Changelog

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 this 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 this 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.

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.