Mandata 2.10.0

Your data encrypted on disk, tasks from your calendar, and an Ask Mandata that finds more.

• Encrypted database: your data is now kept on disk only in encrypted form. The key is held by the system (Windows for your account, the macOS keychain, or the Secret Service on Linux), so only you, on this computer, can open it. Settings > Data shows where the key is kept.
• First start of this version: the existing database is encrypted, read back to check it, then wiped and deleted; your existing backups get the same treatment. Changes are saved within about a second.
• Password-protected backups: Export to a file now asks for a password (at least 8 characters, typed twice). The file can be restored on any computer with that password. Since the data opens only on this computer, export a backup now and then to get it back after reinstalling Windows or changing accounts. Plain backups from older versions can still be imported.
• Calendar: Mandata reads your calendar every 15 minutes (meetings from the last 7 days and the next 30; Settings > Mail > Calendar). Attending a meeting is not a task, but work its description asks for is, such as "please share your updates before the meeting". Tasks and Threads have a new Found in filter (Email or Calendar). With Microsoft 365, sign in once more to allow calendar access.
• Better search in Ask Mandata: questions now find the relevant tasks, threads, emails and people by full-text search, matching different forms of a word in English, French and Spanish ("reports" finds "report") and parts of words or names. It runs locally.
• Learning from examples: when the AI reads a thread it sees up to three of your past corrections on similar emails. Follow-up and forward drafts see a couple of your own past emails to the same people, so the tone matches how you write to them.
• Lessons page: Lessons has its own page, with counts of corrections and lessons waiting. A new Automatic / Manual switch decides whether corrections are learnt from as soon as the AI is free, or only when you press Learn now.
• Tasks by me: a new switch on the Tasks page adds the tasks you asked others to do.
• Smarter task reading: when you answer and the person who asked replies with something like "thanks for the input", every task your answer covered is marked done.