---
kind: maschine
project: "[[kindle-zotero-importer]]"
---

- Started project status review from repo files, generated artifacts, git status, README, and MEMORY.md.
- Found independent Git repo on main with no commits yet; tracked source/docs/config are uncommitted, generated pipeline outputs are ignored by .gitignore.
- Current generated pipeline state: 2,109 clippings parsed; 23,185 Zotero items indexed; 67 unique title matches reviewed; final writer plan contains 770 positioned annotations and skips unresolved match, attachment, and positioning cases.

- Created initial Git commit `a38ac33` (`Initial Kindle Zotero importer baseline`) including source, docs, overrides, Zotero writer, and the maschine log.
- Extracted mismatch-review worklist from `docs/mismatch-review.md`: remaining work covers missing Coeckelbergh attachment, unmatched Kindle title mappings, missing PDF paths, EPUB positioning failures, PDF text lookup failures, and PDF rectangle recovery failures.


- Recovered stalled session state: inspected dirty repo, existing maschine log, README, core importer modules, and generated mismatch-review diff.
- Completed cleanup for ignore overrides: `ignore: true` now rejects all other resolution fields, ignored matches are excluded from generated override skeletons, ignored titles flow to `ignored-title` import-plan status, and README documents permanent skips.
- Verified recovery with `PYTHONPATH=src python -m compileall -q src`, match/plan/review CLI smoke checks using generated temp outputs under `/var/folders/dz/bzxsk9tj3clf0cs7vg6r7h_80000gn/T/opencode/`, and an ignore override validation smoke test.
- Current uncommitted work remains in README, docs/mismatch-review.md, importer modules, and new `src/kindle_zotero_importer/__main__.py`; no commit was made.


- Diagnosed Burroughs import failure: citekey override `burroughs1992` matched successfully to Zotero item 39116 / key SGPP6ATY / PDF `/Users/ubd/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/03_Academia/ZoteroFiles/Burroughs_1992_.pdf`; all 69 planned highlights failed at PDF positioning because `pdftotext` exits with permission error on an encrypted PDF where copying text is disallowed. Final writer plan therefore contained 0 Burroughs annotations.

- Implemented PDF permission-encryption fallback in src/kindle_zotero_importer/pdf_position.py: when Poppler text extraction reports copying is not allowed, the positioning step creates a temporary qpdf --decrypt copy and retries extraction/geometry against that copy without modifying the Zotero attachment.
- Regenerated import-plan.positioned.json, import-plan.final.json, and docs/mismatch-review.md after the fallback. Burroughs now has 58 positioned/final annotations out of 69 planned highlights; 10 remain pdf-rects-not-found and 1 remains pdf-text-not-found. Final writer plan annotation_count is now 859.

- Reviewed current mismatch-review structure for discard workflow. Remaining unmatched titles can be permanently skipped by adding `ignore: true` entries to match-overrides.json rather than editing docs/mismatch-review.md directly.

- Populated match-overrides.json with all 37 currently unmatched titles as editable `ignore: true` entries, preserving the Burroughs citation-key mapping. Validated overrides with a temp match run: 37 ignored, 24 matched, 6 ambiguous. Did not regenerate main pipeline so entries can be edited first.

- Changed override skeleton workflow so generated overrides always include review metadata with status and clipping_count. Unmatched generated entries now default to ignore: true for batch editing; ambiguous entries keep candidate resolution fields. Added the same review metadata to current match-overrides.json and regenerated match-overrides.generated.json.

- Refined generated override review ordering: unresolved entries sort first by clipping_count descending; already-entered overrides are retained at the end as an audit trail. Regenerated matches.json with current overrides and regenerated match-overrides.generated.json; current match statuses are 37 ignored, 24 matched, 6 ambiguous.

- Updated override editing workflow so ignored/unmatched entries include a blank citation_key field by default. Blank citation_key values are ignored by the loader, so entries remain ignored until edited; generated audit entries now preserve the blank citation_key for ignored items.