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Teams and Outlook sync, on a Mac and on Windows
- Turn it on in Settings › Teams and Outlook sync. Your own chats, meeting transcripts, Inbox mail (with attachments) and calendar come into your sources on their own, read with your open Teams tab's sign-in.
- Today lists the rest of the day's meetings, and tomorrow's from midday.
Assistants
- Ollama's local models run as an assistant through Codex, on this computer only.
- Each assistant, and each job under Models by job, can have its own effort level.
The window
- Panes and table columns resize by their dividers, and keep their widths.
- Interface size (Settings › General) makes the whole window bigger or smaller.
- Today's main column fills a wide window, and the top bar condenses in a narrow one.
- On Windows the window draws its own title bar, with snap layouts on the maximise button, and the accent colour can follow Windows'.
Better grammar checking on the Mac
- Grammar on the Mac now uses Harper, as on Windows, and catches far more than macOS's own checker did. It runs on your computer: nothing you write is sent anywhere.
Also
- Settings › Vault shows what the vault takes on disk.
- Weekly preparation leaves the tasks of projects on hold or someday out of next actions.
Security
- Updated the app's libraries to fix reported security issues.
Thanks to Angus Pearce for the Windows title bar, Interface size, effort levels, Ollama, resizable panes and more.
Installing
Mac (Apple silicon, macOS 14 or later): open Brainstead.dmg and drag Brainstead onto Applications. The first time you open it, macOS says it can't check the app for malicious software, as it isn't notarised by Apple: click Done, then in System Settings › Privacy & Security click Open Anyway.
Windows (10 or 11, 64-bit): run Brainstead_x64-setup.exe, added a few minutes after the Mac's files. If Windows says it protected your PC, click More info, then Run anyway: the installer isn't code-signed. It installs for you alone, with no administrator password.