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Latch 0.17.0

2026-10-04

Chapters, first slice (M9 #52, #53). A window of time you can name, keep and export. Migration 23 adds two tables.

• The Log takes a range and reads by day. 🗓 Range picks this lock, an event you were in, this month, last month, everything, or two dates; events are grouped under a heading per day. The module chips and the pager keep the window.
• Save a window as a chapter. From the Log, or from the new Chapters page (Story menu): name it, open it, rename it, delete it (type its title — its notes go with it, the Log is never touched). A chapter's window is stored resolved, so it means the same span forever.
• Export a chunk, or all of it. Every export route except kit.csv takes ?chapter= or ?start=&end= and returns a slice: that window's events, reflections, photos and the rest, with daily.csv keeping every zero day inside it. A slice says "kind": "slice", its MANIFEST says not a backup, and latch.restore refuses it.
• Chapters are backed up and travel. Both tables ride the full export and restore; chapters and their notes ride in pup.json (whole seconds — the signature cannot carry a float). A pup.json from 0.16.x still arrives; a 0.16.x box refuses one that carries chapters.
• Looking-back notes have their table now (annotations); writing them in the app comes with the chapter page (#54, #55).