v0.6.0-beta43
The calendar feature from beta40 did not work. This release makes it work, and then makes it worth having.
You will actually see the offer now
beta40 taught Minutiva to notice when a meeting on your calendar is starting, and then showed the offer in exactly one place: a banner at the top of the library window. Minutiva lives in your menu bar and that window is almost never open — so the app would spot the meeting, prepare the question, and put it somewhere nobody was looking. If you switched the feature on and nothing ever happened, that is why.
The offer is now a notification, with Record and Not now on it. It reaches you in the corner of the screen, whatever you are doing.
Record does not start recording. It opens the consent dialog with the meeting’s name already filled in, and you confirm from there. The notification answers “do you want to record this?” — it cannot answer “does everyone in the room know?”, and nothing in Minutiva will ever start listening on its own.
Accepting an offer also used to lose the meeting’s name: starting the recording cleared the title field, including the name the calendar had just put there, so the meeting saved as “Meeting <date>” anyway. Both halves were broken. Both are fixed.
You can test it without waiting for a meeting
In Settings › Calendar there is now a Send a test offer button. It sends a real offer for a meeting that does not exist, and pressing Record on it opens the consent dialog exactly as a real meeting would. Nothing is recorded unless you confirm there.
This exists because the bug above survived a release. The only way to check the feature was to wait for a meeting to start and watch nothing happen, which is not a check anybody performs.
The invite list names the voices
A calendar event knows something useful that you would otherwise type in by hand: who is in the meeting.
When a recording comes from a calendar event, each voice’s menu now opens with the invited names at the top. One tap names the voice — and because naming a voice adds it to People, Minutiva recognises that person on its own next time. A few taps today is an address book that fills itself.
Matching leans on the invite too. “Which of these four people?” is a far easier question than “which of the ninety in your address book?”, so a quiet speaker, a phone on a table or a bad room costs you less. When two invited people genuinely sound alike, Minutiva still asks rather than guessing — and somebody who was not invited can still be recognised, because people walk into meetings.
The invite list stays on your Mac. It is not shared, not synced, and not sent anywhere.
On your iPhone and iPad
The same two improvements: the notification tells you who is in the meeting, and the invited names are offered when you name a voice.
Auto-update
Existing beta channel testers get this within 24 hours. Or trigger now: Minutiva Private → Check for Updates…