Personal template and saved-search preferences

Decision

Personal note templates reference ordinary canonical notes. The workspace settings extension noteTemplateIds records at most 200 source IDs; it never duplicates a document or a property's data. Editing the source updates subsequent copies. Trashed or purged sources are unavailable in the picker. Restoring a trashed source makes it available again. Removing a template leaves its note intact.

Creating a personal-template note flushes pending edits and re-resolves the source before planning the ordinary atomic create-note/property operation batch. Copies receive fresh note, task, block, property, and option identities. Reference chips and stored media continue to refer to shared workspace entities. Comment anchors are omitted because comment threads belong to the source note. Text occurrences of {{date}} expand to the current local calendar date. The source folder is the default destination; a folder chosen through a contextual picker overrides it.

The savedSearches settings extension records at most 100 nonempty queries, each at most 512 UTF-16 code units. Sidebar views reuse existing sidebar search semantics: title text and relationship operators, with current renderer state supplying live results. Saving a query does not snapshot its matches.

Both extensions use existing versioned settings persistence and validation. They survive preference reset, restart, and workspace archive round trips. As with other settings, these personal preferences are device-local for sync purposes; template source notes still follow the ordinary note replication contract.

Consequences

There is no new content store, migration, or replication operation family. The picker reads its catalog only while open; the saved-search list subscribes only to its own settings extension. Note navigation adds no storage or parsing work. Template membership does not prevent source deletion. Users who want a stable scaffold should keep a dedicated template note rather than register a working note.