Updraft 0.7.9

Updraft 0.7.9

A big one: 21 changes, all checked overnight so dictation stays just as fast. New features are off until you turn them on.

New

• New: Documents. A Documents page for your PDFs and scans. Updraft reads the text in scanned pages so you can search them, and you can rotate, delete and reorder pages. Optional extras, each with its own switch: sort rules (with Claude suggestions if no rule fits), key fields like dates and amounts, fill and sign, separator sheets to split a stack of scans, and phone access over Tailscale with a "file is ready" notice and Send to phone. Off until you turn it on in Settings › Documents.
• New: screen recording extras. Click highlights, a cursor spotlight, drawing on the screen while you record (hold Ctrl+Shift), blur boxes to hide part of the screen (Ctrl+Alt+B), and a blurred background behind your webcam. Each is off until you turn it on.
• New: recording transcripts. After a screen recording is saved, Updraft can write a transcript, a short Claude summary with chapters, and make it searchable. It waits while you dictate. Off until you turn it on.
• New: Calendar names for recordings. Recordings can take their name and attendee names from your Google or Outlook calendar. Read-only. Off until you turn it on, and it needs a one-time setup.
• New: mail search and Google Drive save for Claude. Claude can search your Gmail or Outlook (read-only, it never sends mail) and save files to Google Drive. Off until you turn it on, and it needs a one-time setup.
• New: Send to Drift. On the Clipboard page, text and links get a Send to Drift button, and Drift picks them up as reading highlights. Off until you turn it on.
• New: Whisper Mode. A setting for dictating quietly: Updraft boosts quiet speech so it hears you. The Voice Test has a new whispered set to check it. Off until you turn it on in Settings › Speaking.

Improved

• Improved: updates install themselves. "Update automatically" is now on unless you switched it off before. Updraft checks about a minute after it starts and then weekly, downloads quietly (never while you dictate or record), and only takes versions at least a day old. On Windows it installs when Updraft quits; on the Mac it stops at "Update ready" as before.
• Improved: one look across your apps. The main window, Settings, pop-ups, the meeting bar and the screen recording windows now share the same colors, buttons and switches as your other apps.
• Improved: lighter app. Leftover code was cleaned out.

Fixed

• Fixed: meeting search no longer shows the same snippet twice when two search words sit close together.
• Fixed: recording thumbnails now show when the recordings folder is reached through a shortcut path.

Updraft 0.7.8

Updraft 0.7.8

• Improved: Updraft's folders now carry the Updraft name. The first time 0.7.8 starts, it renames its old "wisper-clone" folders to "updraft", and "Wisper Clone Meetings" becomes "Updraft Meetings". Your settings, history, meetings and speech models stay right where they were, just under the new name. Nothing is copied or deleted. If a folder is busy, Updraft keeps using the old one and tries again next start.
• Improved: the last of the old name is gone from inside the app. Behind the scenes, everything is now called Updraft. Your "start with Windows" setting, last open page and dismissed tips stay as they were.

Updraft 0.7.7

Updraft 0.7.7

• New: Shortcuts page. One page lists every key combo in Updraft, with a search box. It flags two shortcuts that use the same keys, and "Go to setting" jumps straight to the right row. Off until you turn it on (Settings > App > "Shortcuts page (new)").
• New: screen recording on the Mac. Screen recording now works on the Mac too, with your mic and the computer's sound. While a recording runs, dictation starts instantly. Off until you turn it on.
• Improved: Settings is easier to find your way around. Settings now has 11 clear sections under group headings (Dictation, Capture, Look and feel, Connect, Data), clearer names for many settings, and a search box that looks through all of Settings. No setting changed its value.

Updraft 0.7.6

Updraft 0.7.6

• Fixed: slim pill hiding behind windows. With GlazeWM, the slim pill could slip behind other windows and stay there. It now brings itself back on top about once a second while you're not dictating.
• Fixed: slim pill buttons shaking. When the slim pill opens on hover, its three buttons no longer jitter. They fade in once the pill has room for them.

Updraft 0.7.5

Updraft 0.7.5

• Clipboard search for Claude (off by default). A new switch in Settings > Connectors, "Also let them search my clipboard history", lets Claude Desktop and Claude Code on this PC search and list what you copied: text, links and pictures, never files. It works on this PC only, never over web access. Secret-looking text (passwords, keys, card numbers, one-time codes) is hidden and can't be searched.
• Capture my voice (off by default). A new card in Settings > Dictation > Improvement keeps short clips of your voice only, for tuning Updraft to how you talk. Other voices are dropped before anything is saved. It pauses while you dictate, record a meeting or take the Voice Test, and stops at 20 GB. Clips stay on this computer, and "Delete all clips" removes them.
• Fixed: Claude Desktop extension stuck on "starting". With Claude Desktop set to its built-in Node, the Updraft extension now connects right away.

Updraft 0.7.4

Updraft 0.7.4

• Automatic updates (off for now). A new setting, "Update automatically" in Settings > About, checks for a new version a minute after Updraft opens and then every 7 days, downloads it quietly, and shows "Updraft X is ready. Restart to update." On Windows the update installs when you close Updraft. It never checks, downloads or installs during a dictation, a meeting recording, a screen recording or a Voice Test. Updates are now signed, so a tampered file is never installed automatically. On the Mac it downloads, then you finish with the usual disk steps. The setting is off until it has been tried; the Check for updates button works as before.
• Recordings tab. Your screen recordings are listed in their own tab: play, rename, delete.
• Pill record button and smoother hover. The slim pill has a screen record button, grows smoothly when you hover, and the screen recording options menu now has a Record button and stays on the right screen (Windows).

Updraft 0.7.3

Updraft 0.7.3

• ChatGPT can search your meetings too. Like claude.ai, ChatGPT on the web can now look through your meeting transcripts and AI notes, read-only (on ChatGPT Pro it's search only). It uses the same web access as claude.ai: turn on "Let web apps connect" in Settings > Connectors, add Updraft in ChatGPT's Apps & Connectors with your web address, then type the pairing word and the code. Your own notes and dictation history are never shared with web apps.
• Screen recording on the Mac is paused for now. After 0.7.2 it was checked on a Mac: the webcam bubble, hiding Updraft's own controls, playback and the permission prompts all work. But PC sound in videos played slightly fast with small gaps, and dictation started a little slower while a recording used the mic. Until a fix passes the Mac speed check, the Screen recording switch on a Mac is greyed out (if you turned it on, it's off until then). Windows is unchanged.

Updraft 0.7.2

Updraft 0.7.2

• Ask Claude about your meetings from the web and your phone. claude.ai and the Claude phone app can now search your meeting transcripts and AI notes, read-only. Updraft goes online through Tailscale (free) only while you have it switched on, and nothing gets in without your pairing word and a code you type on your PC. Go to Settings > Connectors, turn on "Let web apps connect" and follow the checklist. Your dictation history is never offered to web or phone apps.
• Screen recording (off until you turn it on in Settings > General). Record your screen, mic and PC sound with a webcam bubble you can drag anywhere; Ctrl+Alt+R starts and stops it. Videos stay on this computer. Checked on Windows; the Mac version hasn't been tried on a Mac yet.
• Faster meeting list. Changes to your meetings folder no longer make Updraft freeze for a moment while it re-reads the list.

To update: Settings > About > Check for updates.

Updraft 0.7.1

Updraft 0.7.1

• New slim pill. The pill shrinks to a thin line when you're not using it. Point at the line and it grows into a small pill with Dictate and Meeting. Hold the dictation key and it opens into a voice wave that moves with your voice. When you let go, the wave pulses while it types, then shows "Done". Clicking the pill never pulls your cursor out of the app you're typing in.
• Off until you turn it on. Go to Settings > General and turn on "Slim pill". Turn it off any time to get the old pill back.
• Just as fast. The slim pill was tested against the old pill on the gaming PC and the Mac before it shipped. Dictation is just as fast with it on.

To update: Settings > About > Check for updates.

Updraft 0.7.0

Updraft 0.7.0

• Connectors: let your AI apps read your meetings. Claude Code, Gemini CLI and Claude Desktop on this PC can now search your meetings and read transcripts and AI notes. Read-only, and off until you turn it on. Go to Settings > Connectors, turn on "Let AI apps search my meetings", and click Connect next to the app. A read log shows what each app looked at.
• Connectors can search your dictation history too. A second switch under the first one. Off by default; nothing older than your "Keep history for" setting, and never audio.
• Save meeting notes to Obsidian. Pick your vault in Settings > Connectors and every finished meeting's AI notes land there as a Markdown file with title, date and duration. Your own notes are never saved.
• Faster first word. Updraft wakes the GPU the moment you press the dictation key, so the first words of a dictation come back sooner. On by default; it never runs while live dictation is on.
• Snappier Meetings page. The meetings list stops rescanning itself when files change in a burst.
• Groundwork for web access. Settings > Connectors has a "Let web apps connect" row for claude.ai, the Claude phone app and ChatGPT. It's not usable yet (it needs Tailscale, coming next); it stays off and says so.

To update: Settings > About > Check for updates.