Preview on Tasks
Preview's tape deck lives on Posts' site headers, so starting hugo server means a tab switch. Here are three places it could sit on Tasks. There's one server per site, so press ▶ in any panel and the other two show it running, as the app would. Click the port to open the preview, and ■ to stop it.
Proposed
- A, on the focus card, when the focus is a post or a task in a site. A post's focus card has no box (a file's focus finishes with its last task), so the deck takes the box's corner. When the focus is a task in a site's project, the deck sits left of its box. This is where the writing day starts, so it's the spot most likely to be remembered.
- B, on the site's group header, on Today and All tasks. Shown only while the server runs (the switch above shows the other choice), so a running preview can be seen and stopped from Tasks without a ▶ on every site's group.
- C, on the site's own scope, as a row of its health and plan card. "Preview" with the deck, and
hugo's error line under it when a start fails, with the same links Posts gives. - Recommended: all three, with B only while running. ▶ to start is on the focus card and the project's card. A running server shows wherever its site does.
- Only sites you've turned on with Show Posts get a deck, and only when the site is a project (its group exists on Tasks).
Open questions
- Take all three places, A, B and C? (yes, or name the ones to keep)
- On the group header (B), show the deck only while the server runs, or always, with a faint ▶ when stopped? (running or always)
- On the focus card (A), should Preview open the focused post's own page rather than the site's home? (yes/no; recommended yes when the focus is a post, the home otherwise)