Changelog

- Scheduled meeting notes now open before meetings without starting the mic too early, then can start automatically when the meeting begins

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- Download progress bar now shown when an app update is downloading

- Transcript panel toggle redesigned as a border tab labeled "Transcript" or "Live", replacing the old chevron arrows

- Providers and models that do not support live transcription now fall back to batch capture automatically

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- Outlook Calendar support (Beta)

- Improved sync feedback — shows "Syncing" status with spinner in the month header

- AI assistant is now named Charlie

- You can now copy speaker-labeled transcript text directly from the Transcript tab

- You can now skip sign-in and start using the app immediately

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- Various live transcription bug when using our PRO proxy are fixed

- Google Calendar events can now sync into Char alongside Apple Calendar (Beta)

- URLs in calendar event descriptions are now rendered as clickable links

- **Pre-meeting notes are now passed to the AI** as a separate section — summaries better reflect what actually changed during the meeting versus what was prepared beforehand

- Fixed transcript segmentation producing incorrect splits between speakers

- Whisper small via **Cactus** engine is now in beta — run speech-to-text locally on your Mac (English only)

- Old `MicStarted` event and experimental `MicProlongedUsage` event are merged

- Replace feedback modal with support chat — report bugs and suggest features via chat instead of the feedback form

- New Cmd+Q behavior - hold to quit overlay (inspired by Chrome), replacing the previous hide behavior

- Undo delete with 5-second countdown timer - accidentally deleted notes can be restored via the "Restore" button or Cmd+Z, with a dissolving animation showing the remaining time

- Open Note command (Cmd+O) with search palette to quickly find and open existing notes

- Acoustic Echo Cancellation (AEC) eliminates the need for heuristics-based micOnly mode

Char 1.0.1 brings significant improvements to plugin architecture, data management, and overall user experience.

We're excited to announce Char 1.0.0, our first stable release! This release consolidates all the improvements from our nightly builds into a polished, production-ready experience.

- Read through the commits, and most of the diffs, but only keep the desktop-related thing to the changelog.