Syft Notes 0.23.5

Fixes

• On a Mac, your library starts even when an older copy of Syft Notes is still holding it. You used to see "Restart this Mac, then try again". Syft Notes now asks the older copy to close and starts the library itself. It never forces an older copy closed while it's recording, transcribing or sending a lecture, and no notes, recordings or transcripts are touched.
• Your past notes come back after an update or a fresh install. If your Syft Notes folder from before is still there (also when OneDrive or iCloud brings it back on a new laptop), every lecture in it shows up again. If you have exactly one earlier folder, its notes are copied in for you; Syft Notes only asks when there's a real choice. Notes from the oldest versions and renamed folders are found too. Nothing is moved or deleted: notes are copied, and if two copies of a lecture differ, both are kept.
• On a Mac, opening the new version from the download replaces an older one that's running, so you're offered the move into Applications and get the new version, not the old one.
• On a Mac, Syft Notes no longer crashes if it starts while the screen is asleep (after an overnight update, or at login with the monitor off). It waits for the screen to wake, then opens.
• Connecting Claude or ChatGPT works the first time. If the app is open, Syft Notes asks you to close it first, with one button that closes it, connects, and opens it again. Before, an open Claude or ChatGPT could quietly undo the connection.
• Claude no longer says "No executable file at …Study Stash.app". Since Syft Notes got its new name, Claude was still looking for the old app. Syft Notes now puts that right by itself (or asks you to close Claude first if it's open).
• Quitting while recording asks first (⌘Q, the Dock, the menu bar), and Keep recording carries on.
• A long recording that heard nothing says so, instead of "too short for notes", and a muted microphone points you to Sound → Input.
• Removing a class asks first and moves its lectures to Unsorted.
• Setup no longer waits forever at the Canvas step when the browser add-on came from an earlier install.
• Mac updates are small again. 0.23.4 made every Mac download the whole app.

Changes

• Mark a missing assignment as done. On an assignment you didn't hand in through Canvas, press Mark as done: it shows as "Marked done" and no longer counts as something to hand in. It's only in Syft Notes; nothing changes in Canvas. Undo puts it back.
• Buttons show a clean rounded outline when you move between them with the keyboard.
• A lecture's title shows you can rename it: a grey wash when you point at it, a ring while you type.
• "Enjoying Syft Notes? Buy us a coffee" is a small popup now, not a card on Home.
• The Canvas add-on's folder is made only if you load the add-on from a folder.

Good to know

• 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 about an hour, when nothing is recording and you aren't typing in a lecture's notes. To update now, use Settings → General → Updates → Update now.

• Windows: this update downloads in full (about 140 MB) rather than as a small update.