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Hero Books Features to Recover and Clean #78

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opened 2026-03-11 15:33:37 +00:00 by mik-tf · 2 comments

mik-tf commented

2026-03-11 15:33:37 +00:00

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Situation

Hero books works now with e.g. make demo
But it is missing features that were there before
Will show screenshot and explain the UX

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toolbar at the top: libraries, tools, docs

tools option: import collections, and markdown to pdf

In tools we had markdown to pdf. Can take any url or local file and it integrated it into hero books

Docs section

Versions in the past, this is there, so we have a lot of features that are OK

we can filter by topics/categories or by books

we can filter by categories

we can ask the librarian via text or record audio

We can do searches per single library, but also per book

We have relevancy on top right of each entry

Important: we cannot do cross libraries search, it is just a search per library. It is a required specs. It is possible to set it for cross libraries search, but we dont want this. So we should remove the search at the top. The UX is: you go to a library (or a book) and then you ask the librarian

# Situation - Hero books works now with e.g. make demo - But it is missing features that were there before - Will show screenshot and explain the UX # Screenshots - toolbar at the top: libraries, tools, docs ![image](/attachments/37a8674b-4714-4719-80d5-e408547c1f3b) - tools option: import collections, and markdown to pdf ![image](/attachments/fd8483d1-cf3a-4d54-b0b0-2c39bef26452) ![image](/attachments/589213af-1202-4968-80d4-880d744d17e8) - In tools we had markdown to pdf. Can take any url or local file and it integrated it into hero books ![image](/attachments/6c916efe-9612-468c-a39c-10e3f438e349) - Docs section ![image](/attachments/5e475071-4833-481d-a248-3678bf6ca8e3) - Versions in the past, this is there, so we have a lot of features that are OK ![image](/attachments/381b589c-1ada-4d5c-a359-b8185bd95d4c) - we can filter by topics/categories or by books ![image](/attachments/cdd82b83-bcf2-47f6-9c12-2b9fa4212a21) - we can filter by categories ![image](/attachments/9689dfe0-5cf7-4295-9e6e-bffa57442e3b) - we can ask the librarian via text or record audio ![image](/attachments/9400d9e7-66f1-4387-b0a2-13c2be962c9a) - We can do searches per single library, but also per book ![image](/attachments/37804488-85b3-4f38-a71e-6b4a36bd0a1a) - We have relevancy on top right of each entry ![image](/attachments/3b3e2cb8-0c71-4bdb-8fa0-99efe306a3a4) - Important: we cannot do cross libraries search, it is just a search per library. It is a required specs. It is possible to set it for cross libraries search, but we dont want this. So we should remove the search at the top. The UX is: you go to a library (or a book) and then you ask the librarian ![image](/attachments/9907df56-fd2c-4ab6-8e41-ed3318f0f1cd)

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mik-tf commented

2026-03-11 16:03:19 +00:00

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All features, toolbar navigation (Libraries/Tools/Docs), Import Collections, Markdown-to-PDF conversion, and the Docs page with versioning, were fully functional before commit 5aeb9fc, which cleaned up dead code and moved the server to a socket-only architecture. During that refactor, some working UI route handlers were inadvertently removed along with the truly unused code, and when the hero_books_viewer crate was later created as the new frontend, only the core library browsing was implemented initially.

To restore, the original templates (import.html, convert.html, docs.html) and the full navbar still exist in crates/hero_books_server/templates/, and the corresponding route handlers (including build_router() with all routes) can be referenced from the parent commit 5aeb9fc~1. The work involves porting those HTML routes and handlers into the viewer crate, wiring them to proxy the existing server RPC methods (import, PDF conversion, etc.), and removing the global cross-library /search route so search only works per-library through the librarian.

# Update All features, toolbar navigation (Libraries/Tools/Docs), Import Collections, Markdown-to-PDF conversion, and the Docs page with versioning, were fully functional before commit 5aeb9fc, which cleaned up dead code and moved the server to a socket-only architecture. During that refactor, some working UI route handlers were inadvertently removed along with the truly unused code, and when the hero_books_viewer crate was later created as the new frontend, only the core library browsing was implemented initially. To restore, the original templates (import.html, convert.html, docs.html) and the full navbar still exist in crates/hero_books_server/templates/, and the corresponding route handlers (including build_router() with all routes) can be referenced from the parent commit 5aeb9fc~1. The work involves porting those HTML routes and handlers into the viewer crate, wiring them to proxy the existing server RPC methods (import, PDF conversion, etc.), and removing the global cross-library /search route so search only works per-library through the librarian.