Today's brief – a morning cheat-sheet for the day's meetings, written from your past analyses. Per meeting: what happened last time, what is still open (with checkboxes), what to bring or ask. With calendar meetings on it runs once a day by itself; you can also prepare it by hand any time.
A Today panel beside the meetings list now shows the day's agenda, and the brief (including past ones).
Find in the open meeting – ⌘F on a transcript or analysis highlights every match as you type; ↩, arrow keys or ⌘G / ⇧⌘G step through them, Aa and [ab] toggle match-case and whole-word. The query survives switching between Analysis and Transcript.
UX improvements on Amend, Navigation and Esc key.
Amend UI fixes.
Amend – controlled edits to a finished analysis. Write an instruction (e.g. “move all action items attributed to me to Jane Smith”) and the same agent that wrote the report edits it in place. Every amendment goes on the record, and the previous version is kept as a one-step backup.
Dossier header UI alignment.
Calendar Integration → Attendees list UI improvements.
Calendar Integration → Improved email mapping for the attendees list.
You can now export dossier and transcript in Markdown format.
Sessions recorded during a calendar meeting now remember who was invited – names and email addresses from the event. A new “Invitees from the calendar” switch under Settings › Meetings controls it, on by default with calendar meetings on.
In dossier view you may now click any attendee chip to check their RSVP status, email, and talk-time share.
Improved Auto-pilot meeting detection.
Auto-pilot recordings now have a hard ceiling (4 hours).
Taking a CleanShot X screen recording no longer looks like a meeting to the auto-pilot.
Auto updater reliability improvements.
ToC UI improvements.
Analysis reports now carry a ToC (Table of Contents) – a slim column of ticks along the left edge. Hovering shows the section names, and a click jumps straight there.
Its switch lives in a new UI section in Settings – “Table of contents”, on by default.
Notarius now opens in a slightly larger window – wide enough for the ToC to unfold beside the report out of the box.
After the restart that installs an update, Notarius now comes to the front – it used to relaunch quietly behind your other windows.
Improved in-app version updates & added auto-download option to settings (on by default) and during onboarding.
Settings are redesigned from scratch: inspired by Raycast v2 and native MacOS settings
Auto-pilot now has a settings page of its own with visualized explanation on how it works.
New “About & updates” section in Settings that manages updates and provides information about the software.
Notarius now updates itself. When a new version is out, it lets you know – one click downloads the update in the background (even mid-meeting), and a quick restart completes the process, only ever when you're idle. You can also check any time from Settings, and release notes are one click away throughout.
The PDF export no longer includes transcription caveats – possible mishearings and name spellings to confirm are notes for you, not for the person receiving the handout.
Meeting detection no longer mistakes Siri's listening for a meeting when “Listen for Siri” is enabled on MacOS
Sessions can be renamed and deleted from the meetings list – hover a row for both actions. Deleting asks for a confirming second click and moves the session to the Trash, so nothing is gone until you empty it.
Meetings that recorded themselves now take their name from the analysis report – “meridian-tech-weekly” instead of “meeting-1200”. Sessions you named yourself are never touched.
The session header – name, tabs, export and re-analyze – now stays pinned to the top while you scroll a long transcript or report.
Auto-pilot's “meeting over” countdown no longer keeps extending on room noise the microphone picks up after a call ends. Only actual meeting audio still playing postpones the auto-stop.
With auto-pilot on, the calendar heads-up now says what actually happens – “auto-pilot will record when you join” – and clears itself once the meeting starts instead of waiting in Notification Center to be dismissed.
Recordings auto-pilot starts during a calendar meeting are now named after the event rather than the time of day, and canceling an auto-start keeps that name prefilled for a manual one.
Auto-pilot, for meetings you'd forget to record: an opt-in mode where Notarius starts recording by itself when it detects a meeting – always after a ten-second countdown you can cancel – and stops on its own once the meeting is over.
Every step can be vetoed from the app or the menu bar, and turning the mode on asks you to confirm that you understand recording will start without a click. You remain the consent mechanism: announce recordings you keep.
Recordings that run past the end of a meeting no longer carry a long silent tail into the transcript. Stop by hand and the app offers to trim it; auto-pilot trims it by itself. Timestamps in the transcript stay exact.
Auto-pilot waits before stopping while people are still talking – and, with calendar meetings on, while the meeting still has time on the clock. The calendar never starts or stops anything by itself.
If a recording outlives its meeting and then goes quiet, Notarius reminds you once that it is still recording. A meeting that simply runs long is never nagged.
Notarius now tells the license server which version it runs – once after each update, so we know which installs still need one. Nothing else is sent: no meeting data, no usage.
The app log now covers unattended sessions too, so there is something to send when a meeting recorded itself and something went wrong.
One “Alert sound” switch now covers the few time-critical banners – the calendar heads-up and auto-pilot's start countdown. Your existing choice carries over.
The app log no longer records calendar event titles. Titles still appear where they belong: in banners and in the app.
Waking the Mac after a meeting has already ended no longer greets you with a stale “has started” alert.
Calls that came out too quiet to transcribe now transcribe properly – some call apps hand the built-in mic a whisper-level signal, and transcription lifts it before recognition. Your recordings themselves are never modified.
The “no system audio” warning no longer cries wolf during a quiet call, or when the silence is just the meeting having ended.
Cancelling a transcription no longer leaves an unwanted transcript behind, and a transcript that turns out empty now says so and offers to try again instead of dead-ending.
A settings change that fails to save no longer stays flipped on screen – the switch returns to what's actually set, and the error is shown.
Notarius now mentions when a newer version is available – one quiet note at launch. Nothing downloads or installs itself.
“Reveal Logs” in the tray menu opens the app's log – when something goes wrong, there is finally a file to send instead of a description from memory.
A mic that dies mid-recording (a headset battery, an unplugged cable) is now retried in the background – if it comes back, the recording picks it up automatically; if it doesn't, the silence warning stays up.
One bad value in the settings file no longer resets the whole file to defaults – only that value falls back, and a backup is kept.
Recording with the Mac's speakers no longer produces echo in the transcript. Transcription now recognizes the echo and keeps only the real line, on the right side. Headphone recordings are untouched, and a genuinely repeated phrase here and there never triggers it.
Analysis depth: a four-level control – Extreme, Thorough, Balanced, Brisk – in Settings › Analysis and the onboarding analysis step. Every level produces a complete, validated report; deeper levels read more between the lines and use more of your Claude subscription.
Thorough is the default and the strong recommendation. If it feels too slow or too draining on your subscription limits, try Balanced instead – most of the depth at a fraction of the time.
Extreme is the *almost* no-limits read at the highest subscription cost – not worth it for 9 out of 10 meetings, but feel free to experiment on the ones that really matter. Brisk is the fast pass using different model class. Applies to the analyze action and auto-analyze alike.
Each report notes the depth it was read at.
Re-analyzing runs at Thorough even when the depth setting is faster – redoing a meeting means reading it properly. Extreme re-analysis overwrites Thorough reads when that's your chosen depth in Settings. If a re-run can't read deeper than the existing report, the app says so.
Failed analysis runs now report a short reason instead of a wall of text.
UI improvements for the dossier's header.
Import meeting screen got improved example.
Profile: tell Notarius your name and company – during onboarding, or anytime in Settings › Profile. Analyses use them to tell your lines from everyone else's in imported Google Meet transcripts and to name your side of the table in reports. Both fields are optional and stay on your Mac.
A new “bizdev” meeting category for partnerships, sales and fundraising calls. Its reports track the deal: what moved on this call, terms quoted verbatim, objections still standing, and the agreed next step – with a flag when a call ends without one.
The business category is now “ops” – lawyers, accountants, admin. Name sessions ops- for its playbook, bizdev- for the new one.
1-1 analyses no longer assume your seat. Mentor or developer, manager or report – the analysis reads who is who from the conversation.
Analysis reports work for any user – founder, manager or developer – and assume nothing about who you are or where you work. Set your name in Profile and reports use it. Deeper personalization is coming in later versions.
The category picker's empty choice now reads “auto (infer)” instead of “no category” – leave it and the analysis classifies the meeting from its content.
The activation screen now carries the alpha terms in plain words. Activating accepts this.
Notarius is now notarized by Apple.
Calendar meetings, off by default (Settings › Meetings, also offered during onboarding). Notarius watches your Apple Calendar and, ten seconds before a scheduled meeting starts, sends a notification named after the event and holds the record panel ready, pre-filled with that name.
Works alongside or instead of meeting detection – if both are on, a meeting your calendar already announced doesn't get a second banner from the microphone watcher. Only timed events with at least one other attendee count: all-day events, declined invitations and solo blocks stay quiet, and a meeting already five minutes underway when the app starts is not announced after the fact. Recording never starts by itself.
Turning the option on asks macOS once for calendar access; events are read on your Mac only locally. Google Calendar is on the roadmap – visible in Settings, not wired yet.
Notifications now stay on screen until you dismiss them instead of vanishing after a few seconds – everything Notarius says is time-critical. The calendar meeting heads-up can also play your alert sound – off by default, opt-in from Settings › Meetings or during onboarding; which sound and how loud follows System Settings → Sound.
Settings Settings page UI/UX improvements.
Dropdown menus opened near the window's edge no longer spill off-screen and drag a horizontal scrollbar with them.
The calendar access warning no longer flashes red while the macOS permission dialog is still open – it appears only after access was actually declined, and clears by itself once you grant access in System Settings.
Onboarding steps taller than the window (the meetings step, on small screens) now scroll instead of colliding with the header and footer.
Meeting detection, off by default (Settings › Meetings, also offered during onboarding). When another app starts using the microphone – Zoom, a Meet tab in the browser, a Slack huddle – Notarius sends a notification and holds the record panel ready, pre-filled.
Recording never starts by itself: you always press the button. If the meeting ends while a recording is still running, Notarius reminds you once.
Detection reads only the microphone's in-use flag, never any audio, and runs entirely on your Mac.
The record button is now a compact ● REC control. While the name field is focused and the session is named, the dot becomes a return-key hint – Enter starts the recording.
Settings: the system-audio capture picker is gone – Notarius always records system audio through the native macOS tap. (BlackHole loopback remains available as a hand-edited settings.toml fallback.) Sections are reordered: Meetings, Analysis, Tasks, Audio, Storage.
Onboarding's audio step now mentions the one-time System Audio Recording permission, since that fact left the settings page with the picker.
Clicking a Notarius notification – a meeting-detection banner, a silence warning, the end-of-meeting reminder – now brings up the app window. Previously clicks did nothing.
The live analyzing block no longer repeats its first activity line (“starting agent” twice) and no longer draws a doubled divider under the session header.
First-run onboarding. After you activate, Notarius downloads its transcription models in the background – with a progress bar that follows you into the main window if you move on before it finishes – and walks a couple of optional settings (your microphone, automatic analysis) that you can skip anytime.
Recording works right away; transcription unlocks once the models land.
System audio now uses the native macOS tap by default – no BlackHole or Multi-Output setup needed.
The state of the app when versioning began – everything built through the alpha-licensing milestone.
Meeting capture on two independent tracks: your mic (built-in by default, clamshell-aware) and system audio via BlackHole loopback or the native macOS system tap, with silence watchdogs, device auto-follow and mid-recording reconnect.
On-device transcription (whisper.cpp) into the Notarius transcript format; raw WAVs are cleaned up on a schedule once transcribed.
Meeting analysis through Claude Code skills – in Cowork or, opt-in, from inside the app – with the analysis view, task ledger (checklists that persist per session) and them-side PDF export.
Google Meet transcript import (paste → session, no audio).
Menu-bar tray app: closing the window hides it, recording keeps running; live recording widget; settings view (⌘,).
License activation (one key, one Mac): a single online activation, then the license verifies offline forever and survives reinstalls.