diff --git a/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/service/notifications/ConversationShortcuts.kt b/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/service/notifications/ConversationShortcuts.kt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..49b41c91f7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/service/notifications/ConversationShortcuts.kt
@@ -0,0 +1,180 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2025 Vitor Pamplona
+ *
+ * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of
+ * this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in
+ * the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use,
+ * copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the
+ * Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so,
+ * subject to the following conditions:
+ *
+ * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
+ * copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+ *
+ * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+ * IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS
+ * FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR
+ * COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN
+ * AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
+ * WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
+ */
+package com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.service.notifications
+
+import android.content.Context
+import android.content.Intent
+import android.graphics.Bitmap
+import androidx.core.app.Person
+import androidx.core.content.pm.ShortcutInfoCompat
+import androidx.core.content.pm.ShortcutManagerCompat
+import androidx.core.graphics.drawable.IconCompat
+import androidx.core.net.toUri
+import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.R
+import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.ui.MainActivity
+import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.ui.stringRes
+import com.vitorpamplona.quartz.utils.Log
+
+/**
+ * The long-lived shortcut that turns a MessagingStyle notification into an actual
+ * *conversation* as far as the system is concerned.
+ *
+ * MessagingStyle on its own is only half the contract. Since Android 11 the shade sorts a
+ * notification into the Conversations section — and offers the per-conversation controls
+ * that come with it (mark a person Priority, silence one room without silencing every DM) —
+ * only when the notification names a **long-lived shortcut** through `setShortcutId`.
+ * Without one it is ranked as an ordinary alerting notification, which is what every DM,
+ * group message and Buzz room got before this existed, despite the KDoc claiming otherwise.
+ *
+ * The same shortcut is the prerequisite for two things worth having later: bubbles
+ * (`setBubbleMetadata`) and Direct Share targets. Neither is wired yet.
+ *
+ * ### What gets published
+ *
+ * One shortcut per conversation, keyed by [NotificationUtils.Conversation.id] — which
+ * includes the account, so the same counterparty under two logins does not collapse into one
+ * launcher entry pointing at the wrong inbox. The intent is the same deep link the
+ * notification taps through ([NotificationRoutes]), so the launcher entry and the tap agree.
+ *
+ * ### Why this is gated on a setting
+ *
+ * A dynamic shortcut is visible in the launcher's long-press menu: publishing one puts a
+ * contact's name and avatar outside the app, where someone holding the phone can read it
+ * without unlocking anything of ours. That is the disclosure `showMessagesInNotifications`
+ * exists to control, so callers pass [NotificationUtils.Conversation] only when it is on.
+ */
+object ConversationShortcuts {
+    private const val TAG = "ConversationShortcuts"
+
+    /**
+     * Publishes (or refreshes) the conversation's shortcut and returns its id, or null when
+     * the system would not take it.
+     *
+     * Null matters: a `setShortcutId` pointing at a shortcut that does not exist is worse
+     * than none — the system logs it and still refuses the conversation treatment — so the
+     * caller must only stamp the notification when this succeeded.
+     *
+     * [ShortcutManagerCompat.pushDynamicShortcut] already handles the two things that bite
+     * here: it evicts the least-recently-used shortcut when the per-activity cap is reached,
+     * and it is rate-limit aware. It can still throw on a malformed shortcut, so the whole
+     * call is guarded — a conversation that cannot be published is a notification that
+     * renders normally, never a crash on the notification path.
+     */
+    fun push(
+        context: Context,
+        conversation: NotificationUtils.Conversation,
+        uri: String,
+        person: Person,
+        icon: Bitmap?,
+    ): String? =
+        try {
+            val target =
+                Intent(context, MainActivity::class.java).apply {
+                    // A shortcut intent without an action is rejected outright.
+                    action = Intent.ACTION_VIEW
+                    data = uri.toUri()
+                }
+
+            val shortcut =
+                ShortcutInfoCompat
+                    .Builder(context, conversation.id)
+                    .setShortLabel(conversation.label)
+                    .setLongLabel(conversation.label)
+                    .setIntent(target)
+                    // Without this the system drops the shortcut as soon as it leaves the
+                    // dynamic list, and the conversation loses its history and its ranking.
+                    .setLongLived(true)
+                    .apply {
+                        // A group is not a person. Attaching the speaker would make the
+                        // launcher entry's face flip to whoever last spoke while the label
+                        // stayed the group, and would rank the chat as that one contact.
+                        if (!conversation.isGroup) setPerson(person)
+                        // Plain, not adaptive: `icon` is already circle-cropped, and the
+                        // adaptive mask would crop that circle a second time — zoomed, with
+                        // the edges clipped off.
+                        icon?.let { setIcon(IconCompat.createWithBitmap(it)) }
+                    }.build()
+
+            if (ShortcutManagerCompat.pushDynamicShortcut(context, shortcut)) {
+                conversation.id
+            } else {
+                Log.d(TAG) { "System declined the shortcut for ${conversation.label}" }
+                null
+            }
+        } catch (e: Exception) {
+            // Builder.build() throws on a malformed shortcut (an empty label, say) and it is
+            // inside the guard for that reason: this runs from postConversation, whose caller
+            // swallows exceptions, so a throw escaping here would silently drop the whole
+            // notification rather than just its conversation status.
+            Log.d(TAG) { "Could not publish a shortcut for ${conversation.label}: ${e.message}" }
+            null
+        }
+
+    /**
+     * Drops every conversation this account published into the launcher.
+     *
+     * Logging out has to take these with it. They are the one part of an account that lives
+     * outside the app's own storage — names and avatars of people it talked to, sitting in the
+     * launcher's long-press menu — so an account that is gone from Amethyst but still lists its
+     * contacts on the home screen would be a worse leak than not publishing them at all.
+     *
+     * Long-lived shortcuts are also removed from the system's cache, not just the dynamic list:
+     * the cache is what keeps a conversation alive after it falls out of the top slots, so
+     * dropping only the dynamic copy would leave it recoverable.
+     */
+    fun removeForAccount(
+        context: Context,
+        accountNpub: String,
+    ) {
+        val scope = ":$accountNpub:"
+        try {
+            // Every list the system keeps, not just the dynamic one. `pushDynamicShortcut`
+            // evicts the least-recently-used shortcut from the dynamic list when the cap is
+            // reached, and a long-lived shortcut that has been used in a notification is kept
+            // in the system *cache* rather than deleted — so the conversations most likely to
+            // have fallen out of the dynamic list are exactly the ones a dynamic-only sweep
+            // would leave behind, which is the leak this is here to close.
+            val mine =
+                ShortcutManagerCompat
+                    .getShortcuts(
+                        context,
+                        ShortcutManagerCompat.FLAG_MATCH_DYNAMIC or
+                            ShortcutManagerCompat.FLAG_MATCH_CACHED or
+                            ShortcutManagerCompat.FLAG_MATCH_PINNED,
+                    ).map { it.id }
+                    .filter { it.contains(scope) }
+
+            if (mine.isEmpty()) return
+
+            // A shortcut the user pinned to their home screen cannot be deleted by us, only
+            // disabled — so disable first, then remove. Without this a pinned conversation
+            // would survive the logout as a live tile.
+            ShortcutManagerCompat.disableShortcuts(
+                context,
+                mine,
+                stringRes(context, R.string.app_notification_shortcut_account_removed),
+            )
+            ShortcutManagerCompat.removeLongLivedShortcuts(context, mine)
+        } catch (e: Exception) {
+            Log.d(TAG) { "Could not clear shortcuts for $accountNpub: ${e.message}" }
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/service/notifications/InlineReplyFeedback.kt b/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/service/notifications/InlineReplyFeedback.kt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..88a9f7da7f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/service/notifications/InlineReplyFeedback.kt
@@ -0,0 +1,171 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2025 Vitor Pamplona
+ *
+ * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of
+ * this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in
+ * the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use,
+ * copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the
+ * Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so,
+ * subject to the following conditions:
+ *
+ * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
+ * copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+ *
+ * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+ * IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS
+ * FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR
+ * COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN
+ * AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
+ * WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
+ */
+package com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.service.notifications
+
+import android.app.Notification
+import android.app.NotificationManager
+import android.app.PendingIntent
+import android.content.Context
+import androidx.core.app.NotificationCompat
+import androidx.core.app.Person
+import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.R
+import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.ui.stringRes
+import com.vitorpamplona.quartz.utils.Log
+
+/**
+ * What became of a reply the user typed into the shade.
+ *
+ * The three outcomes are not two: a send that has neither returned nor thrown is its own
+ * thing, and saying so is the only honest option — see [Unconfirmed].
+ */
+sealed interface ReplyState {
+    /** On its way. [text] joins the thread so the user can see what they sent. */
+    data class Sending(
+        val text: String,
+    ) : ReplyState
+
+    /** It went out — drop the marker and leave the thread as it now reads. */
+    data object Sent : ReplyState
+
+    /**
+     * Long enough that "Sending…" has stopped being true, without an answer either way.
+     *
+     * A broadcast receiver is killed around ten seconds in, and a NIP-17 send can exceed that
+     * on its own: an Amber round trip, a relay publish, proof-of-work mining. Whatever the
+     * shade is showing when the process dies is what it shows until the conversation is read,
+     * so it must not be a claim we cannot stand behind.
+     *
+     * Deliberately offers no Retry. The message may well have gone out — re-sending would
+     * deliver it twice, which is worse than leaving the user to open the app and look.
+     */
+    data class Unconfirmed(
+        val text: String,
+    ) : ReplyState
+
+    /**
+     * It threw. [retry] re-sends the same text on one tap, carrying the text itself because a
+     * RemoteInput cannot be pre-filled and re-typing it is the thing this prevents.
+     */
+    data class Failed(
+        val text: String,
+        val retry: PendingIntent,
+    ) : ReplyState
+}
+
+/**
+ * Re-renders the live notification for [notId] to say what happened to an inline reply.
+ *
+ * Until this existed a reply typed in the shade was posted into silence: the send either
+ * worked, and the notification vanished with no sign the message had gone, or it threw, and
+ * nothing at all happened — same notification, text gone, user believing it sent. A denied
+ * signature or a dead socket was indistinguishable from delivery.
+ *
+ * The live notification is the only place the reply can be shown, so it is rebuilt from
+ * itself rather than from scratch: [NotificationCompat.Builder] can recover a builder from a
+ * posted [Notification], and MessagingStyle can be extracted and extended. Callers that are
+ * not conversations (BigText notifications carrying an inline reply) have no thread to append
+ * to and get `setRemoteInputHistory`, which is the same idea in the shape that style supports.
+ *
+ * Returns false when nothing is posted under [notId] any more — the user swiped it away while
+ * the reply was in flight. Nothing is re-posted in that case: they are done with it.
+ */
+fun NotificationManager.renderReplyState(
+    applicationContext: Context,
+    notId: Int,
+    state: ReplyState,
+): Boolean =
+    try {
+        renderReplyStateOrThrow(applicationContext, notId, state)
+    } catch (e: Exception) {
+        // Feedback must never break the thing it reports on. Reading the live notification
+        // and posting it back both go through the system, and both can throw (a revoked
+        // POST_NOTIFICATIONS between check and notify, say) — and this runs either side of
+        // the send, where an escape would cost the user the reply itself.
+        Log.w(TAG, "Could not render the reply state", e)
+        false
+    }
+
+private const val TAG = "InlineReplyFeedback"
+
+private fun NotificationManager.renderReplyStateOrThrow(
+    applicationContext: Context,
+    notId: Int,
+    state: ReplyState,
+): Boolean {
+    val existing = activeNotifications.firstOrNull { it.id == notId }?.notification ?: return false
+
+    val builder =
+        NotificationCompat
+            .Builder(applicationContext, existing)
+            // The thread already alerted when the message arrived; an update about the user's
+            // own reply must not buzz again.
+            .setOnlyAlertOnce(true)
+
+    val style = NotificationCompat.MessagingStyle.extractMessagingStyleFromNotification(existing)
+
+    when (state) {
+        is ReplyState.Sending -> {
+            // `null` attributes the message to the MessagingStyle's own user.
+            style?.addMessage(state.text, System.currentTimeMillis(), null as Person?)
+                ?: builder.setRemoteInputHistory(arrayOf(state.text))
+            builder.setSubText(stringRes(applicationContext, R.string.app_notification_reply_sending))
+        }
+
+        ReplyState.Sent -> {
+            // Sending already put the text in the thread — appending here would double it.
+            builder.setSubText(null)
+        }
+
+        is ReplyState.Unconfirmed -> {
+            if (style == null) builder.setRemoteInputHistory(arrayOf(state.text))
+            builder.setSubText(stringRes(applicationContext, R.string.app_notification_reply_unconfirmed))
+        }
+
+        is ReplyState.Failed -> {
+            if (style == null) builder.setRemoteInputHistory(arrayOf(state.text))
+            builder.setSubText(stringRes(applicationContext, R.string.app_notification_reply_failed))
+
+            val retryLabel = stringRes(applicationContext, R.string.app_notification_reply_retry)
+
+            // Rebuilt from the posted notification, so its actions come with it — and a bare
+            // clearActions() would take Reply and Mark Read with them, leaving a failed reply
+            // with no way to write a different one. Keep them, drop any Retry left by an
+            // earlier attempt so repeated failures don't stack, then add this one.
+            val kept =
+                (0 until NotificationCompat.getActionCount(existing))
+                    .mapNotNull { NotificationCompat.getAction(existing, it) }
+                    .filter { it.title?.toString() != retryLabel }
+
+            builder.clearActions()
+            kept.forEach { builder.addAction(it) }
+            builder.addAction(
+                NotificationCompat.Action
+                    .Builder(R.drawable.ic_action_reply, retryLabel, state.retry)
+                    .build(),
+            )
+        }
+    }
+
+    style?.let { builder.setStyle(it) }
+
+    notify(notId, builder.build())
+    return true
+}
diff --git a/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/service/notifications/NotificationReplyReceiver.kt b/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/service/notifications/NotificationReplyReceiver.kt
index 48c0e20cab..7bb5c88e3a 100644
--- a/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/service/notifications/NotificationReplyReceiver.kt
+++ b/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/service/notifications/NotificationReplyReceiver.kt
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 package com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.service.notifications
 
 import android.app.NotificationManager
+import android.app.PendingIntent
 import android.content.BroadcastReceiver
 import android.content.Context
 import android.content.Intent
@@ -46,11 +47,22 @@ import kotlinx.coroutines.CoroutineScope
 import kotlinx.coroutines.Dispatchers
 import kotlinx.coroutines.SupervisorJob
 import kotlinx.coroutines.cancel
+import kotlinx.coroutines.cancelAndJoin
+import kotlinx.coroutines.delay
 import kotlinx.coroutines.flow.collect
 import kotlinx.coroutines.launch
 import kotlin.coroutines.cancellation.CancellationException
 
 class NotificationReplyReceiver : BroadcastReceiver() {
+    companion object {
+        /**
+         * How long a send may run before the notification stops claiming it is sending. Set
+         * under the ten seconds a foreground broadcast gets, so the honest state is rendered
+         * while this process is still alive to render it.
+         */
+        private const val UNCONFIRMED_AFTER_MS = 8_000L
+    }
+
     override fun onReceive(
         context: Context,
         intent: Intent,
@@ -88,12 +100,7 @@ class NotificationReplyReceiver : BroadcastReceiver() {
             }
 
             NotificationUtils.REPLY_ACTION -> {
-                val replyText =
-                    RemoteInput
-                        .getResultsFromIntent(intent)
-                        ?.getCharSequence(NotificationUtils.KEY_REPLY_TEXT)
-                        ?.toString()
-
+                val replyText = replyTextFrom(intent)
                 if (replyText.isNullOrBlank()) return
 
                 val accountNpub = intent.getStringExtra(NotificationUtils.KEY_ACCOUNT_NPUB) ?: return
@@ -102,35 +109,25 @@ class NotificationReplyReceiver : BroadcastReceiver() {
 
                 if (members.isEmpty()) return
 
-                runOnRelay(notificationManager, notificationId, eventId) {
+                runOnRelay(context, notificationManager, notificationId, eventId, replyText, intent) {
                     sendReply(accountNpub, members, replyText)
                 }
             }
 
             NotificationUtils.PUBLIC_REPLY_ACTION -> {
-                val replyText =
-                    RemoteInput
-                        .getResultsFromIntent(intent)
-                        ?.getCharSequence(NotificationUtils.KEY_REPLY_TEXT)
-                        ?.toString()
-
+                val replyText = replyTextFrom(intent)
                 if (replyText.isNullOrBlank()) return
 
                 val accountNpub = intent.getStringExtra(NotificationUtils.KEY_ACCOUNT_NPUB) ?: return
                 val targetEventId = intent.getStringExtra(NotificationUtils.KEY_TARGET_EVENT_ID) ?: return
 
-                runOnRelay(notificationManager, notificationId, eventId) {
+                runOnRelay(context, notificationManager, notificationId, eventId, replyText, intent) {
                     sendPublicReply(accountNpub, targetEventId, replyText)
                 }
             }
 
             NotificationUtils.MARMOT_REPLY_ACTION -> {
-                val replyText =
-                    RemoteInput
-                        .getResultsFromIntent(intent)
-                        ?.getCharSequence(NotificationUtils.KEY_REPLY_TEXT)
-                        ?.toString()
-
+                val replyText = replyTextFrom(intent)
                 if (replyText.isNullOrBlank()) return
 
                 val accountNpub = intent.getStringExtra(NotificationUtils.KEY_ACCOUNT_NPUB) ?: return
@@ -138,22 +135,51 @@ class NotificationReplyReceiver : BroadcastReceiver() {
                 val replyToInnerId = intent.getStringExtra(NotificationUtils.KEY_MARMOT_REPLY_TO_INNER_ID)
                 val replyToInnerAuthor = intent.getStringExtra(NotificationUtils.KEY_MARMOT_REPLY_TO_INNER_AUTHOR)
 
-                runOnRelay(notificationManager, notificationId, eventId) {
+                runOnRelay(context, notificationManager, notificationId, eventId, replyText, intent) {
                     sendMarmotReply(accountNpub, nostrGroupId, replyToInnerId, replyToInnerAuthor, replyText)
                 }
             }
         }
     }
 
+    /**
+     * The text of an inline reply: typed into the shade, or carried by a Retry re-sending one
+     * that failed. A RemoteInput cannot be pre-filled, so a retry has to bring its own copy.
+     */
+    private fun replyTextFrom(intent: Intent): String? =
+        RemoteInput
+            .getResultsFromIntent(intent)
+            ?.getCharSequence(NotificationUtils.KEY_REPLY_TEXT)
+            ?.toString()
+            ?: intent.getStringExtra(NotificationUtils.KEY_REPLY_TEXT)
+
+    /**
+     * Sends [block] and keeps the notification honest about how it went.
+     *
+     * The notification stays up rather than being cancelled on success. That is what every
+     * other messenger does — the reply appears in the thread you replied to — and it is what
+     * makes a failure visible at all: there is something left on screen to put the error on.
+     * It clears the usual way, when the conversation is read in the app.
+     *
+     * The dismissal guard is recorded on **both** outcomes. On success it stops the enrichment
+     * window resurrecting the pre-reply version seconds later; on failure it stops that same
+     * re-render overwriting the error and the Retry that carries the user's text. A nicer
+     * avatar is not worth losing an unsent message to.
+     */
     private fun runOnRelay(
+        context: Context,
         notificationManager: NotificationManager,
         notificationId: Int,
         eventId: String?,
+        replyText: String,
+        source: Intent,
         block: suspend () -> Unit,
     ) {
         val pendingResult = goAsync()
         val scope = CoroutineScope(Dispatchers.IO + SupervisorJob())
 
+        val appContext = context.applicationContext
+
         scope.launch {
             val collectionJob =
                 scope.launch {
@@ -161,13 +187,48 @@ class NotificationReplyReceiver : BroadcastReceiver() {
                         .collect()
                 }
 
+            // Stops "Sending…" becoming a lie the shade keeps telling. A broadcast receiver is
+            // killed around ten seconds in, and a NIP-17 send can outlive that on its own — an
+            // Amber round trip, a relay publish, proof-of-work mining — so whatever is on
+            // screen at that moment is what the user is left with.
+            //
+            // A watchdog, deliberately, not a `withTimeout`: timing the send out would *cancel*
+            // it, and a publish cancelled halfway is a worse outcome than a slow one. This only
+            // changes what the notification says. If the send does finish afterwards, the Sent
+            // or Failed render below overwrites it.
+            val watchdog =
+                scope.launch {
+                    delay(UNCONFIRMED_AFTER_MS)
+                    notificationManager.renderReplyState(
+                        appContext,
+                        notificationId,
+                        ReplyState.Unconfirmed(replyText),
+                    )
+                }
+
             try {
+                // Inside the try: everything from here on must reach the `finally`, which is
+                // what calls pendingResult.finish() and releases the broadcast.
+                notificationManager.renderReplyState(appContext, notificationId, ReplyState.Sending(replyText))
                 block()
+                // Joined, not just cancelled: if the watchdog is already inside its render, the
+                // two notify() calls would land in an undefined order and the shade could keep
+                // "Still sending…" over a message that went out.
+                watchdog.cancelAndJoin()
                 eventId?.let { NotificationUtils.markDismissed(it) }
-                notificationManager.cancelAndPrune(notificationId)
+                notificationManager.renderReplyState(appContext, notificationId, ReplyState.Sent)
             } catch (e: Exception) {
+                // Rethrown first: joining is a suspend call, which an already-cancelled
+                // coroutine cannot make. `scope.cancel()` below takes the watchdog with it.
                 if (e is CancellationException) throw e
+                watchdog.cancelAndJoin()
                 Log.e("NotificationReply") { "Failed to send reply: ${e.message}" }
+                eventId?.let { NotificationUtils.markDismissed(it) }
+                notificationManager.renderReplyState(
+                    appContext,
+                    notificationId,
+                    ReplyState.Failed(replyText, retryIntent(appContext, notificationId, replyText, source)),
+                )
             } finally {
                 pendingResult.finish()
                 collectionJob.cancel()
@@ -176,6 +237,37 @@ class NotificationReplyReceiver : BroadcastReceiver() {
         }
     }
 
+    /**
+     * A one-tap re-send of exactly what the user typed.
+     *
+     * A copy of [source] — which already carries the action and the account, room, group or
+     * target this reply was addressed to — plus the text. Keeping the original action is what
+     * makes this free: [onReceive] routes it back to the branch it came from with no alias to
+     * resolve, the dismissal guard already treats it as the reply action it is, and
+     * [replyTextFrom] already prefers a RemoteInput result and falls back to this extra.
+     */
+    private fun retryIntent(
+        applicationContext: Context,
+        notificationId: Int,
+        replyText: String,
+        source: Intent,
+    ): PendingIntent {
+        val intent =
+            Intent(source).apply {
+                setClass(applicationContext, NotificationReplyReceiver::class.java)
+                putExtra(NotificationUtils.KEY_REPLY_TEXT, replyText)
+            }
+
+        return PendingIntent.getBroadcast(
+            applicationContext,
+            // The other three request codes for this notification are notId, +1 (mark read)
+            // and +2 (dismiss).
+            notificationId + 3,
+            intent,
+            PendingIntent.FLAG_IMMUTABLE or PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT,
+        )
+    }
+
     private suspend fun sendReply(
         accountNpub: String,
         chatroomMembers: List<String>,
diff --git a/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/service/notifications/NotificationRoutes.kt b/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/service/notifications/NotificationRoutes.kt
index 5424019b61..05ce0b5f58 100644
--- a/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/service/notifications/NotificationRoutes.kt
+++ b/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/service/notifications/NotificationRoutes.kt
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ import androidx.core.content.ContextCompat
 import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.commons.model.Note
 import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.model.Account
 import com.vitorpamplona.quartz.nip01Core.core.hexToByteArray
+import com.vitorpamplona.quartz.nip17Dm.base.ChatroomKey
 import com.vitorpamplona.quartz.nip19Bech32.toNpub
 
 /** Deep-link URIs consumed by `MainActivity.uriToRoute` when a notification is tapped. */
@@ -38,11 +39,88 @@ object NotificationRoutes {
             .hexToByteArray()
             .toNpub()
 
-    /** Opens the note directly (used for replies, mentions, DMs, media, git). */
+    /**
+     * Opens the note directly (used for replies, mentions, media, git).
+     *
+     * A note delivered inside an envelope (a NIP-17 private note or reply) cannot be
+     * addressed this way — see [privateNoteUri].
+     */
     fun noteUri(
         note: Note,
         accountNpub: String,
-    ): String = note.toNEvent() + ACCOUNT + accountNpub
+    ): String =
+        if (note.rumorHost != null) {
+            privateNoteUri(note.idHex, accountNpub)
+        } else {
+            note.toNEvent() + ACCOUNT + accountNpub
+        }
+
+    /**
+     * Opens a NIP-17 private note or reply by the rumor's own id.
+     *
+     * [Note.toNEvent] cannot address one: for a rumor it encodes the kind-1059 gift wrap
+     * that delivered it, because the rumor id must never appear in anything that leaves
+     * for a relay (`RumorHostCitationTest` pins that, and [Note.isPrivateRumor] guards the
+     * publish paths). Two things then go wrong on a tap. The wrap is unfetchable — the
+     * general event finder asks the account's read relays for an id only the DM inbox
+     * relays ever held. And the wrap note emits exactly once, from `consumeRegularEvent`,
+     * *before* it is decrypted, so `routeFor` sees a null `innerEventId` and the redirect
+     * never fires again (the later `event = copyNoContent()` is a plain assignment).
+     *
+     * The rumor id has neither problem: its note emits when the rumor is consumed, and the
+     * always-on one-week gift-wrap tail re-delivers and re-unwraps the envelope on every
+     * cold start, so a push-recent message always comes back on its own. This URI is read
+     * only by `MainActivity.uriToRoute`, inside our own process, and the route it produces
+     * never puts the id in a REQ — see `Route.EventRedirect.isPrivate`.
+     */
+    fun privateNoteUri(
+        rumorId: String,
+        accountNpub: String,
+    ): String = "privatenote?id=$rumorId&account=$accountNpub"
+
+    /**
+     * Opens a NIP-17 / NIP-04 private chatroom (DM notifications).
+     *
+     * A DM must NOT deep-link through its own note: [Note.toNEvent] cites the kind-1059
+     * gift wrap that delivered the rumor (it has to — the rumor id is the private event's
+     * identity and resolves to nothing on a public relay, see `RumorHostCitationTest`).
+     * Resolving that nevent back to a room needs the wrap *and* seal notes to still be in
+     * the in-memory `LocalCache`. A push usually wakes a cold process, so by the time the
+     * user taps, the cache is empty — and no relay will ever serve that wrap again, so the
+     * tap landed on a `Route.EventRedirect` that could never resolve.
+     *
+     * The room key is derived locally and needs no event at all, so this survives the
+     * process dying. Same idea as [relayGroupUri], which routes a Buzz DM through the
+     * channel's naddr rather than the message.
+     */
+    fun chatroomUri(
+        room: ChatroomKey,
+        accountNpub: String,
+    ): String = "chatroom?id=${room.users.joinToString(",")}&account=$accountNpub"
+
+    // ---------------------------------------------------------------------
+    // Conversation shortcut ids
+    //
+    // Stable for the life of the chat and scoped to the account, so the same counterparty
+    // under two logins does not collapse into one launcher entry pointing at the wrong
+    // inbox. Members are sorted because a room key is a set — ordering must not create a
+    // second shortcut for a chat that already has one.
+    // ---------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+    fun chatroomShortcutId(
+        room: ChatroomKey,
+        accountNpub: String,
+    ): String = "dm:$accountNpub:" + room.users.sorted().joinToString(",")
+
+    fun marmotShortcutId(
+        nostrGroupId: String,
+        accountNpub: String,
+    ): String = "marmot:$accountNpub:$nostrGroupId"
+
+    fun relayGroupShortcutId(
+        channelNAddr: String,
+        accountNpub: String,
+    ): String = "relaygroup:$accountNpub:$channelNAddr"
 
     /** Opens the Notifications tab, scrolled to [scrollToId] (used for zaps, reactions, chess). */
     fun notificationsUri(
@@ -50,7 +128,13 @@ object NotificationRoutes {
         scrollToId: String,
     ): String = "notifications$ACCOUNT$accountNpub$SCROLL_TO$scrollToId"
 
-    /** Opens a Marmot group chatroom (welcome + group message). */
+    /**
+     * Opens a Marmot group chatroom (welcome + group message).
+     *
+     * Note the query here rides on an *opaque* URI (a scheme with no `//`), so its
+     * `?account=` can only be read by [String.findQueryParameterValue] — see the note
+     * there; `java.net.URI.rawQuery` is null for this shape.
+     */
     fun marmotUri(
         nostrGroupId: String,
         accountNpub: String,
diff --git a/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/service/notifications/NotificationUtils.kt b/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/service/notifications/NotificationUtils.kt
index 6d4791386c..bb697c2f53 100644
--- a/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/service/notifications/NotificationUtils.kt
+++ b/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/service/notifications/NotificationUtils.kt
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ import android.service.notification.StatusBarNotification
 import androidx.core.app.NotificationCompat
 import androidx.core.app.Person
 import androidx.core.app.RemoteInput
+import androidx.core.content.LocusIdCompat
 import androidx.core.graphics.createBitmap
 import androidx.core.graphics.drawable.IconCompat
 import androidx.core.net.toUri
@@ -80,6 +81,7 @@ object NotificationUtils {
      * [KEY_TARGET_EVENT_ID], which is the note an inline reply is addressed to.
      */
     const val KEY_EVENT_ID = "key_event_id"
+
     const val KEY_ACCOUNT_NPUB = "key_account_npub"
     const val KEY_CHATROOM_MEMBERS = "key_chatroom_members"
     const val KEY_TARGET_EVENT_ID = "key_target_event_id"
@@ -166,6 +168,29 @@ object NotificationUtils {
         ) : ReplyAction
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Identity of the chat a conversation notification belongs to, so the system can treat it
+     * as one — see [ConversationShortcuts] for what that buys and why it needs a shortcut.
+     *
+     * [id] must be stable for the life of the conversation and unique across accounts; [label]
+     * is what the conversation is called, which is not always the sender (a group message is
+     * from a person but belongs to the group).
+     *
+     * Callers pass this only when the account allows message content in notifications: the
+     * shortcut it publishes is readable from the launcher.
+     */
+    data class Conversation(
+        val id: String,
+        val label: String,
+        /**
+         * The chat's own picture, when it has one. Null falls back to the message sender's
+         * avatar, which is the right face for a one-to-one DM and the wrong one for a group —
+         * hence [isGroup], which suppresses that fallback along with the sender `Person`.
+         */
+        val iconUrl: String? = null,
+        val isGroup: Boolean = false,
+    )
+
     /** A prior message rendered above the main one in a MessagingStyle notification (thread context). */
     data class ParentMessage(
         val senderName: String,
@@ -281,6 +306,7 @@ object NotificationUtils {
         replyAction: ReplyAction? = null,
         publicInlineReply: InlineReplyTarget? = null,
         addMarkRead: Boolean = true,
+        conversation: Conversation? = null,
         groupKey: String = category.group,
         summaryId: Int = category.summaryId,
     ) {
@@ -330,6 +356,17 @@ object NotificationUtils {
 
         val contentPendingIntent = contentIntent(applicationContext, notId, uri)
 
+        // Published before the notification that names it: a shortcutId the system cannot
+        // resolve is worse than none, so the id is only stamped below when this succeeded.
+        val shortcutId =
+            conversation?.let {
+                val conversationIcon =
+                    it.iconUrl?.let { url -> loadBitmap(url, applicationContext)?.let { bmp -> circleCrop(bmp) } }
+                        ?: avatar.takeUnless { _ -> it.isGroup }
+
+                ConversationShortcuts.push(applicationContext, it, uri, sender, conversationIcon)
+            }
+
         val builderPublic =
             NotificationCompat
                 .Builder(applicationContext, channelId)
@@ -360,6 +397,15 @@ object NotificationUtils {
                 .setOnlyAlertOnce(true)
                 .setWhen(time * 1000)
 
+        // The three halves of the conversation contract: the shortcut the shade resolves, the
+        // locus that ties this notification to it, and the people it is with. All three have to
+        // be present or the notification is ranked as an ordinary alert.
+        if (shortcutId != null) {
+            builder.setShortcutId(shortcutId)
+            builder.setLocusId(LocusIdCompat(shortcutId))
+        }
+        builder.addPerson(sender)
+
         when (replyAction) {
             is ReplyAction.Dm -> builder.addAction(dmReplyAction(applicationContext, notId, id, replyAction))
             is ReplyAction.Marmot -> builder.addAction(marmotReplyAction(applicationContext, notId, id, replyAction))
diff --git a/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/service/notifications/renderers/BuzzDmNotification.kt b/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/service/notifications/renderers/BuzzDmNotification.kt
index eaf4a66d09..97f1e1fc8a 100644
--- a/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/service/notifications/renderers/BuzzDmNotification.kt
+++ b/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/service/notifications/renderers/BuzzDmNotification.kt
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.model.Account
 import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.service.notifications.NotificationCategory
 import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.service.notifications.NotificationEnricher
 import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.service.notifications.NotificationRoutes
+import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.service.notifications.NotificationUtils.Conversation
 import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.service.notifications.NotificationUtils.postConversation
 import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.service.notifications.notificationManager
 import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.ui.stringRes
@@ -82,10 +83,23 @@ object BuzzDmNotification {
         val accountNpub = NotificationRoutes.accountNpub(account)
         // The channel's kind-39000 naddr routes straight to the chatroom via the
         // existing naddr → Route.RelayGroup path (no message load needed on tap).
+        val channelNAddr = channel.toNAddr()
         val uri =
-            channel.toNAddr()?.let { NotificationRoutes.relayGroupUri(it, accountNpub) }
+            channelNAddr?.let { NotificationRoutes.relayGroupUri(it, accountNpub) }
                 ?: NotificationRoutes.noteUri(note, accountNpub)
 
+        // Only the naddr identifies the room durably; without it there is no conversation to
+        // pin a shortcut to. The message-content gate is the early return at the top.
+        val conversation =
+            channelNAddr?.let {
+                Conversation(
+                    id = NotificationRoutes.relayGroupShortcutId(it, accountNpub),
+                    label = channel.toBestDisplayName(),
+                    iconUrl = channel.profilePicture(),
+                    isGroup = true,
+                )
+            }
+
         val nm = context.notificationManager()
 
         NotificationEnricher.enrichAndPost(
@@ -107,6 +121,7 @@ object BuzzDmNotification {
                 applicationContext = context,
                 accountPictureUrl = account.userProfile().profilePicture(),
                 replyAction = null,
+                conversation = conversation,
             )
         }
     }
diff --git a/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/service/notifications/renderers/DirectMessageNotification.kt b/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/service/notifications/renderers/DirectMessageNotification.kt
index 4556e575bf..23a67fc369 100644
--- a/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/service/notifications/renderers/DirectMessageNotification.kt
+++ b/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/service/notifications/renderers/DirectMessageNotification.kt
@@ -21,12 +21,14 @@
 package com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.service.notifications.renderers
 
 import android.content.Context
+import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.commons.model.User
 import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.commons.model.cache.LocalCache
 import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.model.Account
 import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.service.notifications.NotificationCategory
 import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.service.notifications.NotificationContent
 import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.service.notifications.NotificationEnricher
 import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.service.notifications.NotificationRoutes
+import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.service.notifications.NotificationUtils.Conversation
 import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.service.notifications.NotificationUtils.ReplyAction
 import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.service.notifications.NotificationUtils.postConversation
 import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.service.notifications.notificationManager
@@ -96,7 +98,23 @@ object DirectMessageNotification {
             }
 
         val accountNpub = NotificationRoutes.accountNpub(account)
-        val uri = NotificationRoutes.noteUri(chatNote, accountNpub)
+        // The room, not the message: a rumor's nevent cites the gift wrap that delivered it,
+        // which is gone from LocalCache as soon as the process dies and is unfetchable from
+        // any relay. See [NotificationRoutes.chatroomUri].
+        val uri = NotificationRoutes.chatroomUri(chatRoom, accountNpub)
+
+        // Names the chat for the shade's Conversations section. Withheld when the account has
+        // turned message content off, because publishing it puts the counterparty's name and
+        // avatar in the launcher — see [ConversationShortcuts].
+        val conversation =
+            if (account.settings.showMessagesInNotifications.value) {
+                Conversation(
+                    id = NotificationRoutes.chatroomShortcutId(chatRoom, accountNpub),
+                    label = roomLabel(chatRoom, author),
+                )
+            } else {
+                null
+            }
         val replyAction =
             if (decrypt) {
                 null // NIP-04 is read-only in the tray
@@ -125,7 +143,22 @@ object DirectMessageNotification {
                 applicationContext = context,
                 accountPictureUrl = account.userProfile().profilePicture(),
                 replyAction = replyAction,
+                conversation = conversation,
             )
         }
     }
+
+    /**
+     * What to call the chat. A one-to-one room is the other person, which is also the sender;
+     * a group room is everyone in it, so the sender's name alone would mislabel it.
+     */
+    private fun roomLabel(
+        chatRoom: ChatroomKey,
+        author: User,
+    ): String =
+        if (chatRoom.users.size <= 1) {
+            author.toBestDisplayName()
+        } else {
+            chatRoom.users.joinToString(", ") { LocalCache.getOrCreateUser(it).toBestDisplayName() }
+        }
 }
diff --git a/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/service/notifications/renderers/GroupMessageNotification.kt b/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/service/notifications/renderers/GroupMessageNotification.kt
index 1f280a0c19..c28ee82a8a 100644
--- a/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/service/notifications/renderers/GroupMessageNotification.kt
+++ b/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/service/notifications/renderers/GroupMessageNotification.kt
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.model.Account
 import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.service.notifications.NotificationCategory
 import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.service.notifications.NotificationEnricher
 import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.service.notifications.NotificationRoutes
+import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.service.notifications.NotificationUtils.Conversation
 import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.service.notifications.NotificationUtils.ReplyAction
 import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.service.notifications.NotificationUtils.postConversation
 import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.service.notifications.notificationManager
@@ -61,6 +62,20 @@ object GroupMessageNotification {
 
         val accountNpub = NotificationRoutes.accountNpub(account)
         val uri = NotificationRoutes.marmotUri(nostrGroupId, accountNpub)
+        // Withheld when the account has message content turned off — the shortcut it publishes
+        // names the group in the launcher. See [ConversationShortcuts].
+        val conversation =
+            if (account.settings.showMessagesInNotifications.value) {
+                // No iconUrl: a Marmot group's avatar is an encrypted Blossom blob, not a
+                // URL an image loader can take.
+                Conversation(
+                    id = NotificationRoutes.marmotShortcutId(nostrGroupId, accountNpub),
+                    label = groupName,
+                    isGroup = true,
+                )
+            } else {
+                null
+            }
         val nm = context.notificationManager()
 
         NotificationEnricher.enrichAndPost(
@@ -81,6 +96,7 @@ object GroupMessageNotification {
                 uri = uri,
                 applicationContext = context,
                 accountPictureUrl = account.userProfile().profilePicture(),
+                conversation = conversation,
                 replyAction =
                     ReplyAction.Marmot(
                         accountNpub = accountNpub,
diff --git a/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/service/relayClient/reqCommand/event/EventObservers.kt b/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/service/relayClient/reqCommand/event/EventObservers.kt
index f18f9e3ad7..cde6322ad4 100644
--- a/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/service/relayClient/reqCommand/event/EventObservers.kt
+++ b/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/service/relayClient/reqCommand/event/EventObservers.kt
@@ -59,6 +59,21 @@ fun observeNote(
     return flow.collectAsStateWithLifecycle()
 }
 
+/**
+ * [observeNote] without the relay half: watches LocalCache and asks no relay for the note.
+ *
+ * For a NIP-17 rumor, which has no fetchable id — putting one in a REQ would tell relays the
+ * private event's identity, the leak [com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.commons.model.Note.isPrivateRumor]
+ * guards everywhere else. Nothing is lost by not asking: a rumor only ever reaches the cache by
+ * unwrapping the envelope that carried it, and the always-on gift-wrap tail re-fetches a week of
+ * those on every cold start, so this flow fires on its own once the envelope lands.
+ */
+@Composable
+fun observeNoteLocally(note: Note): State<NoteState> {
+    val flow = remember(note) { note.flow().metadata.stateFlow }
+    return flow.collectAsStateWithLifecycle()
+}
+
 @OptIn(ExperimentalCoroutinesApi::class)
 @Composable
 inline fun <reified T : Event> observeNoteEvent(
diff --git a/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/ui/MainActivity.kt b/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/ui/MainActivity.kt
index ac76fd1d14..c19fdebf92 100644
--- a/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/ui/MainActivity.kt
+++ b/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/ui/MainActivity.kt
@@ -34,16 +34,20 @@ import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.debugState
 import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.model.Account
 import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.service.lang.LanguageTranslatorService
 import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.service.notifications.NotificationRelayService
+import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.service.notifications.NotificationRoutes
 import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.service.playback.composable.DEFAULT_MUTED_SETTING
 import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.service.playback.pip.BackgroundMedia
 import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.ui.navigation.findParameterValue
+import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.ui.navigation.findQueryParameterValue
 import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.ui.navigation.routes.Route
 import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.ui.navigation.routes.routeFor
+import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.ui.navigation.routes.routeForPointer
 import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.ui.note.elements.NowProvider
 import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.ui.screen.AccountScreen
 import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.ui.theme.AmethystTheme
 import com.vitorpamplona.quartz.buzz.invite.BuzzInviteLink
 import com.vitorpamplona.quartz.nip01Core.core.AddressableEvent
+import com.vitorpamplona.quartz.nip17Dm.base.ChatroomKey
 import com.vitorpamplona.quartz.nip19Bech32.Nip19Parser
 import com.vitorpamplona.quartz.nip19Bech32.entities.NAddress
 import com.vitorpamplona.quartz.nip19Bech32.entities.NEmbed
@@ -172,6 +176,56 @@ fun fragmentHashtagOrNull(uri: String): String? {
 
 fun isUrlRoute(uri: String) = uri.startsWith("url?id=") || uri.startsWith("nostr:url?id=")
 
+/**
+ * A private chatroom, addressed by its participants rather than by a message.
+ * Posted by DM notifications — see [NotificationRoutes.chatroomUri] for why a DM
+ * cannot deep-link through its own note.
+ */
+fun isChatroomRoute(uri: String) = uri.startsWith("chatroom?id=") || uri.startsWith("nostr:chatroom?id=")
+
+/**
+ * Note what this deliberately does *not* do: register the room on the account.
+ *
+ * `routeToMessage` would, and that is right for the in-app callers, but wrong here twice over.
+ * `uriToRoute` runs against whichever account is current, *before* `?account=` is read and the
+ * switch happens (`AppNavigation.NavigateIfIntentRequested`), so a DM notification for account B
+ * tapped while A is on screen would insert an empty conversation into **A**'s message list. And
+ * `nostr:` is an exported, browsable scheme, so any web page could post
+ * `nostr:chatroom?id=<hex>&account=…` and inject a room of its choosing.
+ *
+ * Nothing needs it: `ChatroomFeedFilter.chatroom()` calls `getOrCreatePrivateChatroom` when the
+ * screen actually opens, by which point the switch has happened and the room lands on the right
+ * account.
+ *
+ * The ids are still checked here — a room key is a set of pubkeys, so anything that isn't one is
+ * not a room, and a bad deep link should resolve to nothing rather than to an unopenable screen.
+ */
+fun chatroomRoute(uri: String): Route? {
+    val users =
+        uri
+            .findQueryParameterValue("id")
+            ?.split(',')
+            ?.map { it.trim() }
+            ?.takeIf { it.isNotEmpty() && it.all(::isPubKeyHex) }
+            ?.toSet() ?: return null
+
+    return Route.Room(ChatroomKey(users))
+}
+
+/** A bare 32-byte lowercase-hex pubkey, the only thing a chatroom key is made of. */
+private fun isPubKeyHex(value: String) = value.length == 64 && value.all { it in '0'..'9' || it in 'a'..'f' }
+
+/**
+ * A NIP-17 private note or reply, addressed by the rumor's own id because its `nevent`
+ * names the undeliverable gift wrap instead — see [NotificationRoutes.privateNoteUri].
+ */
+fun isPrivateNoteRoute(uri: String) = uri.startsWith("privatenote?id=") || uri.startsWith("nostr:privatenote?id=")
+
+fun privateNoteRoute(uri: String): Route? {
+    val id = uri.findQueryParameterValue("id") ?: return null
+    return Route.EventRedirect(id, isPrivate = true)
+}
+
 fun isConnectedAppRoute(uri: String) = uri.startsWith("connectedapp?coordinate=") || uri.startsWith("nostr:connectedapp?coordinate=")
 
 /**
@@ -232,7 +286,7 @@ fun uriToRoute(
     account: Account,
 ): Route? {
     if (isNotificationRoute(uri)) {
-        val scrollTo = runCatching { java.net.URI(uri.removePrefix(NOSTR_URI_PREFIX)).findParameterValue("scrollTo") }.getOrNull()
+        val scrollTo = uri.findQueryParameterValue("scrollTo")
         return Route.Notification(scrollToEventId = scrollTo)
     }
     if (isActiveSubscriptionsRoute(uri)) {
@@ -250,6 +304,12 @@ fun uriToRoute(
     if (isUrlRoute(uri)) {
         return urlRoute(uri)
     }
+    if (isChatroomRoute(uri)) {
+        return chatroomRoute(uri)
+    }
+    if (isPrivateNoteRoute(uri)) {
+        return privateNoteRoute(uri)
+    }
     if (isConnectedAppRoute(uri)) {
         return connectedAppRoute(uri)
     }
@@ -284,10 +344,15 @@ fun uriToRoute(
                 }
 
                 is NEvent -> {
-                    routeFor(
-                        note = LocalCache.getOrCreateNote(nip19.hex),
-                        loggedIn = account,
-                    ) ?: Route.EventRedirect(nip19.hex)
+                    val note = LocalCache.getOrCreateNote(nip19.hex)
+                    // Only fall back to the pointer's own kind while the body is missing: once the
+                    // event is cached it may belong somewhere the kind alone can't name (a channel,
+                    // a chatroom), and routeFor knows that.
+                    if (note.event == null) {
+                        routeForPointer(nip19.kind, nip19.hex) ?: Route.EventRedirect(nip19.hex)
+                    } else {
+                        routeFor(note = note, loggedIn = account) ?: Route.EventRedirect(nip19.hex)
+                    }
                 }
 
                 is NAddress -> {
diff --git a/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/ui/navigation/AppNavigation.kt b/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/ui/navigation/AppNavigation.kt
index da2095d408..561b4e0686 100644
--- a/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/ui/navigation/AppNavigation.kt
+++ b/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/ui/navigation/AppNavigation.kt
@@ -886,7 +886,7 @@ fun BuildNavigation(
         composableFromBottomArgs<Route.NewGroupDM> { NewGroupDMScreen(it.message, it.attachment, accountViewModel, nav) }
         composableFromBottomArgs<Route.ShareToDM> { ShareToDMScreen(it.message, it.attachment, accountViewModel, nav) }
 
-        composableArgs<Route.EventRedirect> { LoadRedirectScreen(it.id, accountViewModel, nav) }
+        composableArgs<Route.EventRedirect> { LoadRedirectScreen(it.id, it.isPrivate, accountViewModel, nav) }
 
         composableFromBottomArgs<Route.GeoPost> {
             GeoHashPostScreen(
@@ -1167,7 +1167,7 @@ private fun NavigateIfIntentRequested(
             LaunchedEffect(intentNextPage) {
                 if (actionableNextPage != null) {
                     actionableNextPage?.let { nextRoute ->
-                        val npub = runCatching { URI(intentNextPage.removePrefix("nostr:")).findParameterValue("account") }.getOrNull()
+                        val npub = intentNextPage.findQueryParameterValue("account")
                         if (npub != null && accountSessionManager.currentAccountNPub() != npub) {
                             accountSessionManager.checkAndSwitchUserSync(npub) { account ->
                                 uriToRoute(intentNextPage, account)
@@ -1254,7 +1254,7 @@ private fun NavigateIfIntentRequested(
 
                             if (newPage != null) {
                                 scope.launch {
-                                    val npub = runCatching { URI(uri.removePrefix("nostr:")).findParameterValue("account") }.getOrNull()
+                                    val npub = uri.findQueryParameterValue("account")
                                     if (npub != null && accountSessionManager.currentAccountNPub() != npub) {
                                         accountSessionManager.checkAndSwitchUserSync(npub) { newAccount ->
                                             uriToRoute(uri, newAccount)
@@ -1304,3 +1304,34 @@ fun URI.findParameterValue(parameterName: String): String? =
             Pair(name, value)
         }?.firstOrNull { it.first == parameterName }
         ?.second
+
+/**
+ * The value of [parameterName] in this URI's query string, without going through
+ * [java.net.URI].
+ *
+ * Needed because `java.net.URI` only exposes `rawQuery` for *hierarchical* URIs. A URI
+ * with a scheme and no `//` is **opaque** — everything after the colon is one
+ * scheme-specific part — so `URI("marmot:<hex>?account=npub1…").rawQuery` is null. That
+ * is the shape [com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.service.notifications.NotificationRoutes.marmotUri]
+ * produces, so every Marmot group notification silently lost its `?account=` and opened
+ * the group under whichever account happened to be current instead of switching first.
+ *
+ * Splitting on the first `?` gets the same answer for both shapes, and returns null for a
+ * bare `nevent1…` with no query at all.
+ *
+ * [com.vitorpamplona.quartz.utils.UriParser] reads an opaque query correctly too, and is the
+ * right tool when a URI is already known to be well-formed. It is not this one: it builds a
+ * [java.net.URI], which *throws* on anything that is not a legal URI. What arrives here comes
+ * from an exported, browsable scheme, so it can be any string at all, and every caller on the
+ * deep-link path treats an unreadable uri as "no route" rather than as a crash.
+ */
+fun String.findQueryParameterValue(parameterName: String): String? {
+    val query = substringAfter('?', "")
+    if (query.isEmpty()) return null
+
+    return query
+        .split('&')
+        .firstOrNull { it.substringBefore('=') == parameterName }
+        ?.substringAfter('=', "")
+        ?.ifEmpty { null }
+}
diff --git a/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/ui/navigation/routes/RouteMaker.kt b/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/ui/navigation/routes/RouteMaker.kt
index a3f9b3df60..ea5c36f26f 100644
--- a/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/ui/navigation/routes/RouteMaker.kt
+++ b/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/ui/navigation/routes/RouteMaker.kt
@@ -51,6 +51,10 @@ import com.vitorpamplona.quartz.nip28PublicChat.message.ChannelMessageEvent
 import com.vitorpamplona.quartz.nip29RelayGroups.GroupId
 import com.vitorpamplona.quartz.nip29RelayGroups.groupId
 import com.vitorpamplona.quartz.nip29RelayGroups.isGroupScoped
+import com.vitorpamplona.quartz.nip34Git.issue.GitIssueEvent
+import com.vitorpamplona.quartz.nip34Git.patch.GitPatchEvent
+import com.vitorpamplona.quartz.nip34Git.pr.GitPullRequestEvent
+import com.vitorpamplona.quartz.nip34Git.pr.GitPullRequestUpdateEvent
 import com.vitorpamplona.quartz.nip34Git.repository.GitRepositoryEvent
 import com.vitorpamplona.quartz.nip37Drafts.DraftWrapEvent
 import com.vitorpamplona.quartz.nip51Lists.followList.FollowListEvent
@@ -60,9 +64,13 @@ import com.vitorpamplona.quartz.nip57Zaps.LnZapEvent
 import com.vitorpamplona.quartz.nip59Giftwrap.HasInnerEvent
 import com.vitorpamplona.quartz.nip59Giftwrap.seals.SealedRumorEvent
 import com.vitorpamplona.quartz.nip59Giftwrap.wraps.GiftWrapEvent
+import com.vitorpamplona.quartz.nip68Picture.PictureEvent
+import com.vitorpamplona.quartz.nip71Video.VideoNormalEvent
+import com.vitorpamplona.quartz.nip71Video.VideoShortEvent
 import com.vitorpamplona.quartz.nip72ModCommunities.definition.CommunityDefinitionEvent
 import com.vitorpamplona.quartz.nip73ExternalIds.location.isGeohashedScoped
 import com.vitorpamplona.quartz.nip73ExternalIds.topics.isHashtagScoped
+import com.vitorpamplona.quartz.nip84Highlights.HighlightEvent
 import com.vitorpamplona.quartz.nip88Polls.poll.PollEvent
 import com.vitorpamplona.quartz.nip89AppHandlers.definition.AppDefinitionEvent
 import com.vitorpamplona.quartz.nip99Classifieds.ClassifiedsEvent
@@ -98,6 +106,62 @@ fun minichatRouteFor(note: Note): Route? {
 
 private fun Note.isInChatGatherer(): Boolean = inGatherers?.any { it is ConcordChannel || it is RelayGroupChannel || it is PublicChatChannel } == true
 
+/**
+ * Kinds whose destination is `Route.Note(id)` — the generic thread view — no matter what the
+ * event body turns out to say. Mirrors the `else ->` branch of [routeForInner]: every kind here
+ * is a plain note that carries nothing (no channel id, no `a` tag, no chatroom key) that could
+ * send it somewhere more specific.
+ *
+ * **An addressable kind can never be listed here**, however plain it looks. [routeForInner]
+ * sends those to `Route.Note(addressTag())` through its `is AddressableEvent` branch, and the
+ * difference is not cosmetic: relays do not serve a replaceable by the id of one of its
+ * versions, so routing by id is a dead end. This bit the NIP-71 video kinds — 21/22 are regular
+ * but 34235/34236 extend `AddressableVideoEvent` — which is why the pair is split below and why
+ * `RouteForPointerTest` walks this list against [routeForInner] itself rather than trusting it.
+ *
+ * `internal` so that test can iterate the real list: a kind added here is covered by
+ * construction, not by someone remembering to add a case.
+ */
+internal val THREAD_VIEW_KINDS =
+    intArrayOf(
+        TextNoteEvent.KIND,
+        CommentEvent.KIND,
+        PollEvent.KIND,
+        PictureEvent.KIND,
+        // NIP-71 regular video only (21/22). The addressable pair, 34235/34236, is cited by
+        // `naddr` and routed by address — see the warning above.
+        VideoNormalEvent.KIND,
+        VideoShortEvent.KIND,
+        HighlightEvent.KIND,
+        GitIssueEvent.KIND,
+        GitPatchEvent.KIND,
+        GitPullRequestEvent.KIND,
+        GitPullRequestUpdateEvent.KIND,
+    )
+
+/**
+ * Route for an event we hold only a NIP-19 pointer to — its id plus, when the pointer carries
+ * one, its [kind] — because the body has not reached [LocalCache] yet.
+ *
+ * Notification deep links are the reason this exists. A push normally wakes a *cold* process,
+ * so by the time the user taps the tray the cache is empty and [routeFor] can say nothing
+ * better than [Route.EventRedirect] — a bare "looking for event" screen the user sits on until
+ * the event is re-fetched. An `nevent` already states the kind, which for an ordinary note is
+ * the whole answer, so a reply or a mention can open its thread immediately and let the screen
+ * fill itself in.
+ *
+ * Returns null when the kind is absent or needs the body to place the event, leaving the
+ * caller's redirect in charge.
+ */
+fun routeForPointer(
+    kind: Int?,
+    id: HexKey,
+): Route? {
+    if (kind == null) return null
+    if (kind !in THREAD_VIEW_KINDS) return null
+    return Route.Note(id)
+}
+
 fun routeFor(
     note: Note,
     loggedIn: Account,
diff --git a/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/ui/navigation/routes/Routes.kt b/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/ui/navigation/routes/Routes.kt
index ef0fa3ca11..9bd0ebeed4 100644
--- a/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/ui/navigation/routes/Routes.kt
+++ b/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/ui/navigation/routes/Routes.kt
@@ -1081,6 +1081,12 @@ sealed class Route {
 
     @Serializable data class EventRedirect(
         val id: String,
+        /**
+         * The event is a NIP-17 rumor, so [id] is a private event id that must never reach
+         * a relay: the screen watches LocalCache for it and issues no REQ. The envelope that
+         * carries it comes back on its own through the always-on gift-wrap tail.
+         */
+        val isPrivate: Boolean = false,
     ) : Route()
 
     @Serializable
diff --git a/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/ui/screen/AccountSessionManager.kt b/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/ui/screen/AccountSessionManager.kt
index 3288cdb54a..10198ba3dc 100644
--- a/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/ui/screen/AccountSessionManager.kt
+++ b/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/ui/screen/AccountSessionManager.kt
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.commons.defaults.DefaultNIP65RelaySet
 import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.model.Account
 import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.model.AccountSettings
 import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.model.accountsCache.AccountCacheState
+import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.service.notifications.ConversationShortcuts
 import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.ui.navigation.routes.Route
 import com.vitorpamplona.quartz.nip01Core.core.hexToByteArray
 import com.vitorpamplona.quartz.nip01Core.crypto.KeyPair
@@ -398,6 +399,11 @@ class AccountSessionManager(
             // `:napplet` call ProfileStore.deleteProfile(name) — and that must refuse a profile still in
             // use by a live WebView. Not wired for this release; there is no existing hook that reaches
             // the sandbox on account deletion.
+            // The launcher is the one place an account's contacts live outside our own
+            // storage, so the conversation shortcuts go before anything else — whether or not
+            // this is the account currently on screen. See [ConversationShortcuts].
+            ConversationShortcuts.removeForAccount(Amethyst.instance.appContext, accountInfo.npub)
+
             if (accountInfo.npub == currentAccountNPub()) {
                 // Drop the Nest bridge ref before tearing down the
                 // current account so the audio-room activity can't
diff --git a/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/ui/screen/loggedIn/DecryptAndIndexProcessor.kt b/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/ui/screen/loggedIn/DecryptAndIndexProcessor.kt
index 1afbd547a4..74ba4e8f7e 100644
--- a/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/ui/screen/loggedIn/DecryptAndIndexProcessor.kt
+++ b/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/ui/screen/loggedIn/DecryptAndIndexProcessor.kt
@@ -360,6 +360,18 @@ class GiftWrapEventHandler(
                 eventProcessor.consumeEvent(innerGift, innerGiftNote, publicNote)
             }
         }
+
+        // The wrap note already emitted once — from `consumeRegularEvent`, before any of this
+        // ran, when `innerEventId` was still null and the note said nothing about where it
+        // leads. Everything above is plain assignment, so without this the wrap's last word on
+        // itself is that first, useless emission: anything waiting on it (a `nostr:nevent…` for
+        // a wrap, a notification from a build that addressed DMs that way) waits forever while
+        // the message it wanted sits decrypted in the cache. Emitted last so an observer that
+        // wakes here can walk wrap → seal → rumor and find the whole chain linked.
+        //
+        // `flowSet?`, not `flow()`: a wrap nobody is watching — which is nearly all of them,
+        // a week's worth on every cold start — must not be given a flow set to hold.
+        eventNote.flowSet?.metadata?.invalidateData()
     }
 
     private suspend fun processExistingGiftWrap(
@@ -505,6 +517,11 @@ class SealedRumorEventHandler(
         } else {
             eventProcessor.consumeEvent(innerRumor, innerRumorNote, publicNote)
         }
+
+        // Same as the wrap above: the seal's only emission came before it was opened, so
+        // re-emit now that it points at its rumor. This runs inside the wrap's own unwrap, so
+        // the wrap's emission lands after it and sees a fully linked chain.
+        eventNote.flowSet?.metadata?.invalidateData()
     }
 
     private suspend fun processExistingSealedRumor(
diff --git a/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/ui/screen/loggedIn/redirect/LoadRedirectScreen.kt b/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/ui/screen/loggedIn/redirect/LoadRedirectScreen.kt
index 09f63de06e..144a54e01a 100644
--- a/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/ui/screen/loggedIn/redirect/LoadRedirectScreen.kt
+++ b/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/ui/screen/loggedIn/redirect/LoadRedirectScreen.kt
@@ -22,56 +22,118 @@ package com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.ui.screen.loggedIn.redirect
 
 import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.Arrangement
 import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.Column
-import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.fillMaxHeight
-import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.fillMaxWidth
+import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.fillMaxSize
 import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.padding
+import androidx.compose.material3.CircularProgressIndicator
+import androidx.compose.material3.MaterialTheme
 import androidx.compose.material3.Text
 import androidx.compose.runtime.Composable
 import androidx.compose.runtime.LaunchedEffect
 import androidx.compose.runtime.getValue
 import androidx.compose.ui.Alignment
 import androidx.compose.ui.Modifier
+import androidx.compose.ui.text.style.TextAlign
 import androidx.compose.ui.unit.dp
 import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.commons.model.Note
 import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.commons.resources.Res
 import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.commons.resources.looking_for_event
+import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.commons.resources.looking_for_event_title
+import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.commons.resources.looking_for_private_event
 import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.service.relayClient.reqCommand.event.observeNote
+import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.service.relayClient.reqCommand.event.observeNoteLocally
 import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.ui.components.LoadNote
+import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.ui.layouts.DisappearingScaffold
 import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.ui.navigation.navs.INav
 import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.ui.navigation.navs.Nav
 import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.ui.navigation.routes.Route
 import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.ui.navigation.routes.routeFor
+import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.ui.navigation.topbars.TopBarExtensibleWithBackButton
 import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.ui.screen.loggedIn.AccountViewModel
 import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.ui.stringRes
 import kotlinx.coroutines.Dispatchers
 import kotlinx.coroutines.withContext
 
+/**
+ * The waiting room for an event we can only name: hold here until it arrives, then replace
+ * this entry with wherever it actually belongs.
+ *
+ * It is a real screen, not a bare label. A notification tap on a cold process lands here
+ * (LocalCache is empty until the event is re-fetched), and with nothing but a line of text
+ * on `colorScheme.background` — black on the dark theme — the wait read as the app opening
+ * to a black screen, with no top bar and no way back other than the system gesture.
+ */
 @Composable
 fun LoadRedirectScreen(
     eventId: String?,
+    isPrivate: Boolean,
     accountViewModel: AccountViewModel,
     nav: Nav,
 ) {
     if (eventId == null) return
 
-    LoadNote(eventId, accountViewModel) { note ->
-        note?.let {
-            LoadRedirectScreen(
-                baseNote = note,
-                accountViewModel = accountViewModel,
-                nav = nav,
+    DisappearingScaffold(
+        isInvertedLayout = false,
+        topBar = {
+            TopBarExtensibleWithBackButton(
+                title = { Text(stringRes(Res.string.looking_for_event_title)) },
+                popBack = nav::popBack,
             )
+        },
+        accountViewModel = accountViewModel,
+    ) { padding ->
+        Column(
+            Modifier.fillMaxSize().padding(padding).padding(horizontal = 50.dp),
+            horizontalAlignment = Alignment.CenterHorizontally,
+            verticalArrangement = Arrangement.Center,
+        ) {
+            CircularProgressIndicator()
+
+            LoadNote(eventId, accountViewModel) { note ->
+                Text(
+                    // A private id is not something to show a user, and it must not be
+                    // copyable off the screen either.
+                    text =
+                        if (isPrivate) {
+                            stringRes(Res.string.looking_for_private_event)
+                        } else {
+                            stringRes(Res.string.looking_for_event, note?.idHex ?: eventId)
+                        },
+                    textAlign = TextAlign.Center,
+                    style = MaterialTheme.typography.bodyMedium,
+                    modifier = Modifier.padding(top = 20.dp),
+                )
+
+                note?.let {
+                    WatchAndRedirect(
+                        baseNote = it,
+                        isPrivate = isPrivate,
+                        accountViewModel = accountViewModel,
+                        nav = nav,
+                    )
+                }
+            }
         }
     }
 }
 
+/**
+ * Renders nothing: it only watches [baseNote] and pops this entry for the real destination
+ * the moment the event lands.
+ *
+ * A public note is watched through [observeNote], which also holds a relay subscription open
+ * so the note is actually fetched. A private one is watched through [observeNoteLocally],
+ * which asks no relay: a rumor id must never appear in a REQ, and it does not need to — the
+ * envelope carrying it is re-fetched by the always-on gift-wrap tail, and unwrapping it fires
+ * this flow.
+ */
 @Composable
-fun LoadRedirectScreen(
+private fun WatchAndRedirect(
     baseNote: Note,
+    isPrivate: Boolean,
     accountViewModel: AccountViewModel,
     nav: INav,
 ) {
-    val noteState by observeNote(baseNote, accountViewModel)
+    val noteState by if (isPrivate) observeNoteLocally(baseNote) else observeNote(baseNote, accountViewModel)
 
     LaunchedEffect(key1 = noteState) {
         val event = noteState.note.event
@@ -83,12 +145,4 @@ fun LoadRedirectScreen(
             }
         }
     }
-
-    Column(
-        Modifier.fillMaxHeight().fillMaxWidth().padding(horizontal = 50.dp),
-        horizontalAlignment = Alignment.CenterHorizontally,
-        verticalArrangement = Arrangement.Center,
-    ) {
-        Text(stringRes(Res.string.looking_for_event, baseNote.idHex))
-    }
 }
diff --git a/amethyst/src/main/res/values/strings.xml b/amethyst/src/main/res/values/strings.xml
index 22f30b780d..e6d0b967c3 100644
--- a/amethyst/src/main/res/values/strings.xml
+++ b/amethyst/src/main/res/values/strings.xml
@@ -1002,6 +1002,11 @@
 
     <string name="app_notification_reply_label">Reply</string>
     <string name="app_notification_mark_read_label">Mark Read</string>
+    <string name="app_notification_reply_sending">Sending…</string>
+    <string name="app_notification_reply_unconfirmed">Still sending…</string>
+    <string name="app_notification_reply_failed">Not sent</string>
+    <string name="app_notification_reply_retry">Retry</string>
+    <string name="app_notification_shortcut_account_removed">This account was removed from Amethyst.</string>
     <string name="app_notification_me">Me</string>
     <string name="app_notification_new_message">New message</string>
     <string name="app_notification_added_to_group">You\'ve been added to %1$s</string>
diff --git a/amethyst/src/test/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/service/notifications/ConversationShortcutIdTest.kt b/amethyst/src/test/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/service/notifications/ConversationShortcutIdTest.kt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..09299862c1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/amethyst/src/test/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/service/notifications/ConversationShortcutIdTest.kt
@@ -0,0 +1,109 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2025 Vitor Pamplona
+ *
+ * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of
+ * this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in
+ * the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use,
+ * copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the
+ * Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so,
+ * subject to the following conditions:
+ *
+ * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
+ * copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+ *
+ * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+ * IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS
+ * FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR
+ * COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN
+ * AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
+ * WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
+ */
+package com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.service.notifications
+
+import com.vitorpamplona.quartz.nip17Dm.base.ChatroomKey
+import org.junit.Assert.assertEquals
+import org.junit.Assert.assertNotEquals
+import org.junit.Assert.assertTrue
+import org.junit.Test
+
+/**
+ * The identity a conversation is published under.
+ *
+ * A launcher shortcut is not a notification — it persists, it is what the system matches a
+ * notification against to grant it the Conversations treatment, and
+ * [ConversationShortcuts.removeForAccount] finds an account's shortcuts by pattern-matching
+ * these strings on logout. So the id has to be stable for the same chat, distinct for
+ * different ones, and readably scoped to its account.
+ */
+class ConversationShortcutIdTest {
+    private val npub = "npub1" + "q".repeat(58)
+    private val otherNpub = "npub1" + "p".repeat(58)
+    private val alice = "a".repeat(64)
+    private val bob = "b".repeat(64)
+
+    /**
+     * The one that would actually break. A [ChatroomKey] is a *set*, so two arrivals in the
+     * same group DM can iterate its members in different orders. Joining them unsorted would
+     * mint a second id for a chat that already has a shortcut — a duplicate entry in the
+     * launcher, and a notification whose `setShortcutId` points at whichever copy lost.
+     */
+    @Test
+    fun aRoomHasOneIdRegardlessOfMemberOrder() {
+        val oneWay = NotificationRoutes.chatroomShortcutId(ChatroomKey(setOf(alice, bob)), npub)
+        val theOther = NotificationRoutes.chatroomShortcutId(ChatroomKey(setOf(bob, alice)), npub)
+
+        assertEquals(oneWay, theOther)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun theSameChatUnderTwoAccountsIsTwoConversations() {
+        val mine = NotificationRoutes.chatroomShortcutId(ChatroomKey(setOf(alice)), npub)
+        val theirs = NotificationRoutes.chatroomShortcutId(ChatroomKey(setOf(alice)), otherNpub)
+
+        assertNotEquals(
+            "one launcher entry shared by two logins would open the wrong inbox",
+            mine,
+            theirs,
+        )
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun differentChatsUnderOneAccountStayApart() {
+        val withAlice = NotificationRoutes.chatroomShortcutId(ChatroomKey(setOf(alice)), npub)
+        val withBob = NotificationRoutes.chatroomShortcutId(ChatroomKey(setOf(bob)), npub)
+        val withBoth = NotificationRoutes.chatroomShortcutId(ChatroomKey(setOf(alice, bob)), npub)
+
+        assertEquals(3, setOf(withAlice, withBob, withBoth).size)
+    }
+
+    /** A DM, a Marmot group and a relay group named by the same hex are three rooms, not one. */
+    @Test
+    fun eachKindOfRoomHasItsOwnNamespace() {
+        val ids =
+            setOf(
+                NotificationRoutes.chatroomShortcutId(ChatroomKey(setOf(alice)), npub),
+                NotificationRoutes.marmotShortcutId(alice, npub),
+                NotificationRoutes.relayGroupShortcutId(alice, npub),
+            )
+
+        assertEquals(3, ids.size)
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * [ConversationShortcuts.removeForAccount] selects on `":$npub:"`, so every id has to carry
+     * the account delimited that way or a logout would leave that account's contacts in the
+     * launcher.
+     */
+    @Test
+    fun everyIdIsFindableByTheAccountScopeLogoutSweepsOn() {
+        val scope = ":$npub:"
+
+        listOf(
+            NotificationRoutes.chatroomShortcutId(ChatroomKey(setOf(alice, bob)), npub),
+            NotificationRoutes.marmotShortcutId(alice, npub),
+            NotificationRoutes.relayGroupShortcutId("naddr1abc", npub),
+        ).forEach {
+            assertTrue("'$it' is not sweepable on logout", it.contains(scope))
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/amethyst/src/test/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/service/notifications/NotificationDeepLinkTest.kt b/amethyst/src/test/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/service/notifications/NotificationDeepLinkTest.kt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a3de843313
--- /dev/null
+++ b/amethyst/src/test/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/service/notifications/NotificationDeepLinkTest.kt
@@ -0,0 +1,217 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2025 Vitor Pamplona
+ *
+ * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of
+ * this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in
+ * the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use,
+ * copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the
+ * Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so,
+ * subject to the following conditions:
+ *
+ * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
+ * copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+ *
+ * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+ * IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS
+ * FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR
+ * COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN
+ * AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
+ * WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
+ */
+package com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.service.notifications
+
+import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.commons.model.Note
+import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.model.Account
+import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.ui.chatroomRoute
+import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.ui.isChatroomRoute
+import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.ui.isPrivateNoteRoute
+import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.ui.navigation.findParameterValue
+import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.ui.navigation.findQueryParameterValue
+import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.ui.navigation.routes.Route
+import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.ui.navigation.routes.routeFor
+import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.ui.privateNoteRoute
+import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.ui.uriToRoute
+import com.vitorpamplona.quartz.nip01Core.crypto.KeyPair
+import com.vitorpamplona.quartz.nip01Core.signers.NostrSignerSync
+import com.vitorpamplona.quartz.nip01Core.tags.people.PTag
+import com.vitorpamplona.quartz.nip10Notes.TextNoteEvent
+import com.vitorpamplona.quartz.nip17Dm.base.ChatroomKey
+import com.vitorpamplona.quartz.nip17Dm.messages.ChatMessageEvent
+import com.vitorpamplona.quartz.nip19Bech32.entities.NEvent
+import com.vitorpamplona.quartz.nip59Giftwrap.wraps.GiftWrapEvent
+import io.mockk.every
+import io.mockk.mockk
+import io.mockk.verify
+import org.junit.Assert.assertEquals
+import org.junit.Assert.assertFalse
+import org.junit.Assert.assertNull
+import org.junit.Assert.assertTrue
+import org.junit.Test
+import java.net.URI
+
+/**
+ * The deep links a tapped notification hands to `MainActivity.uriToRoute`, checked at the
+ * string level — these are what decide whether a tap lands on a real screen or on the
+ * "looking for event" redirect.
+ */
+class NotificationDeepLinkTest {
+    private val npub = "npub1" + "q".repeat(58)
+    private val alice = "a".repeat(64)
+    private val bob = "b".repeat(64)
+
+    @Test
+    fun chatroomUriCarriesBothParticipantsAndTheAccount() {
+        val uri = NotificationRoutes.chatroomUri(ChatroomKey(setOf(alice)), npub)
+
+        assertTrue(isChatroomRoute(uri))
+        assertEquals(alice, uri.findQueryParameterValue("id"))
+        assertEquals(npub, uri.findQueryParameterValue("account"))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun chatroomUriKeepsEveryMemberOfAGroupDm() {
+        val uri = NotificationRoutes.chatroomUri(ChatroomKey(setOf(alice, bob)), npub)
+
+        assertEquals(setOf(alice, bob), uri.findQueryParameterValue("id")?.split(',')?.toSet())
+        assertEquals(npub, uri.findQueryParameterValue("account"))
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * The regression: `marmot:<hex>?account=…` is an *opaque* URI, so `java.net.URI` keeps the
+     * query inside the scheme-specific part and reports no query at all. Reading the account
+     * that way returned null on every Marmot notification, and the tap opened the group under
+     * whichever account happened to be current instead of switching to the addressee first.
+     */
+    @Test
+    fun opaqueMarmotUriStillYieldsItsAccount() {
+        val uri = NotificationRoutes.marmotUri("d".repeat(64), npub)
+
+        assertNull(URI(uri).findParameterValue("account"))
+        assertEquals(npub, uri.findQueryParameterValue("account"))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun hierarchicalNotificationUrisAreReadTheSameWay() {
+        val uri = NotificationRoutes.notificationsUri(npub, "c".repeat(64))
+
+        assertEquals(npub, uri.findQueryParameterValue("account"))
+        assertEquals("c".repeat(64), uri.findQueryParameterValue("scrollTo"))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun aUriWithoutAQueryHasNoParameters() {
+        assertNull("nevent1qqsabcdef".findQueryParameterValue("account"))
+        assertNull("".findQueryParameterValue("account"))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun anEmptyParameterValueReadsAsAbsent() {
+        assertNull("chatroom?id=&account=$npub".findQueryParameterValue("id"))
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * A rumor's `nevent` names the gift wrap that delivered it, never the rumor — that is the
+     * citation rule `RumorHostCitationTest` pins, and it is why a private note cannot be
+     * deep-linked the ordinary way: the wrap is unfetchable from the account's read relays and
+     * its note stops emitting before it is ever decrypted. So `noteUri` has to switch shapes on
+     * its own; every renderer calls it and none of them knows whether its note arrived sealed.
+     */
+    @Test
+    fun aPrivateNoteIsAddressedByItsRumorIdNotItsEnvelope() {
+        val signer = NostrSignerSync(KeyPair())
+        val rumor = signer.sign(TextNoteEvent.build("psst"))
+        val wrap = GiftWrapEvent.create(rumor, signer.pubKey)
+
+        val note = Note(rumor.id)
+        note.event = rumor
+        note.recordRumorHost(wrap)
+
+        val uri = NotificationRoutes.noteUri(note, npub)
+
+        assertTrue(isPrivateNoteRoute(uri))
+        assertEquals(rumor.id, uri.findQueryParameterValue("id"))
+        assertEquals(npub, uri.findQueryParameterValue("account"))
+        assertFalse("the deep link must not name the wrap", uri.contains(wrap.id))
+        assertFalse("and must not be an nevent of it", uri.startsWith("nevent1"))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun aPublicNoteKeepsItsNeventDeepLink() {
+        val signer = NostrSignerSync(KeyPair())
+        val event = signer.sign(TextNoteEvent.build("hello world"))
+
+        val note = Note(event.id)
+        note.event = event
+
+        val uri = NotificationRoutes.noteUri(note, npub)
+
+        assertEquals(NEvent.create(event.id, null, event.kind, null) + "?account=" + npub, uri)
+    }
+
+    /** The route a private link produces must be flagged, or its screen would REQ the rumor id. */
+    @Test
+    fun thePrivateRouteIsMarkedPrivate() {
+        val uri = NotificationRoutes.privateNoteUri(alice, npub)
+
+        assertEquals(Route.EventRedirect(alice, isPrivate = true), privateNoteRoute(uri))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun aPrivateLinkWithoutAnIdIsNotARoute() {
+        assertNull(privateNoteRoute("privatenote?id=&account=$npub"))
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * The destination, not just the link: a DM opens the conversation it belongs to. A kind-14
+     * is a [com.vitorpamplona.quartz.nip17Dm.base.ChatroomKeyable], so both ways into it agree —
+     * the room link a notification now carries, and `routeFor` on the event itself, which is how
+     * the wrap-shaped links still sitting in trays from an older build resolve once the envelope
+     * is opened. Neither is a thread: the thread view is where a *private note* goes, which is a
+     * NIP-17-wrapped kind 1 — the same envelope, but a note posted privately rather than a
+     * message in a room.
+     */
+    @Test
+    fun aDmOpensItsConversationByEitherRoute() {
+        val me = NostrSignerSync(KeyPair())
+        val them = NostrSignerSync(KeyPair())
+        val account = mockk<Account>(relaxed = true)
+        every { account.userProfile().pubkeyHex } returns me.pubKey
+
+        val room = ChatroomKey(setOf(them.pubKey))
+        val expected = Route.Room(room)
+
+        assertEquals(expected, uriToRoute(NotificationRoutes.chatroomUri(room, npub), account))
+
+        val dm = them.sign(ChatMessageEvent.build("hi", listOf(PTag(me.pubKey, null))))
+        assertEquals(expected, routeFor(dm, account))
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * A room link resolves without touching the account.
+     *
+     * It must not: `uriToRoute` runs against whichever account is current, *before* the
+     * `?account=` switch, so registering the room here would file a DM for account B under
+     * account A. And `nostr:` is exported and browsable, so a web page can post one of these —
+     * which is also why the ids are checked rather than taken as given. The screen registers the
+     * room itself when it opens, on the account that is current by then.
+     */
+    @Test
+    fun aRoomLinkResolvesWithoutTouchingTheAccount() {
+        val account = mockk<Account>(relaxed = true)
+        val uri = NotificationRoutes.chatroomUri(ChatroomKey(setOf(alice)), npub)
+
+        assertEquals(Route.Room(ChatroomKey(setOf(alice))), uriToRoute(uri, account))
+
+        verify(exactly = 0) { account.chatroomList }
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun aRoomLinkThatIsNotMadeOfPubkeysIsNotARoute() {
+        assertNull(chatroomRoute("chatroom?id=not-a-pubkey&account=$npub"))
+        assertNull(chatroomRoute("chatroom?id=${alice.dropLast(1)}&account=$npub"))
+        assertNull(chatroomRoute("chatroom?id=${alice.uppercase()}&account=$npub"))
+        // one bad member poisons the whole key — a room is the exact set or nothing
+        assertNull(chatroomRoute("chatroom?id=$alice,nope&account=$npub"))
+        assertNull(chatroomRoute("chatroom?id=&account=$npub"))
+    }
+}
diff --git a/amethyst/src/test/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/ui/GiftWrapRedirectRouteTest.kt b/amethyst/src/test/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/ui/GiftWrapRedirectRouteTest.kt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..03aef6a6cd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/amethyst/src/test/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/ui/GiftWrapRedirectRouteTest.kt
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2025 Vitor Pamplona
+ *
+ * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of
+ * this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in
+ * the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use,
+ * copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the
+ * Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so,
+ * subject to the following conditions:
+ *
+ * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
+ * copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+ *
+ * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+ * IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS
+ * FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR
+ * COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN
+ * AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
+ * WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
+ */
+package com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.ui
+
+import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.model.Account
+import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.ui.navigation.routes.Route
+import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.ui.navigation.routes.routeFor
+import com.vitorpamplona.quartz.nip01Core.crypto.KeyPair
+import com.vitorpamplona.quartz.nip01Core.signers.NostrSignerSync
+import com.vitorpamplona.quartz.nip10Notes.TextNoteEvent
+import com.vitorpamplona.quartz.nip59Giftwrap.wraps.GiftWrapEvent
+import io.mockk.mockk
+import org.junit.Assert.assertEquals
+import org.junit.Assert.assertNull
+import org.junit.Test
+
+/**
+ * Why a screen waiting on a gift wrap has to be woken a second time.
+ *
+ * `LocalCache.consumeRegularEvent` emits the wrap note the moment the wrap is cached — which
+ * is before anything has decrypted it, so `innerEventId` is still null and the wrap can say
+ * nothing about where it leads. Everything that links the chain afterwards is plain assignment
+ * on the note, which emits nothing. So that first emission is the only one a
+ * `Route.EventRedirect` parked on a wrap ever sees, and the case below is what it sees: no
+ * route, nothing to navigate to, wait forever — while the message it wanted sits decrypted in
+ * the cache a few milliseconds later. `DecryptAndIndexProcessor` re-emits the wrap and seal
+ * notes once the chain is linked, which is what turns the second case into the live one.
+ */
+class GiftWrapRedirectRouteTest {
+    private val account = mockk<Account>()
+    private val signer = NostrSignerSync(KeyPair())
+
+    private fun wrap(): GiftWrapEvent = GiftWrapEvent.create(signer.sign(TextNoteEvent.build("psst")), signer.pubKey)
+
+    @Test
+    fun anUnopenedWrapHasNowhereToGo() {
+        assertNull(routeFor(wrap(), account))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun anOpenedWrapLeadsToWhatItCarried() {
+        val sealId = "5".repeat(64)
+        val opened = wrap().apply { innerEventId = sealId }
+
+        // The seal itself has not been cached in this test, so the walk stops there and hands
+        // back a redirect — the point is that it moves at all, which it cannot do until the
+        // wrap has been opened.
+        assertEquals(Route.EventRedirect(sealId), routeFor(opened, account))
+    }
+}
diff --git a/amethyst/src/test/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/ui/RouteForPointerTest.kt b/amethyst/src/test/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/ui/RouteForPointerTest.kt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4fd28a9662
--- /dev/null
+++ b/amethyst/src/test/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/ui/RouteForPointerTest.kt
@@ -0,0 +1,116 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2025 Vitor Pamplona
+ *
+ * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of
+ * this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in
+ * the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use,
+ * copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the
+ * Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so,
+ * subject to the following conditions:
+ *
+ * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
+ * copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+ *
+ * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+ * IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS
+ * FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR
+ * COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN
+ * AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
+ * WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
+ */
+package com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.ui
+
+import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.model.Account
+import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.ui.navigation.routes.Route
+import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.ui.navigation.routes.THREAD_VIEW_KINDS
+import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.ui.navigation.routes.routeFor
+import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.ui.navigation.routes.routeForPointer
+import com.vitorpamplona.quartz.nip01Core.core.Event
+import com.vitorpamplona.quartz.nip01Core.metadata.MetadataEvent
+import com.vitorpamplona.quartz.nip10Notes.TextNoteEvent
+import com.vitorpamplona.quartz.nip17Dm.messages.ChatMessageEvent
+import com.vitorpamplona.quartz.nip22Comments.CommentEvent
+import com.vitorpamplona.quartz.nip23LongContent.LongTextNoteEvent
+import com.vitorpamplona.quartz.nip28PublicChat.message.ChannelMessageEvent
+import com.vitorpamplona.quartz.nip59Giftwrap.wraps.GiftWrapEvent
+import com.vitorpamplona.quartz.nip68Picture.PictureEvent
+import com.vitorpamplona.quartz.nip71Video.VideoHorizontalEvent
+import com.vitorpamplona.quartz.nip71Video.VideoVerticalEvent
+import com.vitorpamplona.quartz.utils.EventFactory
+import io.mockk.mockk
+import org.junit.Assert.assertEquals
+import org.junit.Assert.assertNull
+import org.junit.Test
+
+/**
+ * A notification tap on a cold process finds nothing in LocalCache, so the only thing left
+ * to route on is what the `nevent` itself states. Ordinary notes are fully described by
+ * their kind and can open their thread right away; anything that needs a tag out of the
+ * body must keep waiting on the redirect.
+ */
+class RouteForPointerTest {
+    private val id = "a".repeat(64)
+
+    @Test
+    fun plainNoteKindsOpenTheirThread() {
+        assertEquals(Route.Note(id), routeForPointer(TextNoteEvent.KIND, id))
+        assertEquals(Route.Note(id), routeForPointer(CommentEvent.KIND, id))
+        assertEquals(Route.Note(id), routeForPointer(PictureEvent.KIND, id))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun aPointerWithoutAKindCannotDecide() {
+        assertNull(routeForPointer(null, id))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun kindsThatNeedTheBodyKeepWaiting() {
+        // channel id lives in an `e` tag
+        assertNull(routeForPointer(ChannelMessageEvent.KIND, id))
+        // chatroom key lives in the `p` tags of the rumor
+        assertNull(routeForPointer(ChatMessageEvent.KIND, id))
+        // the wrap has to be opened before it can say anything
+        assertNull(routeForPointer(GiftWrapEvent.KIND, id))
+        // addressables are cited by `a` tag, not by id
+        assertNull(routeForPointer(LongTextNoteEvent.KIND, id))
+        // a kind:0 IS the person — Route.Profile, not a note
+        assertNull(routeForPointer(MetadataEvent.KIND, id))
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * The invariant the shortcut rests on, checked against the thing it claims to mirror rather
+     * than against a second hand-written list: for every kind it answers for, the answer must be
+     * the one [routeFor] gives once the body finally arrives. Walking `THREAD_VIEW_KINDS` itself
+     * means a kind added to it is covered by construction.
+     *
+     * This is what catches an addressable kind slipping in. `routeForInner` routes those by
+     * `addressTag()`, so the shortcut's `Route.Note(id)` would point at a version id that no
+     * relay will serve — a silent dead end, and exactly what the NIP-71 video pair did.
+     */
+    @Test
+    fun everyShortcutKindAgreesWithTheRouteItsBodyWouldHaveTaken() {
+        val account = mockk<Account>(relaxed = true)
+
+        THREAD_VIEW_KINDS.forEach { kind ->
+            val event: Event =
+                EventFactory.create(id, "b".repeat(64), 1, kind, emptyArray(), "", "c".repeat(128))
+
+            assertEquals(
+                "kind $kind (${event::class.simpleName}) disagrees with routeFor",
+                routeFor(event, account),
+                routeForPointer(kind, id),
+            )
+            assertEquals("kind $kind must resolve to the thread view", Route.Note(id), routeForPointer(kind, id))
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * The regression itself. 21/22 are regular video and take the shortcut; 34235/34236 extend
+     * `AddressableVideoEvent`, are cited by `naddr`, and must wait for the body.
+     */
+    @Test
+    fun addressableVideoKindsDoNotTakeTheShortcut() {
+        assertNull(routeForPointer(VideoHorizontalEvent.KIND, id))
+        assertNull(routeForPointer(VideoVerticalEvent.KIND, id))
+    }
+}
diff --git a/commonsUI/src/commonMain/composeResources/values/strings.xml b/commonsUI/src/commonMain/composeResources/values/strings.xml
index ab19800ef0..fbf50b1938 100644
--- a/commonsUI/src/commonMain/composeResources/values/strings.xml
+++ b/commonsUI/src/commonMain/composeResources/values/strings.xml
@@ -1346,6 +1346,8 @@
     <string name="poll_closing_date_time">Poll Closing Date &amp; Time</string>
     <string name="poll_closing_in">Poll closes in %1$s</string>
     <string name="looking_for_event">Looking for Event %1$s</string>
+    <string name="looking_for_event_title">Loading</string>
+    <string name="looking_for_private_event">Waiting for your private messages to load…</string>
     <string name="send_zap">Send Zap</string>
     <string name="custom_zaps_add_a_message">Add a public message</string>
     <string name="custom_zaps_add_a_message_private">Add a private message</string>