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What does this PR do?

Adds typing-aware automatic zoom suggestions to Recordly.

Previously, auto-zoom suggestions primarily relied on cursor/mouse interactions. This change allows Recordly to recognize typing activity following text-field interaction and extend the zoom suggestion to cover the actual typing session.

Implementation

  • Adds anonymous keydown telemetry.
  • Does not capture key identity, characters, or typed text.
  • Adds keyboard activity capture on macOS through the existing native cursor monitor.
  • Uses the existing uiohook-napi infrastructure on Windows/Linux.
  • Filters modifier-only keys and common Command/Control shortcut activity.
  • Detects typing bursts rather than creating a zoom suggestion for every keypress.
  • Makes zoom duration correspond to the typing session.
  • Supports continuation typing bursts and appropriate burst merging/splitting.
  • Integrates with the existing auto-zoom suggestion pipeline rather than introducing a separate zoom system.
  • Preserves existing click, selection, dwell, and other interaction behavior.

Privacy

Keyboard telemetry is timing/activity-only.

Recordly does not record:

  • typed characters
  • key identity
  • passwords
  • text contents
  • clipboard contents

The keyboard signal exists only to determine when typing activity occurs for automatic zoom suggestions.

Testing

Validated with:

  • 29/29 targeted tests
  • 125 Vitest test files
  • 1,130/1,130 tests passing
  • TypeScript check passing
  • Biome lint passing
  • git diff --check passing
  • Manual macOS recording test with text input
  • macOS native cursor-monitor binaries rebuilt

Notes

The implementation is intentionally integrated into Recordly's existing telemetry and zoom-suggestion architecture without changing the playback/export zoom renderer.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added keyboard interaction tracking for typing activity.
    • Keyboard interactions now contribute to video timeline zoom suggestions, including grouped typing bursts.
    • Typing bursts near text-field clicks are annotated and considered when determining zoom ranges.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Preserved keyboard interaction data during telemetry normalization.
    • Improved filtering to exclude modifier keys and Ctrl/Command-assisted shortcuts from typing activity.

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Keyboard telemetry and typing-burst zoom

Layer / File(s) Summary
Keyboard event contracts and native capture
electron/ipc/types.ts, electron/electron-env.d.ts, src/components/video-editor/types.ts, electron/native/NativeCursorMonitor.swift
The event and telemetry types now include "keydown". Native monitoring listens for key-down events and emits timing-only telemetry for eligible events.
Keydown filtering and telemetry normalization
electron/ipc/cursor/interaction.ts, electron/ipc/cursor/monitor.ts, electron/ipc/cursor/telemetry.ts, electron/ipc/cursor/*test.ts
Cursor capture filters modifier-only and modified keys, records keydown samples, parses INTERACTION:keydown, removes listeners during cleanup, and preserves keydown samples during normalization.
Typing-burst zoom suggestions
src/components/video-editor/timeline/zoomSuggestionUtils.ts, src/components/video-editor/timeline/zoomSuggestionUtils.test.ts
Timeline processing detects qualifying typing bursts, annotates text-cursor activity, and clusters candidates using full burst time spans. Tests cover burst merging, isolated keys, pause-based splitting, and burst-specific text context.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant NativeCursorMonitor
  participant CursorMonitor
  participant CursorTelemetry
  participant ZoomSuggestionUtils
  NativeCursorMonitor->>CursorMonitor: emit INTERACTION:keydown
  CursorMonitor->>CursorTelemetry: record and normalize keydown sample
  CursorTelemetry->>ZoomSuggestionUtils: provide normalized keydown samples
  ZoomSuggestionUtils->>ZoomSuggestionUtils: group keydowns into typing bursts
  ZoomSuggestionUtils->>ZoomSuggestionUtils: extend and cluster zoom suggestion bounds
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The keyboard telemetry and typing-burst pipeline preserves anonymous keydown timing through recording persistence and editor zoom suggestions, with no established merge-blocking risk.

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In `@src/components/video-editor/timeline/zoomSuggestionUtils.ts`:
- Line 276: Update the hasTextContext calculation in the relevantSamples flow so
it considers only samples belonging to the current typing burst, excluding text
cursor samples from earlier bursts after the click. Preserve the existing
stayedNearField requirement and burst detection behavior.

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