PaperDesk

PaperDesk is a privacy-first, local-first Windows desktop app for document workflow automation.

It is designed to help users keep operational documents organized by watching local folders, extracting content, suggesting safe rename/sort actions, indexing documents for offline search, and surfacing duplicates for review.

Current Status

This repository is now in an early first vertical slice state for V1 (beyond pure scaffold).

Implemented today:

• .NET 8 solution and project boundaries (App / Application / Domain / Infrastructure / Tests)
• WPF shell that boots with DI and navigation-ready primary layout
• Core domain model (entities/enums) and safety policy defaults
• Application contracts and starter use-case wiring
• SQLite startup foundation (path resolution + DB open + WAL pragma initialization)
• Infrastructure service registrations with placeholder adapters where behavior is intentionally deferred
• Unit tests for foundational domain/application rules

Deferred / intentionally placeholder:

• Production OCR pipeline and extraction quality tuning
• Real FileSystemWatcher event ingestion pipeline
• Persistent CRUD for document repository and unit-of-work transactions
• Full-text indexing, duplicate detection heuristics, and rename execution engine
• Full database schema evolution/migrations and seeded demo workflows
• Installer packaging, diagnostics hardening, and operational polish

Solution Structure

PaperDesk.sln
src/
  PaperDesk.App              # WPF app shell, DI bootstrap, config loading
  PaperDesk.Application      # Abstractions, DTOs, use-case wiring
  PaperDesk.Domain           # Core entities, enums, safety policies
  PaperDesk.Infrastructure   # SQLite bootstrap + integration adapters (mixed concrete/placeholder)
tests/
  PaperDesk.Tests            # Foundational unit tests

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Prerequisites

• Windows
• .NET 8 SDK

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