtQuick.Controls
+
+import ".."
 
 Item {
     id: dial
-    property real progress: 0          // 0..1 elapsed
+    property real progress: 0           // 0..1 elapsed
     property string clockText: "00:00"
     property string label: ""
     property string sublabel: ""
-    property color accent: "#2a78d6"
+    property color accent: Theme.work
     property bool paused: false
+    property bool idle: false
+    property int minutes: 25
 
-    implicitWidth: 260
-    implicitHeight: 260
+    implicitWidth: 280
+    implicitHeight: 280
 
     onProgressChanged: canvas.requestPaint()
     onAccentChanged: canvas.requestPaint()
     onPausedChanged: canvas.requestPaint()
+    onIdleChanged: canvas.requestPaint()
 
     Canvas {
         id: canvas
@@ -29,59 +36,85 @@ Item {
         onPaint: {
             var ctx = getContext("2d")
             ctx.reset()
-            var centre = Math.min(width, height) / 2
-            var stroke = Math.max(10, centre * 0.11)
-            var radius = centre - stroke
-
-            ctx.lineCap = "round"
-            ctx.lineWidth = stroke
+            var c = Math.min(width, height) / 2
+            var radius = c - 26
 
+            // The ring.
+            ctx.lineWidth = 1.5
+            ctx.strokeStyle = Theme.rule
             ctx.beginPath()
-            ctx.strokeStyle = Qt.rgba(0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 0.18)
-            ctx.arc(centre, centre, radius, 0, Math.PI * 2)
+            ctx.arc(c, c, radius, 0, Math.PI * 2)
             ctx.stroke()
 
-            var remaining = 1 - Math.max(0, Math.min(1, dial.progress))
-            if (remaining > 0) {
+            // Minute ticks, inside the ring.
+            var count = dial.minutes <= 60 ? Math.max(1, dial.minutes) : Math.round(dial.minutes / 5)
+            var spent = Math.floor(count * Math.max(0, Math.min(1, dial.progress)))
+            for (var i = 0; i < count; i++) {
+                var angle = (i / count) * Math.PI * 2 - Math.PI / 2
+                var major = i % 5 === 0
+                var outer = radius - 7
+                var inner = outer - (major ? 9 : 5)
                 ctx.beginPath()
-                ctx.globalAlpha = dial.paused ? 0.45 : 1
-                ctx.strokeStyle = dial.accent
-                ctx.arc(centre, centre, radius, -Math.PI / 2, -Math.PI / 2 + remaining * Math.PI * 2)
+                ctx.lineWidth = major ? 1.4 : 1
+                ctx.strokeStyle = (i < spent && !dial.idle) ? dial.accent : Theme.rule
+                ctx.moveTo(c + inner * Math.cos(angle), c + inner * Math.sin(angle))
+                ctx.lineTo(c + outer * Math.cos(angle), c + outer * Math.sin(angle))
                 ctx.stroke()
             }
+
+            // The remaining arc.
+            if (!dial.idle) {
+                var remaining = 1 - Math.max(0, Math.min(1, dial.progress))
+                if (remaining > 0) {
+                    ctx.beginPath()
+                    ctx.lineWidth = 2.5
+                    ctx.lineCap = "round"
+                    ctx.globalAlpha = dial.paused ? 0.4 : 1
+                    ctx.strokeStyle = dial.accent
+                    ctx.arc(c, c, radius, -Math.PI / 2, -Math.PI / 2 + remaining * Math.PI * 2)
+                    ctx.stroke()
+                }
+            }
         }
     }
 
     Column {
         anchors.centerIn: parent
-        spacing: 4
-        width: parent.width * 0.72
+        spacing: 6
+        width: parent.width * 0.7
 
         Label {
             width: parent.width
             text: dial.label.toUpperCase()
-            font.pixelSize: 11
-            font.letterSpacing: 1.5
-            opacity: 0.65
+            color: dial.idle ? Theme.muted : dial.accent
+            font.pixelSize: 10
+            font.letterSpacing: 1.4
+            font.weight: Font.DemiBold
+            font.family: Theme.sansFamily
             horizontalAlignment: Text.AlignHCenter
         }
         Label {
             width: parent.width
             text: dial.clockText
-            font.pixelSize: Math.round(dial.width * 0.2)
-            font.weight: Font.Light
-            font.family: "Roboto Mono, monospace"
-            opacity: dial.paused ? 0.6 : 1
+            color: Theme.ink
+            opacity: dial.paused ? 0.55 : 1
+            font.pixelSize: Math.round(dial.width * 0.21)
+            font.family: Theme.displayFamily
+            font.letterSpacing: -1.5
             horizontalAlignment: Text.AlignHCenter
+            Behavior on opacity { NumberAnimation { duration: 180 } }
         }
         Label {
             width: parent.width
-            text: dial.sublabel
             visible: dial.sublabel !== ""
-            font.pixelSize: 13
-            opacity: 0.75
-            elide: Text.ElideRight
+            text: dial.sublabel
+            color: Theme.muted
+            font.pixelSize: 12
+            font.family: Theme.sansFamily
             horizontalAlignment: Text.AlignHCenter
+            elide: Text.ElideRight
+            maximumLineCount: 2
+            wrapMode: Text.WordWrap
         }
     }
 }

desktop/kadence_desktop/qml/qmldir

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# Makes `Theme` a singleton for every file that does `import "."`.
+singleton Theme 1.0 Theme.qml

desktop/kadence_desktop/tray.py

@@ -82,6 +82,9 @@ class Tray(QObject):
         controller.stateChanged.connect(self.refresh)
         controller.connectionChanged.connect(self.refresh)
         controller.blockerChanged.connect(self.refresh)
+        controller.miniChanged.connect(self.refresh)
+        controller.settingsChanged.connect(self.refresh)
+        controller.configChanged.connect(self.refresh)
         self.refresh()
 
     def show(self) -> None:
@@ -140,6 +143,18 @@ class Tray(QObject):
         self._menu.addAction(refresh)
 
         self._menu.addSeparator()
+        self._action_mini = QAction("Mini timer", self._menu)
+        self._action_mini.setCheckable(True)
+        self._action_mini.triggered.connect(lambda: controller.toggleMini())
+        self._menu.addAction(self._action_mini)
+
+        self._action_view_mode = QAction("View-only mode (timer off)", self._menu)
+        self._action_view_mode.setCheckable(True)
+        self._action_view_mode.triggered.connect(
+            lambda: controller.setTimerEnabled(not controller.timerEnabled)
+        )
+        self._menu.addAction(self._action_view_mode)
+
         show = QAction("Open Kadence", self._menu)
         show.triggered.connect(self.showRequested.emit)
         self._menu.addAction(show)
@@ -157,22 +172,32 @@ class Tray(QObject):
         controller = self._controller
         running = controller.running
         paused = controller.status == "paused"
+        timer_enabled = controller.timerEnabled
 
         self._icon.setIcon(
-            render_icon(controller.progress, controller.kind, running, controller.connected, paused)
+            render_icon(
+                controller.progress,
+                controller.kind,
+                running if timer_enabled else False,
+                controller.connected,
+                paused if timer_enabled else False,
+            )
         )
         status = controller.statusLine()
         blocker = " · 🛡 blocking" if controller.blockerActive else ""
         self._icon.setToolTip(f"{status}{blocker}")
         self._action_status.setText(status)
 
-        self._action_start.setVisible(not running)
-        self._action_break.setVisible(not running)
-        self._action_pause.setVisible(running and not paused)
-        self._action_resume.setVisible(running and paused)
-        self._action_done.setVisible(running)
-        self._action_extend.setVisible(running)
-        self._action_abandon.setVisible(running)
+        self._action_start.setVisible(timer_enabled and not running)
+        self._action_break.setVisible(timer_enabled and not running)
+        self._action_pause.setVisible(timer_enabled and running and not paused)
+        self._action_resume.setVisible(timer_enabled and running and paused)
+        self._action_done.setVisible(timer_enabled and running)
+        self._action_extend.setVisible(timer_enabled and running)
+        self._action_abandon.setVisible(timer_enabled and running)
+        self._action_mini.setVisible(timer_enabled)
+        self._action_mini.setChecked(controller.miniVisible)
+        self._action_view_mode.setChecked(not timer_enabled)
 
     def _on_activated(self, reason: QSystemTrayIcon.ActivationReason) -> None:
         # Left click toggles the window; middle click toggles the timer, which is

desktop/kadence_desktop/worker.py

@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ class ApiWorker(QObject):
             "extend": lambda: self._api.extend(int(args.get("minutes", 5))),
             "interrupt": self._api.interrupt,
             "attach_task": lambda: self._api.attach_task(args.get("task_id")),
-            "task_done": lambda: self._api.task_done(int(args["task_id"]), bool(args.get("done", True))),
+            "patch_task": lambda: self._api.patch_task(int(args["task_id"]), dict(args.get("patch", {}))),
             "create_task": lambda: self._api.create_task(str(args["title"]), args.get("due_date")),
             "refresh_sources": self._api.refresh_tasks,
             "send_report": self._api.send_report,
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ class ApiWorker(QObject):
             return
 
         self.commandDone.emit(name, result if isinstance(result, dict) else {})
-        if name in ("refresh_sources", "task_done", "create_task"):
+        if name in ("refresh_sources", "patch_task", "create_task"):
             self.refresh_tasks()
         if name == "patch_settings":
             self.refresh_settings()

desktop/packaging/install-desktop.sh

@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ BIN="${HOME}/.local/bin"
 
 mkdir -p "$APPS" "$ICONS" "$BIN"
 
-# A launcher that works whether or not the package is pip-installed.
+# A launcher that works whether or not the package is pip-installed. The
+# desktop entry points at this absolute path, so nothing depends on PATH.
 cat > "$BIN/kadence-desktop" <<LAUNCHER
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 exec python3 -m kadence_desktop "\$@"
@@ -25,11 +26,36 @@ SITE_PTH="$(python3 -c 'import site; print(site.getusersitepackages())')"
 mkdir -p "$SITE_PTH"
 echo "$(dirname "$HERE")" > "$SITE_PTH/kadence-desktop.pth"
 
-install -m 0644 "$HERE/kadence.desktop" "$APPS/kadence.desktop"
+# Exec/TryExec are written as absolute paths on purpose.
+#
+# Application launchers (KDE's Kickoff, rofi -show drun, GNOME's overview) run
+# with the *session* PATH, which on most setups does not include ~/.local/bin —
+# and an entry whose TryExec cannot be resolved is silently hidden. An absolute
+# path cannot be hidden by a PATH that differs from your shell's.
+sed -e "s|^Exec=kadence-desktop|Exec=$BIN/kadence-desktop|" \
+    -e "s|^TryExec=kadence-desktop|TryExec=$BIN/kadence-desktop|" \
+    -e "s|^Exec=kadence-desktop |Exec=$BIN/kadence-desktop |" \
+    "$HERE/kadence.desktop" > "$APPS/kadence.desktop"
+chmod 0644 "$APPS/kadence.desktop"
 install -m 0644 "$HERE/kadence.svg" "$ICONS/kadence.svg"
 
+# Each launcher keeps its own cache; refresh all of the ones that are present.
 command -v update-desktop-database >/dev/null && update-desktop-database "$APPS" || true
-command -v gtk-update-icon-cache >/dev/null && gtk-update-icon-cache -f -t "${XDG_DATA_HOME:-$HOME/.local/share}/icons/hicolor" 2>/dev/null || true
+command -v gtk-update-icon-cache >/dev/null && \
+    gtk-update-icon-cache -f -t "${XDG_DATA_HOME:-$HOME/.local/share}/icons/hicolor" 2>/dev/null || true
+command -v kbuildsycoca6 >/dev/null && kbuildsycoca6 --noincremental >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
+# rofi rebuilds its drun cache when the directory changes; nudge the timestamp.
+touch "$APPS" 2>/dev/null || true
 
-echo "Installed. Launch it from the menu, or run: kadence-desktop"
-echo "Make sure ~/.local/bin is on your PATH."
+if command -v desktop-file-validate >/dev/null; then
+    desktop-file-validate "$APPS/kadence.desktop" && echo "Desktop entry validates."
+fi
+
+echo
+echo "Installed:"
+echo "  launcher   $BIN/kadence-desktop"
+echo "  menu entry $APPS/kadence.desktop"
+echo "  icon       $ICONS/kadence.svg"
+echo
+echo "It should now appear in the application menu and in \`rofi -show drun\`"
+echo "as \"Kadence\" (search: pomodoro, timer, focus)."

desktop/packaging/kadence.desktop

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Exec=kadence-desktop
 TryExec=kadence-desktop
 Icon=kadence
 Terminal=false
-Categories=Utility;Office;ProjectManagement;
+Categories=Office;ProjectManagement;
 Keywords=pomodoro;timer;focus;tasks;productivity;
 StartupNotify=true
 StartupWMClass=kadence

desktop/pyproject.toml

@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ requires-python = ">=3.11"
 # so the app starts with the system Python and no virtualenv.
 dependencies = ["PyQt6>=6.6"]
 
+[project.optional-dependencies]
+dev = ["pytest>=8.0"]
+
 [project.scripts]
 kadence-desktop = "kadence_desktop.__main__:main"
 
@@ -17,3 +20,7 @@ build-backend = "hatchling.build"
 
 [tool.hatch.build.targets.wheel]
 packages = ["kadence_desktop"]
+
+[tool.pytest.ini_options]
+pythonpath = ["."]
+testpaths = ["tests"]

desktop/tests/test_placement.py

@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+"""The mini timer's corner geometry.
+
+A pure function, so it is worth pinning down: this is the sort of arithmetic
+that silently puts a window half off the screen on somebody else's monitor.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import pytest
+
+from kadence_desktop.integrations.placement import CORNER_LABELS, CORNERS, Rect, point_for
+
+SCREEN = Rect(0, 0, 1536, 960)
+SIZE = (252, 152)
+
+
+def test_each_corner_lands_where_its_name_says():
+    assert point_for("top-left", SCREEN, SIZE, 24) == (24, 24)
+    assert point_for("top-right", SCREEN, SIZE, 24) == (1260, 24)
+    assert point_for("bottom-left", SCREEN, SIZE, 24) == (24, 784)
+    assert point_for("bottom-right", SCREEN, SIZE, 24) == (1260, 784)
+
+
+def test_edge_centres_and_centre_are_centred():
+    centre_x = (1536 - 252) // 2
+    assert point_for("top-centre", SCREEN, SIZE, 24) == (centre_x, 24)
+    assert point_for("bottom-centre", SCREEN, SIZE, 24) == (centre_x, 784)
+    assert point_for("centre", SCREEN, SIZE, 24) == (centre_x, (960 - 152) // 2)
+
+
+def test_a_margin_of_zero_hugs_the_edge():
+    assert point_for("bottom-right", SCREEN, SIZE, 0) == (1536 - 252, 960 - 152)
+
+
+def test_the_screen_offset_is_respected_on_a_second_monitor():
+    """A monitor to the right of the primary one starts at a non-zero x."""
+    second = Rect(1536, 0, 1920, 1080)
+    assert point_for("top-right", second, SIZE, 24) == (1536 + 1920 - 252 - 24, 24)
+    assert point_for("bottom-left", second, SIZE, 24) == (1536 + 24, 1080 - 152 - 24)
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("corner", [c for c in CORNERS if c != "remember"])
+def test_the_window_never_leaves_the_screen(corner):
+    """Even on a screen smaller than the window, or with a silly margin."""
+    tiny = Rect(0, 0, 200, 120)
+    x, y = point_for(corner, tiny, SIZE, 400)
+    assert x >= tiny.x and y >= tiny.y
+    assert x <= tiny.x + max(tiny.width - SIZE[0], 0)
+    assert y <= tiny.y + max(tiny.height - SIZE[1], 0)
+
+
+def test_every_corner_has_a_label_for_the_settings_page():
+    assert set(CORNER_LABELS) == set(CORNERS)

frontend/index.html

@@ -3,13 +3,15 @@
   <head>
     <meta charset="UTF-8" />
     <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, viewport-fit=cover" />
-    <meta name="theme-color" content="#6750A4" />
+    <meta name="theme-color" content="#FAF7F2" />
     <title>Kadence</title>
+    <meta name="description" content="Pomodoro timer, task list and focus guard." />
     <link rel="icon" href="data:image/svg+xml,<svg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' viewBox='0 0 100 100'><text y='.9em' font-size='90'>🍅</text></svg>" />
     <link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com" />
     <link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin />
+    <!-- Fraunces carries the numbers and the headings; Inter does the work. -->
     <link
-      href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Roboto:wght@300;400;500;700&family=Roboto+Mono:wght@400;500&display=swap"
+      href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Fraunces:opsz,wght@9..144,400;9..144,500;9..144,600&family=Inter:wght@400;500;600&display=swap"
       rel="stylesheet"
     />
   </head>

frontend/package-lock.json

@@ -1133,9 +1133,6 @@
         "x64"
       ],
       "dev": true,
-      "libc": [
-        "glibc"
-      ],
       "license": "MIT",
       "optional": true,
       "os": [
@@ -1263,9 +1260,6 @@
         "arm"
       ],
       "dev": true,
-      "libc": [
-        "glibc"
-      ],
       "license": "MIT",
       "optional": true,
       "os": [
@@ -1280,9 +1274,6 @@
         "arm"
       ],
       "dev": true,
-      "libc": [
-        "musl"
-      ],
       "license": "MIT",
       "optional": true,
       "os": [
@@ -1297,9 +1288,6 @@
         "arm64"
       ],
       "dev": true,
-      "libc": [
-        "glibc"
-      ],
       "license": "MIT",
       "optional": true,
       "os": [
@@ -1314,9 +1302,6 @@
         "arm64"
       ],
       "dev": true,
-      "libc": [
-        "musl"
-      ],
       "license": "MIT",
       "optional": true,
       "os": [
@@ -1331,9 +1316,6 @@
         "loong64"
       ],
       "dev": true,
-      "libc": [
-        "glibc"
-      ],
       "license": "MIT",
       "optional": true,
       "os": [
@@ -1348,9 +1330,6 @@
         "loong64"
       ],
       "dev": true,
-      "libc": [
-        "musl"
-      ],
       "license": "MIT",
       "optional": true,
       "os": [
@@ -1365,9 +1344,6 @@
         "ppc64"
       ],
       "dev": true,
-      "libc": [
-        "glibc"
-      ],
       "license": "MIT",
       "optional": true,
       "os": [
@@ -1382,9 +1358,6 @@
         "ppc64"
       ],
       "dev": true,
-      "libc": [
-        "musl"
-      ],
       "license": "MIT",
       "optional": true,
       "os": [
@@ -1399,9 +1372,6 @@
         "riscv64"
       ],
       "dev": true,
-      "libc": [
-        "glibc"
-      ],
       "license": "MIT",
       "optional": true,
       "os": [
@@ -1416,9 +1386,6 @@
         "riscv64"
       ],
       "dev": true,
-      "libc": [
-        "musl"
-      ],
       "license": "MIT",
       "optional": true,
       "os": [
@@ -1433,9 +1400,6 @@
         "s390x"
       ],
       "dev": true,
-      "libc": [
-        "glibc"
-      ],
       "license": "MIT",
       "optional": true,
       "os": [
@@ -1450,9 +1414,6 @@
         "x64"
       ],
       "dev": true,
-      "libc": [
-        "glibc"
-      ],
       "license": "MIT",
       "optional": true,
       "os": [
@@ -1467,9 +1428,6 @@
         "x64"
       ],
       "dev": true,
-      "libc": [
-        "musl"
-      ],
       "license": "MIT",
       "optional": true,
       "os": [

frontend/src/App.tsx

@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@ function Shell() {
   }, [settings?.appearance.theme, prefersDark]);
 
   const theme = useMemo(
-    () => buildTheme(mode, settings?.appearance.accent || "#6750A4", settings?.appearance.compact ?? false),
-    [mode, settings?.appearance.accent, settings?.appearance.compact],
+    () => buildTheme(mode, settings?.appearance.compact ?? false),
+    [mode, settings?.appearance.compact],
   );
 
   // Keep the browser chrome in step with the app's surface.

frontend/src/components/AppShell.tsx

@@ -1,24 +1,18 @@
 /**
- * The frame: a navigation rail on a wide screen, a bottom bar on a phone.
+ * The frame.
  *
- * It also carries the two things that have to be visible from every page — what
- * the timer is doing, and whether the blocker is on — because both are reasons
- * you might switch pages in the first place.
+ * A quiet left column on a wide screen — wordmark, navigation as a list of
+ * words, and the two things worth knowing from anywhere (what the timer is
+ * doing, whether the blocker is on) pinned to the bottom. On a phone it
+ * collapses to a top bar and a row of tabs.
  */
 import { useEffect, type ReactNode } from "react";
 import {
   AppBar,
-  Avatar,
-  Badge,
   Box,
   BottomNavigation,
   BottomNavigationAction,
-  Chip,
-  Drawer,
-  List,
-  ListItemButton,
-  ListItemIcon,
-  ListItemText,
+  Divider,
   Stack,
   Toolbar,
   Tooltip,
@@ -26,26 +20,27 @@ import {
   useMediaQuery,
   useTheme,
 } from "@mui/material";
-import AssignmentTurnedInIcon from "@mui/icons-material/AssignmentTurnedIn";
-import BarChartIcon from "@mui/icons-material/BarChart";
-import ShieldIcon from "@mui/icons-material/Shield";
-import SettingsIcon from "@mui/icons-material/Settings";
-import TimerIcon from "@mui/icons-material/Timer";
+import AssignmentOutlinedIcon from "@mui/icons-material/AssignmentOutlined";
+import BarChartOutlinedIcon from "@mui/icons-material/BarChartOutlined";
+import ShieldOutlinedIcon from "@mui/icons-material/ShieldOutlined";
+import SettingsOutlinedIcon from "@mui/icons-material/SettingsOutlined";
+import TimerOutlinedIcon from "@mui/icons-material/TimerOutlined";
 import { useLocation, useNavigate } from "react-router-dom";
 
 import { clock } from "../lib/format";
 import { useResource } from "../lib/hooks";
 import type { BlockerPolicy, TimerState } from "../lib/types";
+import { kindColor, vizPalette } from "../lib/viz";
 
 const NAV = [
-  { to: "/", label: "Timer", icon: <TimerIcon /> },
-  { to: "/tasks", label: "Tasks", icon: <AssignmentTurnedInIcon /> },
-  { to: "/blocker", label: "Blocker", icon: <ShieldIcon /> },
-  { to: "/report", label: "Report", icon: <BarChartIcon /> },
-  { to: "/settings", label: "Settings", icon: <SettingsIcon /> },
+  { to: "/", label: "Timer", icon: <TimerOutlinedIcon fontSize="small" /> },
+  { to: "/tasks", label: "Tasks", icon: <AssignmentOutlinedIcon fontSize="small" /> },
+  { to: "/blocker", label: "Blocker", icon: <ShieldOutlinedIcon fontSize="small" /> },
+  { to: "/report", label: "Report", icon: <BarChartOutlinedIcon fontSize="small" /> },
+  { to: "/settings", label: "Settings", icon: <SettingsOutlinedIcon fontSize="small" /> },
 ];
 
-const RAIL_WIDTH = 220;
+const RAIL_WIDTH = 216;
 
 export default function AppShell({
   children,
@@ -59,6 +54,7 @@ export default function AppShell({
   const wide = useMediaQuery(theme.breakpoints.up("md"));
   const navigate = useNavigate();
   const location = useLocation();
+  const palette = vizPalette(dark);
 
   const timer = useResource<TimerState>("/api/timer/state", 5000);
   const policy = useResource<BlockerPolicy>("/api/blocker/policy", 10000);
@@ -66,84 +62,152 @@ export default function AppShell({
   const current = timer.data?.current ?? null;
   const remaining = current ? current.remaining_seconds : 0;
 
-  // The tab title doubles as a timer you can read from another window.
   useEffect(() => {
     document.title = current
       ? `${clock(remaining)} · ${current.kind === "work" ? "Focus" : "Break"} — Kadence`
       : "Kadence";
   }, [current, remaining]);
 
-  const activeIndex = Math.max(
-    0,
-    NAV.findIndex((item) => item.to === location.pathname),
+  const activeIndex = Math.max(0, NAV.findIndex((item) => item.to === location.pathname));
+
+  const status = (
+    <Stack spacing={0.75} sx={{ width: "100%" }}>
+      <Stack direction="row" alignItems="center" spacing={1}>
+        <Box
+          sx={{
+            width: 7,
+            height: 7,
+            borderRadius: "50%",
+            flexShrink: 0,
+            bgcolor: current ? kindColor(current.kind, palette) : "text.disabled",
+            animation: current?.status === "running" ? "pulse 2s ease-in-out infinite" : "none",
+            "@keyframes pulse": { "0%,100%": { opacity: 1 }, "50%": { opacity: 0.35 } },
+          }}
+        />
+        <Typography
+          variant="body2"
+          sx={{ fontVariantNumeric: "tabular-nums", fontWeight: 500, letterSpacing: "0.01em" }}
+        >
+          {timer.data
+            ? (timer.data.timer_enabled === false ? "View mode" : (current ? clock(remaining) : "Idle"))
+            : "—"}
+        </Typography>
+        <Box sx={{ flexGrow: 1 }} />
+        <Typography variant="caption" color="text.secondary">
+          {timer.data ? `${timer.data.completed_today}/${timer.data.goal}` : ""}
+        </Typography>
+      </Stack>
+      {policy.data?.active && (
+        <Tooltip title={policy.data.reason}>
+          <Typography variant="caption" sx={{ color: "error.main", letterSpacing: "0.04em" }}>
+            ● BLOCKING
+          </Typography>
+        </Tooltip>
+      )}
+    </Stack>
   );
 
   return (
     <Box sx={{ display: "flex", minHeight: "100vh", bgcolor: "background.default" }}>
       {wide && (
-        <Drawer
-          variant="permanent"
+        <Box
+          component="nav"
           sx={{
             width: RAIL_WIDTH,
             flexShrink: 0,
-            "& .MuiDrawer-paper": {
-              width: RAIL_WIDTH,
-              borderRight: "none",
-              bgcolor: "background.default",
-              px: 1.5,
-              py: 2,
-            },
+            borderRight: 1,
+            borderColor: "divider",
+            px: 2.5,
+            py: 3,
+            display: "flex",
+            flexDirection: "column",
+            position: "sticky",
+            top: 0,
+            height: "100vh",
           }}
         >
-          <Stack direction="row" spacing={1.5} alignItems="center" sx={{ px: 1.5, pb: 3 }}>
-            <Avatar sx={{ bgcolor: "primary.main", width: 36, height: 36 }}>🍅</Avatar>
-            <Box>
-              <Typography variant="subtitle1" sx={{ fontWeight: 600, lineHeight: 1.1 }}>
-                Kadence
-              </Typography>
-              <Typography variant="caption" color="text.secondary">
-                find your rhythm
-              </Typography>
-            </Box>
-          </Stack>
-          <List sx={{ flexGrow: 1 }}>
+          <Box sx={{ mb: 4 }}>
+            <Typography
+              sx={{
+                fontFamily: theme.typography.h1.fontFamily,
+                fontSize: 23,
+                fontWeight: 500,
+                letterSpacing: "-0.02em",
+                lineHeight: 1,
+              }}
+            >
+              Kadence
+            </Typography>
+            <Typography variant="caption" color="text.secondary">
+              find your rhythm
+            </Typography>
+          </Box>
+
+          <Stack spacing={0.25} sx={{ flexGrow: 1 }}>
             {NAV.map((item) => {
               const selected = location.pathname === item.to;
               return (
-                <ListItemButton
+                <Box
                   key={item.to}
-                  selected={selected}
                   onClick={() => navigate(item.to)}
                   sx={{
-                    borderRadius: 999,
-                    mb: 0.5,
-                    "&.Mui-selected": {
-                      bgcolor: "secondary.main",
-                      color: dark ? "common.black" : "common.white",
-                      "& .MuiListItemIcon-root": { color: "inherit" },
-                      "&:hover": { bgcolor: "secondary.main" },
-                    },
+                    display: "flex",
+                    alignItems: "center",
+                    gap: 1.25,
+                    px: 1,
+                    py: 0.9,
+                    ml: -1,
+                    borderRadius: 2,
+                    cursor: "pointer",
+                    color: selected ? "text.primary" : "text.secondary",
+                    position: "relative",
+                    "&:hover": { color: "text.primary", bgcolor: "action.hover" },
+                    "&::before": selected
+                      ? {
+                          content: '""',
+                          position: "absolute",
+                          left: -10,
+                          top: 10,
+                          bottom: 10,
+                          width: 2,
+                          bgcolor: "primary.main",
+                          borderRadius: 2,
+                        }
+                      : undefined,
                   }}
                 >
-                  <ListItemIcon sx={{ minWidth: 40 }}>{item.icon}</ListItemIcon>
-                  <ListItemText primary={item.label} primaryTypographyProps={{ fontWeight: 500 }} />
-                </ListItemButton>
+                  {item.icon}
+                  <Typography variant="body2" sx={{ fontWeight: selected ? 600 : 400 }}>
+                    {item.label}
+                  </Typography>
+                </Box>
               );
             })}
-          </List>
-          <StatusChips timer={timer.data} policy={policy.data} />
-        </Drawer>
+          </Stack>
+
+          <Divider sx={{ mb: 1.5 }} />
+          {status}
+        </Box>
       )}
 
       <Box sx={{ flexGrow: 1, display: "flex", flexDirection: "column", minWidth: 0 }}>
         {!wide && (
-          <AppBar position="sticky" sx={{ bgcolor: "background.default" }}>
-            <Toolbar sx={{ gap: 1 }}>
-              <Avatar sx={{ bgcolor: "primary.main", width: 32, height: 32 }}>🍅</Avatar>
-              <Typography variant="h6" sx={{ flexGrow: 1, color: "text.primary" }}>
-                {NAV[activeIndex]?.label ?? "Kadence"}
+          <AppBar
+            position="sticky"
+            sx={{ bgcolor: "background.default", borderBottom: 1, borderColor: "divider" }}
+          >
+            <Toolbar sx={{ gap: 1, minHeight: 56 }}>
+              <Typography
+                sx={{
+                  fontFamily: theme.typography.h1.fontFamily,
+                  fontSize: 19,
+                  color: "text.primary",
+                  flexGrow: 1,
+                }}
+              >
+                Kadence
               </Typography>
-              <StatusChips timer={timer.data} policy={policy.data} compact />
+              <Box sx={{ width: 120 }}>{status}</Box>
             </Toolbar>
           </AppBar>
         )}
@@ -152,10 +216,10 @@ export default function AppShell({
           component="main"
           sx={{
             flexGrow: 1,
-            px: { xs: 2, md: 4 },
-            py: { xs: 2, md: 3 },
-            pb: { xs: 12, md: 4 },
-            maxWidth: 1280,
+            px: { xs: 2, md: 5 },
+            py: { xs: 3, md: 4 },
+            pb: { xs: 12, md: 6 },
+            maxWidth: 1180,
             width: "100%",
             mx: "auto",
           }}
@@ -176,7 +240,8 @@ export default function AppShell({
               borderTop: 1,
               borderColor: "divider",
               bgcolor: "background.paper",
-              zIndex: (zTheme) => zTheme.zIndex.appBar,
+              zIndex: (z) => z.zIndex.appBar,
+              "& .MuiBottomNavigationAction-label": { fontSize: 11 },
             }}
           >
             {NAV.map((item) => (
@@ -188,47 +253,3 @@ export default function AppShell({
     </Box>
   );
 }
-
-function StatusChips({
-  timer,
-  policy,
-  compact = false,
-}: {
-  timer: TimerState | null;
-  policy: BlockerPolicy | null;
-  compact?: boolean;
-}) {
-  const current = timer?.current ?? null;
-  return (
-    <Stack direction={compact ? "row" : "column"} spacing={1} sx={{ px: compact ? 0 : 1 }}>
-      <Tooltip title={current ? `${current.kind} · ${current.status}` : "Timer idle"}>
-        <Chip
-          size="small"
-          color={current ? (current.kind === "work" ? "primary" : "success") : "default"}
-          variant={current ? "filled" : "outlined"}
-          label={current ? clock(current.remaining_seconds) : "idle"}
-          sx={{ fontVariantNumeric: "tabular-nums", fontWeight: 600 }}
-        />
-      </Tooltip>
-      {!compact && timer && (
-        <Chip
-          size="small"
-          variant="outlined"
-          label={`${timer.completed_today}/${timer.goal} today`}
-          sx={{ justifyContent: "flex-start" }}
-        />
-      )}
-      <Tooltip title={policy?.reason ?? "Blocker off"}>
-        <Badge color="error" variant="dot" invisible={!policy?.active}>
-          <Chip
-            size="small"
-            variant={policy?.active ? "filled" : "outlined"}
-            color={policy?.active ? "error" : "default"}
-            icon={<ShieldIcon fontSize="small" />}
-            label={policy?.active ? "blocking" : "open"}
-          />
-        </Badge>
-      </Tooltip>
-    </Stack>
-  );
-}

frontend/src/components/Layout.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,158 @@
+/**
+ * The page furniture: headers, rules, panels and statistics.
+ *
+ * Every page is built from these four, so spacing and hierarchy are decided
+ * once. The look is editorial — an eyebrow label, a serif title, a hairline,
+ * then content — rather than a grid of floating cards.
+ */
+import { Box, Divider, Stack, Typography, type SxProps, type Theme } from "@mui/material";
+import type { ReactNode } from "react";
+
+export function PageHeader({
+  eyebrow,
+  title,
+  actions,
+  caption,
+}: {
+  eyebrow?: string;
+  title: string;
+  actions?: ReactNode;
+  caption?: ReactNode;
+}) {
+  return (
+    <Box sx={{ mb: 3 }}>
+      <Stack
+        direction={{ xs: "column", sm: "row" }}
+        alignItems={{ xs: "flex-start", sm: "flex-end" }}
+        spacing={2}
+        sx={{ mb: 1.5 }}
+      >
+        <Box sx={{ flexGrow: 1, minWidth: 0 }}>
+          {eyebrow && (
+            <Typography variant="overline" color="text.secondary" sx={{ display: "block" }}>
+              {eyebrow}
+            </Typography>
+          )}
+          <Typography variant="h4" sx={{ fontSize: { xs: 26, sm: 30 }, lineHeight: 1.15 }}>
+            {title}
+          </Typography>
+          {caption && (
+            <Typography variant="body2" color="text.secondary" sx={{ mt: 0.75 }}>
+              {caption}
+            </Typography>
+          )}
+        </Box>
+        {actions && (
+          <Stack direction="row" spacing={1} sx={{ flexShrink: 0, flexWrap: "wrap", rowGap: 1 }}>
+            {actions}
+          </Stack>
+        )}
+      </Stack>
+      <Divider />
+    </Box>
+  );
+}
+
+export function SectionTitle({
+  children,
+  action,
+  sx,
+}: {
+  children: ReactNode;
+  action?: ReactNode;
+  sx?: SxProps<Theme>;
+}) {
+  return (
+    <Stack direction="row" alignItems="center" spacing={1} sx={{ mb: 1.5, ...sx }}>
+      <Typography variant="overline" color="text.secondary">
+        {children}
+      </Typography>
+      <Box sx={{ flexGrow: 1, height: "1px", bgcolor: "divider" }} />
+      {action}
+    </Stack>
+  );
+}
+
+export function Panel({
+  children,
+  sx,
+  padded = true,
+}: {
+  children: ReactNode;
+  sx?: SxProps<Theme>;
+  padded?: boolean;
+}) {
+  return (
+    <Box
+      sx={{
+        border: 1,
+        borderColor: "divider",
+        borderRadius: "14px",
+        bgcolor: "background.paper",
+        p: padded ? { xs: 2, sm: 2.5 } : 0,
+        ...sx,
+      }}
+    >
+      {children}
+    </Box>
+  );
+}
+
+/**
+ * A number and its name. The figure is set in the display serif, which is what
+ * makes a page of statistics read like a page rather than a readout.
+ */
+export function Stat({
+  label,
+  value,
+  caption,
+  accent,
+  size = "md",
+}: {
+  label: string;
+  value: ReactNode;
+  caption?: ReactNode;
+  accent?: string;
+  size?: "sm" | "md" | "lg";
+}) {
+  const fontSize = { sm: 24, md: 32, lg: 44 }[size];
+  return (
+    <Box sx={{ minWidth: 0 }}>
+      <Typography variant="overline" color="text.secondary" sx={{ display: "block" }}>
+        {label}
+      </Typography>
+      <Typography
+        sx={{
+          fontFamily: (theme) => theme.typography.h4.fontFamily,
+          fontSize,
+          fontWeight: 500,
+          lineHeight: 1.1,
+          letterSpacing: "-0.02em",
+          color: accent ?? "text.primary",
+        }}
+      >
+        {value}
+      </Typography>
+      {caption && (
+        <Typography variant="caption" color="text.secondary" sx={{ display: "block", mt: 0.25 }}>
+          {caption}
+        </Typography>
+      )}
+    </Box>
+  );
+}
+
+/** A row of statistics separated by hairlines, not boxes. */
+export function StatRow({ children }: { children: ReactNode }) {
+  return (
+    <Panel padded={false}>
+      <Stack
+        direction={{ xs: "column", sm: "row" }}
+        divider={<Divider flexItem orientation="vertical" sx={{ display: { xs: "none", sm: "block" } }} />}
+        sx={{ "& > *": { flex: 1, p: { xs: 2, sm: 2.5 } } }}
+      >
+        {children}
+      </Stack>
+    </Panel>
+  );
+}

frontend/src/components/StatTile.tsx

@@ -1,43 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * A number with its label. Not a chart: one value, read in a glance.
- */
-import { Card, CardContent, Stack, Typography } from "@mui/material";
-import type { ReactNode } from "react";
-
-export default function StatTile({
-  label,
-  value,
-  caption,
-  icon,
-  accent,
-}: {
-  label: string;
-  value: ReactNode;
-  caption?: ReactNode;
-  icon?: ReactNode;
-  accent?: string;
-}) {
-  return (
-    <Card sx={{ height: "100%" }}>
-      <CardContent sx={{ py: 2 }}>
-        <Stack direction="row" spacing={1} alignItems="center" sx={{ mb: 0.5 }}>
-          {icon}
-          <Typography variant="overline" color="text.secondary" noWrap>
-            {label}
-          </Typography>
-        </Stack>
-        <Typography
-          variant="h4"
-          sx={{ fontVariantNumeric: "tabular-nums", color: accent ?? "text.primary" }}
-        >
-          {value}
-        </Typography>
-        {caption && (
-          <Typography variant="body2" color="text.secondary">
-            {caption}
-          </Typography>
-        )}
-      </CardContent>
-    </Card>
-  );
-}

frontend/src/components/TimerDial.tsx

@@ -1,16 +1,16 @@
 /**
- * The countdown ring.
+ * The dial.
  *
- * A hero number with a progress arc around it: the number is what you read, the
- * arc is the glanceable "how much is left". The track stays recessive and the
- * arc carries the state colour, so the dial says work/break without a label.
+ * A thin ring with one tick per minute of the interval: the ticks go quiet as
+ * the minutes are spent, so the dial reads as "how much is left" at a glance
+ * and as "how long was this?" on a second look. The time itself is the hero —
+ * set in the display serif, tabular, so it never jitters.
  */
 import { Box, Stack, Typography, useTheme } from "@mui/material";
 
 import { clock } from "../lib/format";
 
-const SIZE = 280;
-const STROKE = 14;
+const SIZE = 300;
 
 export default function TimerDial({
   remaining,
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ export default function TimerDial({
   sublabel,
   color,
   paused,
+  idle,
 }: {
   remaining: number;
   total: number;
@@ -26,23 +27,20 @@ export default function TimerDial({
   sublabel?: string;
   color: string;
   paused?: boolean;
+  idle?: boolean;
 }) {
   const theme = useTheme();
-  const radius = (SIZE - STROKE) / 2;
+  const radius = SIZE / 2 - 26;
   const circumference = 2 * Math.PI * radius;
-  const progress = total > 0 ? Math.min(1, Math.max(0, 1 - remaining / total)) : 0;
+  const elapsed = total > 0 ? Math.min(1, Math.max(0, 1 - remaining / total)) : 0;
+
+  // One tick per minute, capped so a 90-minute interval does not become a comb.
+  const minutes = Math.max(1, Math.round(total / 60));
+  const tickCount = minutes <= 60 ? minutes : Math.round(minutes / 5);
+  const spentTicks = Math.floor(tickCount * elapsed);
 
   return (
-    <Box
-      sx={{
-        position: "relative",
-        width: SIZE,
-        height: SIZE,
-        maxWidth: "100%",
-        aspectRatio: "1 / 1",
-        mx: "auto",
-      }}
-    >
+    <Box sx={{ position: "relative", width: "100%", maxWidth: SIZE, aspectRatio: "1 / 1", mx: "auto" }}>
       <svg
         viewBox={`0 0 ${SIZE} ${SIZE}`}
         width="100%"
@@ -50,57 +48,89 @@ export default function TimerDial({
         role="img"
         aria-label={`${label}: ${clock(remaining)} remaining`}
       >
+        <g transform={`rotate(-90 ${SIZE / 2} ${SIZE / 2})`}>
+          {Array.from({ length: tickCount }, (_unused, index) => {
+            const angle = (index / tickCount) * 2 * Math.PI;
+            const major = index % 5 === 0;
+            const outer = radius - 7;
+            const inner = outer - (major ? 9 : 5);
+            const spent = index < spentTicks;
+            return (
+              <line
+                key={index}
+                x1={SIZE / 2 + inner * Math.cos(angle)}
+                y1={SIZE / 2 + inner * Math.sin(angle)}
+                x2={SIZE / 2 + outer * Math.cos(angle)}
+                y2={SIZE / 2 + outer * Math.sin(angle)}
+                stroke={spent && !idle ? color : theme.palette.divider}
+                strokeWidth={major ? 1.4 : 1}
+                strokeLinecap="round"
+                opacity={idle ? 0.5 : spent ? 0.9 : 1}
+              />
+            );
+          })}
+        </g>
+
         <circle
           cx={SIZE / 2}
           cy={SIZE / 2}
           r={radius}
           fill="none"
-          stroke={theme.palette.action.hover}
-          strokeWidth={STROKE}
-        />
-        <circle
-          cx={SIZE / 2}
-          cy={SIZE / 2}
-          r={radius}
-          fill="none"
-          stroke={color}
-          strokeWidth={STROKE}
-          strokeLinecap="round"
-          strokeDasharray={circumference}
-          strokeDashoffset={circumference * (1 - progress)}
-          transform={`rotate(-90 ${SIZE / 2} ${SIZE / 2})`}
-          opacity={paused ? 0.45 : 1}
-          style={{ transition: "stroke-dashoffset 1s linear, opacity .2s" }}
+          stroke={theme.palette.divider}
+          strokeWidth={2}
         />
+        {!idle && (
+          <circle
+            cx={SIZE / 2}
+            cy={SIZE / 2}
+            r={radius}
+            fill="none"
+            stroke={color}
+            strokeWidth={2.5}
+            strokeLinecap="round"
+            strokeDasharray={circumference}
+            strokeDashoffset={circumference * elapsed}
+            transform={`rotate(-90 ${SIZE / 2} ${SIZE / 2})`}
+            opacity={paused ? 0.4 : 1}
+            style={{ transition: "stroke-dashoffset 1s linear, opacity .25s" }}
+          />
+        )}
       </svg>
+
       <Stack
-        spacing={0.5}
-        sx={{
-          position: "absolute",
-          inset: 0,
-          alignItems: "center",
-          justifyContent: "center",
-          textAlign: "center",
-          px: 4,
-        }}
+        spacing={0.75}
+        sx={{ position: "absolute", inset: 0, alignItems: "center", justifyContent: "center", px: 5 }}
       >
-        <Typography variant="overline" color="text.secondary">
+        <Typography variant="overline" sx={{ color: idle ? "text.secondary" : color }}>
           {label}
         </Typography>
         <Typography
           sx={{
-            fontSize: { xs: 48, sm: 56 },
-            fontWeight: 300,
+            fontFamily: (muiTheme) => muiTheme.typography.h1.fontFamily,
+            fontSize: { xs: 52, sm: 62 },
+            fontWeight: 400,
             lineHeight: 1,
+            letterSpacing: "-0.03em",
             fontVariantNumeric: "tabular-nums",
-            fontFamily: '"Roboto Mono", ui-monospace, monospace',
-            opacity: paused ? 0.6 : 1,
+            opacity: paused ? 0.55 : 1,
+            transition: "opacity .25s",
           }}
         >
           {clock(remaining)}
         </Typography>
         {sublabel && (
-          <Typography variant="body2" color="text.secondary" noWrap sx={{ maxWidth: "100%" }}>
+          <Typography
+            variant="body2"
+            color="text.secondary"
+            align="center"
+            sx={{
+              maxWidth: "100%",
+              display: "-webkit-box",
+              WebkitLineClamp: 2,
+              WebkitBoxOrient: "vertical",
+              overflow: "hidden",
+            }}
+          >
             {sublabel}
           </Typography>
         )}

frontend/src/components/charts/ChartFrame.tsx

@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
-/** Shared chrome for the charts: title, optional legend, and a caption slot. */
-import { Box, Card, CardContent, Stack, Typography } from "@mui/material";
+/** Shared chrome for a chart: an eyebrow, a hairline, the plot, a caption. */
+import { Box, Stack, Typography } from "@mui/material";
 import type { ReactNode } from "react";
 
+import { Panel, SectionTitle } from "../Layout";
+
 export interface LegendItem {
   label: string;
   color: string;
@@ -21,41 +23,26 @@ export default function ChartFrame({
   action?: ReactNode;
 }) {
   return (
-    <Card sx={{ height: "100%" }}>
-      <CardContent>
-        <Stack direction="row" alignItems="center" justifyContent="space-between" sx={{ mb: 0.5 }}>
-          <Typography variant="subtitle1" sx={{ fontWeight: 600 }}>
-            {title}
-          </Typography>
-          {action}
+    <Panel sx={{ height: "100%" }}>
+      <SectionTitle action={action}>{title}</SectionTitle>
+      {legend && legend.length > 1 && (
+        <Stack direction="row" spacing={2} sx={{ mb: 1.5, flexWrap: "wrap", rowGap: 0.75 }}>
+          {legend.map((item) => (
+            <Stack key={item.label} direction="row" spacing={0.75} alignItems="center">
+              <Box sx={{ width: 8, height: 8, borderRadius: "2px", bgcolor: item.color }} />
+              <Typography variant="caption" color="text.secondary">
+                {item.label}
+              </Typography>
+            </Stack>
+          ))}
         </Stack>
-        {caption && (
-          <Typography variant="body2" color="text.secondary" sx={{ mb: 1.5 }}>
-            {caption}
-          </Typography>
-        )}
-        {legend && legend.length > 1 && (
-          <Stack direction="row" spacing={2} sx={{ mb: 1.5, flexWrap: "wrap", rowGap: 1 }}>
-            {legend.map((item) => (
-              <Stack key={item.label} direction="row" spacing={0.75} alignItems="center">
-                <Box
-                  sx={{
-                    width: 10,
-                    height: 10,
-                    borderRadius: "3px",
-                    bgcolor: item.color,
-                    flexShrink: 0,
-                  }}
-                />
-                <Typography variant="caption" color="text.secondary">
-                  {item.label}
-                </Typography>
-              </Stack>
-            ))}
-          </Stack>
-        )}
-        <Box>{children}</Box>
-      </CardContent>
-    </Card>
+      )}
+      <Box>{children}</Box>
+      {caption && (
+        <Typography variant="caption" color="text.secondary" sx={{ display: "block", mt: 1.5 }}>
+          {caption}
+        </Typography>
+      )}
+    </Panel>
   );
 }

frontend/src/components/charts/FocusBars.tsx

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * The goal line is the only reference mark; days that cleared it are the darker
  * ramp step, which keeps "did I hit the goal" readable without a second colour.
  */
-import { Box, Tooltip, Typography, useTheme } from "@mui/material";
+import { Box, Tooltip, Typography } from "@mui/material";
 
 import { shortDate } from "../../lib/format";
 import type { VizPalette } from "../../lib/viz";
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ export default function FocusBars({
   palette: VizPalette;
   title?: string;
 }) {
-  const theme = useTheme();
   const max = Math.max(goal, ...days.map((day) => day.pomodoros), 1);
   const goalY = HEIGHT - (goal / max) * HEIGHT;
   const slotWidth = 100 / Math.max(days.length, 1);
@@ -84,7 +83,7 @@ export default function FocusBars({
                   borderRadius: "4px 4px 0 0",
                   bgcolor:
                     day.pomodoros === 0
-                      ? theme.palette.action.disabledBackground
+                      ? palette.empty
                       : day.goal_met
                         ? palette.sequential[4]
                         : palette.sequential[2],

frontend/src/components/charts/Heatmap.tsx

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * Sequential encoding, so one hue light→dark and an empty day is the surface
  * tint rather than a colour — "nothing happened" should not look like a value.
  */
-import { Box, Stack, Tooltip, Typography, useTheme } from "@mui/material";
+import { Box, Stack, Tooltip, Typography } from "@mui/material";
 
 import { weekdayOf } from "../../lib/format";
 import { rampStep, type VizPalette } from "../../lib/viz";
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ export default function Heatmap({
   goal: number;
   palette: VizPalette;
 }) {
-  const theme = useTheme();
   if (!days.length) return null;
 
   // Pad the first week so every column is a real Monday→Sunday week.
@@ -67,7 +66,7 @@ export default function Heatmap({
                       width: CELL,
                       height: CELL,
                       borderRadius: "3px",
-                      bgcolor: fill ?? theme.palette.action.hover,
+                      bgcolor: fill ?? palette.empty,
                       outline: fill ? "none" : `1px solid ${palette.grid}`,
                       outlineOffset: "-1px",
                     }}

frontend/src/components/charts/HourHistogram.tsx

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
  * hour is the only bar that gets a direct label, which is the number you came
  * for.
  */
-import { Box, Tooltip, Typography, useTheme } from "@mui/material";
+import { Box, Tooltip, Typography } from "@mui/material";
 
 import type { VizPalette } from "../../lib/viz";
 import ChartFrame from "./ChartFrame";
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ export default function HourHistogram({
   palette: VizPalette;
   peak: number | null;
 }) {
-  const theme = useTheme();
   const max = Math.max(1, ...byHour.map((entry) => entry.count));
 
   return (
@@ -37,7 +36,7 @@ export default function HourHistogram({
                 borderRadius: "4px 4px 0 0",
                 bgcolor:
                   entry.count === 0
-                    ? theme.palette.action.disabledBackground
+                    ? palette.empty
                     : entry.hour === peak
                       ? palette.sequential[4]
                       : palette.sequential[2],

frontend/src/components/charts/SessionTimeline.tsx

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * Three categories (focus / short / long break) so a legend is mandatory, and
  * each block is also labelled on hover — colour never carries identity alone.
  */
-import { Box, Stack, Tooltip, Typography, useTheme } from "@mui/material";
+import { Box, Stack, Tooltip, Typography } from "@mui/material";
 
 import { KIND_LABEL } from "../../lib/format";
 import { kindColor, type VizPalette } from "../../lib/viz";
@@ -28,12 +28,11 @@ export default function SessionTimeline({
   sessions: Session[];
   palette: VizPalette;
 }) {
-  const theme = useTheme();
   const done = sessions.filter((item) => item.minutes > 0);
   if (!done.length) {
     return (
       <ChartFrame title="Today's timeline" caption="Nothing recorded yet — start a pomodoro.">
-        <Box sx={{ height: LANE, borderRadius: 1, bgcolor: theme.palette.action.hover }} />
+        <Box sx={{ height: LANE, borderRadius: 1, border: "1px dashed", borderColor: "divider" }} />
       </ChartFrame>
     );
   }
@@ -58,7 +57,7 @@ export default function SessionTimeline({
         { label: KIND_LABEL.long_break, color: palette.longBreak },
       ]}
     >
-      <Box sx={{ position: "relative", height: LANE, borderRadius: 1, bgcolor: theme.palette.action.hover }}>
+      <Box sx={{ position: "relative", height: LANE, borderRadius: 1, bgcolor: palette.empty }}>
         {done.map((item) => {
           const start = (hourOf(item.started_at) - first) / span;
           const width = item.minutes / 60 / span;

frontend/src/lib/format.ts

@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ export const KIND_LABEL: Record<string, string> = {
 export const BUCKET_LABEL: Record<string, string> = {
   overdue: "Overdue",
   today: "Due today",
+  active: "Would be nice to start",
   upcoming: "Coming up",
   someday: "No deadline",
 };

frontend/src/lib/types.ts

@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ export interface TimerState {
   finished?: TimerSession | null;
   auto_started?: TimerSession | null;
   celebration?: string | null;
+  timer_enabled?: boolean;
 }
 
 export interface Task {
@@ -50,7 +51,7 @@ export interface Task {
   stale: boolean;
   estimated_pomodoros: number | null;
   days_overdue: number;
-  bucket: "overdue" | "today" | "upcoming" | "someday";
+  bucket: "overdue" | "today" | "active" | "upcoming" | "someday";
 }
 
 export interface TaskListResponse {
@@ -64,11 +65,21 @@ export interface RefreshResult {
   refreshed_at: string;
   date: string;
   total: number;
-  sources: { source: string; label: string; ok: boolean; error: string | null; count: number }[];
+  closed: number;
+  sources: {
+    source: string;
+    label: string;
+    ok: boolean;
+    error: string | null;
+    count: number;
+    /** How many tasks this refresh found closed in that tool. */
+    closed?: number;
+  }[];
 }
 
 export interface BlockerPolicy {
   active: boolean;
+  unexpandable?: string[];
   reason: string;
   mode: string;
   enabled: boolean;
@@ -165,12 +176,13 @@ export interface AppSettings {
     alarm_sound: boolean;
     alarm_volume: number;
     desktop_notifications: boolean;
+    timer_enabled: boolean;
     keep_on_top_during_work: boolean;
   };
   sources: {
-    jira: Record<string, unknown> & { enabled: boolean; base_url: string; email: string; api_token: string; extra_jql: string; start_date_field: string; include_all_open: boolean; writeback_done: boolean; done_transition_name: string; max_issues: number };
-    google_tasks: { enabled: boolean; client_id: string; client_secret: string; refresh_token: string; lists: string[]; include_undated: boolean; writeback_done: boolean };
-    todoist: { enabled: boolean; api_token: string; projects: string[]; filter_query: string; writeback_done: boolean };
+    jira: Record<string, unknown> & { enabled: boolean; base_url: string; email: string; api_token: string; extra_jql: string; start_date_field: string; include_all_open: boolean; max_issues: number };
+    google_tasks: { enabled: boolean; client_id: string; client_secret: string; refresh_token: string; lists: string[]; include_undated: boolean };
+    todoist: { enabled: boolean; api_token: string; projects: string[]; filter_query: string };
     laundry: { enabled: boolean; base_url: string; session_cookie: string };
     refresh_interval_minutes: number;
     request_timeout_seconds: number;
@@ -181,6 +193,7 @@ export interface AppSettings {
     block_during_breaks: boolean;
     blocked_domains: string[];
     allowed_domains: string[];
+    subdomain_expansions: string[];
     blocked_apps: string[];
     kill_blocked_apps: boolean;
     schedule: { label: string; start: string; end: string; days: number[] }[];

frontend/src/lib/viz.ts

@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
 /**
  * Chart colours.
  *
- * These are the validated data-viz slots, not the Material theme's palette: the
- * UI's accent can be anything, but a chart has to stay readable for colour-blind
- * readers in both themes. Work/short/long are categorical slots 1–3 (validated
- * all-pairs in both modes); magnitude charts use the single-hue blue ramp.
+ * These are the validated data-viz slots, not the brand accent: the UI is warm
+ * ember on paper, but a chart has to stay readable for colour-blind readers in
+ * both themes, so identity colours come from the reference palette. Focus takes
+ * the orange slot (nearest the brand's warmth), breaks take aqua, and anything
+ * that encodes *magnitude* uses the single-hue blue ramp — this ordering was run
+ * through the palette validator for all pairs in both modes.
  */
 
 export interface VizPalette {
@@ -14,28 +16,28 @@ export interface VizPalette {
   sequential: string[];
   grid: string;
   axis: string;
-  surface: string;
+  empty: string;
 }
 
 const LIGHT: VizPalette = {
-  work: "#2a78d6",
-  shortBreak: "#eb6834",
+  work: "#eb6834",
+  shortBreak: "#2a78d6",
   longBreak: "#1baf7a",
-  // blue 100 → 600, light → dark: "more pomodoros" reads as "darker".
+  // blue 100 → 600: "more pomodoros" reads as "darker".
   sequential: ["#cde2fb", "#9ec5f4", "#6da7ec", "#3987e5", "#256abf", "#184f95"],
-  grid: "rgba(0,0,0,0.08)",
-  axis: "rgba(0,0,0,0.45)",
-  surface: "#fcfcfb",
+  grid: "rgba(23, 21, 15, 0.12)",
+  axis: "rgba(23, 21, 15, 0.45)",
+  empty: "rgba(23, 21, 15, 0.07)",
 };
 
 const DARK: VizPalette = {
-  work: "#3987e5",
-  shortBreak: "#d95926",
+  work: "#d95926",
+  shortBreak: "#3987e5",
   longBreak: "#199e70",
   sequential: ["#104281", "#184f95", "#256abf", "#3987e5", "#6da7ec", "#9ec5f4"],
-  grid: "rgba(255,255,255,0.10)",
-  axis: "rgba(255,255,255,0.55)",
-  surface: "#1a1a19",
+  grid: "rgba(244, 241, 234, 0.14)",
+  axis: "rgba(244, 241, 234, 0.55)",
+  empty: "rgba(244, 241, 234, 0.08)",
 };
 
 export function vizPalette(dark: boolean): VizPalette {
@@ -48,10 +50,13 @@ export function kindColor(kind: string, palette: VizPalette): string {
   return palette.shortBreak;
 }
 
-/** Pick a ramp step for a count, 0 meaning "empty". */
+/** Pick a ramp step for a count; null means "nothing happened". */
 export function rampStep(count: number, goal: number, palette: VizPalette): string | null {
   if (count <= 0) return null;
   const ratio = goal > 0 ? count / goal : count / 8;
-  const index = Math.min(palette.sequential.length - 1, Math.max(0, Math.round(ratio * (palette.sequential.length - 1))));
+  const index = Math.min(
+    palette.sequential.length - 1,
+    Math.max(0, Math.round(ratio * (palette.sequential.length - 1))),
+  );
   return palette.sequential[index];
 }

frontend/src/pages/BlockerPage.tsx

@@ -1,17 +1,15 @@
 /**
- * The blocker's rules and its live state.
+ * The focus guard: what is blocked, when, and what it caught.
  *
- * The rules are server-side so every device agrees; the *enforcement* happens in
- * the native desktop app, which polls the same policy this page edits. The web
- * UI is honest about that: it shows whether anything is currently enforcing.
+ * Lists accept masks. A hosts file has no wildcards of its own, so `*.x.com` is
+ * expanded server-side into real hostnames — this page shows that expansion, and
+ * says plainly when a pattern (`*gram*`) cannot be expressed that way.
  */
 import { useEffect, useMemo, useState } from "react";
 import {
   Alert,
   Box,
   Button,
-  Card,
-  CardContent,
   Chip,
   Divider,
   FormControlLabel,
@@ -22,21 +20,27 @@ import {
   TextField,
   Typography,
 } from "@mui/material";
-import ShieldIcon from "@mui/icons-material/Shield";
 
-import StatTile from "../components/StatTile";
+import { PageHeader, Panel, SectionTitle, Stat, StatRow } from "../components/Layout";
 import { useResource } from "../lib/hooks";
 import { useSettings } from "../lib/settings";
 import type { BlockEvents, BlockerPolicy } from "../lib/types";
 
+const MASK_HELP = [
+  ["youtube.com", "the site itself, plus www. and m."],
+  ["*.google.com", "every subdomain in the expansion list below"],
+  ["*gram*", "matches apps; a hosts file cannot express it"],
+];
+
 export default function BlockerPage({ onToast }: { onToast: (message: string) => void }) {
   const { settings, defaults, save } = useSettings();
-  const policy = useResource<BlockerPolicy>("/api/blocker/policy", 5000);
+  const policy = useResource<BlockerPolicy & { unexpandable?: string[] }>("/api/blocker/policy", 5000);
   const events = useResource<BlockEvents>("/api/blocker/events", 20000);
 
   const [domains, setDomains] = useState("");
   const [allowed, setAllowed] = useState("");
   const [apps, setApps] = useState("");
+  const [subdomains, setSubdomains] = useState("");
   const [dirty, setDirty] = useState(false);
 
   useEffect(() => {
@@ -44,257 +48,238 @@ export default function BlockerPage({ onToast }: { onToast: (message: string) =>
     setDomains(settings.blocker.blocked_domains.join("\n"));
     setAllowed(settings.blocker.allowed_domains.join("\n"));
     setApps(settings.blocker.blocked_apps.join("\n"));
+    setSubdomains((settings.blocker.subdomain_expansions ?? []).join(", "));
   }, [settings, dirty]);
 
-  const lines = (value: string) =>
-    value
-      .split("\n")
-      .map((item) => item.trim())
-      .filter(Boolean);
+  const lines = (value: string) => value.split("\n").map((item) => item.trim()).filter(Boolean);
 
-  const patch = async (change: Record<string, unknown>) => {
+  const patch = async (change: Record<string, unknown>, message = "Saved") => {
     try {
       await save({ blocker: change });
       await policy.reload();
-      onToast("Blocker updated");
+      onToast(message);
     } catch (exc) {
       onToast(exc instanceof Error ? exc.message : String(exc));
     }
   };
 
   const saveLists = async () => {
-    await patch({
-      blocked_domains: lines(domains),
-      allowed_domains: lines(allowed),
-      blocked_apps: lines(apps),
-    });
+    await patch(
+      {
+        blocked_domains: lines(domains),
+        allowed_domains: lines(allowed),
+        blocked_apps: lines(apps),
+        subdomain_expansions: subdomains.split(",").map((item) => item.trim()).filter(Boolean),
+      },
+      "Lists saved",
+    );
     setDirty(false);
   };
 
-  const addDefaults = () => {
-    const current = new Set(lines(domains));
-    (defaults?.blocked_domains ?? []).forEach((domain) => current.add(domain));
-    setDomains([...current].join("\n"));
-    setDirty(true);
-  };
-
-  const top = useMemo(() => events.data?.by_target.slice(0, 8) ?? [], [events.data]);
   const blocker = settings?.blocker;
+  const unexpandable = policy.data?.unexpandable ?? [];
+  const top = useMemo(() => events.data?.by_target.slice(0, 8) ?? [], [events.data]);
 
   return (
-    <Stack spacing={3}>
-      <Card>
-        <CardContent>
-          <Stack direction="row" spacing={2} alignItems="center" sx={{ mb: 2 }}>
-            <ShieldIcon color={policy.data?.active ? "error" : "disabled"} fontSize="large" />
-            <Box sx={{ flexGrow: 1 }}>
-              <Typography variant="h6">
-                {policy.data?.active ? "Blocking is ON" : "Blocking is off"}
-              </Typography>
-              <Typography variant="body2" color="text.secondary">
-                {policy.data?.reason}
-              </Typography>
-            </Box>
-            <FormControlLabel
-              control={
-                <Switch
-                  checked={blocker?.enabled ?? false}
-                  onChange={(event) => void patch({ enabled: event.target.checked })}
-                />
-              }
-              label="Enabled"
-            />
-          </Stack>
-
-          <Grid container spacing={2}>
-            <Grid item xs={6} md={3}>
-              <StatTile label="Domains" value={policy.data?.all_domains.length ?? 0} caption="redirected" />
-            </Grid>
-            <Grid item xs={6} md={3}>
-              <StatTile label="Apps" value={policy.data?.all_apps.length ?? 0} caption="closed on sight" />
-            </Grid>
-            <Grid item xs={6} md={3}>
-              <StatTile label="Attempts today" value={events.data?.total ?? 0} caption="turned away" />
-            </Grid>
-            <Grid item xs={6} md={3}>
-              <StatTile
-                label="Mode"
-                value={
-                  { during_work: "Focus", always: "Always", scheduled: "Schedule" }[
-                    blocker?.mode ?? "during_work"
-                  ]
-                }
-                caption="when it applies"
+    <>
+      <PageHeader
+        eyebrow={policy.data?.reason ?? "—"}
+        title={policy.data?.active ? "Blocking is on" : "Blocking is off"}
+        caption="Rules live here; the desktop app enforces them on your machine."
+        actions={
+          <FormControlLabel
+            control={
+              <Switch
+                checked={blocker?.enabled ?? false}
+                onChange={(event) => void patch({ enabled: event.target.checked })}
               />
-            </Grid>
+            }
+            label="Enabled"
+          />
+        }
+      />
+
+      <StatRow>
+        <Stat label="Hostnames" value={policy.data?.all_domains.length ?? 0} caption="after expansion" />
+        <Stat label="Apps" value={policy.data?.all_apps.length ?? 0} caption="closed on sight" />
+        <Stat label="Attempts today" value={events.data?.total ?? 0} caption="turned away" />
+        <Stat
+          label="Mode"
+          value={{ during_work: "Focus", always: "Always", scheduled: "Schedule" }[blocker?.mode ?? "during_work"]}
+          caption="when it applies"
+          size="sm"
+        />
+      </StatRow>
+
+      <Box sx={{ mt: 4 }}>
+        <SectionTitle>When</SectionTitle>
+        <Stack direction={{ xs: "column", sm: "row" }} spacing={2} alignItems={{ sm: "center" }}>
+          <TextField
+            select
+            label="Mode"
+            sx={{ minWidth: 240 }}
+            value={blocker?.mode ?? "during_work"}
+            onChange={(event) => void patch({ mode: event.target.value })}
+          >
+            <MenuItem value="during_work">While a focus interval runs</MenuItem>
+            <MenuItem value="always">Always</MenuItem>
+            <MenuItem value="scheduled">On a schedule</MenuItem>
+          </TextField>
+          <FormControlLabel
+            control={
+              <Switch
+                checked={blocker?.block_during_breaks ?? false}
+                onChange={(event) => void patch({ block_during_breaks: event.target.checked })}
+              />
+            }
+            label="Keep blocking through breaks"
+          />
+          <FormControlLabel
+            control={
+              <Switch
+                checked={blocker?.kill_blocked_apps ?? true}
+                onChange={(event) => void patch({ kill_blocked_apps: event.target.checked })}
+              />
+            }
+            label="Close blocked apps (otherwise only warn)"
+          />
+        </Stack>
+      </Box>
+
+      <Box sx={{ mt: 4 }}>
+        <SectionTitle>Masks</SectionTitle>
+        <Panel sx={{ mb: 3 }}>
+          <Stack divider={<Divider />}>
+            {MASK_HELP.map(([pattern, meaning]) => (
+              <Stack key={pattern} direction={{ xs: "column", sm: "row" }} spacing={1} sx={{ py: 1 }}>
+                <Typography variant="body2" sx={{ fontFamily: "monospace", minWidth: 150 }}>
+                  {pattern}
+                </Typography>
+                <Typography variant="body2" color="text.secondary">
+                  {meaning}
+                </Typography>
+              </Stack>
+            ))}
+          </Stack>
+        </Panel>
+
+        {unexpandable.length > 0 && (
+          <Alert severity="info" variant="outlined" sx={{ mb: 3 }}>
+            {unexpandable.join(", ")} {unexpandable.length === 1 ? "is a pattern" : "are patterns"} a hosts file
+            cannot express — {unexpandable.length === 1 ? "it is" : "they are"} still matched against application
+            names.
+          </Alert>
+        )}
+
+        <Grid container spacing={3}>
+          <Grid item xs={12} md={4}>
+            <SectionTitle>Blocked websites</SectionTitle>
+            <TextField
+              multiline
+              fullWidth
+              minRows={9}
+              value={domains}
+              placeholder={"youtube.com\n*.reddit.com\ntwitter.com"}
+              onChange={(event) => {
+                setDomains(event.target.value);
+                setDirty(true);
+              }}
+              sx={{ "& textarea": { fontFamily: "monospace", fontSize: 13, lineHeight: 1.7 } }}
+            />
+            <Button
+              size="small"
+              sx={{ mt: 1 }}
+              onClick={() => {
+                const current = new Set(lines(domains));
+                (defaults?.blocked_domains ?? []).forEach((item) => current.add(item));
+                setDomains([...current].join("\n"));
+                setDirty(true);
+              }}
+            >
+              Add the usual suspects
+            </Button>
           </Grid>
 
-          <Alert severity="info" sx={{ mt: 2 }}>
-            Enforcement happens in the desktop app — it rewrites <code>/etc/hosts</code> through a
-            privileged helper and closes blocked applications. This page decides <em>what</em> and{" "}
-            <em>when</em>.
-          </Alert>
-        </CardContent>
-      </Card>
-
-      <Card>
-        <CardContent>
-          <Typography variant="subtitle1" sx={{ fontWeight: 600, mb: 2 }}>
-            When to block
-          </Typography>
-          <Stack direction={{ xs: "column", sm: "row" }} spacing={2} alignItems="center">
+          <Grid item xs={12} md={4}>
+            <SectionTitle>Exceptions</SectionTitle>
             <TextField
-              select
-              label="Mode"
-              sx={{ minWidth: 220 }}
-              value={blocker?.mode ?? "during_work"}
-              onChange={(event) => void patch({ mode: event.target.value })}
-            >
-              <MenuItem value="during_work">While a focus interval runs</MenuItem>
-              <MenuItem value="always">Always</MenuItem>
-              <MenuItem value="scheduled">On a schedule</MenuItem>
-            </TextField>
-            <FormControlLabel
-              control={
-                <Switch
-                  checked={blocker?.block_during_breaks ?? false}
-                  onChange={(event) => void patch({ block_during_breaks: event.target.checked })}
-                />
-              }
-              label="Keep blocking during breaks"
+              multiline
+              fullWidth
+              minRows={9}
+              value={allowed}
+              placeholder={"music.youtube.com\n*.docs.google.com"}
+              onChange={(event) => {
+                setAllowed(event.target.value);
+                setDirty(true);
+              }}
+              sx={{ "& textarea": { fontFamily: "monospace", fontSize: 13, lineHeight: 1.7 } }}
             />
-            <FormControlLabel
-              control={
-                <Switch
-                  checked={blocker?.kill_blocked_apps ?? true}
-                  onChange={(event) => void patch({ kill_blocked_apps: event.target.checked })}
-                />
-              }
-              label="Close blocked apps (otherwise just warn)"
-            />
-          </Stack>
-        </CardContent>
-      </Card>
-
-      <Grid container spacing={3}>
-        <Grid item xs={12} md={4}>
-          <Card sx={{ height: "100%" }}>
-            <CardContent>
-              <Typography variant="subtitle1" sx={{ fontWeight: 600 }}>
-                Blocked websites
-              </Typography>
-              <Typography variant="body2" color="text.secondary" sx={{ mb: 1.5 }}>
-                One hostname per line. <code>www.</code> and <code>m.</code> are added for you.
-              </Typography>
-              <TextField
-                multiline
-                fullWidth
-                minRows={8}
-                value={domains}
-                placeholder={"youtube.com\nreddit.com\ntwitter.com"}
-                onChange={(event) => {
-                  setDomains(event.target.value);
-                  setDirty(true);
-                }}
-                sx={{ "& textarea": { fontFamily: "monospace", fontSize: 13 } }}
-              />
-              <Button size="small" sx={{ mt: 1 }} onClick={addDefaults}>
-                Add the usual suspects
-              </Button>
-            </CardContent>
-          </Card>
-        </Grid>
-
-        <Grid item xs={12} md={4}>
-          <Card sx={{ height: "100%" }}>
-            <CardContent>
-              <Typography variant="subtitle1" sx={{ fontWeight: 600 }}>
-                Exceptions
-              </Typography>
-              <Typography variant="body2" color="text.secondary" sx={{ mb: 1.5 }}>
-                Survive a blocked parent domain — e.g. <code>music.youtube.com</code>.
-              </Typography>
-              <TextField
-                multiline
-                fullWidth
-                minRows={8}
-                value={allowed}
-                placeholder="music.youtube.com"
-                onChange={(event) => {
-                  setAllowed(event.target.value);
-                  setDirty(true);
-                }}
-                sx={{ "& textarea": { fontFamily: "monospace", fontSize: 13 } }}
-              />
-            </CardContent>
-          </Card>
-        </Grid>
-
-        <Grid item xs={12} md={4}>
-          <Card sx={{ height: "100%" }}>
-            <CardContent>
-              <Typography variant="subtitle1" sx={{ fontWeight: 600 }}>
-                Blocked applications
-              </Typography>
-              <Typography variant="body2" color="text.secondary" sx={{ mb: 1.5 }}>
-                Process names, matched loosely: <code>steam</code> also catches{" "}
-                <code>steamwebhelper</code>.
-              </Typography>
-              <TextField
-                multiline
-                fullWidth
-                minRows={8}
-                value={apps}
-                placeholder={"steam\ndiscord\ntelegram-desktop"}
-                onChange={(event) => {
-                  setApps(event.target.value);
-                  setDirty(true);
-                }}
-                sx={{ "& textarea": { fontFamily: "monospace", fontSize: 13 } }}
-              />
-            </CardContent>
-          </Card>
-        </Grid>
-      </Grid>
-
-      <Stack direction="row" spacing={1}>
-        <Button variant="contained" disabled={!dirty} onClick={() => void saveLists()}>
-          Save lists
-        </Button>
-        <Button
-          disabled={!dirty}
-          onClick={() => {
-            setDirty(false);
-          }}
-        >
-          Discard changes
-        </Button>
-      </Stack>
-
-      <Card>
-        <CardContent>
-          <Typography variant="subtitle1" sx={{ fontWeight: 600 }}>
-            Today's temptations
-          </Typography>
-          <Typography variant="body2" color="text.secondary" sx={{ mb: 1.5 }}>
-            Every attempt the blocker turned away. This is what the daily report teases you about.
-          </Typography>
-          {top.length === 0 ? (
-            <Typography variant="body2" color="text.secondary">
-              Nothing yet today — either the blocker is off, or you are behaving.
+            <Typography variant="caption" color="text.secondary" sx={{ display: "block", mt: 1 }}>
+              Masks allowed here too — an exception wins over a block.
             </Typography>
-          ) : (
-            <Stack divider={<Divider flexItem />}>
-              {top.map((entry) => (
-                <Stack key={entry.target} direction="row" sx={{ py: 1 }} alignItems="center">
-                  <Typography sx={{ flexGrow: 1 }}>{entry.target}</Typography>
-                  <Chip size="small" label={`× ${entry.count}`} />
-                </Stack>
-              ))}
-            </Stack>
-          )}
-        </CardContent>
-      </Card>
-    </Stack>
+          </Grid>
+
+          <Grid item xs={12} md={4}>
+            <SectionTitle>Blocked applications</SectionTitle>
+            <TextField
+              multiline
+              fullWidth
+              minRows={9}
+              value={apps}
+              placeholder={"steam*\n*discord*\ntelegram-desktop"}
+              onChange={(event) => {
+                setApps(event.target.value);
+                setDirty(true);
+              }}
+              sx={{ "& textarea": { fontFamily: "monospace", fontSize: 13, lineHeight: 1.7 } }}
+            />
+            <Typography variant="caption" color="text.secondary" sx={{ display: "block", mt: 1 }}>
+              Matched against the process name and its command line.
+            </Typography>
+          </Grid>
+        </Grid>
+
+        <Stack direction={{ xs: "column", sm: "row" }} spacing={2} alignItems={{ sm: "center" }} sx={{ mt: 3 }}>
+          <TextField
+            label="Subdomains that *.site expands to"
+            fullWidth
+            sx={{ maxWidth: 520 }}
+            value={subdomains}
+            onChange={(event) => {
+              setSubdomains(event.target.value);
+              setDirty(true);
+            }}
+            helperText="Comma separated. Add the subdomains you actually visit."
+          />
+          <Box sx={{ flexGrow: 1 }} />
+          <Button variant="contained" disabled={!dirty} onClick={() => void saveLists()}>
+            Save lists
+          </Button>
+          <Button disabled={!dirty} onClick={() => setDirty(false)}>
+            Discard
+          </Button>
+        </Stack>
+      </Box>
+
+      <Box sx={{ mt: 5 }}>
+        <SectionTitle>Today's temptations</SectionTitle>
+        {top.length === 0 ? (
+          <Typography variant="body2" color="text.secondary">
+            Nothing yet — either the blocker is off, or you are behaving.
+          </Typography>
+        ) : (
+          <Stack divider={<Divider />}>
+            {top.map((entry) => (
+              <Stack key={entry.target} direction="row" alignItems="center" sx={{ py: 1.25 }}>
+                <Typography variant="body2" sx={{ flexGrow: 1, fontFamily: "monospace" }}>
+                  {entry.target}
+                </Typography>
+                <Chip size="small" variant="outlined" label={entry.count} />
+              </Stack>
+            ))}
+          </Stack>
+        )}
+      </Box>
+    </>
   );
 }

frontend/src/pages/ReportPage.tsx

@@ -3,26 +3,13 @@
  * so the chat and the browser can never disagree.
  */
 import { useMemo, useState } from "react";
-import {
-  Box,
-  Button,
-  Card,
-  CardContent,
-  Chip,
-  Divider,
-  Grid,
-  Stack,
-  Tab,
-  Tabs,
-  Typography,
-} from "@mui/material";
-import SendIcon from "@mui/icons-material/Send";
+import { Box, Button, Chip, Divider, Grid, Stack, Tab, Tabs, Typography } from "@mui/material";
 
 import FocusBars from "../components/charts/FocusBars";
 import Heatmap from "../components/charts/Heatmap";
 import HourHistogram from "../components/charts/HourHistogram";
 import SessionTimeline from "../components/charts/SessionTimeline";
-import StatTile from "../components/StatTile";
+import { PageHeader, Panel, SectionTitle, Stat, StatRow } from "../components/Layout";
 import { api } from "../lib/api";
 import { humanMinutes } from "../lib/format";
 import { useResource } from "../lib/hooks";
@@ -62,48 +49,42 @@ export default function ReportPage({
   };
 
   return (
-    <Stack spacing={3}>
-      <Stack direction="row" alignItems="center" spacing={2} sx={{ flexWrap: "wrap", rowGap: 1 }}>
-        <Typography variant="h5" sx={{ flexGrow: 1 }}>
-          {report ? `Report for ${report.date}` : "Report"}
-        </Typography>
-        {daily.data?.sent_at && (
-          <Chip size="small" variant="outlined" label={`sent ${new Date(daily.data.sent_at).toLocaleTimeString()}`} />
-        )}
-        <Button variant="contained" startIcon={<SendIcon />} disabled={sending} onClick={() => void send()}>
-          Send to Telegram
-        </Button>
-      </Stack>
+    <>
+      <PageHeader
+        eyebrow={daily.data?.sent_at ? `sent ${new Date(daily.data.sent_at).toLocaleTimeString()}` : "not sent yet"}
+        title={report ? `Report · ${report.date}` : "Report"}
+        caption={report?.verdict}
+        actions={
+          <Button variant="contained" disabled={sending} onClick={() => void send()}>
+            {sending ? "Sending…" : "Send to Telegram"}
+          </Button>
+        }
+      />
 
-      <Grid container spacing={2}>
-        <Grid item xs={6} md={3}>
-          <StatTile
-            label="Pomodoros"
-            value={metrics ? `${metrics.pomodoros}/${metrics.goal}` : "—"}
-            caption={metrics?.goal_met ? "goal met 🎯" : "goal not met yet"}
-            accent={palette.work}
-          />
-        </Grid>
-        <Grid item xs={6} md={3}>
-          <StatTile
-            label="Focus"
-            value={humanMinutes(metrics?.focus_minutes ?? 0)}
-            caption={`${humanMinutes(metrics?.break_minutes ?? 0)} resting`}
-          />
-        </Grid>
-        <Grid item xs={6} md={3}>
-          <StatTile label="Score" value={report ? Math.round(report.score) : "—"} caption="out of 100" />
-        </Grid>
-        <Grid item xs={6} md={3}>
-          <StatTile
-            label="Streak"
-            value={report ? `${report.streak.current}d` : "—"}
-            caption={report ? `best ${report.streak.best}` : ""}
-          />
-        </Grid>
-      </Grid>
+      <StatRow>
+        <Stat
+          label="Pomodoros"
+          value={metrics ? `${metrics.pomodoros}/${metrics.goal}` : "—"}
+          caption={metrics?.goal_met ? "goal met" : "goal not met yet"}
+          accent={palette.work}
+          size="lg"
+        />
+        <Stat
+          label="Focus"
+          value={humanMinutes(metrics?.focus_minutes ?? 0)}
+          caption={`${humanMinutes(metrics?.break_minutes ?? 0)} resting`}
+          size="lg"
+        />
+        <Stat label="Score" value={report ? Math.round(report.score) : "—"} caption="out of 100" size="lg" />
+        <Stat
+          label="Streak"
+          value={report ? `${report.streak.current}d` : "—"}
+          caption={report ? `best ${report.streak.best}` : ""}
+          size="lg"
+        />
+      </StatRow>
 
-      <Grid container spacing={3}>
+      <Grid container spacing={3} sx={{ mt: 0 }}>
         <Grid item xs={12} md={8}>
           <FocusBars days={stats.data?.range ?? []} goal={metrics?.goal ?? 8} palette={palette} />
         </Grid>
@@ -112,12 +93,16 @@ export default function ReportPage({
         </Grid>
       </Grid>
 
-      <SessionTimeline sessions={metrics?.sessions ?? []} palette={palette} />
+      <Box sx={{ mt: 3 }}>
+        <SessionTimeline sessions={metrics?.sessions ?? []} palette={palette} />
+      </Box>
 
-      <Heatmap days={stats.data?.heatmap ?? []} goal={metrics?.goal ?? 8} palette={palette} />
+      <Box sx={{ mt: 3 }}>
+        <Heatmap days={stats.data?.heatmap ?? []} goal={metrics?.goal ?? 8} palette={palette} />
+      </Box>
 
-      <Card>
-        <CardContent>
+      <Box sx={{ mt: 4 }}>
+        <Panel>
           <Tabs value={tab} onChange={(_event, value) => setTab(value)} sx={{ mb: 2 }}>
             <Tab label={`Achievements (${report?.achievements.length ?? 0})`} />
             <Tab label="The funny part" />
@@ -200,23 +185,18 @@ export default function ReportPage({
               {(daily.data?.telegram_preview ?? "").replace(/<[^>]+>/g, "")}
             </Box>
           )}
-        </CardContent>
-      </Card>
+        </Panel>
+      </Box>
 
-      <Grid container spacing={2}>
-        <Grid item xs={6} md={3}>
-          <StatTile label="All-time pomodoros" value={stats.data?.lifetime.pomodoros ?? 0} />
-        </Grid>
-        <Grid item xs={6} md={3}>
-          <StatTile label="Hours focused" value={stats.data?.lifetime.focus_hours ?? 0} />
-        </Grid>
-        <Grid item xs={6} md={3}>
-          <StatTile label="Tasks closed" value={stats.data?.lifetime.tasks_completed ?? 0} />
-        </Grid>
-        <Grid item xs={6} md={3}>
-          <StatTile label="Blocked attempts" value={stats.data?.lifetime.blocked_attempts ?? 0} />
-        </Grid>
-      </Grid>
-    </Stack>
+      <Box sx={{ mt: 4 }}>
+        <SectionTitle>All time</SectionTitle>
+        <StatRow>
+          <Stat label="Pomodoros" value={stats.data?.lifetime.pomodoros ?? 0} />
+          <Stat label="Hours focused" value={stats.data?.lifetime.focus_hours ?? 0} />
+          <Stat label="Tasks closed" value={stats.data?.lifetime.tasks_completed ?? 0} />
+          <Stat label="Blocked" value={stats.data?.lifetime.blocked_attempts ?? 0} />
+        </StatRow>
+      </Box>
+    </>
   );
 }

frontend/src/pages/SettingsPage.tsx

@@ -6,9 +6,6 @@
  */
 import { useEffect, useState } from "react";
 import {
-  Accordion,
-  AccordionDetails,
-  AccordionSummary,
   Alert,
   Box,
   Button,
@@ -22,8 +19,8 @@ import {
   TextField,
   Typography,
 } from "@mui/material";
-import ExpandMoreIcon from "@mui/icons-material/ExpandMore";
 
+import { PageHeader, Panel, SectionTitle } from "../components/Layout";
 import { api, getToken, setToken } from "../lib/api";
 import { useSettings } from "../lib/settings";
 import type { AppSettings } from "../lib/types";
@@ -59,7 +56,13 @@ export default function SettingsPage({ onToast }: { onToast: (message: string) =
   };
 
   return (
-    <Stack spacing={2}>
+    <>
+      <PageHeader
+        eyebrow="Shared with the desktop app and the Telegram bot"
+        title="Settings"
+        caption="Secrets are masked once stored — leave the dots alone to keep the saved value."
+      />
+      <Stack spacing={5}>
       <Section title="Timer" subtitle="Shared with the desktop app and the Telegram bot.">
         <Grid container spacing={2}>
           {(
@@ -85,6 +88,7 @@ export default function SettingsPage({ onToast }: { onToast: (message: string) =
         <Stack direction="row" sx={{ flexWrap: "wrap", mt: 1 }}>
           {(
             [
+              ["timer_enabled", "Timer enabled (off = view only)"],
               ["auto_start_breaks", "Auto-start breaks"],
               ["auto_start_work", "Auto-start next focus"],
               ["allow_pause", "Allow pausing"],
@@ -159,17 +163,6 @@ export default function SettingsPage({ onToast }: { onToast: (message: string) =
             value={settings.sources.jira.start_date_field}
             onCommit={(value) => void patch({ sources: { jira: { start_date_field: value } } })}
           />
-          <FormControlLabel
-            control={
-              <Switch
-                checked={settings.sources.jira.writeback_done}
-                onChange={(event) =>
-                  void patch({ sources: { jira: { writeback_done: event.target.checked } } })
-                }
-              />
-            }
-            label="Completing a task here transitions the Jira issue to Done"
-          />
         </SourceBlock>
 
         <SourceBlock
@@ -443,13 +436,6 @@ export default function SettingsPage({ onToast }: { onToast: (message: string) =
             <MenuItem value="light">Light</MenuItem>
             <MenuItem value="dark">Dark</MenuItem>
           </TextField>
-          <TextField
-            label="Accent colour"
-            type="color"
-            sx={{ width: 120 }}
-            value={settings.appearance.accent}
-            onChange={(event) => void patch({ appearance: { accent: event.target.value } })}
-          />
           <TextField
             label="API token (this browser)"
             type="password"
@@ -462,12 +448,13 @@ export default function SettingsPage({ onToast }: { onToast: (message: string) =
             }}
           />
         </Stack>
-        <Alert severity="info" sx={{ mt: 2 }}>
+        <Alert severity="info" variant="outlined" sx={{ mt: 2 }}>
           Website and application blocking is enforced by the native desktop app — install it from{" "}
-          <code>desktop/</code>, then its lists live on the <strong>Blocker</strong> page.
+          <code>desktop/</code>; its lists live on the <strong>Blocker</strong> page.
         </Alert>
       </Section>
-    </Stack>
+      </Stack>
+    </>
   );
 }
 
@@ -481,23 +468,15 @@ function Section({
   children: React.ReactNode;
 }) {
   return (
-    <Accordion defaultExpanded disableGutters sx={{ borderRadius: 3, "&::before": { display: "none" } }}>
-      <AccordionSummary expandIcon={<ExpandMoreIcon />}>
-        <Box>
-          <Typography variant="subtitle1" sx={{ fontWeight: 600 }}>
-            {title}
-          </Typography>
-          {subtitle && (
-            <Typography variant="body2" color="text.secondary">
-              {subtitle}
-            </Typography>
-          )}
-        </Box>
-      </AccordionSummary>
-      <AccordionDetails>
-        <Stack spacing={1.5}>{children}</Stack>
-      </AccordionDetails>
-    </Accordion>
+    <Box>
+      <SectionTitle>{title}</SectionTitle>
+      {subtitle && (
+        <Typography variant="body2" color="text.secondary" sx={{ mb: 2 }}>
+          {subtitle}
+        </Typography>
+      )}
+      <Stack spacing={2}>{children}</Stack>
+    </Box>
   );
 }
 
@@ -518,7 +497,7 @@ function SourceBlock({
   children: React.ReactNode;
 }) {
   return (
-    <Box sx={{ border: 1, borderColor: "divider", borderRadius: 3, p: 2 }}>
+    <Panel>
       <Stack direction="row" alignItems="center" spacing={1} sx={{ mb: enabled ? 1.5 : 0 }}>
         <Typography sx={{ fontWeight: 600, flexGrow: 1 }}>{label}</Typography>
         {enabled && <Chip size="small" color="success" variant="outlined" label="on" />}
@@ -532,7 +511,7 @@ function SourceBlock({
           {children}
         </Stack>
       )}
-    </Box>
+    </Panel>
   );
 }
 

frontend/src/pages/TasksPage.tsx

@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 /**
- * Everything you owe, from every source, in one list.
+ * Everything you owe, from every source, grouped by deadline.
  *
- * Grouped by deadline rather than by source, because "what is late" is the
- * question you actually have; the source is a chip on the row. Ticking a task
- * closes it in its own system too, and says so when that write-back fails.
+ * There is no checkbox. A task is closed in Jira, Todoist or Google Tasks —
+ * wherever it lives — and the next refresh notices and credits it to the day.
+ * Two places to tick something off is two places to be wrong.
  */
 import { useMemo, useState } from "react";
 import {
@@ -11,9 +11,6 @@ import {
   AlertTitle,
   Box,
   Button,
-  Card,
-  CardContent,
-  Checkbox,
   Chip,
   Collapse,
   Dialog,
@@ -31,30 +28,36 @@ import {
   Tooltip,
   Typography,
 } from "@mui/material";
-import AddIcon from "@mui/icons-material/Add";
 import DeleteOutlineIcon from "@mui/icons-material/DeleteOutline";
 import OpenInNewIcon from "@mui/icons-material/OpenInNew";
-import PlayArrowIcon from "@mui/icons-material/PlayArrow";
-import PushPinIcon from "@mui/icons-material/PushPin";
-import PushPinOutlinedIcon from "@mui/icons-material/PushPinOutlined";
-import RefreshIcon from "@mui/icons-material/Refresh";
+import PlayArrowOutlinedIcon from "@mui/icons-material/PlayArrowOutlined";
+import StarIcon from "@mui/icons-material/Star";
+import StarBorderIcon from "@mui/icons-material/StarBorder";
 import { useNavigate } from "react-router-dom";
 
+import { PageHeader, Panel, SectionTitle } from "../components/Layout";
 import { api } from "../lib/api";
 import { BUCKET_LABEL } from "../lib/format";
 import { useResource } from "../lib/hooks";
 import type { RefreshResult, Task, TaskListResponse } from "../lib/types";
 
-const BUCKETS: Task["bucket"][] = ["overdue", "today", "upcoming", "someday"];
+const BUCKETS: Task["bucket"][] = ["overdue", "today", "active", "upcoming", "someday"];
+const BUCKET_COLOR: Record<string, string> = {
+  overdue: "error.main",
+  today: "warning.main",
+  active: "success.main",
+  upcoming: "text.disabled",
+  someday: "divider",
+};
 
 export default function TasksPage({ onToast }: { onToast: (message: string) => void }) {
   const navigate = useNavigate();
   const tasks = useResource<TaskListResponse>("/api/tasks", 60000);
   const [refreshing, setRefreshing] = useState(false);
   const [sourceStatus, setSourceStatus] = useState<RefreshResult["sources"] | null>(null);
-  const [filter, setFilter] = useState<string>("all");
+  const [filter, setFilter] = useState("all");
   const [addOpen, setAddOpen] = useState(false);
-  const [draft, setDraft] = useState({ title: "", due_date: "", estimated_pomodoros: "" });
+  const [draft, setDraft] = useState({ title: "", due_date: "" });
 
   const refresh = async () => {
     setRefreshing(true);
@@ -63,10 +66,11 @@ export default function TasksPage({ onToast }: { onToast: (message: string) => v
       setSourceStatus(result.sources);
       await tasks.reload();
       const failed = result.sources.filter((item) => !item.ok);
+      const closed = result.sources.reduce((sum, item) => sum + ((item as { closed?: number }).closed ?? 0), 0);
       onToast(
         failed.length
-          ? `${failed.length} source(s) failed — see the banner`
-          : `Pulled ${result.total} tasks from ${result.sources.length} source(s)`,
+          ? `${failed.length} source(s) failed — see above`
+          : `${result.total} open · ${closed} closed since last refresh`,
       );
     } catch (exc) {
       onToast(exc instanceof Error ? exc.message : String(exc));
@@ -75,43 +79,54 @@ export default function TasksPage({ onToast }: { onToast: (message: string) => v
     }
   };
 
-  const toggleDone = async (task: Task, done: boolean) => {
-    try {
-      const result = await api.post<{ warning: string | null }>(`/api/tasks/${task.id}/done`, { done });
-      await tasks.reload();
-      onToast(result.warning ?? (done ? `Closed "${task.title}"` : "Reopened"));
-    } catch (exc) {
-      onToast(exc instanceof Error ? exc.message : String(exc));
-    }
-  };
-
-  const togglePin = async (task: Task) => {
-    await api.patch(`/api/tasks/${task.id}`, { pinned: !task.pinned });
-    await tasks.reload();
-  };
-
-  const startOn = async (task: Task) => {
-    await api.post("/api/timer/start", { kind: "work", task_id: task.id });
-    onToast(`Focusing on "${task.title}"`);
-    navigate("/");
-  };
-
   const visible = useMemo(() => {
     const all = tasks.data?.tasks ?? [];
     return filter === "all" ? all : all.filter((task) => task.source === filter);
   }, [tasks.data, filter]);
 
   const grouped = useMemo(() => {
-    const map: Record<string, Task[]> = { overdue: [], today: [], upcoming: [], someday: [] };
-    for (const task of visible) map[task.bucket].push(task);
+    const map: Record<string, Task[]> = { overdue: [], today: [], active: [], upcoming: [], someday: [] };
+    for (const task of visible) {
+      const bucket = task && task.bucket && map[task.bucket] ? task.bucket : "someday";
+      map[bucket].push(task);
+    }
     return map;
   }, [visible]);
 
   const failed = sourceStatus?.filter((item) => !item.ok) ?? [];
 
   return (
-    <Stack spacing={3}>
-      <Stack direction="row" spacing={1} alignItems="center" sx={{ flexWrap: "wrap", rowGap: 1 }}>
+    <>
+      <PageHeader
+        eyebrow="From Jira, Todoist, Google Tasks and your own list"
+        title="Tasks"
+        caption="Close them where they live — the next refresh credits them to today."
+        actions={
+          <>
+            <Button variant="outlined" onClick={() => setAddOpen(true)}>
+              Add
+            </Button>
+            <Button variant="contained" disabled={refreshing} onClick={() => void refresh()}>
+              {refreshing ? "Refreshing…" : "Refresh sources"}
+            </Button>
+          </>
+        }
+      />
+
+      {refreshing && <LinearProgress sx={{ mb: 2 }} />}
+
+      <Collapse in={failed.length > 0}>
+        <Alert severity="warning" variant="outlined" sx={{ mb: 3 }} onClose={() => setSourceStatus(null)}>
+          <AlertTitle sx={{ fontWeight: 600 }}>Some sources could not be read</AlertTitle>
+          {failed.map((item) => (
+            <Typography key={item.source} variant="body2">
+              <strong>{item.label}:</strong> {item.error}
+            </Typography>
+          ))}
+        </Alert>
+      </Collapse>
+
+      <Stack direction="row" spacing={1} sx={{ mb: 3, flexWrap: "wrap", rowGap: 1 }}>
         <ToggleButtonGroup
           size="small"
           exclusive
@@ -126,78 +141,60 @@ export default function TasksPage({ onToast }: { onToast: (message: string) => v
           ))}
         </ToggleButtonGroup>
         <Box sx={{ flexGrow: 1 }} />
-        <Button startIcon={<AddIcon />} onClick={() => setAddOpen(true)}>
-          Add task
-        </Button>
-        <Button variant="contained" startIcon={<RefreshIcon />} disabled={refreshing} onClick={() => void refresh()}>
-          Refresh sources
-        </Button>
+        {sourceStatus && failed.length === 0 && (
+          <Stack direction="row" spacing={1} alignItems="center" sx={{ flexWrap: "wrap", rowGap: 1 }}>
+            {sourceStatus.map((item) => (
+              <Chip key={item.source} size="small" variant="outlined" label={`${item.label} ${item.count}`} />
+            ))}
+          </Stack>
+        )}
       </Stack>
 
-      {refreshing && <LinearProgress />}
-
-      <Collapse in={failed.length > 0}>
-        <Alert severity="warning" onClose={() => setSourceStatus(null)}>
-          <AlertTitle>Some sources could not be read</AlertTitle>
-          {failed.map((item) => (
-            <Typography key={item.source} variant="body2">
-              <strong>{item.label}:</strong> {item.error}
-            </Typography>
-          ))}
-        </Alert>
-      </Collapse>
-
-      {sourceStatus && failed.length === 0 && (
-        <Stack direction="row" spacing={1} sx={{ flexWrap: "wrap", rowGap: 1 }}>
-          {sourceStatus.map((item) => (
-            <Chip key={item.source} size="small" color="success" variant="outlined" label={`${item.label}: ${item.count}`} />
-          ))}
-        </Stack>
-      )}
-
       {tasks.data && visible.length === 0 && (
-        <Card>
-          <CardContent>
-            <Typography variant="h6">Nothing on the list</Typography>
-            <Typography variant="body2" color="text.secondary" sx={{ mt: 1 }}>
-              Connect Jira, Todoist or Google Tasks in Settings → Sources, or add something yourself.
-            </Typography>
-          </CardContent>
-        </Card>
+        <Panel>
+          <Typography variant="h6" sx={{ mb: 1 }}>
+            Nothing on the list
+          </Typography>
+          <Typography variant="body2" color="text.secondary">
+            Connect Jira, Todoist or Google Tasks in Settings → Task sources, or add something yourself.
+          </Typography>
+        </Panel>
       )}
 
       {BUCKETS.map((bucket) =>
         grouped[bucket].length ? (
-          <Card key={bucket}>
-            <CardContent>
-              <Stack direction="row" alignItems="center" spacing={1} sx={{ mb: 1 }}>
-                <Typography variant="subtitle1" sx={{ fontWeight: 600 }}>
-                  {BUCKET_LABEL[bucket]}
+          <Box key={bucket} sx={{ mb: 4 }}>
+            <SectionTitle
+              action={
+                <Typography variant="caption" color="text.secondary">
+                  {grouped[bucket].length}
                 </Typography>
-                <Chip
-                  size="small"
-                  label={grouped[bucket].length}
-                  color={bucket === "overdue" ? "error" : bucket === "today" ? "warning" : "default"}
+              }
+            >
+              {BUCKET_LABEL[bucket]}
+            </SectionTitle>
+            <Stack divider={<Divider />}>
+              {grouped[bucket].map((task) => (
+                <TaskRow
+                  key={task.id}
+                  task={task}
+                  onPin={async () => {
+                    await api.patch(`/api/tasks/${task.id}`, { pinned: !task.pinned });
+                    await tasks.reload();
+                  }}
+                  onStart={async () => {
+                    await api.post("/api/timer/start", { kind: "work", task_id: task.id });
+                    onToast(`Focusing on “${task.title}”`);
+                    navigate("/");
+                  }}
+                  onDelete={async () => {
+                    await api.del(`/api/tasks/${task.id}`);
+                    await tasks.reload();
+                  }}
                 />
-              </Stack>
-              <Divider />
-              <Stack divider={<Divider flexItem />}>
-                {grouped[bucket].map((task) => (
-                  <TaskRow
-                    key={task.id}
-                    task={task}
-                    onToggle={toggleDone}
-                    onPin={togglePin}
-                    onStart={startOn}
-                    onDelete={async () => {
-                      await api.del(`/api/tasks/${task.id}`);
-                      await tasks.reload();
-                    }}
-                  />
-                ))}
-              </Stack>
-            </CardContent>
-          </Card>
+              ))}
+            </Stack>
+          </Box>
         ) : null,
       )}
 
@@ -207,7 +204,7 @@ export default function TasksPage({ onToast }: { onToast: (message: string) => v
           <Stack spacing={2} sx={{ mt: 1 }}>
             <TextField
               autoFocus
-              label="Title"
+              label="What needs doing?"
               value={draft.title}
               onChange={(event) => setDraft({ ...draft, title: event.target.value })}
             />
@@ -218,12 +215,9 @@ export default function TasksPage({ onToast }: { onToast: (message: string) => v
               value={draft.due_date}
               onChange={(event) => setDraft({ ...draft, due_date: event.target.value })}
             />
-            <TextField
-              label="Estimated pomodoros"
-              type="number"
-              value={draft.estimated_pomodoros}
-              onChange={(event) => setDraft({ ...draft, estimated_pomodoros: event.target.value })}
-            />
+            <Typography variant="caption" color="text.secondary">
+              Local tasks live only here, so they are the one kind you can delete.
+            </Typography>
           </Stack>
         </DialogContent>
         <DialogActions>
@@ -235,9 +229,8 @@ export default function TasksPage({ onToast }: { onToast: (message: string) => v
               await api.post("/api/tasks", {
                 title: draft.title.trim(),
                 due_date: draft.due_date || null,
-                estimated_pomodoros: draft.estimated_pomodoros ? Number(draft.estimated_pomodoros) : null,
               });
-              setDraft({ title: "", due_date: "", estimated_pomodoros: "" });
+              setDraft({ title: "", due_date: "" });
               setAddOpen(false);
               await tasks.reload();
             }}
@@ -246,71 +239,93 @@ export default function TasksPage({ onToast }: { onToast: (message: string) => v
           </Button>
         </DialogActions>
       </Dialog>
-    </Stack>
+    </>
   );
 }
 
 function TaskRow({
   task,
-  onToggle,
   onPin,
   onStart,
   onDelete,
 }: {
   task: Task;
-  onToggle: (task: Task, done: boolean) => Promise<void>;
-  onPin: (task: Task) => Promise<void>;
-  onStart: (task: Task) => Promise<void>;
+  onPin: () => Promise<void>;
+  onStart: () => Promise<void>;
   onDelete: () => Promise<void>;
 }) {
   return (
-    <Stack direction="row" spacing={1} alignItems="center" sx={{ py: 1 }}>
-      <Checkbox checked={task.is_done} onChange={(event) => void onToggle(task, event.target.checked)} />
+    <Stack
+      direction="row"
+      spacing={2}
+      alignItems="center"
+      sx={{ py: 1.5, "&:hover .row-actions": { opacity: 1 } }}
+    >
+      <Box sx={{ width: 2, alignSelf: "stretch", bgcolor: BUCKET_COLOR[task.bucket] ?? BUCKET_COLOR.someday, borderRadius: 1 }} />
+
       <Box sx={{ flexGrow: 1, minWidth: 0 }}>
-        <Stack direction="row" spacing={1} alignItems="center" sx={{ flexWrap: "wrap", rowGap: 0.5 }}>
-          <Typography
-            variant="body1"
-            sx={{ textDecoration: task.is_done ? "line-through" : "none", opacity: task.is_done ? 0.6 : 1 }}
-          >
+        <Stack direction="row" spacing={1} alignItems="center">
+          <Typography variant="body1" noWrap sx={{ fontWeight: task.pinned ? 600 : 400 }}>
             {task.title}
           </Typography>
           {task.url && (
-            <Link href={task.url} target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" sx={{ display: "inline-flex" }}>
-              <OpenInNewIcon fontSize="inherit" />
+            <Link href={task.url} target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" sx={{ display: "inline-flex", color: "text.disabled" }}>
+              <OpenInNewIcon sx={{ fontSize: 14 }} />
             </Link>
           )}
         </Stack>
-        <Stack direction="row" spacing={1} sx={{ mt: 0.5, flexWrap: "wrap", rowGap: 0.5 }}>
-          <Chip size="small" variant="outlined" label={task.source_label} />
-          {task.project && <Chip size="small" variant="outlined" label={task.project} />}
-          {task.priority && <Chip size="small" variant="outlined" label={task.priority} />}
-          {task.status && <Chip size="small" variant="outlined" label={task.status} />}
-          {task.days_overdue > 0 && (
-            <Chip size="small" color="error" label={`${task.days_overdue}d overdue`} />
+        <Stack direction="row" spacing={1.5} sx={{ mt: 0.25, flexWrap: "wrap", rowGap: 0.5 }}>
+          <Typography variant="caption" color="text.secondary">
+            {task.source_label}
+          </Typography>
+          {task.project && (
+            <Typography variant="caption" color="text.secondary">
+              {task.project}
+            </Typography>
           )}
-          {task.due_date && task.days_overdue === 0 && (
-            <Chip size="small" variant="outlined" label={task.due_date} />
+          {task.status && (
+            <Typography variant="caption" color="text.secondary">
+              {task.status}
+            </Typography>
+          )}
+          {task.priority && (
+            <Typography variant="caption" color="text.secondary">
+              {task.priority}
+            </Typography>
+          )}
+          {task.days_overdue > 0 ? (
+            <Typography variant="caption" color="error.main" sx={{ fontWeight: 600 }}>
+              {task.days_overdue}d overdue
+            </Typography>
+          ) : (
+            task.due_date && (
+              <Typography variant="caption" color="text.secondary">
+                due {task.due_date}
+              </Typography>
+            )
           )}
-          {task.stale && <Chip size="small" color="warning" variant="outlined" label="gone from source" />}
         </Stack>
       </Box>
-      <Tooltip title={task.pinned ? "Unpin" : "Pin to the top"}>
-        <IconButton size="small" onClick={() => void onPin(task)}>
-          {task.pinned ? <PushPinIcon fontSize="small" /> : <PushPinOutlinedIcon fontSize="small" />}
-        </IconButton>
-      </Tooltip>
-      <Tooltip title="Start a pomodoro on this">
-        <IconButton size="small" color="primary" onClick={() => void onStart(task)}>
-          <PlayArrowIcon fontSize="small" />
-        </IconButton>
-      </Tooltip>
-      {task.source === "local" && (
-        <Tooltip title="Delete">
-          <IconButton size="small" onClick={() => void onDelete()}>
-            <DeleteOutlineIcon fontSize="small" />
+
+      <Stack direction="row" spacing={0.5} className="row-actions" sx={{ opacity: { xs: 1, md: 0.25 }, transition: "opacity .15s" }}>
+        <Tooltip title={task.pinned ? "Unpin" : "Pin to the top"}>
+          <IconButton size="small" onClick={() => void onPin()}>
+            {task.pinned ? <StarIcon sx={{ fontSize: 17 }} /> : <StarBorderIcon sx={{ fontSize: 17 }} />}
           </IconButton>
         </Tooltip>
-      )}
+        <Tooltip title="Start a pomodoro on this">
+          <IconButton size="small" onClick={() => void onStart()}>
+            <PlayArrowOutlinedIcon sx={{ fontSize: 18 }} />
+          </IconButton>
+        </Tooltip>
+        {task.source === "local" && (
+          <Tooltip title="Delete">
+            <IconButton size="small" onClick={() => void onDelete()}>
+              <DeleteOutlineIcon sx={{ fontSize: 17 }} />
+            </IconButton>
+          </Tooltip>
+        )}
+      </Stack>
     </Stack>
   );
 }

frontend/src/pages/TimerPage.tsx

@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@
  * The timer.
  *
  * The server owns the clock, so this page polls `/api/timer/state` and ticks
- * locally in between: the countdown is smooth, and a reload (or the desktop app
- * taking over) picks up exactly where the browser left off. When the local
- * countdown reaches zero it tells the server to complete the interval — the
+ * locally in between: the countdown is smooth, and a reload — or the desktop
+ * app taking over — picks up exactly where the browser left off. When the local
+ * countdown reaches zero it tells the server to complete the interval; the
  * server decides what comes next.
  */
 import { useCallback, useEffect, useMemo, useRef, useState } from "react";
@@ -12,9 +12,6 @@ import {
   Alert,
   Box,
   Button,
-  Card,
-  CardContent,
-  Chip,
   Dialog,
   DialogActions,
   DialogContent,
@@ -22,23 +19,18 @@ import {
   Divider,
   Grid,
   IconButton,
-  LinearProgress,
   MenuItem,
   Stack,
   TextField,
   Tooltip,
   Typography,
 } from "@mui/material";
-import AddAlarmIcon from "@mui/icons-material/AddAlarm";
-import CheckCircleIcon from "@mui/icons-material/CheckCircle";
-import CoffeeIcon from "@mui/icons-material/Coffee";
-import NotificationsActiveIcon from "@mui/icons-material/NotificationsActive";
-import PauseIcon from "@mui/icons-material/Pause";
-import PlayArrowIcon from "@mui/icons-material/PlayArrow";
-import StopIcon from "@mui/icons-material/Stop";
+import AddAlarmOutlinedIcon from "@mui/icons-material/AddAlarmOutlined";
+import NotificationsNoneOutlinedIcon from "@mui/icons-material/NotificationsNoneOutlined";
+import StopOutlinedIcon from "@mui/icons-material/StopOutlined";
 
 import SessionTimeline from "../components/charts/SessionTimeline";
-import StatTile from "../components/StatTile";
+import { PageHeader, Panel, SectionTitle, Stat, StatRow } from "../components/Layout";
 import TimerDial from "../components/TimerDial";
 import { api } from "../lib/api";
 import { KIND_LABEL, clock, humanMinutes } from "../lib/format";
@@ -55,12 +47,12 @@ export default function TimerPage({
   onToast: (message: string) => void;
   dark: boolean;
 }) {
-  const { settings } = useSettings();
+  const { settings, save } = useSettings();
   const palette = useMemo(() => vizPalette(dark), [dark]);
 
   const timer = useResource<TimerState>("/api/timer/state", 10000);
   const tasks = useResource<TaskListResponse>("/api/tasks", 60000);
-  const today = useResource<{ sessions: unknown[]; metrics: DayMetrics }>("/api/timer/sessions", 30000);
+  const today = useResource<{ metrics: DayMetrics }>("/api/timer/sessions", 30000);
 
   const [abandonOpen, setAbandonOpen] = useState(false);
   const [abandonReason, setAbandonReason] = useState("");
@@ -70,27 +62,23 @@ export default function TimerPage({
   const state = timer.data;
   const current = state?.current ?? null;
   const running = current?.status === "running";
+  const timerEnabled = settings?.pomodoro.timer_enabled ?? true;
 
-  // Local countdown between polls.
   const tick = useTick(Boolean(current));
   const anchor = useRef<{ at: number; remaining: number; id: number } | null>(null);
   useEffect(() => {
-    if (current) anchor.current = { at: Date.now(), remaining: current.remaining_seconds, id: current.id };
-    else anchor.current = null;
+    anchor.current = current
+      ? { at: Date.now(), remaining: current.remaining_seconds, id: current.id }
+      : null;
   }, [current?.id, current?.remaining_seconds, current?.status]);
 
   const remaining = useMemo(() => {
     if (!current) return 0;
     if (!anchor.current || anchor.current.id !== current.id) return current.remaining_seconds;
     if (current.status === "paused") return anchor.current.remaining;
-    const drift = Math.floor((Date.now() - anchor.current.at) / 1000);
-    return Math.max(0, anchor.current.remaining - drift);
+    return Math.max(0, anchor.current.remaining - Math.floor((Date.now() - anchor.current.at) / 1000));
   }, [current, tick]);
 
-  const refreshAll = useCallback(async () => {
-    await Promise.all([timer.reload(), today.reload()]);
-  }, [timer, today]);
-
   const call = useCallback(
     async (path: string, body?: unknown, successToast?: string) => {
       setBusy(true);
@@ -110,7 +98,6 @@ export default function TimerPage({
     [onToast, timer, today],
   );
 
-  // When the countdown hits zero, hand it to the server and announce it.
   const firing = useRef(false);
   useEffect(() => {
     if (!current || remaining > 0 || firing.current) return;
@@ -123,12 +110,9 @@ export default function TimerPage({
         wasWork ? sound.workDone(volume) : sound.breakDone(volume);
       }
       if (settings?.pomodoro.desktop_notifications ?? true) {
-        notify(
-          wasWork ? "Pomodoro complete 🍅" : "Break over ☕",
-          wasWork ? "Time for a break." : "Back to it.",
-        );
+        notify(wasWork ? "Pomodoro complete" : "Break over", wasWork ? "Time for a break." : "Back to it.");
       }
-      if (next?.celebration) onToast("Milestone reached — check Telegram 🎉");
+      if (next?.celebration) onToast("Milestone reached — Telegram got a cheer");
       firing.current = false;
     })();
   }, [remaining, current, call, settings, onToast]);
@@ -138,7 +122,7 @@ export default function TimerPage({
     await call(
       "/api/timer/start",
       { kind, task_id: kind === "work" && selectedTask !== "" ? selectedTask : undefined },
-      kind === "work" ? "Focus interval started" : "Break started",
+      kind === "work" ? "Focus started" : "Break started",
     );
   };
 
@@ -150,243 +134,245 @@ export default function TimerPage({
 
   const kind = current?.kind ?? state?.next_kind ?? "work";
   const total = current?.planned_seconds ?? (state ? state.durations[kind] * 60 : 1500);
+  const accent = kindColor(kind, palette);
 
   return (
-    <Stack spacing={3}>
-      <Grid container spacing={3}>
-        <Grid item xs={12} md={7}>
-          <Card>
-            <CardContent sx={{ textAlign: "center", pb: 3 }}>
-              <TimerDial
-                remaining={current ? remaining : total}
-                total={total}
-                label={current ? KIND_LABEL[current.kind] : `Next: ${KIND_LABEL[kind]}`}
-                sublabel={current?.task?.title ?? (current ? undefined : "Press start when you are ready")}
-                color={kindColor(kind, palette)}
-                paused={current?.status === "paused"}
-              />
-
-              <Stack direction="row" spacing={1} justifyContent="center" sx={{ mt: 3, flexWrap: "wrap", rowGap: 1 }}>
-                {!current && (
-                  <>
-                    <Button
-                      variant="contained"
-                      size="large"
-                      startIcon={<PlayArrowIcon />}
-                      disabled={busy}
-                      onClick={() => void start("work")}
-                    >
-                      Start focus
-                    </Button>
+    <>
+      <PageHeader
+        eyebrow={new Date().toLocaleDateString(undefined, { weekday: "long", day: "numeric", month: "long" })}
+        title={!timerEnabled ? "View mode" : (current ? KIND_LABEL[current.kind] : "Ready when you are")}
+        caption={
+          !timerEnabled
+            ? "Timer is turned off · spectator mode"
+            : (current?.task
+                ? `Tracking “${current.task.title}”`
+                : `Cycle ${state?.cycle_position ?? 1} of ${state?.cycles_before_long_break ?? 4} before a long break`)
+        }
+        actions={
+          <Stack direction="row" spacing={1} alignItems="center">
+            <Button
+              variant="outlined"
+              size="small"
+              onClick={async () => {
+                try {
+                  await save({ pomodoro: { timer_enabled: !timerEnabled } });
+                  onToast(!timerEnabled ? "Timer enabled" : "Switched to view-only mode");
+                } catch (exc) {
+                  onToast(exc instanceof Error ? exc.message : String(exc));
+                }
+              }}
+            >
+              {timerEnabled ? "Turn off timer" : "Turn on timer"}
+            </Button>
+            {timerEnabled && (
+              current ? (
+                <>
+                  {running ? (
                     <Button
                       variant="outlined"
-                      size="large"
-                      startIcon={<CoffeeIcon />}
-                      disabled={busy}
-                      onClick={() => void start(state?.next_kind === "long_break" ? "long_break" : "short_break")}
+                      disabled={busy || !(settings?.pomodoro.allow_pause ?? true)}
+                      onClick={() => void call("/api/timer/pause")}
                     >
-                      {state?.next_kind === "long_break" ? "Long break" : "Short break"}
+                      Pause
                     </Button>
-                  </>
-                )}
-                {current && (
-                  <>
-                    {running ? (
-                      <Button
-                        variant="outlined"
-                        size="large"
-                        startIcon={<PauseIcon />}
-                        disabled={busy || !(settings?.pomodoro.allow_pause ?? true)}
-                        onClick={() => void call("/api/timer/pause")}
-                      >
-                        Pause
-                      </Button>
-                    ) : (
-                      <Button
-                        variant="contained"
-                        size="large"
-                        startIcon={<PlayArrowIcon />}
-                        disabled={busy}
-                        onClick={() => void call("/api/timer/resume")}
-                      >
-                        Resume
-                      </Button>
-                    )}
-                    <Button
-                      variant="contained"
-                      color="success"
-                      size="large"
-                      startIcon={<CheckCircleIcon />}
-                      disabled={busy}
-                      onClick={() => void call("/api/timer/complete", { auto_next: true }, "Interval completed")}
-                    >
-                      Done
+                  ) : (
+                    <Button variant="outlined" disabled={busy} onClick={() => void call("/api/timer/resume")}>
+                      Resume
                     </Button>
-                    <Tooltip title="Add five minutes">
-                      <IconButton
-                        disabled={busy}
-                        onClick={() => void call("/api/timer/extend", { minutes: 5 })}
-                      >
-                        <AddAlarmIcon />
-                      </IconButton>
-                    </Tooltip>
-                    <Tooltip title="Count an interruption without stopping">
-                      <IconButton disabled={busy} onClick={() => void call("/api/timer/interrupt")}>
-                        <NotificationsActiveIcon />
-                      </IconButton>
-                    </Tooltip>
-                    <Tooltip title="Abandon this interval">
-                      <IconButton color="error" disabled={busy} onClick={() => setAbandonOpen(true)}>
-                        <StopIcon />
-                      </IconButton>
-                    </Tooltip>
-                  </>
-                )}
-              </Stack>
+                  )}
+                  <Button
+                    variant="contained"
+                    disabled={busy}
+                    onClick={() => void call("/api/timer/complete", { auto_next: true }, "Interval finished")}
+                  >
+                    Finish
+                  </Button>
+                </>
+              ) : (
+                <>
+                  <Button variant="contained" disabled={busy} onClick={() => void start("work")}>
+                    Start focus
+                  </Button>
+                  <Button
+                    variant="outlined"
+                    disabled={busy}
+                    onClick={() => void start(state?.next_kind === "long_break" ? "long_break" : "short_break")}
+                  >
+                    {state?.next_kind === "long_break" ? "Long break" : "Short break"}
+                  </Button>
+                </>
+              )
+            )}
+          </Stack>
+        }
+      />
 
-              {current && current.interruptions > 0 && (
-                <Typography variant="caption" color="text.secondary" sx={{ display: "block", mt: 1.5 }}>
-                  {current.interruptions} interruption{current.interruptions === 1 ? "" : "s"} this interval
-                </Typography>
-              )}
-            </CardContent>
-          </Card>
+      <Grid container spacing={4}>
+        <Grid item xs={12} md={7}>
+          <Panel sx={{ py: { xs: 4, md: 5 } }}>
+            <TimerDial
+              remaining={timerEnabled ? (current ? remaining : total) : 0}
+              total={total}
+              label={!timerEnabled ? "View mode" : (current ? KIND_LABEL[current.kind] : `Next · ${KIND_LABEL[kind]}`)}
+              sublabel={!timerEnabled ? "Timer disabled" : (current?.task?.title ?? (current ? undefined : "Pick something below, or just begin"))}
+              color={timerEnabled ? accent : palette.axis}
+              paused={current?.status === "paused"}
+              idle={!timerEnabled || !current}
+            />
+
+            {current && timerEnabled && (
+              <Stack direction="row" spacing={1} justifyContent="center" sx={{ mt: 3 }}>
+                <Tooltip title="Add five minutes">
+                  <IconButton size="small" disabled={busy} onClick={() => void call("/api/timer/extend", { minutes: 5 })}>
+                    <AddAlarmOutlinedIcon fontSize="small" />
+                  </IconButton>
+                </Tooltip>
+                <Tooltip title="Count an interruption without stopping the clock">
+                  <IconButton size="small" disabled={busy} onClick={() => void call("/api/timer/interrupt")}>
+                    <NotificationsNoneOutlinedIcon fontSize="small" />
+                  </IconButton>
+                </Tooltip>
+                <Tooltip title="Abandon this interval">
+                  <IconButton size="small" disabled={busy} onClick={() => setAbandonOpen(true)}>
+                    <StopOutlinedIcon fontSize="small" />
+                  </IconButton>
+                </Tooltip>
+              </Stack>
+            )}
+
+            {current && current.interruptions > 0 && (
+              <Typography variant="caption" color="text.secondary" align="center" sx={{ display: "block", mt: 1.5 }}>
+                {current.interruptions} interruption{current.interruptions === 1 ? "" : "s"} so far
+              </Typography>
+            )}
+          </Panel>
         </Grid>
 
         <Grid item xs={12} md={5}>
-          <Stack spacing={3} sx={{ height: "100%" }}>
-            <Card>
-              <CardContent>
-                <Typography variant="overline" color="text.secondary">
-                  Today
-                </Typography>
-                <Stack direction="row" alignItems="baseline" spacing={1}>
-                  <Typography variant="h4" sx={{ fontVariantNumeric: "tabular-nums" }}>
-                    {doneToday}
-                  </Typography>
-                  <Typography variant="h6" color="text.secondary">
-                    / {goal} pomodoros
-                  </Typography>
-                </Stack>
-                <LinearProgress
-                  variant="determinate"
-                  value={Math.min(100, goal ? (doneToday / goal) * 100 : 0)}
-                  sx={{ height: 8, borderRadius: 4, my: 1.5 }}
-                />
-                <Stack direction="row" spacing={0.75} sx={{ flexWrap: "wrap", rowGap: 0.75 }}>
-                  {Array.from({ length: Math.max(goal, doneToday) }, (_unused, index) => (
-                    <Box
-                      key={index}
-                      sx={{
-                        width: 14,
-                        height: 14,
-                        borderRadius: "50%",
-                        bgcolor: index < doneToday ? palette.work : "action.hover",
-                        outline: index < doneToday ? "none" : `1px solid ${palette.grid}`,
-                        outlineOffset: "-1px",
-                      }}
-                    />
-                  ))}
-                </Stack>
-                {metrics && (
-                  <Typography variant="body2" color="text.secondary" sx={{ mt: 1.5 }}>
-                    {humanMinutes(metrics.focus_minutes)} focused · {humanMinutes(metrics.break_minutes)} rested
-                    {metrics.longest_stretch_minutes > 0 &&
-                      ` · longest stretch ${humanMinutes(metrics.longest_stretch_minutes)}`}
-                  </Typography>
-                )}
-                <Typography variant="caption" color="text.secondary">
-                  Cycle {state?.cycle_position ?? 1} of {state?.cycles_before_long_break ?? 4} before a long break
-                </Typography>
-              </CardContent>
-            </Card>
-
-            <Card sx={{ flexGrow: 1 }}>
-              <CardContent>
-                <Typography variant="overline" color="text.secondary">
-                  What are you working on?
-                </Typography>
-                <TextField
-                  select
-                  fullWidth
-                  sx={{ mt: 1 }}
-                  value={selectedTask}
-                  onChange={(event) => {
-                    const value = event.target.value === "" ? "" : Number(event.target.value);
-                    setSelectedTask(value);
-                    if (current) void call("/api/timer/task", { task_id: value === "" ? null : value });
+          <Stack spacing={3}>
+            <Box>
+              <SectionTitle>Today</SectionTitle>
+              <Stack direction="row" alignItems="baseline" spacing={1}>
+                <Typography
+                  sx={{
+                    fontFamily: (theme) => theme.typography.h1.fontFamily,
+                    fontSize: 44,
+                    lineHeight: 1,
+                    letterSpacing: "-0.03em",
                   }}
-                  helperText={
-                    current?.task
-                      ? `This interval is tracked against "${current.task.title}"`
-                      : "Pick a task so the report knows where the time went"
+                >
+                  {doneToday}
+                </Typography>
+                <Typography variant="body1" color="text.secondary">
+                  of {goal} pomodoros
+                </Typography>
+              </Stack>
+
+              <Stack direction="row" spacing={0.75} sx={{ flexWrap: "wrap", rowGap: 0.75, mt: 2 }}>
+                {Array.from({ length: Math.max(goal, doneToday) }, (_unused, index) => (
+                  <Box
+                    key={index}
+                    sx={{
+                      width: 11,
+                      height: 11,
+                      borderRadius: "50%",
+                      bgcolor: index < doneToday ? palette.work : "transparent",
+                      border: index < doneToday ? "none" : "1px solid",
+                      borderColor: "divider",
+                    }}
+                  />
+                ))}
+              </Stack>
+
+              {metrics && (
+                <Typography variant="body2" color="text.secondary" sx={{ mt: 2 }}>
+                  {humanMinutes(metrics.focus_minutes)} focused · {humanMinutes(metrics.break_minutes)} rested
+                  {metrics.longest_stretch_minutes > 0 &&
+                    ` · longest run ${humanMinutes(metrics.longest_stretch_minutes)}`}
+                </Typography>
+              )}
+            </Box>
+
+            <Box>
+              <SectionTitle>Working on</SectionTitle>
+              <TextField
+                select
+                fullWidth
+                SelectProps={{ displayEmpty: true }}
+                value={selectedTask}
+                onChange={(event) => {
+                  const value = event.target.value === "" ? "" : Number(event.target.value);
+                  setSelectedTask(value);
+                  if (current) void call("/api/timer/task", { task_id: value === "" ? null : value });
+                }}
+              >
+                <MenuItem value="">
+                  <em>Nothing in particular</em>
+                </MenuItem>
+                {openTasks.slice(0, 60).map((task) => (
+                  <MenuItem key={task.id} value={task.id}>
+                    {task.pinned ? "★ " : ""}
+                    {task.title}
+                    {task.due_date ? ` · ${task.due_date}` : ""}
+                  </MenuItem>
+                ))}
+              </TextField>
+
+              {suggestion && selectedTask === "" && (
+                <Alert
+                  severity={suggestion.days_overdue > 0 ? "warning" : "info"}
+                  variant="outlined"
+                  sx={{ mt: 1.5 }}
+                  action={
+                    <Button size="small" onClick={() => setSelectedTask(suggestion.id)}>
+                      Use
+                    </Button>
                   }
                 >
-                  <MenuItem value="">
-                    <em>No task</em>
-                  </MenuItem>
-                  {openTasks.slice(0, 50).map((task) => (
-                    <MenuItem key={task.id} value={task.id}>
-                      {task.pinned ? "📌 " : ""}
-                      {task.title}
-                      {task.due_date ? ` · ${task.due_date}` : ""}
-                    </MenuItem>
-                  ))}
-                </TextField>
+                  {suggestion.days_overdue > 0 ? "Most overdue: " : "Next up: "}
+                  <strong>{suggestion.title}</strong>
+                </Alert>
+              )}
 
-                {suggestion && selectedTask === "" && (
-                  <Alert
-                    severity={suggestion.days_overdue > 0 ? "warning" : "info"}
-                    sx={{ mt: 2 }}
-                    action={
-                      <Button size="small" onClick={() => setSelectedTask(suggestion.id)}>
-                        Use
-                      </Button>
-                    }
-                  >
-                    Suggested: <strong>{suggestion.title}</strong>
-                    {suggestion.days_overdue > 0 ? ` — ${suggestion.days_overdue} days overdue` : ""}
-                  </Alert>
-                )}
-
-                <Divider sx={{ my: 2 }} />
-                <Stack direction="row" spacing={1} sx={{ flexWrap: "wrap", rowGap: 1 }}>
-                  <Chip size="small" label={`${tasks.data?.counts.overdue ?? 0} overdue`} color="error" variant="outlined" />
-                  <Chip size="small" label={`${tasks.data?.counts.today ?? 0} due today`} color="warning" variant="outlined" />
-                  <Chip size="small" label={`${tasks.data?.counts.upcoming ?? 0} upcoming`} variant="outlined" />
-                </Stack>
-              </CardContent>
-            </Card>
+              <Stack direction="row" spacing={2} sx={{ mt: 2 }} divider={<Divider flexItem orientation="vertical" />}>
+                <Typography variant="caption" color="text.secondary">
+                  {tasks.data?.counts.overdue ?? 0} overdue
+                </Typography>
+                <Typography variant="caption" color="text.secondary">
+                  {tasks.data?.counts.today ?? 0} due today
+                </Typography>
+                <Typography variant="caption" color="text.secondary">
+                  {tasks.data?.counts.upcoming ?? 0} upcoming
+                </Typography>
+              </Stack>
+            </Box>
           </Stack>
         </Grid>
       </Grid>
 
-      <Grid container spacing={3}>
-        <Grid item xs={6} md={3}>
-          <StatTile label="Focus today" value={humanMinutes(metrics?.focus_minutes ?? 0)} caption={`${metrics?.pomodoros ?? 0} pomodoros`} />
-        </Grid>
-        <Grid item xs={6} md={3}>
-          <StatTile
+      <Box sx={{ mt: 4 }}>
+        <StatRow>
+          <Stat label="Focus today" value={humanMinutes(metrics?.focus_minutes ?? 0)} caption={`${metrics?.pomodoros ?? 0} intervals`} />
+          <Stat
             label="Interruptions"
             value={metrics?.interruptions ?? 0}
             caption={metrics?.abandoned ? `${metrics.abandoned} abandoned` : "none dropped"}
           />
-        </Grid>
-        <Grid item xs={6} md={3}>
-          <StatTile label="Tasks closed" value={metrics?.tasks_completed_count ?? 0} caption="today" />
-        </Grid>
-        <Grid item xs={6} md={3}>
-          <StatTile label="Blocked attempts" value={metrics?.blocked_attempts ?? 0} caption="temptations turned away" />
-        </Grid>
-      </Grid>
+          <Stat label="Closed today" value={metrics?.tasks_completed_count ?? 0} caption="in your own tools" />
+          <Stat label="Blocked" value={metrics?.blocked_attempts ?? 0} caption="temptations turned away" />
+        </StatRow>
+      </Box>
 
-      <SessionTimeline sessions={metrics?.sessions ?? []} palette={palette} />
+      <Box sx={{ mt: 4 }}>
+        <SessionTimeline sessions={metrics?.sessions ?? []} palette={palette} />
+      </Box>
 
       <Dialog open={abandonOpen} onClose={() => setAbandonOpen(false)} fullWidth maxWidth="xs">
         <DialogTitle>Abandon this interval?</DialogTitle>
         <DialogContent>
           <Typography variant="body2" color="text.secondary" sx={{ mb: 2 }}>
-            {clock(remaining)} left. {settings?.pomodoro.strict_mode ? "Strict mode wants a reason." : "A reason is optional."}
+            {clock(remaining)} left.{" "}
+            {settings?.pomodoro.strict_mode ? "Strict mode wants a reason." : "A reason is optional."}
           </Typography>
           <TextField
             autoFocus
@@ -405,7 +391,6 @@ export default function TimerPage({
               if (result) {
                 setAbandonOpen(false);
                 setAbandonReason("");
-                void refreshAll();
               }
             }}
           >
@@ -413,17 +398,17 @@ export default function TimerPage({
           </Button>
         </DialogActions>
       </Dialog>
-    </Stack>
+    </>
   );
 }
 
-/** Overdue first, then due today, then whatever is pinned — the obvious next thing. */
+/** Pinned first, then the most overdue, then what is due today. */
 function pickSuggestion(tasks: Task[]): Task | null {
-  const pinned = tasks.find((task) => task.pinned);
-  if (pinned) return pinned;
-  const overdue = tasks.filter((task) => task.bucket === "overdue");
-  if (overdue.length) return overdue[0];
-  const dueToday = tasks.filter((task) => task.bucket === "today");
-  if (dueToday.length) return dueToday[0];
-  return tasks[0] ?? null;
+  return (
+    tasks.find((task) => task.pinned) ??
+    tasks.find((task) => task.bucket === "overdue") ??
+    tasks.find((task) => task.bucket === "today") ??
+    tasks[0] ??
+    null
+  );
 }

frontend/src/theme.ts

@@ -1,61 +1,125 @@
 /**
- * Material theme.
+ * The MUI theme, built from the tokens.
  *
- * The seed colour from the settings drives the palette, so changing the accent
- * repaints the whole app; shape, elevation and typography follow Material 3's
- * defaults (rounded 16–28px surfaces, tonal containers, no hard shadows).
+ * Material components are used for their behaviour, not their chrome: shadows
+ * are off, radii are small, surfaces are separated by hairlines, and type is the
+ * Fraunces/Inter pairing. The accent is a fixed ember — it is a brand colour,
+ * not a user setting, because the warm palette is the design.
  */
-import { alpha, createTheme, type Theme } from "@mui/material/styles";
+import { createTheme, type Theme } from "@mui/material/styles";
+
+import { DISPLAY_FONT, SANS_FONT, tokensFor } from "./tokens";
 
 export type ThemeMode = "light" | "dark";
 
-export function buildTheme(mode: ThemeMode, seed: string, compact: boolean): Theme {
-  const dark = mode === "dark";
+export function buildTheme(mode: ThemeMode, compact: boolean): Theme {
+  const t = tokensFor(mode);
+
   return createTheme({
     palette: {
       mode,
-      primary: { main: seed },
-      secondary: { main: dark ? "#CCC2DC" : "#625B71" },
-      success: { main: dark ? "#8BD5A8" : "#2E7D52" },
-      warning: { main: dark ? "#E6B566" : "#9A6700" },
-      error: { main: dark ? "#F2B8B5" : "#B3261E" },
-      background: {
-        default: dark ? "#131316" : "#FBF8FD",
-        paper: dark ? "#1C1B20" : "#FFFFFF",
-      },
+      primary: { main: t.ember, contrastText: mode === "dark" ? "#16140F" : "#FFFFFF" },
+      secondary: { main: t.pine },
+      success: { main: t.pine },
+      warning: { main: t.amber },
+      error: { main: t.clay },
+      text: { primary: t.ink, secondary: t.inkMuted, disabled: t.inkFaint },
+      divider: t.rule,
+      background: { default: t.paper, paper: t.surface },
     },
-    shape: { borderRadius: 16 },
-    spacing: compact ? 6 : 8,
+    shape: { borderRadius: 10 },
+    spacing: compact ? 7 : 8,
     typography: {
-      fontFamily: '"Roboto", "Segoe UI", system-ui, sans-serif',
-      h4: { fontWeight: 500, letterSpacing: "-0.01em" },
-      h5: { fontWeight: 500 },
-      h6: { fontWeight: 500 },
+      fontFamily: SANS_FONT,
+      h1: { fontFamily: DISPLAY_FONT, fontWeight: 500, letterSpacing: "-0.02em" },
+      h2: { fontFamily: DISPLAY_FONT, fontWeight: 500, letterSpacing: "-0.02em" },
+      h3: { fontFamily: DISPLAY_FONT, fontWeight: 500, letterSpacing: "-0.015em" },
+      h4: { fontFamily: DISPLAY_FONT, fontWeight: 500, letterSpacing: "-0.015em" },
+      h5: { fontFamily: DISPLAY_FONT, fontWeight: 500, letterSpacing: "-0.01em" },
+      h6: { fontFamily: DISPLAY_FONT, fontWeight: 500, fontSize: "1.1rem" },
+      subtitle1: { fontWeight: 600, fontSize: "0.95rem" },
+      subtitle2: { fontWeight: 600, fontSize: "0.82rem" },
+      body2: { fontSize: "0.875rem", lineHeight: 1.55 },
       button: { textTransform: "none", fontWeight: 500, letterSpacing: 0 },
-      overline: { letterSpacing: "0.08em", fontWeight: 500 },
+      overline: {
+        fontSize: "0.68rem",
+        fontWeight: 600,
+        letterSpacing: "0.12em",
+        textTransform: "uppercase",
+        lineHeight: 1.6,
+      },
+      caption: { fontSize: "0.76rem", lineHeight: 1.5 },
     },
     components: {
-      MuiPaper: {
+      MuiCssBaseline: {
         styleOverrides: {
-          root: ({ theme }) => ({
-            backgroundImage: "none",
-            border: `1px solid ${alpha(theme.palette.text.primary, 0.08)}`,
-          }),
+          body: {
+            backgroundColor: t.paper,
+            // Tabular figures everywhere: numbers that change every second must
+            // not make the layout twitch.
+            fontVariantNumeric: "tabular-nums",
+            WebkitFontSmoothing: "antialiased",
+          },
+          "::selection": { background: t.emberSoft },
         },
       },
-      MuiCard: {
+      MuiPaper: {
         defaultProps: { elevation: 0 },
-        styleOverrides: { root: { borderRadius: 20 } },
+        styleOverrides: {
+          root: { backgroundImage: "none", border: `1px solid ${t.rule}`, borderRadius: 12 },
+        },
       },
+      MuiCard: { defaultProps: { elevation: 0 }, styleOverrides: { root: { borderRadius: 12 } } },
       MuiButton: {
-        styleOverrides: { root: { borderRadius: 999, paddingInline: 20 } },
+        defaultProps: { disableElevation: true, disableRipple: true },
+        styleOverrides: {
+          root: { borderRadius: 8, paddingInline: 14, minHeight: 36 },
+          outlined: { borderColor: t.ruleStrong, "&:hover": { borderColor: t.ink, background: "transparent" } },
+          contained: { "&:hover": { filter: "brightness(1.06)" } },
+          text: { "&:hover": { background: t.emberSoft } },
+        },
       },
-      MuiChip: { styleOverrides: { root: { borderRadius: 8 } } },
+      MuiIconButton: { defaultProps: { disableRipple: true }, styleOverrides: { root: { borderRadius: 8 } } },
+      MuiChip: {
+        styleOverrides: {
+          root: { borderRadius: 6, fontWeight: 500, fontSize: "0.74rem", height: 24 },
+          outlined: { borderColor: t.rule },
+        },
+      },
+      MuiDivider: { styleOverrides: { root: { borderColor: t.rule } } },
       MuiTextField: { defaultProps: { size: "small" } },
-      MuiTooltip: { defaultProps: { arrow: true } },
-      MuiAppBar: {
-        defaultProps: { elevation: 0, color: "transparent" },
-        styleOverrides: { root: { backdropFilter: "blur(12px)" } },
+      MuiOutlinedInput: {
+        styleOverrides: {
+          root: { borderRadius: 8, background: mode === "dark" ? t.surfaceSunken : t.surface },
+          notchedOutline: { borderColor: t.rule },
+        },
+      },
+      MuiTooltip: {
+        defaultProps: { arrow: false },
+        styleOverrides: {
+          tooltip: {
+            background: t.ink,
+            color: t.paper,
+            fontSize: "0.75rem",
+            borderRadius: 6,
+            padding: "6px 9px",
+          },
+        },
+      },
+      MuiSwitch: { defaultProps: { size: "small" } },
+      MuiTab: { styleOverrides: { root: { textTransform: "none", fontWeight: 500, minHeight: 40 } } },
+      MuiTabs: { styleOverrides: { indicator: { height: 1.5, background: t.ink } } },
+      MuiLinearProgress: {
+        styleOverrides: {
+          root: { height: 3, borderRadius: 0, background: t.rule },
+          bar: { borderRadius: 0 },
+        },
+      },
+      MuiAlert: { styleOverrides: { root: { borderRadius: 10, border: `1px solid ${t.rule}` } } },
+      MuiAccordion: {
+        styleOverrides: {
+          root: { border: `1px solid ${t.rule}`, borderRadius: 12, "&::before": { display: "none" } },
+        },
       },
     },
   });

frontend/src/tokens.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+/**
+ * The design tokens, in one place.
+ *
+ * Kadence is meant to read like a well-set page rather than a dashboard: warm
+ * paper, ink-black type, hairline rules instead of boxes and shadows, one warm
+ * accent. The desktop app's QML `Theme` singleton carries the same values, so
+ * the two clients are the same product.
+ *
+ * Chart colours are deliberately *not* the brand accent: they come from the
+ * validated data palette (see `viz.ts`), because a chart has to stay readable
+ * for colour-blind readers in both themes.
+ */
+
+export interface Tokens {
+  paper: string;
+  surface: string;
+  surfaceSunken: string;
+  ink: string;
+  inkMuted: string;
+  inkFaint: string;
+  rule: string;
+  ruleStrong: string;
+  ember: string;
+  emberSoft: string;
+  pine: string;
+  amber: string;
+  clay: string;
+}
+
+export const light: Tokens = {
+  paper: "#FAF7F2",
+  surface: "#FFFFFF",
+  surfaceSunken: "#F3EFE8",
+  ink: "#17150F",
+  inkMuted: "#6E675B",
+  inkFaint: "#9A9388",
+  rule: "rgba(23, 21, 15, 0.12)",
+  ruleStrong: "rgba(23, 21, 15, 0.26)",
+  ember: "#B4441E",
+  emberSoft: "rgba(180, 68, 30, 0.10)",
+  pine: "#2F6B55",
+  amber: "#8A6200",
+  clay: "#A33A2E",
+};
+
+export const dark: Tokens = {
+  paper: "#121110",
+  surface: "#1A1917",
+  surfaceSunken: "#201E1B",
+  ink: "#F4F1EA",
+  inkMuted: "#A79F93",
+  inkFaint: "#776F64",
+  rule: "rgba(244, 241, 234, 0.14)",
+  ruleStrong: "rgba(244, 241, 234, 0.30)",
+  ember: "#E0724A",
+  emberSoft: "rgba(224, 114, 74, 0.14)",
+  pine: "#6FB394",
+  amber: "#D9A441",
+  clay: "#E07A6E",
+};
+
+export const DISPLAY_FONT = '"Fraunces", "Iowan Old Style", Georgia, serif';
+export const SANS_FONT = '"Inter", system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", sans-serif';
+
+export function tokensFor(mode: "light" | "dark"): Tokens {
+  return mode === "dark" ? dark : light;
+}