Q184: the page, its sections, filters and selections survive page switches and restarts

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

src/main/services/snapshot-service.ts

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import { loadViewState } from "./view-state";
 import { loadOnboardingDraft } from "./onboarding-progress";
 import type { DatabaseSync, StatementSync } from "node:sqlite";
 import type { AppSnapshot } from "../../shared/domain";
@@ -88,6 +89,7 @@ export class SnapshotService {
       activeOrgId,
       uiPreferences: this.resolveUiPreferences(),
       onboardingDraft: loadOnboardingDraft(this.db),
+      viewState: loadViewState(this.db),
       autonomousPaused: this.resolveAutonomousPaused(),
       integrationKeys: new IntegrationKeyStore(this.db).statuses(),
       organizations,

src/main/services/view-state.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+import type { DatabaseSync } from "node:sqlite";
+
+export function loadViewState(db: DatabaseSync): Record<string, unknown> {
+  const row = db.prepare("select view_state_json from app_state where id = 1").get() as { view_state_json: string | null } | undefined;
+  return row?.view_state_json ? JSON.parse(row.view_state_json) as Record<string, unknown> : {};
+}
+
+/** Remembers one piece of where the operator was; null forgets it. */
+export function saveViewState(db: DatabaseSync, key: string, value: unknown): void {
+  const path = `$.${JSON.stringify(key)}`;
+  db.prepare(`
+    insert into app_state(id, view_state_json, updated_at) values (1, json_object(), ?)
+    on conflict(id) do nothing
+  `).run(new Date().toISOString());
+  if (value === null) {
+    db.prepare("update app_state set view_state_json = json_remove(coalesce(view_state_json, json_object()), ?) where id = 1").run(path);
+    return;
+  }
+  db.prepare("update app_state set view_state_json = json_set(coalesce(view_state_json, json_object()), ?, json(?)) where id = 1").run(path, JSON.stringify(value));
+}