github nilava/TabType v0.1.1
TabType v0.1.1 — faster, smarter, stabler

latest release: v0.1.2
pre-release2 months ago

TabType v0.1.1 — a big quality release: suggestions are 4–6× faster, understand far more context, and a crash is fixed. Recommended update for everyone on v0.1.0.

🛠 Fixed

  • Crash when the Mac's power state changed (Low Power Mode toggle, charger events) — a main-actor isolation trap in the power monitor. If v0.1.0 quit on you mysteriously, this was it.
  • Reply-drift: the model sometimes answered the conversation on screen instead of completing your sentence. Prompting is now strictly continuation-only, with sampler-level guards for reply openers.
  • Suggestions no longer leak context between apps (or between browser tabs) — what you just read elsewhere is now explicitly labeled background, never mistaken for what you're writing now.

⚡ Faster

  • Suggestion latency down from ~0.8–1.5 s to ~160–270 ms in chat apps: transcripts are normalized (timestamps/presence/"edited" junk stripped) so the model's KV cache stays warm between keystrokes, and screen captures pause while you type.
  • Switching apps no longer causes a slow first suggestion — the new app's context is pre-warmed in the background.

🧠 Smarter context

  • Reads the whole visible conversation in 15+ chat apps — now including Telegram, Signal, Teams, Messenger, Element, Beeper, Mattermost, Zulip, Skype, and Google Chat.
  • Web chats too: claude.ai, ChatGPT, Gemini, WhatsApp Web, Discord, Slack, Perplexity and more get conversation-aware suggestions inside any browser.
  • Long-form writing: in Pages, Word, Notes, Ulysses, Bear, and other writing apps, TabType reads a much larger window around your cursor plus the document's opening lines, so mid-document suggestions stay on topic.
  • On 24 GB+ Macs, a higher-precision 8-bit model is now recommended automatically (same speed, better accuracy).

🔍 Transparency

  • Settings → Apps now shows exactly what TabType does in every app: profile badges (Chat / Document / Code editor), a plain-English "How TabType works here" card, and per-app controls to change the context recipe — promote any app to conversation reading, or resize its context budget.

Install / Update

Download TabType-0.1.1.dmg below and drag to Applications (replace the old copy — your permissions are preserved). New install? macOS will warn about the unnotarized app: System Settings → Privacy & Security → "Open Anyway", then grant Accessibility. Full steps in the README.

SHA-256 95bd022e8a1160577217d8ac0ab9d2a23e0d936c67076d4540ca76a4cf3150c4

⚠️ Still an alpha — bug reports are gold.

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