boogoo619/dsh-noteboard

dsh-noteboard is a sticky-notes canvas plugin built for DeepSeek Harness (DSH), embedding a workspace-scoped infinite canvas into the chat view. Each sticky is a Markdown file with YAML frontmatter while each canvas is a separate JSON Canvas 1.0 layout file, so content and placement stay decoupled and remain editable from any text editor or under Git version control. It targets DSH exclusively and is installed via dsh plugin --profile web add dsh-noteboard into the web profile, requiring the dsh CLI at version 0.2.0-rc.2 or newer and Node 22.19.0 or newer; GitHub source installs and absolute-path link: installs are also supported, and a restart of dsh web activates the plugin afterward, with per-workspace canvas view memory and per-workspace preferences.

Typical workflow starts by selecting text inside a conversation and triggering a hover toolbar with two actions: "Save to canvas" stores the original passage verbatim, while "AI distil" condenses it into a polished note using a separately configured distil model. Every captured note records its provenance session ID, event sequence, label, and excerpt, and clicking "Open conversation" jumps back into the chat view with the original passage highlighted and a one-click return-to-canvas action. The reverse direction lets users attach notes as structured citation bubbles to the composer and send them back to the model, with a hard cap of 32,000 characters blocking oversized sends; 12 model tools (canvas_add_note, noteboard_query, noteboard_create with batches up to 200, noteboard_sessions, noteboard_read_session, noteboard_update, noteboard_add, noteboard_remove, noteboard_layout, noteboard_save_as, noteboard_history, noteboard_restore) and 5 built-in Skills (noteboard-extract, noteboard-organize, noteboard-compare, noteboard-actions, noteboard-synthesize) make it suited for users who need to turn long multi-turn dialogues into searchable, batch-organisable knowledge.

Dependencies are minimal: the project ships under the MIT license, has no third-party billing or token costs beyond what the user already pays the host DSH instance, and writes everything as plain Markdown plus JSON Canvas under <workspace>/.noteboard/ with a SHA256-based version field, a queued write path, and conflict checks. Known limits include no edges or groups UI (though the file format reserves space), no filesystem change-watching so canvas tabs refresh on demand, no cross-process file locking or realtime collaboration, and a single-user assumption, while the bottom action area depends on host DOM hooks that may need reverification after Harness upgrades. First-run caveats: npm installs ship prebuilt artifacts and skip pnpm build prompts, but the default pnpm minimumReleaseAge of 24 hours may pin a fallback version so users wanting the latest release should explicitly pin a version like dsh-noteboard@<version>; GitHub source installs require adding the package key to allowBuilds: in that profile's pnpm-workspace.yaml after the first failed add, which grants the package permission to run install-time build code, and developers should pin a commit SHA when sourcing from GitHub for safety.