Ghosty Notes 0.2.10

Quit frees memory, and the menu bar keeps watching

Quit (Cmd+Q) now hides the window and, once everything is saved, frees the page, so an idle Ghosty Notes costs a few megabytes. It stays in the menu bar. A recording keeps the page alive until it stops. Quit Completely is the old full exit.

With the window gone, the menu bar still alerts you 2 minutes before a meeting, once per meeting, with a Join or Start recording button.

If Ghosty Notes opens at login, it now starts in the menu bar only: no window, no Dock icon, until you open it.

Earbuds no longer raise a false “mic is silent” warning

Earbuds send pure silence whenever you are not talking. The app read 15 seconds of that as a dead microphone and warned that the recording would be empty, 16 times in one 56 minute call, while the recording was fine. A microphone that has been heard properly now needs 5 minutes of silence before the warning appears. A microphone that has never been heard still warns after 15 seconds.

The timeline’s “now” line no longer cuts through a title

During a running meeting the line was drawn across that meeting’s row, through its title. It now always sits above the running meeting, so it divides upcoming calls from started ones.

Share explains itself on the Free plan

Clicking Share on the Free plan used to open the payment page straight away. It now says that sharing is only available to Pro subscribers, with an Upgrade to Pro button that goes to the same checkout.

A warning when the other side’s audio goes silent

If the far end of a call stops producing sound, the app now shows a warning on screen instead of only writing it to a log.

Start listening says why it did nothing

Pressing Start listening could do nothing at all: the model still downloading, another recording active, or a step stalled. You now get a visible message in each of those cases.

Stopping a long recording is much faster

Stopping a two hour call used to spend about half a minute re-encoding the audio before anything else could happen. It no longer waits that long.

Fewer lost words in transcripts

When the transcriber got stuck repeating itself, the whole stretch of speech was dropped silently. The app now retries once from a slightly shifted start, and if that fails it marks the gap as “[inaudible, ~N s]” instead of losing it quietly.

Calendar meetings no longer create duplicate notes

Opening the app while a meeting was starting could create two notes for the same event. Each event now maps to exactly one note.

A stale calendar now says so

If a calendar connection stops syncing or fails to sign in, the app now shows the last time it synced and the problem, instead of silently showing nothing.

New notes open with the cursor in the body

Notes created from a calendar event kept the cursor on the title. It now starts in the note body.

The trial pop-up tells the truth

The pop-up said your trial “starts now” with “no payment needed” every time you signed in. It now shows the real trial end date, and no longer claims payment is not needed.

Signing out asks which account next time

After you sign out, signing back in lets you pick the account instead of reusing the last one.

Asking a question no longer freezes a busy Mac

On a Mac low on memory, asking a question about a transcript could hang for minutes. The app now checks free memory first and stops with a clear message instead.