The internet drops in the middle of a call. It comes back half a minute later. Until now, a cloud meeting in Cue could lose most of what was said after that moment. In 1.5.18 it does not.
Meetings catch up after a drop
While the connection is gone, Cue keeps recording and holds the audio. When it returns, Cue replays what it held at three times real speed and then carries on live, so a 90 second drop is whole again about 45 seconds later.
The replay used to be paced by a timer that macOS slows down in a window nobody sees. It ran at a fifth of real speed, never caught up, and the rest of the meeting was thinned out behind it. It is now paced by the clock and by the audio itself.
Ending the call right after a glitch is safe too. Cue sends everything it is still holding before it closes the meeting, so the transcript runs to the end of the recording. Stop takes a few seconds longer in that one case, and is as quick as ever otherwise.
Notes that heal themselves
Your notes are markdown files. The list you see in Cue comes from an index built from those files. If that index went missing or became unreadable, for example after iCloud moved the Documents folder, Cue could show an empty app until a restart.
Cue now sets the broken index aside and rebuilds it from your files, while running or at launch. Your notes were never touched. The one thing a rebuild forgets is which Inbox items you had already opened.
If the vault folder itself was replaced, Cue tells you with a card instead of quietly starting an empty vault on top of it.
Out of credits, two ways out
When a Cue Cloud chat runs out of credits, the turn ends on a calm card: add credits or upgrade, or switch to your own API key and keep chatting. It used to be a red box that said "Payment Required". If it is your own provider that is out of balance, you still see their message, not ours.
Since Cue 1.5
A lot has shipped in small releases since the 1.5 announcement. The short version:
- Echo cancellation for meetings. On speakers, the other side is no longer transcribed twice. On by default.
- Voices you can name. Name a voice once and Cue recognises it next time, on this Mac only. Every person is a note, with their meetings by day.
- Labels that say what they are. Microphone and System audio while recording, numbered when voices can be told apart live. Names arrive after Stop.
- Private Mode is one switch. On: dictation and meetings run on-device and analytics is off. Off: your own settings, exactly as you left them.
- Meetings have their own language, and multi-language is the default for cloud meetings.
- Agents find the right note first. Cue's MCP server ranks results, returns note ids, and can follow the links around a note. Every row in
index.mdcarries a one-line summary. - Links and tags.
[[wikilinks]]render and open the note they name, tags have colours and descriptions, and an Inbox collects what agents write for you. - Notes mode covers documents. Google Docs, Word and Pages get headings, lists and paragraph breaks, and Email mode is on by default.
Also in this release
- Usage data carries your account id while you are signed in, the same as crash reports since 1.5.17: never your email or name, only while the analytics toggle is on, and never in Private Mode. It tells us which accounts stopped using Cue, which a random install id could not.
- New vaults get a shorter
AGENTS.mdthat tells an agent what to do first: readindex.md. - A note that sits in a subfolder of the vault opens, renames and deletes like any other.
- Errors from the transcription service no longer write your dictionary words into the log.