Feature Request

Ty and congrats on the hard work to ship the new version!: Just wanted to share some feedback from a stressful morning I had with the Shadow 1.0 upgrade. I hope this helps make things smoother for others down the road: MAIN ISSUE: The upgrade stalled repeatedly and gave me no real indication of why. It wasn’t until I got low disk space messages from other apps that I realized the issue was a lack of free disk space. Clearing space and re-running the app eventually worked, but not before I missed recording an important meeting and panicked thinking I’d lost my entire library. Totally understand updates are tough to roll out, especially when overhauling a UI—but I wanted to share a few ideas that might help others avoid the same stress spiral: ⸻ Q1: Could the app disallow upgrade unless minimum disk space is available? It seems the upgrade used just enough space to block itself from completing, which led to a lot of confusion (and fear of data loss). If there was a pre-check that halted or warned users when not enough space is available, that could save a lot of heartache. ⸻ Q2: Is there a way to revert to or preserve the previous UI layout? The new UI caught me off guard—transcript-first was my go-to mental model, and now it defaults to chat (even when speaker labels haven't been completed yet-- i usually look at that as my first task to complete. Ps. the "assign all to me" is gone now - so not sure what to do there!!). It made it hard to figure out what to do. Would love either a “classic view” toggle or just to know if that’s something being considered. ⸻ Q3: Could a version update prompt include a warning or defer option? Shadow is one of those apps I open when I really need it to work—usually right before recording something important. It’d be awesome if upgrade prompts came with a reminder like: “This upgrade will restart Shadow and may take a few minutes. Make sure you’re not about to start recording something important.” ⸻ Q4: Could there be in-app onboarding or a ‘what’s new’ tooltip tour? I got the email at noon, but I had updated hours earlier with no real context on what changed. The new UI opens to a blank chat window (no transcript), and I only discovered transcript access after hovering over a small floating toolbar. I honestly thought my library had been wiped (especially after the freezes) until I found the new UI path. Even just a quick “here’s what’s changed” popup would go a long way in helping regular users reorient. ⸻ Sorry for the novel! I really value what Shadow does—so I hope this is received in the spirit intended. It’s all solved now, and I’m back up and running. But if it helps shape future upgrade UX, even better. Thanks again for all you’re building!! —Steven

Listening again to the recording and allocating speakers, it would be great to add a timestamp to the player to go update the attendee names

Sometimes we have offline meetings that we record using voice recorder on ios. I'd like to be able to upload these audio files and have them transcribed just like a meeting. Alternatively if the iOS app comes out, give it the ability to record offline without an internet connect, then to sync to the server later.

After selecting the option to create a custom skill, the window that should allow me to build it instead turns completely blank with a grayish-white screen.

As stated, updating to version 1.0 from 0.13.7 completely wiped my over 200 recordings. This, is bad, considering one of the meetings i had recorded in there was an as of essential, must kept and know... Poof, without any warning why, i don't have much faith anymore, for a such a change to wipe all of my data, i'm really annoyed. No patch notes on whats changed, and all of shadow feels extremely unpolished, apposed to it's previous version, where it too, was also broken (eg, menu bar simply does nothing, pressing the shadow hotkey simply doesn't do anything... (i know it says coming soon, but it tells me the keybind works in the button if it doesn't don't put it there.). To add some more context, shadow, has no memory or any of my old recordings, all of my audio files are kept in /Users/user/Library/Application Support/com.taperlabs.shadow/ which i expected, in the shadow database, i can still see the full reference to these files and names. It seems as to any or all migration was skipped, or failed in some way or another.

We desperately need a word search function for the transcript, and ideally, for the overall library. I should be able to jump to a specific phrase within the transcript. I also should be able to find all of the transcripts in my library that have that word. Similar to how you can search words in the Apple Notes app.

just upgraded to 1.0 and was excited to test out the new features. however I had to restart shadow 3x during the 30min meeting I was just on. so in short it didn't manage to record much properly. not sure what's causing the app to suddenly stop on its own

I currently need to scroll through and manually look for speakers to tag, and sometimes I miss "unknown" speakers if there's just 1 line. Can we have a summary box of all the identified voices that links to the first place they speak, so we can go through and assign / merge down? Serves another benefit for meeting overview: lists who was in the meeting

Would be awesome if users with privacy concern could opt-in to download a local LLM (Llama, R1,...), so nothing needs to leave the device!

Point to locally hosted LLMs