Recordings history

The Oris app’s Recordings tab opens with your history. The last five recordings sit at the top as compact rows, and a “See all recordings…” button opens the full list in a sheet — scrollable, newest first, loaded in batches of 50 with a “Show more” footer so even a multi-year history stays snappy. Everything that landed a note appears: live recordings and imports alike (imports carry a small import badge), including runs that failed. The list updates live — a recording that finishes while you’re looking appears at the top on its own. (When a transcript is saved but hasn’t landed in its note, an Awaiting delivery section also appears above the history; see Deliveries and receipts.)

What a row shows

• The note and when — the landed note’s name (or “(no note)” when Oris doesn’t know where it went) plus the date and time of the recording.
• Mini-stats — a one-line caption like 12 min · 1,840 words · you 38% / others 62%. The talk split comes from the same two-track capture behind the Your Oris talk-ratio, and is omitted for single-track audio.
• Status at a glance — a green check for a clean run, an orange warning when the transcript landed but the summary failed, and a failure mark when the run itself failed.
• Delivery status — when a transcript was produced but couldn’t be written into your note, the row says so in plain words: “delivery failed (permission) — the transcript is saved, not yet in the note”. The work is held in the outbox; nothing is lost.
• Audio countdown — how long the recording’s audio has left before retention cleanup takes it (“audio: 82d left”), or “audio pruned” once it’s gone.

What you can do from a row

• Open note — opens the landed note where it lives: Obsidian for a vault note, your default Markdown editor for a note delivered to a folder destination, and Notes itself for a note delivered to Apple Notes. The row asks the delivery receipt where the note went, so the right app opens for each kind.
• Share — the standard macOS share sheet, with the note’s Markdown file attached. Sharing works from rows that landed a file; a note delivered to Apple Notes has no file on disk to attach, so share it from Notes itself.
• Reveal audio — selects the .m4a in Finder.
• Retry summary — appears when a recording’s summary failed and there’s still enough kept to retry it. One click re-summarizes just that recording, through the same loop every other retry uses; the row shows a spinner while it runs and heals to a green check on success.
• Retry delivery — appears when the transcript is saved but never landed in the note. One click delivers the saved copy — no re-transcription, no re-summarization, and never a duplicate. The one exception is a delivery whose outcome Oris genuinely can’t determine: there the row asks you to check the note instead of offering a button that could land it twice.
• Delete audio now — removes the audio and its working files ahead of the retention sweep, after a confirmation that spells out what goes: the audio, the files that go with it, and the ability to retry that summary. The note itself always stays.

Actions gray themselves out when they no longer apply. A note that’s been moved or deleted disables Open and Share, pruned audio disables the audio actions, and a summary failure whose recording has since been cleaned up shows the warning with “retry no longer available”.

Where the history comes from

The history is read from the same local usage ledger that powers the Your Oris stats card — a plain append-only file on your Mac that now also records where each note landed and which audio file produced it. The ledger itself never leaves your Mac: it is never transmitted, and the feedback composer’s diagnostics don’t include it. Sharing a note from a row is always an explicit action you take, never something Oris does on its own. The completion notification got the same upgrade: when a recording lands, the banner now ends with that recording’s mini-stats line.

Rows from before this release show stats only: older ledger lines don’t carry note or audio paths, so they render without a note link or audio actions. Oris doesn’t guess or backfill.

Your Oris

The Oris app’s General tab carries a Your Oris card: a small set of stats about how you’ve used the app. It’s there to glance at, not to act on. There are no buttons, no goals, no nudges — just numbers that add up as you record.

Everything on the card is computed on your Mac from a local usage ledger. Nothing about it leaves the device, and Oris never phones home to assemble it. This is consistent with Oris’s promise that it never sends your audio anywhere: the stats are derived from your own recordings, on your own machine.

What’s on the card

• Notes recorded — all-time, plus a this-week count.
• Total time captured — the summed length of every recording.
• Words captured — the running word count across your transcripts.
• Talk-ratio — “you spoke X% of the time.” Because Oris records your mic and the system audio as two separate tracks, it already knows your share of each conversation versus everyone else’s. When your share is low, the card says so gently (“mostly listening 👂”). It’s an observation, not a score.
• Average session length and longest session — the typical recording, and your single longest one.
• Busiest day of the week — a plain observation of when you capture most (for example, “you capture most on Tuesdays”).
• Streak — your current and best run of days with at least one recording. It’s shown for interest only; the card never frames it as something to maintain or warns you about losing it.
• Capturing since — the date your first recording landed under this build.

A few honest notes

The card starts fresh from this release. It doesn’t backfill recordings you made before it shipped, so the numbers grow from here rather than reflecting your whole history with Oris.

There’s no “time saved” or productivity figure. Oris doesn’t estimate what typing the same notes would have cost you, because any such number would be made up. The card sticks to what it can actually count.

The talk-ratio is the one stat most tools can’t show, and it falls out of the two-track capture for free — no extra processing, no upload, no separate model. It’s a small reflection of how your meetings actually go.