Hindsight v0.2.1

What's improved

The timeline's loudness bars appear faster

• They're worked out on several cores at once instead of one, so three hours of audio draws its bars in about 1.2 seconds instead of 5.6. The first bar still shows almost at once, and they still fill in newest first.
• Recording isn't slowed down: one core is always left free for it. (#21)

Full Changelog: v0.2.0...v0.2.1

Hindsight v0.2.0

What's new

Choose what to save, up to three hours back

Until now, every way to save stopped at the last 15 minutes. Choose…, in the window and in the menu bar, opens a timeline of everything Hindsight holds, up to three hours:

• Loudness bars show where people were talking, so the quiet stretch before a conversation is easy to find. They fill in newest first.
• Drag the start and the end, press on the timeline, nudge either by five seconds, or use the arrow keys.
• Listen from the start, or to the last five seconds, before you save.
• The clip is named for when the chosen stretch ends.

Recording carries on while the timeline is open. Its copy of the audio stays encrypted, is decrypted a moment at a time, and is wiped when you close the window. (#13, #14)

Pick your colors

• Settings → Colors: Rhodonite, or Catppuccin Mocha, Macchiato or Frappé, each with a light and a dark version, and System, Light or Dark. Every palette meets level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. (#12)

What's fixed

• Two saves at once, for example the shortcut pressed while a long save was still writing, could lose the first clip. Saves now take turns. (#17)
• A clip saved from the timeline shows in the list at the time it ends, not when it was saved. (#18)
• In light mode, checked boxes, the playback slider and the buffer bar were too faint to read. (#12, #19)
• Start at login keeps starting the copy of Hindsight you use, even after moving it or updating an AppImage. On macOS, its launch agent is now named id.itrium.hindsight and replaces the old one by itself. (#11)

Full Changelog: v0.1.0...v0.2.0

Hindsight v0.1.0

The first release of Hindsight: it keeps the last few minutes of what was said near your computer in memory, so when something turns out to matter, you can save it.

What it does

• Records into memory, all the time. From 15 minutes up to three hours, and anything older is forgotten. Nothing is written to disk until you save.
• Saves from the menu bar. Save the last minute, 5 minutes or 15 minutes from the menu bar (the tray on Windows and Linux) or a shortcut you set. Clips are standard .opus files in a folder you choose.
• Plays your clips. Play, seek, show in their folder, export as WAV for apps that can't open Opus, or delete for good.
• Handles microphones going away. Pick a microphone and a fallback: if one disconnects, goes quiet, or sends only silence, Hindsight switches and comes back by itself.
• Settings for the microphone, how far back it goes, a save shortcut, where it shows up (menu bar, Dock, or both), and launch at login. "Remove all Hindsight data" deletes everything it keeps for itself, never your clips.

Privacy

• Encrypted while it waits. The buffer is encrypted with a key that exists only while Hindsight runs, so even memory written to swap is scrambled.
• Nothing records before you've read what it does. The first-run screen comes first, including a note on recording people.
• No crash dumps of its memory, no half-written files, and no network requests.

Good to know

• Hindsight isn't signed by a verified developer yet, so your system asks you to confirm the first time you open it, then asks whether Hindsight may use the microphone.
• On a Mac with Homebrew: brew install itriumid/tap/hindsight (the cask arrives shortly after this release).