Morning Brief Language

Writes your Morning Brief in the language you pick, whatever language your messages and documents are in. It's experimental and off by default. Changing the language rebuilds the patched Dia and asks you to relaunch. It hasn't been confirmed that every account's brief follows it, so if your brief stays in English, please say so on the issue tracker.

Why use it

Dia's instructions for the Morning Brief are written in English, and in Dia 1.58.0 they say nothing about which language to write in. So the brief can come out in English even when your messages and documents aren't.

Turn it on if you want to read your brief in another language. Skip it if English is fine.

Turn it on

It's off by default. Open Dia → Settings → Patches, switch on Morning Brief Language, and pick a language from the menu under the switch. Or run:

diatweaks enable briefLanguage

That turns it on, and you pick the language in Settings.

Dia works for a moment, then asks to relaunch. The menu starts on the first of your Mac's languages that the list has, or on English if it has none.

The next brief Dia writes after the relaunch uses the new language. A brief it already wrote stays as it was.

Options

The menu shows each language by its own name: English, 日本語, 简体中文, 繁體中文, 한국어, Español, Français, Deutsch, Italiano, Português, Nederlands, Русский, Türkçe, Bahasa Indonesia, Tiếng Việt, ไทย, हिन्दी and العربية.

What it changes

When DiaTweaks builds the patched Dia, it adds a short Output language note to the end of the Morning Brief's instructions inside the app. The note holds the language's name, taken from the list above, and fixed wording. It tells Dia to write everything you read in that language, including titles, labels and the text on its buttons, even where its examples or the sources it reads are in another one. It tells Dia to keep field names, URLs and date formats as they are, and to keep names of people, companies, products, channels and files as they are written in the source.

Nothing else in Dia's instructions changes, and the original Dia that DiaTweaks keeps stays as it was.

Works with

While Turn Off AI is on, this switch is greyed out in Settings.

FAQ

Why does Dia relaunch?

The instructions are part of the app, and the app is signed. A new language means building the patched Dia again. Choose Later to carry on, and Dia keeps writing the brief the way it does now until you relaunch.

What happens when I turn it off?

Dia asks to relaunch, and its own instructions come back.

My brief is still in English

It hasn't been confirmed that every account's brief follows the setting. The tweak only changes the Morning Brief instructions inside the app, so if Dia uses other instructions for your account, the language note doesn't reach the brief.

First check that the brief was written after the relaunch, since a brief Dia already wrote doesn't change, and that the menu shows the language you want. If the next brief is still in English, please report it on the issue tracker with your Dia version. Turning the tweak off puts Dia's own instructions back.

Does it work with tabs at the top?

Yes. It doesn't change anything you see in Dia except the language of the brief.

It says Dia's Morning Brief prompt isn't in its bundle

This version of Dia doesn't have the file the tweak adds the language to, so the tweak can't work with it. It switches itself off when you turn it on, or when Dia opens after an update, and an alert says why. If DiaTweaks has an update, install it and turn this on again.

It says it couldn't change the language

Dia carries on as it was, and the alert gives the reason, such as not being able to write the instructions. Turn the switch off and on again to try once more.