Ideas for later (Chronicle) #740

Ideas collected over the months that nobody has planned yet. Nothing here is promised. When one is picked up, it gets its own issue. This list replaces the wish-lists that lived in .ai/todo.md, .ai/roadmap.md and Cordinator's backlog.

Also carried over:

• A "glance" layer: peek pop-ups for entities and heavy pages (maps, the future calendar) instead of full page loads. Replaces keyxmakerx/Cordinator#42.

• A puzzles widget (node-gated, typed) and more Draw Steel widgets. Replaces keyxmakerx/Cordinator#37.

• Ask whether 'expand in place' should also cover the Maps navigation — The operator wrote 'buttons for navigating the map' and nobody knows whether they meant the calendar's month buttons (A) or the Maps plugin's own navigation (B). One word settles…

• Build a cross-instance bestiary sharing hub (far future) — Checklist items 5.1-5.10 sketch a separate hub service for sharing creatures between Chronicle instances: registration, signed publishing, search, creator analytics, paid tiers…

• Include changed field names in entity.updated WebSocket events — PLAN.md section 4 asked, as 'nice to have, not blocking', for a changed_fields array on entity.updated so the module could refresh only the affected journal page (for example…

• Show when an entity is being edited on the other side — A stretch goal from PLAN.md section 5: a 'Being edited on Chronicle by X' indicator on the journal and a dot in the sidebar. It needs Chronicle to publish per-entity editing…

• Keep recent errors across restarts and across multiple servers — The error ring is per-process and in-memory (ADR-051), so an operator running more than one replica sees only the replica that served their admin request, and a restart loses…

• Have the widgets diagnostic read a widget registry if one is ever built — The Go widget packages under internal/widgets/ cannot be enumerated at runtime because the source tree does not ship. If a per-widget server-side registry ever exists,…

• Add a guided builder for custom game-system modules — A web wizard to create a system module: metadata, categories, fields, reference data, tooltip preview, then export a module directory without hand-writing manifest.json.

• Create a Daggerheart system package — Daggerheart module: system data plus a Foundry adapter.

• Add whiteboards / a freeform canvas — Whiteboards or a freeform canvas (Tldraw or Excalidraw).

• Add offline mode with service-worker caching — Offline mode and service-worker caching.

• Show who else is editing a page — Collaborative-editing presence indicators.

• Add a hex or square grid overlay to maps — Map hex/square grid overlay.

• Send outbound webhooks for campaign events — Webhook support for external event notifications.

• Build reusable modal and dropdown components — A reusable modal/dropdown component library.

• Add an encounter difficulty calculator — Encounter difficulty calculator.

• Add a family tree / genealogy view — Family tree / genealogy builder.

• Search across all of a user's campaigns — Cross-campaign search.

• Make modals full-screen on small screens — Mobile-optimised modals (full-screen on small screens).

• Build a knowledge-graph addon for tags, mentions and timelines — A self-hosted addon (widget extension) visualising how content connects: a tag graph, a mention graph, a timeline graph, and tag clustering on the existing relation graph,…

• Scope the game-system marketplace enhancements — Six future enhancements: rich stat-block widgets, a monster/creature builder UI, a WASM rules engine, a public marketplace for community systems, system dependencies, and version…

• Scope AI workspace V2: re-import by slug, presets, per-player use — V2 candidates: delta-aware re-import ('update if exists by slug'), raw template edit for the prompt builder, DB-backed prompt presets, a per-player AI workspace, a Foundry-side…

• Scope AI export V2: changes-since-last-export, per-player export — Deferred: a per-(owner, campaign) last_export_at cursor with 'NEW since last export' markers, a zip with per-category files and INDEX.md, a Foundry-side importer, and per-player…

• Add entity search-as-you-type when linking a map marker — Wishlist from the maps plugin: an entity typeahead for marker linking. No design exists; confirm how the current marker form picks an entity before starting.

• Stop reloading the whole page after a picture upload — The media browser reloads the page 0.8s after uploads finish, and the entity image_upload.js widget also does a full reload (static/js/widgets/image_upload.ai.md:43). Both could…

• Show event times and end dates in the timeline's combined view — ToEventLink() maps name, date, category, visibility and entity but not time, duration or end-date fields, so the D3 visualization and event list show no time information for any…

• Let owners reorder attribute fields and show fields conditionally — Unchecked wishlist items in the attributes widget: drag-and-drop field reordering and conditional field visibility rules. Neither was re-checked against the current widget.

• Add a tag colour picker and drag-to-reorder tags — Unchecked wishlist items in the tags widget: a colour picker UI for changing a tag's colour, and drag-and-drop tag reordering. Neither was re-checked against the current widget.

• Build a random-table roller with a library of name and encounter tables — Operator wish: a widget that rolls on random tables (names by type and culture, encounters, treasure, weather, plot hooks) with roll history, embeddable in entities and notes.…

• Let admins and owners post site or campaign announcements as banners — Operator wish: a banner system authored from the customization page with kinds (toast, sticky banner, readout), audience targeting (admin/owner/players), scheduling and per-user…

• Polish the AI workspace: empty state, row preview, animations, file placement — Four deferred items: hide the prompt builder with a hint when a campaign has no entity types; a per-row body preview toggle (needs a sanitize-path decision); status-chip/row…

• Add a global toast system, empty states and keyboard shortcuts — Five QoL ideas: global toast system, visual consistency audit, empty states, optimistic UI for notes, keyboard shortcuts.

• Consider dark-mode polish and a global command palette — Parked ideas: full design system overhaul, dark-mode polish, global command palette.

• Add a check that every settings link names a tab that exists — A mechanical guard parsing ?tab= targets against settings.templ's tab list; deferred until a second incident.

• Show speaking NPC portraits as an overlay on every campaign page — Big vision: floating NPC portraits with animated speech bubbles on every page, translucent on hover, later monsters and a red tint when attacked; one data-driven per-actor…