1.0.1

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

Calendar Integration

• Display calendar event info in metadata chip
  • Show video icon and truncated event title
  • Display event details including title, location, meeting link, and date/time
  • Add Join button for meeting links

Auto-Enhancement & Title Generation

• Automatically switch to summary tab and start summarizing when listening stops
• Re-trigger summarization even if summary already exists
• Require minimum words before auto-enhancement triggers
• Show dismissible consent banner when listening starts (fades out after 5 seconds)
• Display skip reason banner when auto-enhance is skipped
• Prevent unnecessary title regeneration when switching tabs
• Restore focus to memos editor when switching tabs during meeting

Plugins

• Consolidate export, frontmatter, and folder plugins into unified fs-sync plugin

  • Move folder operations to fs-sync plugin
  • Move export functionality to fs-sync plugin
  • Move frontmatter operations to fs-sync plugin
  • Add audio operations (delete, exist, import, path) to fs-sync plugin
  • Add chat directory, entity directory, and scan utilities to fs-sync plugin
  • Add orphan cleanup commands (cleanup_orphan_dirs, cleanup_orphan_files)

• Add apple-contacts plugin

  • Implement Apple Contacts integration for importing contacts
  • Add import command for batch importing contacts

Persistence & Storage

• Major persister consolidation and refactoring
  • Merge note and transcript persisters into single session persister
  • Add chat shortcuts persister for storing chat shortcuts
  • Remove memories feature and related code
  • Refactor persister utilities into shared factories
  • Add factory helpers for JSON file and markdown directory persistence
  • Add generic transforms in human persister
  • Add values persister for key-value pairs
• Store transcript words inline instead of separate table
• Store array fields as JSON instead of comma-separated strings
• Move language settings to top-level 'language' key
• Remove extension_state and ai_providers from main store

Search & Indexing

• Tantivy search engine improvements
  • Refactor to consolidate search args into SearchRequest struct
  • Phase 1 foundation fixes for better search infrastructure
  • Phase 2 feature parity with Orama search capabilities
  • Add advanced search features including filters and sorting
  • Improve batching, concurrency, and index versioning

Audio & Devices

• Add DeviceListChanged event for device connect/disconnect detection
• Fix wrong sample rate returned from audio buffer
• Add com.apple.Sound-Settings.extension to microphone detection exclusion list
• Add error propagation from STT adapters
  • Improve error handling in Argmax, AssemblyAI, Fireworks, Gladia, OpenAI, and Soniox adapters
  • Better error reporting in listener actor

Speech-to-Text

• Fix Deepgram language configuration
• Remove unsupported detect_language option from Deepgram streaming
• Don't force accordion in STT config UI

Editor

• Add resizable image extension to Tiptap editor
  • Resize handles with hover effects
  • Preserve custom attachmentId attribute

Data Import

• Add Templates import to Char importer (supports v0 stable and nightly)
• Refactor importer plugin with simplified import flow
• Remove LIMIT in session queries for better import handling
• Remove auto import on app startup
• Remove data tab from main navigation (consolidated into settings)
• Update data import UI in settings
• Fix path display and reveal behavior for Char sources
• Improve legacy HTML-to-markdown conversion
• Use Tiptap native markdown conversion for better parsing

Performance

• Implement incremental persister save optimization using content hashing
• Optimize TinyBase store by inlining nested words

Meeting View

• Prefer listener view when re-entering a meeting

macOS Notification

• Improve progress bar animation with correct pause/resume behavior
• Move progress bar to bottom of notification

Fixes

• Fix edge-case for is_builtin_display_inactive on macOS
• Compute Ollama Origin header from baseUrl to fix Forbidden error
• Simplified error UI with single "Restart App" button
• Read AI language from settings store instead of main store
• Normalize bullet points (•) to dashes (-) in AI summaries
• Better Sentry config with user-id tracking
• Improve accessibility for tab button interaction