Changelog

Fixed

• New mail could stop arriving on accounts still fetching their history — Meridian downloads your back catalogue in the background, and while that was running it never got round to checking for new messages. On a large mailbox the history walk takes days, so those accounts simply went quiet, while smaller accounts that had finished carried on normally. Fetching new mail now takes priority, and the history walk uses whatever time is left over.
• Reconnecting an account made Meridian re-download everything — routine checks on your connected accounts were wiping Meridian’s record of what it had already synced. That record is only ever kept on your Mac, so the next sync started from scratch and pulled every message down again. Those checks now leave your sync progress alone.
• Fetching history no longer re-downloads mail you already have — the history walk asked your provider for every message in a stretch of time, including ones already sitting on your Mac. It now skips those, so catching up after an interruption takes minutes rather than days.

Changed

• Steadier progress through your mail history — history was fetched in fixed three-month chunks, which meant a busy month took hours while a quiet year took seconds. Meridian now works in evenly sized batches, so progress is consistent and each step finishes quickly regardless of how busy that period was.

Fixed

• Meeting reminders were arriving as the meeting started — the reminder lead time defaulted to zero instead of fifteen minutes for anyone who hadn’t changed it in Settings, so the only heads-up you got was the two-minute join prompt. Reminders now arrive fifteen minutes ahead by default, and the two-minute join prompt still fires as the backstop.

Added

• Your calendar’s own notification time is honoured — if you’ve told Google to remind you thirty minutes before events on a particular calendar, Meridian now uses that, rather than falling back to its own setting. Most events don’t carry a reminder of their own; they defer to whichever calendar they’re on, and Meridian was never reading that. A reminder set on an individual event still wins, and email-only reminders are left alone rather than turned into desktop alerts.
• Calendars refresh once a day — a calendar’s name, colour and notification setting could change on your provider’s side and Meridian would never notice, because it only ever looked when a connection had no calendars at all. It now re-checks daily. Calendars you’ve switched off stay off.

Fixed

• One email can no longer fill Needs Attention — several to-dos found in a single message were meant to collapse into one card, but the check only worked when Meridian could identify the wider conversation, which for most mail it can’t. A forwarded utility bill produced seventeen cards. Clearing them just brought up three more from the same email.
• Receipts and confirmations aren’t promises — handed a payment confirmation, Meridian was listing every line of it back to you as something you’d agreed to do: the account number, the processing fee, the ZIP code. It now recognises a statement about something already done and leaves it out.
• Dismissed cards stay dismissed — Meridian only remembered your last few hundred dismissals, and once past that limit it began discarding them, so cards you had already cleared came back. It now remembers far more, and when it does need to forget something it drops entries that can no longer match anything rather than your actual decisions.

Improved

• Open the email behind a “you promised” card — cards for a commitment found in your mail can now open that message, so you can read what you actually wrote before deciding what to do about it. This works even when the conversation has since been archived.

Fixed

• Change an assistant’s permissions without starting over — the MCP Clients screen listed what each app was allowed to do but gave you no way to change it. Granting one extra permission meant revoking the app entirely and re-approving every permission from scratch. Each app now has an Edit button that opens its permissions with the current ones already ticked, so you can add or remove one and save.
• Newly added permissions are no longer out of reach — an app was stuck with whatever you approved the first time, so anything Meridian added later simply could not be granted to it. The permissions screen now also tells you how many are still ungranted, instead of leaving an assistant to report an unexplained “permission denied”.
• Revoking moved somewhere safer — it used to be a one-click button sitting in the list beside each app, with nothing next to it to say what it would do. It now lives inside that app’s permissions screen, behind a confirmation.

New

• An assistant can file tasks into your groups — Claude, Claude Code, Cursor or anything else that speaks MCP can now see which group a task sits in, move it into another, and show you only the tasks in one. It all works by the group’s own name, so “put this in Corva” is enough. Assistants can’t create groups, so a misheard name comes back as a question rather than a stray new list in your sidebar.
• Attach a link or a message to a task or event — keep the doc, the ticket or the article a piece of work is about attached to the work itself, whether you add it or an assistant does.
• More of a task is available to an assistant — how long you expect it to take, where it has to happen, and when it’s snoozed until can all now be read and set, not just its title, due date and priority.

Improved

• A link no longer needs a title — adding a reference used to insist you type a name for it before it would save, even when the address was the whole point. A URL on its own is now enough, and a reference with no title shows the link itself instead of an empty line.

New

• Narrow what an MCP client searches — Claude, Claude Code, Cursor or anything else that speaks MCP can now search a single connected account (“anything from my work address about the renewal?”), only the mail you haven’t dealt with yet, or a particular sender. Useful when one address receives both real correspondence and automated notifications from the services you sign into with it.
• Results say which account they came from — a search across every connected account used to come back as one undifferentiated list. Each result now names its account and whether you’ve dealt with it, so an assistant can tell a work thread from a personal one without asking you.

Improved

• Searching one account actually searches all of it — narrowing to an account now looks through that entire mailbox rather than filtering a list of results gathered from everywhere. On a smaller or quieter account that’s the difference between a real answer and a confident “nothing found”.

Fixed

• Microsoft accounts were re-downloading everything on every sync — mail, calendar and contacts from Outlook and Microsoft 365 failed to record where they had got to, so each sync started over from the beginning instead of picking up only what changed. They now sync incrementally, as intended.

Fixed

• Your groups and to-dos were missing from the sidebar — on some launches Meridian drew the sidebar a fraction of a second before it finished opening your data, and that section then stayed empty until the next restart. Your work was never lost or changed: the same tasks were there the whole time on the To-Dos page. The sidebar now fills in as soon as your data is ready.
• Some counts could start at zero — the same timing could leave the Inbox and Outbox numbers blank until new mail arrived. They’re right from the start now.

New

• Connect an AI assistant to Meridian — Claude, Claude Code, Cursor or anything else that speaks MCP can now work with your consolidated tasks, calendar, contacts and messages. Ask “what’s on today” and get an answer drawn from every account you’ve connected, instead of wiring the assistant up to Google and Microsoft separately.
• Let it add things, if you want it to — an assistant can create and complete tasks and put events on your calendar. Reading and writing are separate permissions, so you can grant one and not the other. Nothing can delete your data.
• You approve each app by name — the first time a program asks for your data, Meridian tells you which one it is, whether it could verify it, and exactly what it’s asking for. Nothing gets in without you saying yes, and you can revoke any app later from Settings → MCP Clients.
• A record of everything that was asked for — every request an assistant makes is listed in the same place, including the ones Meridian refused. That list never leaves your Mac.

Improved

• It all stays on this Mac — assistants talk to Meridian directly on your machine. No request touches Meridian’s servers, and there’s no key or token to copy around: connecting is one command you can paste anywhere, and Meridian recognises the app itself.
• Off until you turn it on — local AI access is a switch in Settings, off by default, and nothing is listening until you flip it.

Fixed

• Encryption keys set up on older versions of Meridian — in some cases a key created before a past update could stop being recognised, which could leave a new Mac unable to finish setup. Meridian now finds and carries those keys forward.
• Account settings on the web — the account pages at panel.me.ridian.app couldn’t reach Meridian and wouldn’t load. They work again.

Fixed

• To-dos reappear in the sidebar — In some cases the sidebar’s To-Dos & Reminders section could come up empty and stay that way, even though the same items were right there in the workspace. It now always shows what you have.

Improved

• Snappier calendars with lots of history — If you have years of recurring meetings, many of them long finished, Meridian was re-checking every one of them each time the sidebar drew. It now skips series that already ended, which cuts that work roughly in half.

New

• Connect an AI assistant to your Meridian data — Claude Desktop, Claude Code, and other MCP-speaking assistants can now read your consolidated calendar, tasks, contacts, and messages. Ask “what’s on my calendar today” or “what do I still owe people this week” and get an answer drawn from everything you’ve connected — not one account at a time.

• It all stays on your Mac — The connection is local. Your assistant talks to Meridian on this machine; nothing is routed through Meridian’s servers, and no record of what you asked leaves the device.

• You decide what each app may see — Connect an assistant from Settings → MCP Clients. You’ll see in plain language what it will be able to read before you agree, and each app gets its own credential you can revoke at any moment.

• A log of everything that was asked — Every request an assistant makes is recorded on your Mac, so you can see exactly what was read and when. Clear it whenever you like.

• Read-only, and off until you turn it on — No assistant can change, create, or delete anything in Meridian. The feature stays completely off until you switch it on yourself.

Fixed

• Quick Add understands longer horizons — “renew passport in 2 months” now lands on a real date. Previously only days and weeks were recognized, so anything measured in months or years quietly got no date at all.

New

• Touch ID app lock — Optionally require Touch ID (or your password) to open Meridian, keeping your mail, calendar, and contacts private on a shared desk.

• Activities in Spotlight — Opt in to Core Spotlight indexing and your tasks and events show up in macOS search, right next to everything else.

• Quick Look for attachments — Select an attachment and press Space for an instant full-size preview, no download or app switch needed.

• Notification filtering per source — Choose which accounts may notify you, so a noisy inbox can stay silent while the important one comes through.

• Snooze from Shortcuts — A new Snooze Task intent works with Shortcuts and Siri, and understands which task you mean.

• Smarter Quick Add — Type “2–3pm” and get a start and end time, mention people to add them as meeting guests, and paste a video-call link to attach it to the event.

• Deeper Microsoft integration — Contact edits and categories now sync back to Outlook, and you can flag message importance from Meridian.

Improved

• AI enrichment that keeps up — An on-device AI engine upgrade fixes a bug that left some converted tasks stuck “Preparing” forever — most noticeable with alert-style emails full of links and codes. Anything still waiting will finish enriching on its own after the update.

Fixed

• Replies keep the conversation — Replies sent from Meridian now include the earlier correspondence below your message, the way recipients expect — so nobody loses the context.

• Trash that sticks — Moving a message to Trash now syncs reliably to Gmail instead of silently failing in the background.

Improved

• Stronger on-device AI by default — Meridian now favors the more capable downloaded model for normal AI work and activity preparation instead of falling back to the smallest model.

Fixed

• Preparing activities recover — Activities left in Preparing after older enrichment attempts now get a fresh pass after updating Meridian.

New

• Recipient suggestions while composing — Start typing a name or email address and Meridian suggests matching contacts, while filtering archived, invalid, and already-used addresses.

• Contact Duplicate Manager — Find contacts that share an email address, phone number, or full name, then review each pair before merging. A clear “Find Duplicates” button now appears on Contacts.

• Connections in Insights — Insights now shows your connection count and links directly to connection management.

Improved

• A quieter Assistant — Related needs-attention cards are grouped by conversation. Meridian also reuses an existing open activity for that conversation instead of suggesting another.

• Images appear inside emails — Image attachments now display after the email body when the sender did not mark them as inline, without also appearing in the attachment list.

• Smoother inbox completion — Marking a conversation done now removes it with a cleaner transition and steadier selection.

• Safer linked activity updates — Provider-backed activities preserve local workflow while syncing supported status changes.

Fixed

• Activity references open reliably — Clicking a linked email conversation from an activity now resolves the full thread.

• Meeting alerts only offer valid Join actions — Physical locations no longer produce a misleading Join button.

New

• Recipient suggestions while composing — Start typing a name or email address and Meridian suggests matching contacts, while filtering archived, invalid, and already-used addresses.

• Contact Duplicate Manager — Find contacts that share an email address, phone number, or full name, then review each pair before merging. A clear “Find Duplicates” button now appears on Contacts.

• Connections in Insights — Insights now shows your connection count and links directly to connection management.

Improved

• A quieter Assistant — Related needs-attention cards are grouped by conversation. Meridian also reuses an existing open activity for that conversation instead of suggesting another.

• Images appear inside emails — Image attachments now display after the email body when the sender did not mark them as inline, without also appearing in the attachment list.

• Smoother inbox completion — Marking a conversation done now removes it with a cleaner transition and steadier selection.

• Safer linked activity updates — Provider-backed activities preserve local workflow while syncing supported status changes.

Fixed

• Activity references open reliably — Clicking a linked email conversation from an activity now resolves the full thread.

• Meeting alerts only offer valid Join actions — Physical locations no longer produce a misleading Join button.

Fixed

• Activity details finish with a better model — Meridian now downloads and uses the strongest AI model that your Mac can run instead of falling back to a smaller model that may produce incomplete activity details.

• Preparing activities resume sooner — When the better model finishes downloading, queued activities retry at once instead of keeping an old retry delay. Failed downloads also retry automatically.

New

• A complete Kanban workspace — Activities now open in Kanban by default, with clear To-Do, In Progress, and Complete columns. Move work between columns to update its status while keeping the full activity close at hand.

Fixed

• Cleaner references from email — Tracking pixels, unsubscribe controls, image assets, mail-app links, and other email clutter stay out of activity references. When a protected email link contains a useful destination, Meridian keeps the destination instead of the tracking wrapper.

• AI details finish on new Macs — Activity enhancement now recognizes M5 and future Apple Silicon Macs, keeps downloaded models available, and recovers source messages from storage when older activities need another pass.

Fixed

• Calendar changes appear once — When one event in a repeating series moves, Meridian now shows the changed event instead of also showing its old time.

• Activity details finish generating — AI enhancement now keeps queued work across restarts, retries failed model downloads, uses a capable model, and rejects placeholder text instead of saving it to an activity.

• Email conversations stay responsive — Opening a conversation with several messages no longer lets email body sizing lock the app or cause runaway memory use.

Fixed

• New Mac recovery works safely — After moving to a new Mac, signing in and entering your recovery code now restores the existing encryption key. Meridian no longer opens with a replacement key that cannot read your data.

• Email images appear in the message — Images embedded by a sender now load in the email body. Meridian no longer lists those same images again as downloads below the message.

Improved

• Overdue work stays in progress — When an In Progress activity reaches the end of its scheduled block, Meridian gives it the first available new slot ahead of To-Do work. Its status no longer changes during replanning.

Fixed

• Conversations finish loading — Opening an email conversation no longer gets stuck on the loading screen. Switching between conversations also prevents an older load from replacing the one you chose.

Fixed

• Missed activities find a new time — If a scheduled activity reaches the end of its block without being completed, Meridian moves it to the next free slot. Work you started yourself stays in progress.
• A cleaner calendar after completion — Completed activities disappear from the calendar while their schedule history remains available. For repeating activities, only the finished occurrence is removed.

Fixed

• Faster conversation loading — Opening an email thread now finds and orders its messages with less database work. This also speeds up conversations Meridian assembles from related messages when the mail service does not provide a thread.

Fixed

• Faster Mac inbox — Meridian now loads a compact thread list first, then fetches the full conversation when you open it or take an action. This stops large inboxes from scanning the full mail database and using the disk without pause.

Fixed

• Embedded email images — Images included inside an email now appear when you open the message. Meridian keeps them cached for later viewing and still shows them as attachments if an image cannot load.

Improved

• Faster Gmail sync — Meridian now checks recent Gmail changes in small daily passes instead of scanning months of mail every hour. New mail still arrives through Gmail’s live update stream.

New

• Correct a missed start time — If you complete an activity less than a minute after starting it, Meridian can move its recorded start back by the activity’s estimated length.

Improved

• More reliable AI enhancement — Activities made from messages retry when AI output fails or is incomplete. Meridian also repairs older activities left with raw message text while preserving user edits.
• Complete activity history — Automatic scheduling and status changes now appear in the activity’s history.

Fixed

• Meridian opens normally after updating — Fixes a launch crash in Meridian 1.51.1 caused by mismatched app components.

Improved

• Future updates get a startup check — Meridian now tests the exact app that will ship and stops the release if its core components do not match.

New

• Scheduled work starts when its time arrives — A To-Do automatically moves to In Progress when its scheduled slot begins.

Improved

• Task status is direct and clear — Activities now move through To-Do, In Progress, and Completed with one relevant action at a time: Start, Complete, or Reopen.
• Planned work stays easy to find — Scheduled activities appear before Someday activities, and the detail view shows the date assigned to a task.
• Reminders stay simple — Reminders use only To-Do and Complete, stay visible on and after their due date, and no longer belong to task groups.

Fixed

• Activity details have less visual noise — Redundant Details and Status controls have been removed without hiding useful task information.

New

• Plan work for tomorrow — A new Tomorrow option joins Today and Someday, so you can defer an activity with one click.
• Refresh a checklist with AI — Regenerate an activity’s checklist without replacing its title, notes, schedule, or references.

Improved

• Activities created from email keep the useful context — Meridian filters unsubscribe links, tracking pixels, image links, and similar noise while keeping one clear reference to the source conversation.
• The sidebar keeps active work clear — In Progress activities stay visible, To-Dos sit behind “See the rest,” completed work stays out, and reminders remain at the top of To-Dos & Reminders instead of taking calendar space.
• Finishing an activity feels clear — The activity detail view now confirms completion with a short animation.

Fixed

• Someday means unscheduled — New and converted activities no longer start a timer or claim the current time unless you schedule them.
• Email notices no longer pile up — Email banners appear one at a time and dismiss on their own while still showing useful detail.
• Today’s unread count reflects the inbox — The Assistant reports unread inbox mail instead of counting unread mail from every folder.

New

• Automations have a home of their own — Manage automations from a dedicated Settings tab, turn them on or off with one clear control, and review recent runs separately.

Improved

• Large inboxes stay responsive — Search indexing, message matching, sidebar counts, and data upgrades now work in small, paced batches instead of holding up what you are doing.
• Meeting reminders use macOS the way you expect — Calendar alerts stay visible through the system and include useful actions without changing how regular message alerts behave.
• Assistant actions show their progress — Mark done displays a loader, blocks repeat clicks, and removes the card as soon as the task is complete.
• Schedules recover when plans change — If a planned time slot passes, Meridian can place the task into a new open slot.
• Status messages stay out of the way — Confirmations and errors now float over the app with clear light and dark contrast instead of moving your workspace.

Fixed

• Background work uses far less CPU — Meridian no longer spends long stretches scanning old mail or rerunning broad Assistant and connection checks when nothing needs attention.

New

• Go straight from a message to what matters — Meridian recognizes trusted links for pull requests, meetings, shared files, project tickets, deliveries, signatures, and more, then puts a clear action at the top of the conversation.
• Open the files people sent you — Email attachments now sync from supported providers and appear in the conversation with preview, download, and save actions.

Improved

• Turn messages into better tasks — New activities land in Someday, retain useful details such as ticket numbers, and leave tracking and marketing links behind.
• Notifications help you act immediately — Meeting reminders include useful controls, email alerts include a snippet, and rich notification previews are on by default.
• A clearer place for every commitment — Reminders live with To-Dos & Reminders, and activity details now make the active, pending, and completed lifecycle explicit.
• A refreshed introduction to Meridian — The website and help documentation now better explain how Meridian helps you stay organized and focus on what matters.

Fixed

• Deleted Gmail messages no longer linger — Provider deletions now converge into Meridian so removed conversations disappear locally too.

New

• Choose the task’s destination as you drop — Drag a conversation or message onto a named group or Ungrouped to create a new task in that exact place.
• Connect mail to work already in progress — Drop a conversation or message onto an existing activity to associate it without creating a duplicate task.

Improved

• Less waiting during startup — Large one-time data upgrades now resume in small batches after Meridian opens instead of holding up the app.
• A more responsive inbox — Search enrichment and index maintenance run in short, app-inactive batches, leaving interactive mailbox work more room.
• Lower idle overhead — Time-sensitive screens now share one efficient clock pulse instead of running many independent timers.

New

• Turn a conversation into an activity — Drag an inbox conversation or an individual message onto To-Dos & Reminders or a specific activity group to start tracking it there.

Improved

• Cleaner email conversations — Quoted copies of earlier replies stay out of the way, while messages you send remain in the conversation where they belong.
• A calmer inbox toolbar — Choose an email account from the filter menu instead of giving every address its own tab.
• More considerate Gmail updates — Background mailbox work now leaves plenty of room for actions such as archive and mark as read.

Fixed

• Gmail recovery no longer repeatedly revisits mail Meridian has already synced.
• Checklist items can once again be dragged into the order you want.
• Dropping messages into an activity group now reliably creates the activity in that group.

New

• Unread mail in the menu bar — See your unread count and newest unread conversations without opening the main window, then jump straight into a thread.
• Find and continue activities from macOS — The task or event you are viewing can appear in Spotlight, Recent Items, and Handoff using title-only metadata.

Improved

• Activity links now wait for Meridian to finish starting and unlocking before they open, so continuations are not lost during launch.
• Links to older activities now open reliably even when they are outside the recent activity list.

New

• Search more of your message history — Meridian can now find useful details beyond subjects and previews, giving Search and Ask Meridian richer context.

Improved

• Search and Ask Meridian now find relevant history faster as your mailbox grows.
• Background search work is more considerate of your Mac, helping the inbox and everyday interactions stay responsive.
• Search results focus on the useful parts of messages instead of repeated replies, signatures, and common email clutter.

Fixed

• Deleting a recurring calendar event now asks whether to remove one occurrence or the complete series.
• Calendar deletion now finishes cleanly when the provider reports that the event was already removed, instead of leaving the operation stuck on an error.

Improved

• A more responsive inbox — opening and navigating Messages no longer has to wait behind background automation database work.
• Background search indexing now releases the local database regularly, allowing its journal to checkpoint instead of growing throughout a large backfill.

Fixed

• Cleaner email replies — replies contain only what you write. The previous message is still connected through standard email threading headers without appearing as a visible quoted block.
• When the same email conversation appears through two connected accounts, Meridian now presents it as one complete conversation in the unified inbox. Account-specific views remain separate.

Improved

• A calmer Messages sidebar — only the message views you save appear in the main sidebar. Connected mailboxes remain available inside Messages without crowding the rest of Meridian.
• Inbox view selection and section grouping now have separate controls, making it clearer whether you are changing what is saved or how messages are shown.
• Repeated provider updates for the same source are combined into one unit of work, reducing long-running “Updating sources” states and unnecessary sync.
• Background search indexing uses bounded batches so large mailboxes are less likely to compete with the work you are doing in Meridian.

Fixed

• More dependable Gmail replies — Meridian now keeps same-account replies attached to the original Gmail conversation and verifies the conversation Gmail accepted after sending. If Gmail reports a mismatch, Meridian warns you without automatically sending a duplicate.
• Replies include complete plain-text and HTML versions, the quoted original message, and the headers email clients use for conversation grouping.
• Meridian signatures no longer put an account identifier into the signature link.
• Mailbox updates no longer stall when a message named by Gmail history was deleted before Meridian could fetch it; other new mail continues syncing.

Fixed

• Existing account databases open normally again — Meridian now loads the local store created by earlier versions instead of showing an empty workspace after updating.
• Connected accounts, messages, calendars, contacts, and tasks appear from the existing local store without reconnecting accounts or recreating data.
• Sync can resume against the existing database once Meridian starts.

Improved

• Inbox updates stay lightweight — Meridian now refreshes only the messages and conversations that actually changed, so opening and using your Inbox stays responsive while a large account catches up.
• Long mailbox imports are calmer — older archived mail can continue syncing without repeatedly rebuilding the visible Inbox or interrupting what you are doing.

Fixed

• Fixed provider sync repeatedly reporting unchanged messages as new changes.
• Fixed sustained sync activity canceling completed database reads, which could leave an Inbox view loading indefinitely.
• Prevented no-op mailbox updates from rewriting large local message records and creating unnecessary disk activity.

New

• Your complete account center — manage security, two-factor authentication, signed-in sessions, trusted devices, connections, billing, privacy exports, and account deletion from one clear place on the web.
• Ask Meridian, always within reach — chat now lives in a persistent right sidebar, so your daily work stays visible while you ask questions about your messages, calendar, contacts, and activities.
• Meridian throughout macOS — capture something, hear today’s agenda, search your local Meridian data, or open Quick Capture from Siri, Spotlight, the Shortcuts app, and Apple Intelligence.
• More complete everyday workflows — improved mail triage and drafts, drag-and-drop activity planning, contact management, account recovery, searchable local data, and proactive assistance make more work finish where it starts.

Improved

• A calmer calendar — overlapping events stack cleanly instead of squeezing into unreadable slivers, with a chooser that makes every event accessible.
• Attention cards that communicate — cards show more useful context and roomier actions, and “All caught up” appears only when there is genuinely nothing waiting for you.
• Connections that finish connecting — authentication, token refresh, device trust, and newly authorized connection setup are more reliable and recover cleanly from interrupted sign-ins.
• Helpful suggestions by default — Meridian can point out useful integrations without requiring a hidden first-run switch; the Privacy setting remains available whenever you want to opt out.
• Stronger privacy and resilience — hardened sessions, account recovery, exports and deletion, secure support tooling, monitored backups, and safer sync checkpoints better protect your data and keep Meridian recoverable.

Fixed

• Local AI no longer overwhelms your Mac — Ask Meridian uses bounded context, defaults to a much lighter model, and no longer loads multi-gigabyte model weights merely to search your local data.
• Fixed crashes caused by account-color indexing and pathological streamed text.
• Corrected privacy and date-window behavior in Meridian’s new system shortcuts.

Improved

• Instant updates when you act — checking off a to-do item and clearing or archiving messages from your inbox now take effect immediately, instead of pausing for a beat while Meridian saves in the background.
• Faster message sync — pulling in new messages from your connected accounts is noticeably quicker, especially once you have a large mailbox.

New

• Schedule a message for later — pick a send time from the composer’s new clock menu (this evening, tomorrow morning, or a custom date & time). Scheduled messages wait in a new Scheduled list in the sidebar, where you can cancel one any time before it goes out.
• Reply, Archive, or Snooze from a notification — new-message banners now carry action buttons: type a quick Reply right there, or Archive or Snooze the message without opening the app.
• Choose which account you send from — compose and reply now show an always-visible From: selector. It defaults to the account the conversation arrived on and warns you if you switch to a different domain, so a reply never goes out from the wrong account by accident.

Improved

• Clearer Messages sidebar — Messages is now one section with Inbox and Scheduled beneath it, each showing a live count.
• Consistency under the hood — a large part of Meridian’s logic (recurrence, quick-add parsing, contact matching, message threading, link handling, and more) now runs in a single shared engine, so behavior stays consistent everywhere and the app is ready for future platforms. Sync is also more careful with edge-case updates, logging anything it can’t apply instead of dropping it silently.

New

• Triage from the keyboard — fly through the inbox without the mouse. Single keys for Mark Done, Snooze, Delete, toggle Read/Unread, and Reply, each acting on your current selection or the focused row.
• The assistant learns your archive habits — when you keep archiving unread mail from the same sender by hand, Meridian offers a one-tap rule to do it for you from then on. You’re always in control: nothing is auto-archived until you accept, and the rule lives in Settings where you can remove it anytime.
• Filter your inbox by Gmail label — Meridian now syncs your Gmail label catalog and adds a per-account “By Label” filter. Accounts that organize by folders (like Outlook) keep their folder view.
• Birthdays & anniversaries — the assistant surfaces upcoming dates from your contacts as reminder cards, so they don’t slip by.
• Reschedule in one tap — overdue or lingering cards can be moved to your next free slot straight from the card.

Improved

• Per-account signatures — give each account its own signature. Meridian appends it to your replies automatically.
• Bulk track, then done — after you Track a batch of messages as activities, Meridian offers to mark them done in the same step.
• Faster search under load — semantic search adds a pre-filter that keeps it quick on large mailboxes, and a new read pool keeps the app responsive while sync and indexing run in the background.

Fixed

• Recover stuck actions — the failed-actions backlog is fully recoverable now: heal older items, snooze them locally, or discard them one at a time.
• Outlook undo buttons — Move to Inbox and Restore from Trash now show their proper labels on Outlook accounts.

Fixed

• Failed-syncs panel — opening “N items failed to sync” could crash the app; it’s now stable, and failures show the actual reason instead of “No reason recorded.”
• Links on converted alerts — converting an issue-tracker alert (like Sentry) to a to-do now attaches the issue link again.

New

• Snooze keeps you moving — snoozing a conversation now advances to the next one, just like Mark Done.

Fixed

• New mail during catch-ups — a long background sync could stall new messages and quietly stop showing what had already arrived. Everything now flows continuously, and your clicks always run before bulk sync work.
• Track as Activity responds instantly — no more spinning cursor.
• Connections screens are readable in dark mode.

New

• Drag to track — drag a conversation from the inbox (or a message from a workspace) onto To-Dos & Reminders to turn it into an activity. Drop it onto a group to file it there; dragging a checked selection brings them all along.
• Today’s calendar at a glance — the sidebar now shows only today’s remaining events, and says so when there’s nothing left: “No more events today — 3 events tomorrow.”
• Failed syncs are visible — if an action can’t reach your provider after retries, the sync status says so, with the reason and Retry / Discard. Nothing gets lost silently anymore.

Improved

• Speed everywhere — Mark Done responds instantly on single messages and bulk selections, your actions jump ahead of background sync work, and long background syncs no longer hog the CPU.
• Emails in dark mode render on a proper white sheet.
• Message buttons reordered: Mark Done, Snooze, Track as Activity.

Improved

• Performance — eliminated background sync churn that caused periodic slow spells, and reading your data no longer waits behind sync work. Everything stays snappy.

Improved

• No more beachball on “Mark done” — completing a task responds instantly now; the bookkeeping happens in the background. The same treatment covers the inbox refresh right afterward and two more assistant-card actions.
• Switching to Calendar is quick — building your schedule (including expanding repeating events) moved off the interface thread, so the pane appears immediately.
• Lighter, targeted data loading — several screens quietly loaded your entire mailbox just to show a count or a handful of messages. They now ask only for what they show, which also stops them from slowing down every other part of the app while they load.

Fixed

• Insights and Contacts no longer go blank — both panes were stuck waiting behind those whole-mailbox loads. Insights now counts in the database and renders immediately; your contacts were never gone — the list just couldn’t get a turn to load.
• Screens say when they’re loading — Insights and Contacts show a loading indicator on first open instead of a blank pane, so “still loading” never looks like “my data disappeared.”
• The startup screen is back to its light look — in dark mode it briefly showed a white logo on a dark backdrop.

New

• Light and dark mode — Meridian now follows your system appearance everywhere, switching live when macOS does, instead of mixing fixed light and dark panes. (Email content still renders on a light card — most mail is designed for it.)
• RSVP to invitations — open any event you’re invited to and answer with Accept, Maybe, or Decline, for Google and Microsoft calendars. Your response syncs back to the organizer like it would from any calendar app.

Improved

• Launch without the beachball — a background analysis pass was grinding through the entire mailbox on disk at every launch (over a minute of hidden work on large mailboxes) while the interface waited behind it. It now answers from an index in a fraction of a second, and the assistant stays out of the way while the app starts. The first launch after updating spends up to a minute building that index on very large mailboxes — every launch after gets the speedup.
• Faster first sync for large Gmail accounts — new mailboxes bootstrap in much larger pages, so a big account finishes its initial sync several times sooner.
• Fewer needless reloads — the activity picker and the menu-bar sections now refresh only when activities actually change.

Fixed

• Message bodies no longer disappear — archiving or reading a message could permanently erase its rich content, so opening it later showed only a plain-text preview. Bodies now survive every action. A small number of messages touched while the bug was live may still show text-only until the provider re-syncs them.
• Outlook calendar edits reach the server — creating, editing, or deleting a Microsoft event from Meridian was silently failing; those changes now use the correct API paths and go through.
• No more raw formatting codes — the assistant’s “All clear” card showed its internal grammar markup instead of “8 items handled.”
• Quieter logs for dead calendar feeds — a calendar that can no longer be watched (deleted or access revoked) stops retrying its notifications every few minutes; Meridian falls back to polling and rechecks weekly.

New

• Meeting reminders that stick — reminders now appear in a small floating panel that stays on screen until you join, snooze, or dismiss it — no more alerts that vanish after a few seconds while you’re mid-thought. It floats above full-screen apps too, and you can hop into the meeting straight from the reminder. A copy still lands in Notification Center as a findable record.

Improved

• Snappier with large mailboxes — drawing your message list no longer loads the full contents of every message on screen, so opening folders and scrolling stays light even with hundreds of thousands of messages.
• Lighter on memory — Meridian no longer holds its on-device AI model in memory from the moment it starts. The model now loads when you first use an AI feature, and model downloads keep working on their own either way.

Fixed

• A sharper assistant — the suggestion deck stopped repeating near-identical cards, keeps its order and undo state when you switch views, and respects your sender rules — “Archive all from this sender” now sticks instead of the card coming back. Longer titles and descriptions no longer get cut off, and heavy background analysis waits until you’ve stepped away from the keyboard so it never competes with your work.

Fixed

• Device sync is back — a TLS library change in 1.36.0 broke the encrypted connection Meridian uses to sync your data between devices, so devices could fall out of date while everything else kept working. Connections verify correctly again and sync resumes on its own after updating.
• Accurate inbox counts — the “total” and “unread” numbers in the inbox header now count your whole inbox. They had started counting only the messages loaded on screen.
• Google Contacts stay fresh — when Google expires a contacts sync session (which it does periodically), Meridian now refreshes it automatically instead of silently stalling until reconnect.
• Honest sync status — a device-registration problem now shows up in the sync status instead of reporting “All synced”.

Improved

• A much smaller app — the download shrinks from about 110 MB to about a third of that. The on-device search model now downloads once, in the background, the first time you run Meridian; search works immediately and gains its smart (semantic) results within a few minutes.
• Cleans up after itself — background work that failed permanently used to accumulate forever; Meridian now tidies it up automatically over time.
• Easier to diagnose — if sync ever misbehaves, Meridian’s internals now leave a proper trail in the system log, so problems can be pinpointed without guesswork.

Improved

• Lighter when AI is idle — Meridian now frees the on-device AI model from memory after a few minutes without use, and loads it again the next time you use an AI feature. On Macs running a larger model this reclaims several GB while you’re not actively using the assistant.

New

• Inbox loads as you scroll — the inbox opens on your most recent conversations and pulls in more as you scroll down, so it’s fast to open even with years of mail.

Improved

• Much lighter on memory — Meridian no longer keeps your whole mailbox loaded in memory at once. On large accounts this cuts memory use dramatically and clears up the sluggishness and beach-balls that came with it. Older mail still opens instantly when you need it.
• Calmer background indexing — on-device search indexing now works through your mail gradually, newest first, instead of running flat-out until it finishes — so it stays out of the way while you work. Search still covers everything.
• Snappier lists — removed some repeated background database work that could cause small hitches while scrolling activities and messages.

Fixed

• Security and dependency updates under the hood, including a move to a newer TLS library that clears several advisories.

Improved

• Smoother Assistant — acting on a card in the Assistant deck no longer causes a brief hang.
• Lighter background indexing — Meridian no longer re-scans your whole mailbox every time something changes to keep search up to date, so it uses less CPU while idle. Search still covers everything.

New

• Task priority — Every task can be High, Normal, or Low (set it in the task’s details). High-priority tasks wear a red flag in your lists, jump the auto-scheduler’s queue, and get first claim on your peak hours. Create a task from a high-priority email — or accept a commitment card whose conversation was flagged — and the task inherits that urgency automatically.
• Tasks keep their receipts — Creating a task from an Assistant card now links the email it came from as a reference on the task, so “why does this exist?” is always one click away.

Improved

• Fresh mail gets breathing room — The Assistant no longer reacts the moment an email lands. New signals wait a few hours before becoming cards; the exception is an invite for an event happening today, which still surfaces immediately.

Fixed

• Dismissals stick — Dismissed cards could flash back if the deck was mid-refresh when you dismissed. The race is fixed: once you dismiss a card, it stays dismissed.
• The app stays fast — A background statistics query was re-running on every sync update, which could slow the whole app and occasionally beach-ball it. It now runs at most every 15 minutes, and the deck coalesces refreshes during sync bursts.
• The upside-down card — A macOS rendering quirk could draw a card mirrored and flipped. Fixed with a rendering-order change.

New

• “Still worth doing?” — Tasks that slipped weeks past their due date stop nagging and start asking the honest question. One tap Let it go cancels the task (recoverable, undoable); or open it and recommit. Carrying dead weight costs attention — deciding is cheaper.
• Noisy-sender auto-archive — When someone has sent you dozens of emails and you’ve never once replied, the Assistant offers one decision: Archive all, and keep future mail from them out of your inbox automatically. Every rule is visible and removable in Settings.
• Your peak hours — Meridian learns when you actually finish things from your own completion history and shows it in the briefing (“9 AM – 12 PM · your peak hours”). The auto-scheduler quietly places your most demanding tasks inside that window. All computed on your Mac.
• Leave by 2:35 — Events with a real address now get travel advice in the briefing — “25 min drive, leave by 2:35” — plus a notification at the moment you need to head out. Your location is used on-device for the estimate and never stored or sent anywhere.

Improved

• A real morning briefing — The Assistant now greets you by name, leads with the AI summary as readable prose, and lays out the shape of your day: what’s next, your biggest free block, unread and overdue at a glance.
• Smarter card order — The deck ranks across every card kind by real urgency, so tomorrow morning’s unanswered invite outranks a days-old reply nudge instead of losing to a fixed order.
• More beautiful cards — Every card kind has its own color identity, a small label telling you what species of card you’re looking at and how current it is, and proper buttons. The grid separates at a glance.
• Bulk mail and contact operations are faster.

Fixed

• Meeting reminders that stick — Reminders now default to macOS’s sticky Alerts style on new installs, so the Snooze and Join buttons stay on screen until you act. Already running Meridian? Settings shows a one-time tip with the System Settings switch to flip.

New

• “They’re waiting on your reply” — When someone writes back in a conversation you’re part of and it sits unanswered for a day, a card surfaces it — who’s waiting, how long, and a preview of what they said. Tap Draft reply and the on-device AI writes the first draft for you to review and send.
• “You never got a reply” — The inverse, and the one nobody else tracks: when your message goes unanswered for days, Meridian nudges you with a one-tap Draft follow-up. Nothing you’re owed slips away quietly anymore.
• Kept promises — Meridian’s on-device AI reads the emails you send and spots the commitments you make — “I’ll send the deck by Friday” — then offers each as a one-tap Create task. Say it, and it’s tracked. All processing happens on your Mac; your mail never leaves it.
• RSVP reminders — Invites you haven’t answered surface before the event sneaks up on you.
• Stay in touch — When a favorite contact has been quiet for over a month, the Assistant suggests reaching out.

Improved

• Bigger, smarter cards — The Assistant deck is now a grid of fuller cards: a preview of the actual email or task, a ⓘ “why am I seeing this?” explanation on every card, and actions right where you need them. Snooze a card with Later (tomorrow morning or next week — it comes back on its own), Undo any dismissal, and enjoy a proper “All clear” moment when you’ve worked through the deck.

Fixed

• AI reply drafts now arrive even when the conversation is already open on screen.

New

• Meet the Assistant — The Today view is now the Assistant: a deck of cards that catches what’s about to fall through the cracks — tasks past their due date (“Did you finish this?” with a one-tap Mark done), meetings that overlap, and conversations going unread. Work through them card by card; dismiss the ones that don’t matter and they stay gone.
• Reply drafts, written on your device — Behind on an email? Tap Draft reply and Meridian’s on-device AI writes a first draft from the conversation, dropped into the reply box for you to review, edit, and send. Nothing leaves your Mac.
• Your whole Gmail history — Meridian now syncs your full mailbox — every label, including Sent and Archive, all the way back — instead of just the last 90 days of your inbox. Existing accounts pick this up automatically; history fills in quietly in the background.
• A Messages home for every account — A new Messages item in the sidebar lists each connected account with its unread count. Open one to browse, search, and filter just that mailbox — like a proper email client, without losing the unified inbox.
• Progress on tracked conversations — When an email thread is already tracked as an activity, its Assistant card shows the checklist progress and status at a glance, so you know how far along the work is before you even open it.

Improved

• A cleaner start to the day — The Assistant opens straight into your daily briefing: the date, your next meeting, unread mail and overdue counts at a glance, and the AI overview when a model is available. The full events list lives on the calendar, where it belongs.

Fixed

• All-day events no longer shift a day earlier because of timezones — an event starting tomorrow shows tomorrow.
• All-day events in the sidebar now say which day (“Tomorrow, All Day”) instead of a bare “All Day”.
• Removed an always-running loading animation that could keep the Assistant view needlessly busy.

Improved

• Minor performance improvements.

Fixed

• High CPU usage — Meridian could sit at a noticeable, constant CPU load even while idle. Fixed.
• Activity titles not saving — Renaming an activity right before navigating away could lose the edit. Titles now save reliably.
• Contacts sort order — The contacts list could lose its alphabetical ordering; fixed.

Improved

• General performance and responsiveness — The app feels snappier throughout, thanks to a batch of performance work under the hood.

New

• Automatic scheduling — Give a to-do a due date and Meridian finds it a time, fitting your tasks into the free gaps around your meetings during working hours. It keeps the plan tidy as your day changes — the most important tasks go first, and related tasks are grouped together. Tasks without a due date are left alone.

Improved

• Cleaner message text — Plain-text emails now keep their line breaks and spacing instead of collapsing into one run-on block.
• Readable link names — A link saved from an email now gets a readable name instead of a bare web address, and obvious clutter — share buttons, unsubscribe and email-preference pages — is filtered out.
• Easier task reordering — The drag handle on checklist items has a bigger grab area, so dragging to reorder works on the first try.

New

• Inline images display — Images embedded in messages, like company logos and email signatures, now show up instead of appearing as broken images.
• A heads-up when notifications are silenced — If macOS is delivering Meridian’s alerts quietly, Settings now flags it with a one-tap way to fix it, so meeting reminders don’t slip by unseen.

Improved

• Smarter meeting reminders — Reminders now follow the times each event actually specifies (for example, 10 minutes and 1 minute before) instead of a single fixed lead time, and stay reliable even when your calendar is packed.

Improved

• Sturdier calendar sync — Behind-the-scenes fixes make calendar syncing more reliable.
• More consistent events — Your calendar events now show up more consistently across the app — including the sidebar, menu bar, and Today.

New

• See your on-device AI status — The status popover now shows whether the on-device AI model is ready, downloading, not yet installed, or unavailable — so you’re never guessing.

Improved

• Cleaner replies — Replying no longer pastes a messy quoted copy of the original message into your draft; it stays a clean, threaded reply.
• Tidier forwards — Forwarded emails keep their paragraphs and line breaks instead of collapsing into one run-on block.
• A lighter sidebar — Section and group headers are no longer bold, and activities within a group are ordered by date and time.

Fixed

• Drag-and-drop — Reorder checklist items in an activity, reorder your activity groups (in the sidebar and on the To-Dos page), and drag activities into a group.
• Inbound email notifications — Fixed a server error that was causing Gmail push notifications to be rejected.

New

• Groundwork for real-time email — We’ve added support for Gmail push notifications, so as it rolls out mail can arrive the moment it’s sent rather than waiting for the next sync.
• Groups that sync across devices — Your sidebar groups now sync, so the way you organize your to-dos follows you from one device to the next.
• Collapse and reorder groups — Click a group header to fold it away, and drag groups into the order you want — in the sidebar and on the To-Dos page.
• Drag to sort a checklist — Reorder the items inside an activity’s checklist by dragging the handle.
• One-tap finish — Check off the last item in a checklist and Meridian offers to mark the whole activity complete.

Improved

• All or Active groups — A new switch under the To-Dos header shows every group or just the ones with active items, with a new-activity button right beside it.
• What you’re working on, first — In-progress activities float to the top of each group in the sidebar.
• Cleaner saved links — Links captured from a tracked email now skip tracking pixels and boilerplate, and use the link’s own text as its title.
• Someday means someday — Activities you park in “Someday” no longer take a date or clutter your calendar.

Fixed

• Drag-and-drop that works — Reordering groups and dropping activities into a group work reliably again, in both the sidebar and the To-Dos page.
• Empty groups now show on the To-Dos page while you’re browsing, and the By Group / By Status toggle is back to a sensible size.

New

• Reference whole conversations — Tracking a message into an activity now links the entire thread, so later replies don’t pile up as duplicate references.
• Estimate how long a task takes — A new Duration option under Scheduling lets you pick how long an activity will take, from 5 minutes to 8 hours.
• Break out a checklist item — Turn any checklist item into its own standalone activity in one click.

Improved

• Clearer statuses — “Ready” is now To-Do and “Active” is now In Progress. A message you convert into an activity automatically moves to To-Do once it’s been processed.
• A more polished calendar — The year and week/month dropdowns are now easy to read on the dark theme, and Month view highlights the current weekday and shows today’s date as a clean accent number.
• A tidier activity list — The group/status toggle matches the rest of the app, and grouped activities sort with the active ones on top.

Fixed

• Cleaner email reading — The message viewer sizes itself to the content (no stray scrollbar), caps at a comfortable reading width with padding, and now loads protocol-relative images once you’ve allowed remote content.
• Activity reference links no longer duplicate, and the activity-editor title no longer gets clipped.

New

• Activity Groups — Organize your to-dos into groups. A redesigned “New Group” panel explains what groups are for, and you can reorder groups by dragging their headers.
• Group by Group or by Status — The To-Dos page has a new “By Group / By Status” switch: see everything organized into its groups, or bucketed into Active, Ready, Pending, and Done.
• A clearer sidebar — Each group shows how many activities are Active and Pending, lists just the open ones, and tucks finished items behind “See the rest.” It’s a little wider now, too, so names are easier to read.

Improved

• Simpler activity status — An activity is now defined just by its status — Active, Ready, Pending, or Done — with no hidden “background” mode to think about.
• Instant updates & a Saved indicator — Edit an activity’s title (or anything else) and the sidebar reflects it right away, with a “Saved” confirmation in the editor.
• Tidier group picker — Choosing a group lists “Ungrouped” first, then the rest alphabetically.

Fixed

• Email replies stay in the thread — Replies now carry the full conversation history so Gmail keeps them threaded with the original message. (Takes effect as your mail re-syncs.)

New

• Command palette — Press ⌃⌘M from anywhere to bring Meridian forward and open one palette to search, run a command, or jot a task or event in plain language (“lunch with Sam tomorrow at noon”). You can change the shortcut in Settings.
• Focus timer & Pomodoro — A single focus timer that works as a Pomodoro: tap to start a 25-minute focus block, with short breaks between and a longer break after the fourth. Each block is recorded as work, and the tasks you finish and the meetings that happen during it are tied to that block.
• Today opens instantly — Your daily summary is cached, so the Today view loads right away and refreshes when something changes.
• Full Google Calendar history — Meridian now backfills your complete calendar history, newest first, so past events are there when you look back.

Improved

• Snappier capture — Typing in the command palette stays smooth; parsing happens instantly and off the main thread.
• Consistent shortcuts — ⌘1 through ⌘5 jump to Today, Workspace, Calendar, Contacts, and Connections, matching the menu order.
• Stronger account security — Repeated failed admin sign-ins now back off and lock out, and connected-account webhooks are hardened against tampering.
• Mac polish — Cleaner window chrome and a balanced sidebar header.

Fixed

• Agenda stays forward-looking — It no longer shows days that have already passed.
• Converted tasks look right — A task you create from a message starts as “not started” instead of appearing already active.
• More reliable sync — Behind-the-scenes fixes so changes apply once and don’t get dropped.

Fixed

• Sending works again — Messages you send now actually go out. Before, a message could look sent but never leave your device.
• Starring works — Starring or unstarring a message now sticks and shows up on your other devices.
• Update notes at the right time — “What’s New” now appears right after Meridian updates and reopens, instead of the moment you click to restart.

New

• Focus time-tracking — Start a focus session right from any to-do. Finished sessions are saved to your work log, so you can see where your time actually went.
• Notes on contacts — Jot a note on a person directly from their contact card.
• Invites connect to events — A meeting invite in your inbox now links to its calendar event, so the two are always a tap apart.
• Opens to Today — Meridian now starts on your Today view.

Improved

• More reliable, secure, and fast — A top-to-bottom hardening pass: smoother multi-device sync, snappier updates, and stronger protection for your synced data. Remote images and tracking pixels are now blocked by default — load them for a single message, or turn them on for good in Settings → Privacy.
• A calmer inbox — Reply-All keeps everyone on the thread, replies quote the full message, and attachments render reliably.

Fixed

• Recurring to-dos advance correctly across month-ends and keep their skipped dates.
• The Today summary card and the contact note editor are easier to read, and the “New list” button is clearer.
• A range of sync, contacts, and calendar edge cases that could drop or duplicate data.

New

• Edit Google Calendar events in the app — Create, reschedule, and delete events directly in Meridian. Your changes write straight back to Google, so your calendar stays in sync everywhere.
• Manage your calendars — Add a new Google calendar, recolor it, or remove one without ever leaving Meridian.
• “What’s New” after every update — Meridian now shows you exactly what changed when you update (you’re reading it). You can also browse every release at me.ridian.app/changelog.

Improved

• AI that stays current — AI features now pick up improvements automatically, without waiting for an app update — and they still work when you’re offline.
• Smoother threads — Conversations open at the top and scroll faster, even the long ones. Hover a sender to see their full email address, and tooltips appear more quickly.

Fixed

• A cleaner message view with the body neatly framed, and Snooze grouped together with the rest of the triage actions.
• The channel manager and your calendar list now refresh live, so calendars you create or change show up right away.

New

• Meridian Pro — Unlock Meridian’s full power with a Pro subscription. Every new account starts with a 35-day free trial, so you can settle in before deciding.
• Manage your subscription in the app — A new Manage Subscription button opens your billing details and account, already signed in.

Improved

• Signing in to your account on the web is now seamless — Meridian hands off your session so you land already logged in, no second password prompt.