Meridian 1.35.0

July 6, 2026

Tasks get priority — set it yourself or inherit it from the email that created the task — and the Assistant gets faster and better-mannered: dismissals stick, no more slowdowns, and fresh mail gets breathing room before becoming a card.

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.