v0.6.0-beta41
Updates now install themselves, which they were quietly failing to do — and you can choose which calendars Minutiva watches.
Updates that actually arrive
If you leave Minutiva running, you may have been further behind than you thought. Updates were downloading correctly and then waiting for the app to quit before installing — and a meeting recorder doesn’t get quit. One release sat ready-but-unapplied for four days on the machine it was built on.
The costly part wasn’t the delay. Once an update is waiting, checking stops. So the release after it is never even noticed, and the one after that: the app doesn’t fall one version behind, it stops following the channel at all, without a word.
From this release on, a downloaded update installs itself the moment doing so costs nothing — you’re not recording, nothing is still being transcribed or summarised, and you’ve switched to another app. It will never interrupt a recording, and it won’t restart under your hands while you’re reading a transcript.
And when one is waiting, Settings → Advanced → Updates now says so, with a button to install it immediately. Previously the only evidence was a file in a cache folder.
Because this fix ships in an update, it starts working from the next one — this release still needed the old path to reach you.
Choose which calendars to watch
beta40 taught Minutiva to offer to record meetings on your calendar. It watched every one of them, which on a real calendar means being asked whether to record a birthday and a public holiday.
The calendars are now listed in Settings → Transcription → Calendar, grouped by the account they came from — necessary, because iCloud’s “Calendar” and Exchange’s “Calendar” are otherwise the same word. Leave them all on if you like; switch off the ones that aren’t meetings.
The Calendar settings had also ended up buried between two unrelated switches. They now have a section of their own.
Long recordings transcribe in stages
This one matters most on iPhone, where it was losing hours, but the Mac shares the code. An imported or recovered recording used to be transcribed in a single pass that wrote nothing until it had finished the whole file — so anything that interrupted it threw away all of the work, and the next attempt began again at the start.
It now transcribes in stages and saves each one, cutting at a pause so no word is split. An interruption costs a couple of minutes instead of the whole meeting, and the progress you see is measured rather than guessed.
Auto-update
Existing beta channel testers get this within 24 hours. Or trigger now: Minutiva Private → Check for Updates…