Minute 0.6.0
Minute now looks like what it always claimed to be: paper and ink, not a
productivity app with a warm-ish gray theme.
The interface is now a manuscript
Serif for the document, sans for the chrome. Transcript body, summaries,
decisions and titles are set in Charter — a face Matthew Carter drew for dense
text at small sizes, which is almost exactly this job. Instrument Sans is
demoted to labels, buttons, timestamps and metadata. Nothing crosses over. It
ships with macOS, so this costs no download.
Real paper. A genuinely warm cream ground with a fine grain over it. The
old canvas was warm only in the hex — on screen it read as light gray.
A ruled margin. Timestamps sit in a right-aligned gutter behind one
continuous hairline running the full length of the transcript. The timestamp
is now the seek control itself; the speaker-initials disc is gone.
Rules, not cards. Every raised, rounded, shadowed card is gone — AI notes,
settings, onboarding, model list. Ruled section heads and margin markers do
the dividing instead. Corners went from 16px to 4–6px; the pill shape survives
only on the record button, where "press this" is the whole point.
Quiet by default, loud when recording. Recording now shows as a single
accent hairline along the top edge of the window — visible from the corner of
your eye, wherever you are in the app. The live transcript uses the same
layout as a finished one, so nothing jumps when you stop recording.
Dark mode follows: ink on dark paper, warm near-black rather than cool slate.
Fixes
- The meeting-detected popup could crash on macOS. The detector runs on a
worker thread and was touching the native panel directly, which AppKit traps
as "Must only be used from the main thread". All panel work is now dispatched
to the main thread. - In dark mode the play button had effectively disappeared — a near-black disc
on near-black chrome measured 1.06:1. Solid ink buttons now invert. - Transcript timestamps floated opposite the middle of multi-line segments
instead of sitting on the first line.
Accessibility
All 60 ink-on-surface pairings clear WCAG AA in both light and dark, verified
with a contrast script rather than by eye. Section labels are written in
sentence case and uppercased in CSS, so screen readers say "Summary failed"
instead of spelling it out letter by letter.
Install
Download the DMG below, drag Minute to Applications, then run this once — the
build is ad-hoc signed rather than notarized, so macOS quarantines it until
the flag is cleared:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Minute.appEverything still runs entirely on your Mac. No account, no cloud, no network
permission.