Computer App

A Windows app built with Electron. The home base of your Bunker: connect to your phone, view everything, download content to your filesystem.

Layout

Top Chrome         PHONE CONNECTED / PHONE DISCONNECTED indicator, SYNC NOW button,
                   "Synced X ago" timestamp, settings gear
Side Panel (left)  tag list, system messages
Content Area       tab-switched: Jots, Lists, Locked Lists, Scratchpad
Bottom Nav         tab bar

A few overlays sit on top when needed: Settings, About, the setup wizard for first launch, and two rare sync dialogs (the sync conflict picker and the large-change dialog).

Jots tab

Shows jot content in cards: text, drawings (rendered as images), photo galleries, audio, and file attachments. You can assign a tag to a jot and download its content to your filesystem.

Lists, Locked Lists, Scratchpad tabs

These mirror the phone's tabs. Lists and locked lists support drag-to-reorder with the mouse. Locked lists are not gated on the computer; the assumption is your computer is already a secured environment. Scratchpad is a plain text editor.

Setup wizard

On first launch, a four-step wizard walks you through setup:

  1. Welcome. Intro screen.
  2. Accent color. Pick your theme.
  3. Save folders. Choose where tagged content gets filed on your hard drive.
  4. Network. Pick the network adapter your phone connects through, the port, and generate a pairing QR code for your phone to scan.

System tray

The app minimizes to the Windows system tray when you close the window. Left-click the tray icon to show the window. Right-click for a context menu (show, quit).

Auto-update

Checks for updates a few seconds after launch. Both download and install are user-initiated; nothing happens on its own. You can disable the startup check from the Help menu. See Auto-Updates for details.

Settings

Settings opens from the gear icon. Sections: Network Sync, Accent Color, Font Size, Categories (one editor per surface), Save Folder, Data Backup, Debug Logging. See Computer Settings for full reference.

Data locations

All app data lives in %APPDATA%\JotBunker\:

Path Contents
stores/ JSON files for each section (lists, locked lists, ancestor, settings, tags, console)
window-state.json Window position and size
debug-logs/sync-{timestamp}.log One file per sync session, only written when DEBUG LOGGING is on
system-messages.log Rolling 50-entry app log for non-sync events like saves, downloads, backups, and errors

User-facing exports go to the tag root path you configured (default Documents/JotBunker Tags/). Tagged content is filed there under {tagRootPath}/{tagName}/.

See also: Phone App | Sync | Tags | Data Storage