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Minutes 0.32.1 makes Recall show what the agent is working from, and lets Claude Code hear about a new meeting or document with your next question instead of a typed-in notice. The Mac window gets a single title row and panes you can resize, the window remembers its size, and the document viewer renders quotes and numbered lists properly.

What changed

Recall

• See what the agent can read. A row under the Recall header names the selected meeting (or "All meetings") and the open document. The × on each removes it from the conversation; the document itself stays open. #1308
• No more typed notices in Claude Code. Opening a meeting or document used to type a notice into the terminal and press Enter, which cost Claude a turn. Claude Code now gets the change as context with your next prompt, through a hook in a settings file Minutes manages. Your own .claude folder isn't touched. Other agents, Windows, and sessions started with your own --settings keep the typed notice for now. #1308
• With the assistant set to a plain shell (zsh, bash, sh, fish), Minutes no longer types notices into it at all. #1301
• In a shell, the first line no longer shows a stray inverted %, and the white bar along the terminal's right edge is gone. #1299

The Mac window

• One title row. The window controls, the Minutes name, the settings gear and the list toggle share one row, with the Recall and document headers in it too. Windows and Linux keep their header. #1298
• Resizable panes. The meeting list, Recall and an open document each have a divider, and their widths are remembered. Double-click a divider to reset it. #1298
• A quieter meeting list. Rows lose the colored dots, and memos and dictations say what they are ("11:40 AM · Dictation"). Two or more dictations on a day fold into one "N dictations" row. "Discuss with Agent" moved from the row's hover arrow to the right-click menu and the meeting page. #1298
• The window keeps its size. Minutes saved the window size only on a kind of exit it no longer uses, so every launch restored an old size. It now saves after you resize or move the window, and on quit. #1299
• The menu bar icon keeps its spot after an in-app update. Restarting into a new version now waits for the old one to exit and reopens the app the same way a normal launch does. The restart is run by the version you're updating from, so this takes effect from the update after 0.32.1. #1299
• The new list labels are translated for Chinese (zh-CN) and Portuguese (pt-BR). #1307

Documents

• Quotes in a document render as quotes instead of lines starting with >, and numbered lists sit inside the text column. #1310

The CLI notice in What's New

• It appears only when the minutes you actually run is missing or out of date. Older copies further down your PATH no longer trigger it on every release; Settings lists them as ignored. Bundled CLI setup picks your installed Minutes.app, and opens above What's New instead of behind it. #1299

Under the hood

• The Archive crates move to zip 9.0.5, which fixes a critical parser advisory and three high-severity ones. #1306
• rusqlite 0.41. #1309
• Opt-in diagnostics for live transcription record which stretches of audio reached t

Minutes 0.32.0 records both sides of FaceTime and iPhone calls on your Mac, warns you during a call if the other side isn't being captured, and puts the rest of your day in the menu bar. Settings got a full readability pass and you can now set your own accent color. Dictation lands in Codex, both the desktop app and the CLI in a terminal like Herdr, and can run a command of yours after every dictation. This release also includes five fixes from designer @heyjawrsh. Thank you, Joshua.

What changed

Calls: both sides, and a warning when one is missing

• FaceTime and iPhone calls answered on the Mac now record the other person. ScreenCaptureKit only hears app audio, and those calls are played by system services it can't hear, so the remote side came out silent. Minutes now reads call audio with a Core Audio tap and keeps ScreenCaptureKit as a fallback. It switches between the two if one stalls or goes quiet. #1268
• A live warning when the other side of a call isn't being captured. If you've been talking for a while and Minutes hears nothing from the call, you find out during the call, not after processing. Short sounds like notifications don't count as the other side, and a quiet listener during a presentation doesn't trigger it. #1267
• Stopping a recording never sends a kill signal anymore. A stop from one copy of Minutes could end another copy's in-progress recording. #1272
• The call-audio helper no longer shows a second, bouncing Minutes icon in the Dock. #1265

Your day in the menu bar

• The menu bar calendar now shows the rest of today and tomorrow, grouped into Now, the next meeting ("Starts in 6m"), Today and Tomorrow, up to 10 events. Events no longer appear twice when a calendar account reaches the Mac twice, and a meeting stays listed while it's in progress. #1270
• Clicking an event starts a recording named after it. An event with a meeting link records both sides of the call.

Settings you can read, in your colors

• Readable text everywhere. Helper text, section headers and tab labels in Settings were as low as 1.8:1 contrast. They now meet WCAG AA (4.5:1 or better) in light and dark. The light-mode accent is a little darker so button labels are readable too. #1292
• Theme and accent color. Settings › General › Appearance sets light, dark or follow the system, plus an accent color for each, with a color picker. You can also edit ~/.config/minutes/customize.toml directly. Hex and oklch() both work, and an accent too faint to read against the background is refused with the reason. #1287
• Settings titles use the interface font, and the Settings window keeps one width on every tab. #1292, #1294
• The Whisper model picker stays visible when Parakeet v3 is your engine, since Whisper is the fallback. The Dictation microphone pane shows the microphone dictation will actually use. #1292

Dictation

• Dictation lands in Codex. Text dictated into the Codex desktop app, or into a terminal running in Herdr, used to end up only on the clipboard. It now pastes into the prompt, the same way it already did for Ghostty and Terminal. #1294
• Run a command after every dictation. Settings › Dictation › After each dictation takes a shell command, which receives the dictation as JSON on stdin. Send it to Claude, Codex or a webhook; recipes are in [the post-dictation hook guide](https://github.c

Minutes 0.31.1 makes Whisper transcription on Windows about ten times faster, fixes the crash after an in-app update on Mac, and fixes model downloads that failed behind antivirus or corporate HTTPS inspection.

Fixes

• Whisper transcription on Windows is about ten times faster, in both the desktop app and the CLI. whisper.cpp was being compiled without optimization in our Windows builds. On a 64-second test clip on GitHub's Windows machines, the small model now takes 24 seconds instead of about 300, the same as the official whisper.cpp build. #1260, reported in #1256
• Minutes no longer shows "Minutes quit unexpectedly" and stays closed after an in-app update. The restart now runs its cleanup on the main thread. Because the restart runs in the version being replaced, updating from 0.31.0 to 0.31.1 shows the dialog one last time; reopen Minutes and later updates restart cleanly. #1259
• Model downloads now trust your operating system's certificate store. Antivirus suites and corporate networks that inspect HTTPS add their own certificate there, and downloads failed with "invalid peer certificate: UnknownIssuer". Pinned downloads such as Parakeet v3 and the search-by-meaning model are still verified against their known checksums. #1258, reported in #1256

Known issues

• Updating from 0.31.0 to 0.31.1 shows "Minutes quit unexpectedly" one last time, because the restart runs in the version being replaced. Reopen Minutes; later updates restart cleanly.
• Windows desktop remains experimental and unsigned.

Install or update

After updating the desktop app, reopen Recall so its terminal uses the matching bundled CLI.

• macOS desktop: download the DMG below, or run brew update followed by brew upgrade --cask silverstein/tap/minutes.
• Command line: cargo install minutes-cli --version 0.31.1, or brew upgrade silverstein/tap/minutes for an existing Homebrew install.
• MCP server: npx [email protected] with the updated local Minutes engine, or install the desktop extension below.

Minutes remains free and open source. Meeting capture and transcription run locally. Optional cloud AI and connected assistants receive the content you authorize under their settings; file sync and backups you configure are separate.

Minutes 0.31.0 makes Parakeet v3 easy to switch to and adds search by meaning. If you still transcribe with Whisper on an Apple Silicon Mac, Minutes now offers Parakeet v3 with one click, and dictation uses it automatically once it is installed. Search by meaning, off by default, finds meetings from how you remember them rather than the exact words said. Search is also about twice as fast, and live transcript no longer drops audio when transcription falls behind.

What changed

Switch to Parakeet v3 in one click

Parakeet v3 is NVIDIA's speech model, built into Minutes for Apple Silicon. Until now it could only be installed from the command line, so most desktop users stayed on Whisper.

• After this update, Minutes shows a banner once if you can run Parakeet v3 but don't have it yet: Install downloads it (639 MB, one time), and Not now hides it until the next version. Settings › Transcription keeps an install button. #1248
• New users on Apple Silicon are offered Parakeet v3 during first-run setup. Minutes also installs Whisper Base, which standalone live transcript uses and which is the fallback for meetings. If the Parakeet download fails, setup still finishes on Whisper Base. #1252
• The download is pinned to one model revision and every file is checked against its known SHA-256 before use.
• Installing switches a saved Whisper engine to Auto, which uses Parakeet v3 for meetings and falls back to Whisper if Parakeet fails on a recording.
• Dictation now writes its final text with Parakeet v3 when it is installed and your language fits. On 39 real dictation clips, Parakeet v3 differed from a Whisper medium reference on 2.1% of words, against 6.9% for Whisper small, the default, and decoded a typical clip in about 50 ms. #1231, #1237
• Parakeet v3 covers 25 European languages. If you set a language it does not cover (Chinese, Japanese, Hindi, Arabic and others), or use the Chinese interface with automatic language detection, Minutes keeps Whisper and the banner does not appear.
• Words you list as misspellings in your vocabulary are now corrected in new transcripts from any engine, for example "Sok 2" to "SOC 2". Each correction is recorded in the meeting's spelling_corrections field. #1245

Search by meaning (Mac, opt-in)

Turn it on in Settings › AI & Privacy › Search by meaning. Searches of two or more words then add a Related by meaning section: meetings about what you typed that the word search missed. On a test library of 1,119 meetings, searches phrased the way people remember a meeting found the right one in the top three 11 times out of 12, against 6 for word search alone. #1243

• It runs on your Mac with Google's EmbeddingGemma 2 model (about 300 MB, pinned and checksum-verified). Nothing is sent anywhere.
• The first indexing pass takes a while on a large library (17.5 minutes for 1,119 meetings on an M4 Max); after that, new and edited meetings are picked up in the background. The index is small (about 14 MB for 1,100 meetings) and readable only by you.
• Restricted meetings are never indexed, and a meeting marked restricted later is removed at the next sync. Turning the setting off deletes the index.
• From the command line: minutes semantic setup, sync, search, status and clear.

Faster, more forgiving search

• Searches run about twice as fast on a large library, and results are verified in parallel. #1218, #1233
• The desktop app no longer starts a full search on every keystroke. It waits briefly, runs one search at a time and shows matching titles i