Syft Notes 0.22.1

Fixes

• On a Mac, Syft Notes opens again. With "Answer your phone when Syft Notes is closed" on, opening the app from Spotlight, Finder or the Dock could say The application "Syft Notes" is not open anymore. and nothing would open. The part that keeps answering your phone in the background was being taken for the app itself. It isn't any more.
• Nothing fails silently. A page that couldn't load used to stay blank or out of date. Now it says something went wrong, so you know to try again.
• Your AI's status agrees everywhere. The AI rows in Settings and the cards about a problem with your AI now read the same thing, so one can't say "Not set up" while the other says you're connected.
• Text that's cut short can be read. Hover over a name, title or message that ends in "…" to see all of it.
• The AI pickers are easier to read. The picked AI's line and the ones you can't pick yet now have clear contrast.
• On a Mac, the Get-ready window stays in the Dock while it's open, and has the usual Window menu (⌘W, ⌘M) and ⌘, for Settings.
• Screen readers now name the buttons that only had an icon: remove, search, close and dismiss.

Good to know

• If Syft Notes already won't open on your Mac: this update can't reach a Mac that's stuck, so do one of these once:
  • restart your Mac (or log out and back in), then open Syft Notes; or
  • open Activity Monitor, quit the "Syft Notes" that has no window, then open Syft Notes within half a minute.
• The Canvas extension: the Chrome Web Store and Firefox Add-ons both have version 1.8 now. Setup finds your school's Canvas by itself in Chrome, Edge, Brave, Arc, Vivaldi and Firefox, with nothing to type.
• Needs: on a Mac, macOS 15 (Sequoia) or later, Apple silicon or Intel; on Windows, Windows 10 or 11; on Linux, a desktop with PipeWire or PulseAudio.
• Updating: installed copies update themselves within a few hours, when nothing is recording and you aren't typing in a lecture's notes. To update now, use Settings → General → Updates → Update now.