Snippets, and what's new after each update
This release lets you paste a text you use often by saying a few words, and from now on VoiceNoodler tells you what each update changed.
New
Paste a text by saying its trigger
Some text is awkward to dictate and tedious to type again and again: an email address, a phone number, a postal address, a sign-off of a few lines.
A snippet is a trigger and a text. When a dictation is only the trigger, VoiceNoodler pastes the text in its place, exactly as you entered it, with all its lines. Capitals, punctuation and spaces don't matter, so the trigger "my email" also matches "My e-mail."; said inside a longer sentence, the trigger is pasted as you spoke it.
Add your snippets in the Snippets window: choose Snippets… in the menu bar menu, or Edit Snippets… in Settings > Transcription. The text is kept in Activity like any dictation, so don't use snippets for passwords.
See what's new after an update
An update used to install itself and relaunch without a word, so a new feature or a fix was something you came across by accident, if at all.
Now, the first time VoiceNoodler starts after an update, the What's New in VoiceNoodler window shows what changed since the version you had, newest first: what each new feature is for and where to find it, then the improvements and the fixes. You can keep dictating while it's open, and Continue closes it. It appears once per update. The notes come from the website, so without an internet connection the window waits until the next start.
To read them again, choose What's New… in the menu bar menu. All releases opens the changelog on the website, where every release has its own page.
Improved
- The app icon is simpler: flat lime bars over a wave on a dark tile, without the glowing rim.
Fixed
- Activity no longer opens with nothing selected, or on the dictation you selected last time: it opens on your newest dictation.