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The Chat Place 0.1.4

An update to 0.1.3, still a pre-release. If you have 0.1.3 installed, it offers this update itself
(Help, Check for Updates asks at once), and your sessions and settings are kept.

Changed

  • Usage and Context is now a list you can read. View, Usage and Context (Ctrl+Shift+U) now
    opens a list: the loaded session's context first ("Context 62% full: 124,000 of 200,000
    tokens"), then each usage limit on a line of its own, such as the 5-hour limit and the weekly
    limit, with when each resets. Ctrl+C or Copy (Alt+C) copies the selected line, Copy All
    (Alt+A) copies every line, and Escape closes the list. (#130, #137)

Fixed

  • On Windows, two spoken confirmations close together are both heard. When two came within a
    moment of each other, such as "Sent" and then the session's state, the second could replace the
    first, so you heard the second one twice, or the first not at all. Each is now spoken in turn.
    (#113, #135)

  • Send Now no longer leaves a turn stuck, cuts an answer short, or hides an error. A queued
    message sent with Send Now (Ctrl+Enter) could leave the turn waiting for up to ten minutes and
    then report success when the answer had in fact failed. A long answer to it could be cut off
    after ten minutes, so Claude's permission requests after that couldn't be answered. If Claude
    finished what it was doing at the moment you pressed Send Now, the turn could end with that
    earlier answer instead of waiting for the reply to your message. And Send Now pressed in the
    first moments of a turn could reach Claude before the turn's own message. Now the turn waits for
    the answer to your Send Now message, shows its error if it fails, and sends your messages in the
    order you sent them. (#83, #136)

  • Announcements are spoken through NVDA, in NVDA's own voice. NVDA users heard
    announcements in a Windows voice instead, because the part The Chat Place needs to talk to NVDA
    doesn't come with NVDA. The Chat Place now includes it, so with NVDA running, announcements use
    your NVDA voice and rate with nothing to install. JAWS is reached more directly too, so
    announcements start sooner. A system voice now speaks only when no screen reader is running: if
    your screen reader is running but can't be reached, you won't hear a second voice over it.
    Instead a Windows notification tells you announcements aren't being spoken, and the status bar
    and Settings (Ctrl+Comma) say why. Nothing is sent to your screen reader while
    Windows is locked. Help, Report a Bug now includes which screen reader spoke the last
    announcement. (#98)

Added

  • Show only the sessions that are working, idle, or have a new reply. View, Show Sessions
    (Alt+V, H) now has Working, With a New Reply and Idle, alongside Needs You. You stay on the same
    session when it's still listed. (#134, #139)
  • Choose what each session's line says, and in what order. View, Session List Columns
    (Alt+V, E) lets you put the status first, so you hear "needs you", "working" or "idle" before a
    session's title, and leave out parts you don't need, such as the folder or Remote Control. Add,
    Remove, Move Up, Move Down, Move to Top, Move to Bottom and Reset to Default each say what they
    did, and a preview reads the selected session's line as it will be. In the dialog, Enter adds a
    column, Delete removes one, and Alt+Up, Alt+Down, Alt+Home and Alt+End move one (Option on a
    Mac). OK changes the list at once, and your choice is remembered. (#134, #139)
  • Hear where each conversation ended, from the session list. View, Session List Columns
    (Alt+V, E) has a new Last message column. Add it, and each session's line also says the last
    thing written in it, such as "Claude: The build passes now" or "You: Can you add a test?", so
    you can arrow through your sessions without loading them. Long messages are cut at about 150
    characters; press Enter to load the session and read all of it. Tool calls don't count, and
    a session with no conversation to read says nothing there. It's off until you add it, so your
    lines read as before, and the list stays quick with it on. (#146, #147)
  • Saved prompts. Keep messages you send often and use them again. File, Prompts
    (Ctrl+Shift+P) lists your prompts by name with the selected one's text, and Enter puts one in
    the reply box, at the cursor, ready to send. The same dialog adds, edits, deletes and reorders
    them. To save a message as you send it, press Ctrl+Shift+Enter in the reply box instead of
    Ctrl+Enter: it asks for a name, then saves the prompt and sends the message. Escape at the name
    sends nothing, and your message stays where it was. (#131, #140)
  • The Help menu says which version you're running, and when an update is ready. Its update
    item now reads, for example, "Check for Updates (running 0.1.4)". When a newer version has been
    found, at start or when you check, it changes to "Update to 0.1.5 Available", and choosing it
    offers the update. Alt+H, U reaches it either way. (#141, #142)
  • After an update, The Chat Place tells you what you now have. The first time it starts after
    updating itself, a small dialog says "The Chat Place was updated to" the new version, with
    See what's new (Alt+W) to open that version's release notes in your browser, and Close
    (or Escape) to go back to the app. It waits until The Chat Place is in front with no other
    dialog open, and you won't see it on a first install or when running the portable copy. To
    turn it off, clear "Tell me when an update has been installed" in Settings (Ctrl+Comma). You'll
    first see it when updating from 0.1.4 to a later version. (#141, #142)
  • Copy a link to a session, and go straight to it from the link. In the session list,
    Ctrl+Shift+L (File, Copy Session Link, or the session's menu) offers the session's links, best
    first: Enter copies a Markdown link that opens the session in The Chat Place, ready to paste into
    a note, an email or another session. The list also has the bare link, a desktop app session's Open
    in Claude link, and a Remote Control session's claude.ai address. Following a thechatplace://
    link, from anywhere on the computer or from a link in a message, brings The Chat Place forward
    (starting it if needed) with that session selected and its messages loaded. A link only finds a
    session; it never sends a message or changes a conversation. On Windows the installed copy sets up
    these links for you; the portable copy doesn't. (#144, #150)

Reporting Issues

Found a problem or have a suggestion? Help, Report a Bug fills in a report and shows you
exactly what it includes before it goes anywhere: never your session titles, folders or messages.

  1. Open on GitHub copies the report and opens a new GitHub issue with it filled in. This needs
    access to the repository.
  2. Copy Report puts the report on the clipboard, to email to
    support@theideaplace.net.

Downloads

The same files as 0.1.3: TheChatPlace-windows-Setup.exe, TheChatPlace-windows-Portable.zip and
TheChatPlace-macos-arm64.dmg, with the update feeds. See the
user guide to get started, and
the README for everything The Chat Place does.

Requirements

The same as 0.1.0: Windows 10 or 11, or a Mac with Apple silicon, and Claude Code installed with
its native installer and signed in to a Claude subscription. See the 0.1.0 release notes for the
details.

The Chat Place is an independent project by Kelly Ford. It works with Claude Code and the Claude desktop app, but it isn't made, sponsored or endorsed by Anthropic, and isn't affiliated with it. Claude and Claude Code are trademarks of Anthropic.

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