v1.1.0-alpha

Hobnob 1.1.0: What's New

Hobnob Remembers Your Past Meetings

Your little goblin now keeps track of all your past gatherings. Ask Hobnob questions like "What did we decide in last week's sprint planning?" and he'll dig through his notes to find the answer.

• Search across titles, summaries, and transcripts
• Read full meeting details whenever you need them
• Hobnob chains multiple searches together, like a good little scribe

Faster Recordings

We taught Hobnob to work smarter. He no longer double-checks his transcription, so your recordings finalize faster and he can get back to tending the hearth.

Auto-Generated Meeting Titles

Forgot to name your meeting? No worries. Hobnob now scribbles a descriptive title from the conversation himself. No more "Untitled Meeting" cluttering up your history.

Simpler Setup

With the faster pipeline, Hobnob needs fewer tools to do his job. The First Run Wizard is quicker, and there's one less model to download before he gets to work.

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Hobnob 1.1.0. Private. Local. Yours. Now with a better memory and a busier tail.

Initial Hobnob Release

Hobnob 1.0.1

Local meeting notes, no cloud required.

Features

• Live captions — real-time Whisper transcription during meetings (base.en model)
• Speaker labels — "Me" (mic) vs "Them" (system audio) — one channel per speaker, baked in from the audio level
• Final high-accuracy transcript — Whisper large-v3-turbo pass after recording ends
• LLM summaries — structured meeting notes with Overview, Decisions, Action Items, and Open Questions (Gemma 4 E4B)
• Live chat — ask questions about the meeting while it's still in progress
• Topic detection — every few minutes, suggestions of what's being discussed
• Notes pane — timestamped scratchpad that feeds into the final summary
• Calendar integration — auto-titles meetings from macOS EventKit or Google OAuth
• Hearth sidebar — upcoming events with one-click Join; past meetings with summary previews
• 5-minute reminders — notification before your next meeting
• Output artifacts — every meeting produces a .wav, .md (formatted transcript + summary), and .meeting.json
• First-run wizard — guided setup on first launch (storage, microphone, calendar)
• Self-check dashboard — health check for models, microphones, and storage
• Dual-channel WAV recording — mic + system audio in a single stereo file

Platform support

Platform	Installer	Auto-update
macOS (arm64)	Hobnob-mac.zip	Via latest-mac.yml
Linux	.AppImage, .deb, .pacman	Via latest-linux.yml

Privacy

Everything runs locally. No cloud accounts, no API keys, no data leaving your machine. Open source (PolyForm Shield).

Requirements

• macOS 13+ (Ventura) or modern Linux distribution
• 8 GB RAM recommended
• 8 GB free disk for model downloads (first run)