# Activity composer (Notchset): prompt.md (v2.0.0)

- id: `activity-composer` · version 2.0.0 · block · pro (Pro)
- category: Data
- build: one set of files for every shadcn style
- install: `npx shadcn@latest add @notchset-pro/activity-composer`
- npm dependencies: none
- registry dependencies: utils, https://notchset.dev/r/notchset-foundation.json, @notchset/button, @notchset/keyboard-hint
- docs: https://notchset.dev/blocks/activity-composer
- The install command carries everything this item needs (files, CSS, tokens, npm and registry dependencies). Prefer it to copying source by hand.

Log what happened on a record without leaving it. One line until you write, then it opens with who will see it and Log. Kinds change the prompt, one extra control fits the kind picked, and a refused log keeps what you wrote..

## Build it
- Stack: React 18.3 or 19, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS v4 utility classes on the foundation's roles, a components.json (imports use its aliases).
- Packages: none beyond React.
- Files: `components/ui/notchset/blocks/activity-composer.tsx`.
- Registry dependencies, installed with it automatically: shadcn `utils` (cn), `notchset-foundation`, `button`, `keyboard-hint`.
- Builds: one set of files, the same for every shadcn style.
- Exports to keep: `ActivityComposer`, and every exported type.
- CSS: the install adds the notchset foundation (its roles, keyframes and motion switch, reading your shadcn tokens for colour) to your global stylesheet once. Nothing to import by hand.
- Re-running `add` (or `--overwrite`) re-applies those rules: put overrides in your own CSS, never in the installed rules.
- Colours: every part reads the foundation's roles (`--ns-canvas`, `--ns-ink`, `--ns-line`, `--ns-signal` …), which read your shadcn tokens (`--background`, `--foreground`, `--border`, `--destructive` …), plus the optional `--success` and `--warning`. Retheme on `:root` or any container; never add Tailwind colour classes inside the component.
- This item reads `--ns-bezel`, `--ns-hover`, `--ns-ink`, `--ns-ink-2`, `--ns-ink-3`, `--ns-line`, `--ns-line-soft`, `--ns-radius-lg`, `--ns-raised`, `--ns-signal`, `--ns-text-body`, `--ns-text-meta`, `--ns-text-small`, `--ns-time-color`.
- Retune it (on any ancestor) with the foundation's roles and hooks: `--ns-bad`, `--ns-bad-ink`, `--ns-band`, `--ns-band-edge`, `--ns-band-grade`, `--ns-band-optimal`, `--ns-beat`, `--ns-bezel`, `--ns-canvas`, `--ns-cat-1`, `--ns-cat-2`, `--ns-cat-3`, `--ns-cat-4`, `--ns-cat-5`, `--ns-cat-6`, `--ns-check`, `--ns-chip`, `--ns-control`, `--ns-control-pad`, `--ns-control-sm`, `--ns-deep`, `--ns-deep-ink`, `--ns-deep-ink-2`, `--ns-deep-line`, `--ns-dialog`, `--ns-dialog-lg`, `--ns-dialog-sm`, `--ns-ease`, `--ns-ease-in`, `--ns-ease-panel`, `--ns-ease-pop`, `--ns-field`, `--ns-flood-arc`, `--ns-flood-aurora`, `--ns-flood-behind-1`, `--ns-flood-behind-2`, `--ns-flood-bloom`, `--ns-flood-deep`, `--ns-flood-dial-bloom`, `--ns-flood-glass`, `--ns-flood-grain`, `--ns-flood-image`, `--ns-flood-ink`, `--ns-flood-ink-low`, `--ns-flood-light`, `--ns-flood-mid`, `--ns-flood-pale`, `--ns-flood-pane`, `--ns-flood-pane-edge`, `--ns-flood-pill-ink`, `--ns-flood-ribbon`, `--ns-flood-ribbon-core`, `--ns-flood-shadow`, `--ns-flood-sheen`, `--ns-flood-wash`, `--ns-font-body`, `--ns-font-display`, `--ns-font-mono`, `--ns-font-script`, `--ns-glass`, `--ns-glass-blur`, `--ns-glass-shadow`, `--ns-glow`, `--ns-grain`, `--ns-gutter`, `--ns-header`, `--ns-heat`, `--ns-hover`, `--ns-ink`, `--ns-ink-2`, `--ns-ink-3`, `--ns-ink-4`, `--ns-leading`, `--ns-lift`, `--ns-light-1`, `--ns-light-2`, `--ns-light-3`, `--ns-light-spread`, `--ns-light-strength`, `--ns-line`, `--ns-line-soft`, `--ns-lit-edge`, `--ns-menu-dy`, `--ns-menu-row`, `--ns-mesh`, `--ns-mesh-frost`, `--ns-ok`, `--ns-ok-ink`, `--ns-orb-body`, `--ns-orb-cool`, `--ns-orb-core`, `--ns-orb-dawn`, `--ns-orb-deep`, `--ns-orb-edge`, `--ns-orb-grain`, `--ns-orb-ground`, `--ns-orb-halo`, `--ns-orb-inner`, `--ns-orb-key`, `--ns-orb-lift`, `--ns-orb-limb`, `--ns-orb-limb-from`, `--ns-orb-rim`, `--ns-orb-skin-hi`, `--ns-orb-skin-lo`, `--ns-orb-skin-mid`, `--ns-orb-warm`, `--ns-panel`, `--ns-panel-w`, `--ns-prism-edge`, `--ns-prism-glint`, `--ns-prism-sheen`, `--ns-prism-tint`, `--ns-pulse`, `--ns-radius`, `--ns-radius-card`, `--ns-radius-full`, `--ns-radius-lg`, `--ns-radius-sm`, `--ns-radius-xl`, `--ns-raised`, `--ns-range`, `--ns-row`, `--ns-row-compact`, `--ns-segment`, `--ns-selected`, `--ns-series`, `--ns-series-core`, `--ns-series-lilac`, `--ns-series-tint`, `--ns-shadow-dialog`, `--ns-shadow-float`, `--ns-shadow-panel`, `--ns-sheet`, `--ns-sheet-bottom`, `--ns-side`, `--ns-signal`, `--ns-sleep-awake`, `--ns-sleep-deep`, `--ns-sleep-light`, `--ns-sleep-rem`, `--ns-space-1`, `--ns-space-2`, `--ns-space-3`, `--ns-space-4`, `--ns-space-5`, `--ns-space-6`, `--ns-space-8`, `--ns-space-section`, `--ns-stack-on`, `--ns-standing-critical`, `--ns-standing-in`, `--ns-standing-out`, `--ns-state-doing`, `--ns-state-done`, `--ns-state-review`, `--ns-state-todo`, `--ns-switch-h`, `--ns-switch-w`, `--ns-text-body`, `--ns-text-control`, `--ns-text-display`, `--ns-text-figure`, `--ns-text-headline`, `--ns-text-hero`, `--ns-text-lede`, `--ns-text-meta`, `--ns-text-page`, `--ns-text-record`, `--ns-text-small`, `--ns-text-strong`, `--ns-text-sub`, `--ns-text-title`, `--ns-tile-shadow`, `--ns-time-born`, `--ns-time-color`, `--ns-time-dialog`, `--ns-time-menu`, `--ns-time-page`, `--ns-time-panel`, `--ns-time-toast`, `--ns-tint`, `--ns-tint-ink`, `--ns-toast-bottom`, `--ns-toast-left`, `--ns-touch`, `--ns-tracking-display`, `--ns-tracking-headline`, `--ns-warn`, `--ns-warn-ink`, `--ns-wash-clay`, `--ns-wash-dusk`, `--ns-wash-graphite`, `--ns-wash-ink`, `--ns-wash-sage`, `--ns-wash-sand`, `--ns-weight-light`, `--ns-weight-medium`, `--ns-weight-regular`, `--ns-weight-strong`, `--ns-well`.
- Never add Tailwind colour classes inside the component.

```tsx
import { ActivityComposer } from "@/components/ui/notchset/blocks/activity-composer";
```

## Parts
- A single export that takes props.

## Match the original
- Read `components/ui/notchset/blocks/activity-composer.tsx` as the reference implementation before changing or recreating anything, and match it: sizes, colours per theme, motion timings, copy and behaviour.
- If you deviate (a prop you can't honour, a style you changed, a dependency you swapped), say so in your reply, part by part.
- Keep the accessibility contract, the keyboard map and the motion levels listed below.

## Use it when

### Not when

## Built from
- button (`button`), installed with it: reuse it, don't rebuild it
- keyboard-hint (`keyboard-hint`), installed with it: reuse it, don't rebuild it

## Mistakes
- Recreating the component instead of installing it

## Usage

```tsx
"use client";
import * as React from "react";
import { Mail, Phone, StickyNote } from "lucide-react";
import { ActivityComposer } from "@/components/ui/notchset/blocks/activity-composer";
import { SegmentedControl } from "@/components/ui/notchset/segmented-control";

type Kind = "note" | "call" | "email";
const KINDS = [
  { value: "note" as const, label: "Note", icon: <StickyNote />, placeholder: "Write a note about Airtable…" },
  { value: "call" as const, label: "Call", icon: <Phone />, placeholder: "What was said on the call?" },
  { value: "email" as const, label: "Email", icon: <Mail />, placeholder: "Log an email you sent elsewhere" },
];

export default function ActivityComposerDemo() {
  const [kind, setKind] = React.useState<Kind>("note");
  const [outcome, setOutcome] = React.useState<"connected" | "voicemail" | "noanswer">("connected");
  const [logged, setLogged] = React.useState<string[]>([]);
  return (
    <div className="flex w-full max-w-[640px] flex-col gap-3">
      <ActivityComposer
        kinds={KINDS}
        kind={kind}
        onKindChange={setKind}
        audience="Visible to the Airtable deal team"
        extra={
          kind === "call" ? (
            <SegmentedControl
              label="How the call went"
              size="sm"
              value={outcome}
              onValueChange={setOutcome}
              options={[
                { value: "connected", label: "Connected" },
                { value: "voicemail", label: "Voicemail" },
                { value: "noanswer", label: "No answer" },
              ]}
            />
          ) : undefined
        }
        onPost={(k, text) => setLogged((l) => [`${k}: ${text}`, ...l])}
      />
      {logged.map((l) => (
        <span key={l} className="text-[length:var(--ns-text-small)] text-[var(--ns-ink-3)]">
          Logged {l}
        </span>
      ))}
    </div>
  );
}
```

This example also uses `segmented-control` (https://notchset.dev/components/segmented-control), the npm package `lucide-react`. Installing this item doesn't bring them; to paste the example as it is: `npx shadcn@latest add @notchset-pro/activity-composer @notchset/segmented-control`. The `@notchset-pro` items are Pro: they need the registries in components.json and the key (Setup).

## Props

| Prop | Type | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|
| `kinds` | `Kind<K>[]` |  | Required. |
| `kind` | `K` |  | Required. |
| `onKindChange` | `(kind: K) => void` |  | Required. |
| `onPost` | `(kind: K, text: string) => boolean \| void` |  | Return false to keep the text (the save was refused). |
| `audience` | `string` |  | Who will see it ("Visible to the Notchset team"). |
| `inputRef` | `React.Ref<HTMLTextAreaElement>` |  | Lets the page put the cursor here ("Log a touch" on a banner). |
| `extra` | `React.ReactNode` |  | A control for the kind picked, shown while the composer is open, after the kinds (how a call went). |

Full docs: https://notchset.dev/blocks/activity-composer

## Customising
- Colours: every part reads the foundation's roles (`--ns-canvas`, `--ns-ink`, `--ns-line`, `--ns-signal` …), which read your shadcn tokens (`--background`, `--foreground`, `--border`, `--destructive` …), plus the optional `--success` and `--warning`. Retheme on `:root` or any container; never add Tailwind colour classes inside the component.
- Dark mode follows the `.dark` class or `data-theme="dark"` on an ancestor (the shadcn and next-themes conventions).
- Update later: Commit or stash local changes first (or copy the files), so the update can be undone. Read https://notchset.dev/r/changelog.json for the new versions: a major version, an entry marked breaking or a merge says what to change. Then re-run the install with `--overwrite`, on a branch. It replaces the component's files, the shared helper files they import, and the item's CSS rules in the global stylesheet, so review the whole diff (components, shared files, CSS), re-apply your own edits, and run the app's typecheck, tests and build.

## Accessibility contract (preserve when editing)

## Install

```bash
npx shadcn@latest add @notchset-pro/activity-composer
```

Pro item: needs the `@notchset-pro` registry in `components.json` and `NOTCHSET_TOKEN` in `.env.local` (https://notchset.dev/account). Setup: https://notchset.dev/docs/pro. Every components.json `style` gets the same files.

## Continue the workflow

- [Reply composer](https://notchset.dev/blocks/reply-composer)
- [Thread list](https://notchset.dev/blocks/thread-list)
- [Email message](https://notchset.dev/blocks/email-message)

The foundation (the tokens listed above, keyframes and motion levels) installs once with the first component; its CSS is public at https://notchset.dev/r/notchset-foundation.json.