Rewisp 0.26.0 — Smarter promise catching

Rewisp 0.26.0 — Smarter promise catching

Rewisp catches the commitments you make on screen and reminds you when they're due. This release makes that a lot sharper.

Fewer false reminders. It ignores quoted email replies and signatures — only the line you actually wrote counts. And it tells a real promise from a maybe: "I'll send it" is a promise; "I'll try to", "hope to", or "at some point" won't clutter your list.

It understands deadlines the way you write them. "by EOD", "end of the week", "next week", a weekday, or a date — all land on the right day.

Kept promises close themselves. Once you've written that you did it ("emailed Dana the report"), Rewisp marks it done, so nothing nags after it's handled.

Everything stays on your Mac. This reads only where you write — Notes, Mail, Slack, Discord — never AI chats, editors, or ads.

Rewisp 0.25.0 — cleaner capture, and the window opens when you open it

Rewisp was reading parts of your screen twice.

To catch small text, Rewisp reads the screen once whole and again in quarters. Where those overlapped it was keeping both readings, so captured text came out like "Finder Finder File File Edit View Go Go Window Window". This affected around 6 in 10 captures, which wasted space, cluttered search results, and made answers work from messier text than they should have.

It now keeps the better reading and discards the duplicate.

The menu bar is no longer captured. Every single capture used to begin with the app's menus, the clock and the battery percentage. None of that is ever what you're looking for, and "File Edit View Window Help" matches every capture you have while telling search nothing.

Both changes mean less clutter stored and better answers from here on. Existing memories are unaffected.

Opening Rewisp now opens Rewisp. Clicking it in Finder, Spotlight or the Dock used to do nothing visible, since it already lived in the menu bar — most confusing right after an update, when it reopens itself and you're left looking for the window that explains what changed. It opens the dashboard now. It stays quiet when your Mac starts it at login.

Rewisp 0.24.0 — the deeper answer writes itself out

Think longer no longer stares back at you.

When you ask Rewisp to think harder about something, that answer comes from a cloud model and takes ten seconds or more. Until now that was ten seconds of an empty window with a spinner.

The answer now appears as it is written, the way a chat does. The total time is the same, but you can start reading immediately and see it is working rather than wondering if it has hung.

If you close the panel partway through, Rewisp stops rather than carrying on in the background.

Rewisp 0.23.1 — forgetting now reaches everything

A privacy fix.

When you look something up three times, Rewisp pins the answer and keeps it permanently so it can reply instantly. Until now, forgetting the moment that answer came from didn't remove the pinned answer itself, so something you asked Rewisp to forget could still be repeated back to you.

Forgetting now removes those too. Anything pinned before this update stays where it is, since Rewisp has no record of where those came from and deleting them on a guess would take away facts you rely on.

Also improved: if a database is ever opened by a version that can't decrypt it, Rewisp now explains what's happening and confirms your data is intact, rather than reporting an unhelpful error that looks like corruption.

Rewisp 0.23.0 — your memory is now encrypted

Rewisp's database is encrypted at rest.

Until now your captured text sat in a plain database file, protected by FileVault and your account permissions. That's real protection while the file stays on your Mac, but it disappears the moment the file doesn't: a backup, a copied folder, a disk pulled out of a stolen laptop.

The database is now encrypted with AES-256. Someone who takes the disk, restores a backup, or copies your Rewisp folder gets nothing readable.

There is nothing for you to do. No password, nothing to remember, nothing to set up. The key is created on first run and kept in your login Keychain, and Rewisp unlocks it automatically. If you already use Rewisp, it converts your existing memory the next time it starts — about a second, with a copy of the old file kept alongside until everything checks out.

Being straight about the limit. Because Rewisp has to keep capturing before you've touched your Mac, it unlocks the key on its own. That means a program already running as you could still get at it. Encryption protects the file, not the running session. Requiring Touch ID wouldn't change that, and would leave gaps in your timeline after every restart.

Search is unaffected. Everything still works exactly as before, about 1% slower.

Rewisp 0.22.0 — answers arrive in seconds

Asking Rewisp something used to take around 25 seconds. Now you get an answer in two or three.

Rewisp was already answering instantly on your Mac, then quietly throwing that answer away and waiting for the cloud instead. You paid for both and only ever saw the slow one.

Now the quick answer appears straight away. If it's enough, you're done. If you want more, click Think longer underneath it and your stronger engine takes over — the quick answer stays on screen while it works.

Prefer the deep answer every time? Turn off Apple on-device first in Settings → Answers and it skips straight there, which is now faster than it used to be too.

Also in this release

Questions carry about 20% less text to the AI, because Rewisp was sending the same lines several times over. Same information, less waiting.

Connect → Test connection tells you whether your AI tools can actually reach Rewisp, and which tools they can see. If you ever got "Server disconnected", this answers it in five seconds.

If you connected anything before 0.21.1, press its setup button once more — the earlier configuration could never start.

Rewisp 0.21.1 — fixes "Server disconnected" when connecting AI tools

If connecting Rewisp to Claude Desktop, Cursor, Gemini CLI or any other tool showed "Server disconnected", this fixes it.

The setup was writing a correct-looking configuration that pointed at a program which couldn't actually start. Every tool showed the same unhelpful disconnect message, and nothing about it suggested the cause.

Update, then press the setup button again for whichever tools you connected — the configuration already on your machine still has the problem, and re-running it replaces it with a working one.

Thanks to the two people who reported this. It was a real bug and it affected everyone who tried to connect anything.

Rewisp 0.21.0 — connect your AI tools with one click

Connecting Rewisp to Cursor, Windsurf or Gemini CLI is now a button.

Before, each one showed a block of configuration and left you to work out where it went. Someone reasonably asked whether they were supposed to run it in a terminal — it looks like a command, and the note explaining otherwise was small grey text underneath.

Now there's a Set up for me button that writes the configuration where it belongs, alongside the one Claude Desktop already had. It tells you which file it will touch before you press it, keeps anything already in that file, and if it finds something it can't read safely it makes a backup and stops rather than guessing.

VS Code still needs doing by hand, because it keeps this setting per project rather than in one place. The card says so plainly instead of pretending otherwise.

Every block of text also now says what it is: Paste into this file or Run this in Terminal, stated above it with a matching icon.

Rewisp 0.20.1 — faster recall

Asking Rewisp something is about four times faster.

Searching your memory by meaning was reloading every wisp's fingerprint from disk each time you asked a question, then doing it again for each part of that question. Rewisp now keeps them ready and adds new ones as they arrive.

On a 12,000 wisp memory that took a typical question from around 96ms of searching down to 26ms. It stays fast as your memory grows.

Forgetting still works exactly as before — anything you delete leaves the search immediately, and restoring a backup is handled properly too.

Also fixed: a single corrupted wisp could previously break meaning-based search entirely. Now it is skipped and everything else keeps working.

Rewisp 0.20.0 — pause for 15 minutes, and video calls stay private

Three things from your launch feedback.

Pause for a set time. You asked for a way to stop Rewisp while working on something sensitive without having to remember to switch it back on. The Pause button now offers 15 minutes, 30 minutes, or an hour, and shows how long is left. Capture resumes by itself, and it stays correct even if you close the lid or restart in the meantime.

Video calls are ignored by default. Zoom, Teams, Webex, FaceTime and Discord now pause capture the same way Messages does. This protects the person on the other end as much as you: if a colleague shares a document on a call, that document was never theirs to have stored on your machine.

The nightly notification no longer shows your day. It used to include the first line of your recap, and macOS shows notification previews on the lock screen. Anyone walking past could read a summary of what you had been doing. It now just tells you the recap is ready.

Also corrected some wording about the Vault: it prompts for Touch ID when you open the tab, which is a lock on the tab rather than encryption of the files. Worth being precise about.