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Fred Azarty··5 min read

Azynote 1.2.0: OnePagers, Your Way

1.1.0 was about who said what. 1.2.0 is quieter on the surface, but it changes the part of the workflow I care about most: what happens after the meeting ends. OnePagers now generate out of your way, you decide which engine writes them, and the app tells you what changed without making you go looking for it.

Here is what is in it.

Generate OnePagers in the background

The OnePager is the whole reason Azynote exists. You finish a meeting and the summary, the decisions, and the tasks are just there. But until now, generating one held you hostage to a dialog while it ran. If you wanted to start the next thing, you waited.

1.2.0 adds a background mode. Turn on Generate OnePagers in the Background in Session settings and generation moves onto a single queue that runs while you keep working. Take notes, switch sessions, or line up another summary; progress shows in the Background panel instead of a modal that owns the screen.

It is off by default, so you have to opt in from the setting. I kept it that way on purpose. The blocking dialog is still the right default for a lot of people, because it makes it obvious the OnePager is being written. Background mode is for when you generate often enough that the wait gets in the way. Either way, the moment you hit Generate (or Cmd+G) you now get instant feedback that the click landed, so you are never left wondering whether anything is happening.

Choose how each AI feature runs

This is the bigger structural change, and the one I am most curious to see people use.

Azynote leans on AI in a few distinct places: writing OnePagers, cleaning up transcripts, the Command Panel, chat. Until now those all pointed at Gemini and that was that. In 1.2.0 you choose, per feature, how the AI runs:

  • Gemini, the default cloud path, same as before.
  • A command-line agent. Point Azynote at a CLI you already have and it runs it for OnePagers and Command Panel transforms. The CLI engine defaults to Claude Code, which Azynote detects automatically, and the detection command is configurable if you run something else.
  • Off, for when you would rather a given feature simply not use AI at all.

The AI settings were rebuilt around this idea. Instead of one global switch, you see at a glance what is powering each capability, and anything you have not set up stays out of your way rather than nagging you. If you want your summaries written by a CLI agent and your transcript cleanup left to Gemini, that is now a thing you can just do.

See what's new without leaving the app

Every release, I write one of these posts, and every release I wonder how many people actually see it.

1.2.0 adds a What's New panel inside Azynote. Tap the megaphone and you get the latest features and a few onboarding videos right there in the app. It is fed from this very blog, so it stays current on its own: when I publish, the panel updates, no app update required. This post you are reading is, in fact, one of the cards.

A nudge when you forget to stop

Here is a small one that comes straight from watching myself use the app. I finish a meeting, close the laptop lid, walk away, and Azynote is still faithfully transcribing an empty room forty minutes later.

Now, when things go quiet for a while, a gentle floating reminder asks whether you meant to stop the session. That is all it does. It does not stop the session for you, it does not fire a system notification, and you can dismiss it and carry on. I went back and forth on making it more aggressive and decided against it every time. The session is yours to end, and the app's job is a quiet tap on the shoulder, not a decision made on your behalf.

Cleaner transcript editing

Two small additions to the transcript editor that I reach for constantly:

  • A Copy transcript button right in the toolbar, for when you want the text somewhere else.
  • A delete-sentence action, with a trash affordance in the inspector, so you can prune a stray or misheard line without hunting through the whole transcript.

And a few fixes worth mentioning

Long transcriptions now run cooler: a self-tuning throttle backs off sustained CPU and GPU load during heavy sessions, so your fans are not spinning up for an entire call. The audio keep-alive tone that some setups need is now genuinely inaudible, tucked below hearing range. Diarization is steadier when you run meetings back to back, because the in-process speech models are released between sessions. And the Command Panel now tells you clearly when your Vertex credentials need re-authenticating, instead of failing without a reason.

If you are already on Azynote, the update is waiting for you. If you have not tried it yet, the first 14 days are free: azynote.com.

As always, feedback goes to support@azynote.com.