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A new Follow my open angle setting, on by default, moves the baseline to whatever angle the lid settles at. Park the lid anywhere and the desktop stays clear from there; only closing from that angle folds. The manual Set open position button stays for when the setting is off.

How adoption is gated

A reading has to hold within 1.5 degrees for 750 ms and the lid has to sit at least three degrees above its lowest recent value.

That travel requirement is the whole design. My first version asked only that the last movement of one degree or more was an opening one, and it is wrong: the sensor reports integer degrees, so noise between two adjacent readings satisfies a one degree test on its own. Holding the lid still partway through a close would register a false open, adopt that angle, and drop the fold while the user was holding the lid steady. Requiring accumulated travel separates a deliberate repark from sensor jitter.

Adoption moves the baseline without resetting the filter, so the fold unwinds through the damped response rather than snapping to zero. Angles below 25 degrees are ignored, matching the existing calibrate guard.

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LidMotion has no UI or capture dependencies, so I compiled it standalone and drove it with a synthetic replay at 120 Hz, in the spirit of the replays MOTION.md already describes:

PASS | jittering hold partway through a close adopts nothing | adoptions=[]
PASS | fold stays put during that hold                       | progress=0.431
PASS | reparking the lid adopts the new angle                | adoptions=[72]
PASS | and unwinds without a jump    | largest single frame drop=0.0274
PASS | closing from the new baseline folds again             | progress=0.999
PASS | reopening adopts where the lid stops                  | adoptions=[72, 95]
PASS | with the setting off, nothing is adopted              | adoptions=[]

The 0.0274 line is the one worth noting: a reset-based adoption would drop 0.43 in a single frame.

Built with make build on an M4 MacBook Pro, macOS 26.6.2.

I could not run npm run check locally: the swift-format shipped with the Command Line Tools cannot read this repo's configuration schema, so CI lint is the authority on formatting here.

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  • New Features

    • Added a “Follow my open angle” setting that automatically adapts to the lid angle used as the open position.
    • Added an option to disable automatic tracking and manually set a fixed open position.
    • Improved motion handling for settling, reopening, reparking, and sensor jitter.
  • Documentation

    • Updated setup and motion timing documentation to explain open-angle behavior and supported scenarios.

Follow my open angle, on by default, moves the baseline to whatever angle
the lid settles at, so parking the lid anywhere leaves the desktop clear
and only closing from there folds.

Adoption needs a reading held within 1.5 degrees for 750 ms while the lid
sits at least three degrees above its lowest recent value. That travel
requirement is what separates a deliberate repark from a pause partway
through a close. A single degree threshold could not do it, because the
sensor reports integer degrees and noise between adjacent readings alone
would satisfy it, which would drop the fold while the user was holding
the lid still.

Adoption moves the baseline without resetting the filter, so the fold
unwinds through the damped response instead of snapping to zero.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Hinge now follows a settled lid angle by default. Users can disable this behavior and set a fixed open position. LidMotion detects stable angle changes, persists adopted positions, and updates the settings UI and documentation.

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Open-angle tracking

Layer / File(s) Summary
Motion baseline adoption
Sources/LidMotion.swift, MOTION.md
LidMotion tracks lid travel and settling, adopts eligible open angles, reports adopted angles, and snaps displayed state when disabled. Motion replay documentation covers jitter and reparking behavior.
Desktop state and persistence
Sources/LiveDesktop.swift
LiveDesktop persists the follow-angle setting and adopted open angle, forwards setting changes to LidMotion, and handles adopted angles from sensor updates.
Settings controls and documentation
Sources/SettingsView.swift, README.md
Settings adds the Follow my open angle toggle, disables manual positioning while enabled, and updates explanatory text. The README documents the new default and fixed-angle option.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant LidSensor
  participant LidMotion
  participant LiveDesktop
  participant SettingsView
  LidSensor->>LidMotion: Send lid angle
  LidMotion->>LidMotion: Detect stable open angle
  LidMotion-->>LiveDesktop: Return adoptedAngle
  LiveDesktop->>LiveDesktop: Persist open angle
  LiveDesktop-->>SettingsView: Publish tracking state
  SettingsView->>LiveDesktop: Toggle followOpenAngle
  LiveDesktop->>LidMotion: setFollowOpenAngle(value)
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New users may expect their initial lid position to become the open baseline, but must re-park the lid before tracking begins. Update the setup guidance before merge.

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Allow Screen Recording, reopen Hinge if prompted, and turn it on. The starting angle is 100°. Prefer something else? Get comfy and click **Set open position**. Hinge remembers.
Allow Screen Recording, reopen Hinge if prompted, and turn it on. By default Hinge treats whatever angle you settle at as your open position, so wherever you park the lid stays clear and only closing from there folds. Prefer one fixed angle? Turn off **Follow my open angle**, get comfy, and click **Set open position**. Hinge remembers.

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Describe the initial adoption requirement accurately.

A stationary lid at launch does not adopt its current angle. Sources/LidMotion.swift sets the initial recent minimum to that same reading, so the required 3° travel is not present. Until the user partially closes and reopens the lid, Hinge uses the saved baseline. Update this text to describe that re-parking requirement.

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This is a genuinely good writeup, and the part where you explain why the one degree test fails is the reason I trust the rest of it. The hysteresis design works: I compiled your LidMotion unmodified against a driver at 120 Hz and a hold at 45 degrees with 2 degrees of jitter for 4 seconds adopts nothing, and a normal close-then-reopen over 12 seconds adopts nothing and keeps the smooth unwind. Adoption gliding through the filter instead of resetting is also confirmed.

The problems are not craft, they are defaults and storage. As it stands I do not think this can go in on by default.

1. It silently destroys an existing user's calibrated angle, with no way back.

object(forKey: "followOpenAngle") as? Bool ?? true turns following on for every existing install, and adoption writes to the same openAngle key manual calibration uses. Someone who deliberately set 130 degrees loses it on the first repark, and turning the toggle back off does not restore it. It needs either a separate key for adopted angles so the manual value survives, or defaulting followOpenAngle to false when openAngle already exists in defaults.

2. Three degrees is inside normal hinge slack, so holding the lid partly closed unfolds the desktop.

Replay, baseline 100, following on:

push lid to 40, spring back to 43, hold
  t=2.01 reading=40  displayed=0.6501
  t=3.45 reading=43  ADOPT -> 43  displayed=0.6055
  t=4.02 reading=43  displayed=0.0000

A three degree rebound is ordinary lid spring-back, not a deliberate repark. The fold collapses from 0.61 to 0 while the lid is still half shut, and there is no way back short of closing past 43. You raised the bar from 1 degree to 3 specifically to avoid this class of failure, and I think it needs to go further, or needs a different signal, for example requiring the lid to have returned near a previously settled angle.

3. Adoption runs while Hinge is off.

There is no enabled guard, so with the effect disabled the 10 Hz poll still adopts, still writes UserDefaults and still publishes openAngle. Replay with Hinge off and a two-stage open adopts twice. Someone who turned Hinge off is still having their stored open position rewritten by every lid movement.

4. It cannot fix the case that needs it most.

Adoption requires travel up from a running minimum, so a stale baseline above the current angle is never corrected:

launch, stored baseline 130, lid parked at 100, never moved
  t=0.30 displayed=0.2364 ... t=5.30 displayed=0.2432   (adoptions=0, forever)

Permanent 24 percent fold with the display link running at 60 fps until the user closes 3+ degrees and waits. Combined with #16 restoring enabled at launch, that is a plausible "opened my Mac and the screen is bent" report. Some downward or settle-based correction would close it.

5. The README line overclaims. "wherever you park the lid stays clear" is false when you park lower than the previous baseline without a rebound: parked at 60 from a baseline of 100 leaves the fold stuck at 0.43 with zero adoptions.

6. Very slow opens ratchet. Below about 2.7 deg/s the baseline adopts every 3 degrees. A reopen from 8 to 100 at 2.3 deg/s gave 26 adoptions, so 26 UserDefaults writes and 26 published updates in 40 seconds, and the fold hits zero at 28 degrees instead of unwinding with the lid. Realistic speeds are unaffected, so this is an edge case, but it is unbounded write amplification on a preference key.

7. displayed = target in setEnabled is unrelated scope creep. Turning Hinge on with the lid below the baseline now snaps the fold straight to 0.4311 instead of easing in, which skips the documented blend over the first 2.5 percent of closure. It is not in the description and not in MOTION.md. Worth noting #20 makes the same change for a different and well-argued reason, so whichever lands first should own it and document it.

8. MOTION.md contradicts itself. The new paragraph is appended directly after "The baseline stays fixed while the user holds the lid partly closed", which this PR makes untrue. Those need reconciling.

Small one: greying out "Set open position" while following is on is the wrong affordance, a manual set should override and re-arm. Post-rebase it is also incomplete, since the menu bar item and MainView on current main both expose it and would stay enabled.

I have merged current main in for you, so this is no longer conflicting, but you should look at what I had to do to the UI. #19 rebuilt Settings into SettingsGroup/SettingsRow cards and moved the open position row out to MainView.positionCard, a file this branch did not have, so your Settings hunk could not be merged, only re-authored. I put the toggle next to the button it gates, in positionCard:

SettingsRow(
  "arrow.triangle.2.circlepath", tint: .teal, title: "Follow my open angle",
  subtitle: "Take whatever angle you settle at"
) {
  Toggle(
    "Follow my open angle",
    isOn: Binding(get: { desktop.followOpenAngle }, set: { desktop.setFollowOpenAngle($0) })
  )
  .toggleStyle(.switch)
  .controlSize(.small)
  .labelsHidden()
  .help("Take whatever angle you settle at as the new open position.")
}

I also carried your disable onto the menu bar's "Set open position" item in HingeApp.swift, which your diff did not cover and which would otherwise have stayed enabled while following was on. README.md and the two LiveDesktop.swift collisions were mechanical, both sides kept. Please check the wording and symbol, those were my call. It compiles and lints, but I could not capture a screenshot of the rendered pane here, so the layout is verified structurally rather than visually.

One thing I deliberately left alone: positionCard's footnote still reads "Starts at 100°. Set your comfortable open position once, and Hinge remembers it.", which is no longer quite true when following is on. That copy is yours to decide on.

Checks all pass locally on your head, make build with zero warnings, npm run check, npm run check:native, swift-format lint --strict. Note the workflow has not actually run on this PR, it is sitting behind the first-time contributor approval gate, so CI has not been the authority here either way.

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