Captain's Log Changelog

• Cleanup no longer drops words. It used to remove words it took for filler, like "so", "and" or "actually", sometimes with meaning in them. Now it only adds punctuation and capitals and removes sounds like um and uh, and every entry is checked word for word against what you said.
• Spanish. Set Settings > Recording > Language to Español and entries are transcribed, punctuated and tagged in Spanish. Automatic hears English or Spanish in each recording. Both use a Spanish model, a one-time 574 MB download.
• The app itself is in Spanish when your Mac is.
• Tags fit each entry. They used to repeat the same few tags across entries. Suggestions now come from the entry alone and reuse your existing spelling of a tag when they match.
• Fixes a crash after a recording was stopped, or an entry deleted, once the journal window had been opened and closed. Thanks to JP in Chile for finding it.
• A Record button in the journal window, and the menu bar shows how long you have been recording. Until now the only visible way to stop was the menu item, and there was none at all with the app in the Dock only.
• A Mac set to Spanish starts with Language set to Automatic, including a copy updated from 1.2. Updating used to leave it on English, which turns Spanish speech into nonsense.
• The Language picker waits while a model is downloading. Switching mid-download swapped the file being fetched.

• A welcome window on first run: pick your hotkey, allow the microphone, choose where the journal lives, connect Claude Desktop, and download the models, on one page.
• New journals go in Documents/Captain's Log. Until now the default was a folder in a cloud drive that only existed on our own Mac. If you already have entries in that folder, the app keeps using it.
• Vocabulary. Add the names and words transcription gets wrong in Settings > Vocabulary, and how they come out when misheard. New entries spell them your way. The list is a text file in your journal folder, so it follows your journal to another Mac.
• Tags. New entries get up to three topic tags from the model on your Mac, reusing tags you already have. Edit them in the journal, filter by them in the sidebar, or ask Claude for everything tagged work. Turn suggestions off in Settings > Recording.
• Clean Up Again rewrites an entry from its raw transcript with the current model and your vocabulary. Entries saved as raw transcripts can be cleaned in one go from the journal's toolbar. Entries you edited are never rewritten without asking.
• Copy Entry in the journal, and Show Journal Folder in the menu.
• Report a Problem in the menu shows everything a report would contain, then opens an email to support with it attached. It never includes your entries or your license key, and nothing is sent until you send the email.
• Quitting no longer crashes after a recording. The app also waits for an entry that is still being written before it quits.

• The download bar moves. While the models downloaded on first run, the bar sat at 0% until each file was finished, which looked like a stall. The downloads themselves were fine. The bar now fills as the file arrives.

• Fixes 1.1.0 not opening. On every Mac, 1.1.0 quit the moment it was launched, before its menu bar icon appeared. Nothing was lost: it never got far enough to touch a journal or a setting. Because 1.1.0 cannot run, it cannot update itself, so this one is a manual download from inkling-labs.com/captains-log/download. Install it over the old copy.

The first paid release. Captain's Log is $15 once, with a 14-day free trial, and a license covers two Macs.

• Free trial and licensing. Every install starts a 14-day trial. After it, a license key from the receipt email unlocks the app (menu > License). When the trial ends without a key, recording, the journal window and the Claude connection pause. Your entries stay where they are, as plain Markdown files you can open in anything.
• A small download. The app is now about 15 MB instead of 3 GB. On first run it downloads the two models it needs (about 1.6 GB, once), checks each file, and you are recording as soon as they are in place. A more accurate transcription model is an optional download in Settings > Models.
• Updates. The app now updates itself (menu > Check for Updates). Copies of 1.0.x cannot, so this one is a manual download from inkling-labs.com/captains-log/download.
• The app now uses the network for three things: checking its license with Lemon Squeezy, checking inkling-labs.com for updates, and downloading its models from inkling-labs.com once. None of them carries anything from your journal. Journal audio and text still never leave your Mac.
• Silence is no longer saved as an entry. A recording with no speech shows "No audio detected" and saves nothing.
• If the cleanup step ever drifts from what you said, the entry is saved from the raw transcript instead.
• Entries can be edited in place, deleted to the Trash, shown in Finder or opened in your editor, from a right-click or the toolbar.
• The Claude connection now follows your journal folder setting. In 1.0.x it kept reading the default location after the folder was changed.
• New About window, and Settings tabs size to their content.

Upgrading from 1.0.x: install over the old copy. macOS asks for microphone and notification permission once more because the app's identifier changed to com.inklinglabs.captainslog; your settings carry over. Reconnect Claude from Settings > Chat with AI.

Signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple. No feature changes.

The app shows its name as "Captain's Log" everywhere.

First release: hotkey recording, on-device transcription and cleanup, plain Markdown entries, the journal viewer with search, and the Claude Desktop connection.