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What’s new in Cachejay: better calls, and lists that tidy themselves
Two weeks of changes, from October 22 to November 6. Calls got the most work: both sides come out clearer, long calls get full notes, and your own voice mostly stays on your Mac. To-dos and boards now clean up after themselves, and agents check with you before acting on an old note.
Calls
Call notes are only as good as the transcript under them, so most of this fortnight went there.
- Both sides, told apart. The other people on a call are transcribed by OpenAI’s transcription, which separates speakers and keeps up when people talk over each other. You still see Apple’s live transcript on your Mac during the call.
- Your side stays on your Mac (0.3.43). Your own voice is transcribed on the Mac and only goes to the cloud when that transcript comes out too thin to use. Either way, no audio is kept.
- Calls that lose audio recover. If the Mac’s audio capture stops delivering sound mid-call, Cachejay notices and starts it again instead of going quiet. Ending a call can no longer hang.
- Long calls get full notes (0.3.42). Notes now cover calls up to about three hours, and a call’s length runs to the last words spoken, not to when someone closed the window.
- Notes don’t get worse after a long day. A long call could use up the day’s AI allowance, and the next call’s notes would fall back to a simpler model, with jumbled action items. Transcription now has its own allowance, so it can’t starve the notes.
More on how it works on the calls page. If you’re weighing up how to capture meetings at all, we also wrote up how to record a meeting on a Mac and how to transcribe one, including the free options that aren’t us.
Call hours
Cloud transcription costs us money per minute, so plans now include a set number of hours (0.3.44): 20 a month, 30 per team seat, and 5 during the trial. If you go over, calls are still transcribed, on your Mac, until the 1st. You can add 10 more hours for $5, once, for that month, from your account page.
When the hours or the AI allowance run out, the Mac now tells you once a day and links to add more, rather than switching quietly. Details on pricing.
To-dos that tidy themselves
The to-do list should never need weeding. Three changes:
- “Waiting on you” clears itself. When an agent stops to wait for you and you start a new session in that project, you’ve clearly moved on, so the wait goes. Routine asks like “shall I commit and push?” don’t count as waiting on you at all.
- A daily tidy knows today’s date and each item’s due date. It drops to-dos whose moment has passed, garbled fragments from a call, and routine approvals.
- Upkeep has its own budget. The tidying was sharing an allowance with call transcription, and on busy call days it quietly stopped. Now it can’t.
Boards that keep up
On boards with Jay turned on, Jay now finds existing cards by their short id, such as ENG-12, and moves or comments on them, instead of only making new ones. Ticking a to-do moves its card. Jay no longer makes cards for routine activity or for work that’s already done, and suggestions on boards set to “suggest” expire after 7 days instead of piling up.
Agents check before they act
When an agent asks Cachejay something, Cachejay answers outright only from your own words: what you said, decided or corrected. If the only evidence is another agent’s note, it tells the agent “likely, but not confirmed”, and asks you “Still true?” with a one-click answer. We made this change after measuring where answers went wrong: old agent notes the person had since changed their mind about. What we measured.
Your account export now includes what agents asked, Cachejay’s guesses and your corrections, along with everything else.
Getting it
Cachejay updates itself; the call changes need Mac 0.3.44 or later. New here? Try it for 14 days, no card.