Meridian 1.61.0

August 24, 2026

See what Meridian is storing, capture from any app, and meeting reminders that respect your answer.

Added

• A Storage panel, and a say in what Meridian keeps — Settings now shows how much room Meridian is using, broken down per account, along with how much can be reclaimed. You can set how far back to keep messages, globally or for one account, and Meridian tells you exactly how many messages that removes before anything happens. Removed messages are not silently re-downloaded later.
• See how far back each account has synced — accounts now report the point their history reaches (“Synced back to March 2019”), on the account row and in the Storage panel, so a still-filling mailbox is visible rather than something you have to infer. If an account has stopped making progress, it is listed.
• Capture into Meridian from any app — select text or a link anywhere with a standard text field and the Services menu (and right-click menu) offers New Task in Meridian and Quick Add to Meridian. The first takes your selection exactly as written; the second reads it the way Quick Add does, so “lunch with Sam tomorrow at noon” becomes an event with a time. A link in the selection is attached to the task rather than left in the text.

Fixed

• Declining a meeting silences its reminder — declining an invitation left the reminder armed, so a meeting you had turned down still interrupted you when it started. Declining now silences it, and if the reminder had already appeared, it is taken out of Notification Center. The same applies to a meeting that is cancelled or deleted. Another guest declining does not affect your reminder.
• Google Meet opens as the right account — joining a meeting opened the link as whichever Google account your browser happens to default to, so a work meeting opened from a personal account landed on a “you need access” page. Meridian now names the account the meeting belongs to in the link, and Google switches to it for you. Applies wherever you join from: the reminder, the event itself, and the assistant’s meeting card.
• Snoozing a meeting reminder works — a snoozed reminder was quietly discarded moments later, so it never came back. It now returns when you asked it to.
• Message storage is protected during cleanup — under specific conditions, removing old messages could clear the conversation list while the messages themselves were still present, leaving the inbox looking empty. Fixed, with a test that reproduces the original case.
• Accounts no longer ask to be reconnected without cause — two parts of Meridian could renew an account’s access at the same moment, and with some providers the second attempt failed in a way that looked permanent. Meridian would then ask you to reconnect an account that was working. Renewals are now coordinated so this cannot happen.
• The inbox is ready for the keyboard immediately — the outline marking the message you are about to act on was often missing when the inbox opened and only appeared after clicking around. It is there from the start.
• Keyboard shortcuts behave the same every launch — if the same key had ended up assigned to two actions, which one ran could change between launches. Meridian now resolves that consistently, and never in favour of a destructive action.
• The Dock badge counts your whole inbox — the unread count stopped at 500 and could settle on a stale number during a busy sync. It now matches the count in the inbox header.
• Meeting reminder buttons work from a cold start — tapping Open or Snooze on a reminder when Meridian was not already running just brought the window forward without opening the meeting.
• Signing out clears the quiet-hours tally — the next account could be told that messages were held during quiet hours that were no longer on the device.

Changed

• Opening messages stays quick with a large Outbox — the “Not sent” and “Scheduled” markers on a conversation were worked out by going through every queued item, including full message contents, each time you opened a thread. They are now looked up directly, so clicking through the inbox does not slow down as the queue grows.