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Notes app design

Design a simple notes app. Walk me through the architecture, how you store the data, and how it flows.

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Local first: save to SwiftData/Core Data immediately and let the UI subscribe to the DB. Sync with a per-note version (modification time plus device ID) and a change log, and propagate deletes as tombstones. CloudKit can take over much of this.

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