Meridian 1.34.0

July 4, 2026

The Assistant gets judgment: cards ranked by real urgency, two new busywork-killers — let stale tasks go, auto-archive noisy senders — a proper morning briefing, and on-device smarts: your peak hours and when to leave.

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.