BETA NOTES · 0.248 → 0.260 AND LATER

What changed, and what to try.

The last beta most testers have is 0.248. The next one you get is 0.260: it changes what Tidy does with a correction you speak out loud, what it does with a like or a you know, and how Format lays out an email. Each change below is the gist and a few examples; open any fold if you are curious. Anything else you notice is welcome too.

CLEANUP OFF

Off

Exactly what you said. Nothing removed, nothing moved.

DEFAULT

Tidy

Fillers go (um, uh, and now a like or you know between pauses), punctuation and capitals get fixed, and a correction you speak is applied for you. Made for pasting into a chat box.

BETA

Format

Everything Tidy does, plus layout for emails and longer writing: greeting line, paragraphs, sign-off and your name on their own lines. Your wording is never changed.

TIDY

Say it wrong, fix it out loud, get the fixed version

When you change your mind mid-sentence and say so, Tidy now keeps only what you settled on. Pause, then say the cue: wait, actually, no, I mean, make it.

You said: Let’s chat at 3, or, wait, actually 4.

You get: Let’s chat at 4.

You said: I’ll send the invoice on Tuesday, no, Wednesday.

You get: I’ll send the invoice on Wednesday.

You said: Please forward the signed contract to Marcus, actually Priya.

You get: Please forward the signed contract to Priya.

7 more examples

You said: We need four, no five licenses for the new hires.

You get: We need five licenses for the new hires.

You said: The retainer is 2,000 dollars, wait, 2,500 dollars.

You get: The retainer is 2,500 dollars.

You said: Book the small conference room, actually the large conference room.

You get: Book the large conference room.

You said: Put the client in room 12, I mean room 14.

You get: Put the client in room 14.

You said: Let’s meet at 3 o’clock. Wait, no, 4 o’clock tomorrow.

You get: Let’s meet at 4 o’clock tomorrow.

You said: Print two, make it three copies of the agreement.

You get: Print three copies of the agreement.

You said: Uh, the invoice number is 4471, scratch that, 4417.

You get: The invoice number is 4417.

How it decides

The full cue list: wait, actually, sorry, no, I mean, make it, make that, correction, scratch that, no wait. It only swaps like for like: a time for a time, a day for a day, a name for a name, a number, an amount, a count with its unit, a room or code, or “the X” for “the Y”. The pause matters. The comma written after the cue is what tells Tidy you were correcting yourself.

Like and you know, between pauses, go

A “like” or “you know” that opens a sentence or sits between two pauses now goes, wherever it is in the sentence. It stays in the few shapes where it carries meaning: the verb like, roughly before a number, a comparison after tastes or was, such as before a name, a list item, and you know? as a question.

You said: Do we need to, like, send the whole review again?

You get: Do we need to send the whole review again?

You said: It shows 540 down and, you know, 40 up.

You get: It shows 540 down and 40 up.

You know never means roughly, so it goes even before a number.

You said: Like, is it in their docs?

You get: Is it in their docs?

7 more examples

You said: You know, the meeting moved to Tuesday.

You get: The meeting moved to Tuesday.

You said: The report, you know, needs review.

You get: The report needs review.

You said: Send it to, you know, the finance team.

You get: Send it to the finance team.

You said: Please move these, you know, these folders.

You get: Please move these folders.

You said: I was going to, you know, we should try the blue one.

You get: I was going to, we should try the blue one.

You changed direction mid-sentence, so one comma stays where the filler was.

You said: We should, you know, is it ready?

You get: We should, is it ready?

A question after the filler keeps its comma.

You said: It was fine, you know.

You get: It was fine.

How it decides

The pauses are the signal. When the words on each side were one phrase, both commas go with the filler; when you changed direction or asked a question after it, one comma stays. If you restarted a short phrase around the filler, only the first copy stays. Beta 0.258 was more cautious and dropped the filler only after a small connecting word, keeping it after every describing word and name; that kept far more fillers than comparisons, so 0.260 removes those fillers and keeps only the few shapes where like or you know carries a meaning.

Left alone, on purpose

You said: It tastes, like, chicken.

You get: It tastes, like, chicken.

After tastes, looks, sounds, is or was, like can mean similar to, so it stays.

You said: I’ll be there in, like, 20 minutes.

You get: I’ll be there in, like, 20 minutes.

Before a number, like means roughly. It stays.

You said: Companies, like, Google have this problem.

You get: Companies, like, Google have this problem.

Before a name, like means such as.

3 more examples

You said: The buttons are love, like, dislike, and hate.

You get: The buttons are love, like, dislike, and hate.

Here like is an item in a list.

You said: Things I like, and things I don’t.

You get: Things I like, and things I don’t.

No pause before it, so it is the verb.

You said: It was fine, you know?

You get: It was fine, you know?

A question is never shortened.

Corrections left exactly as you said them, on purpose

Tidy would rather miss a correction than invent one. These shapes stay as spoken. If one of them does change, that is a bug we want to hear about.

You said: Should we meet at 3, or actually 4?

You get: Should we meet at 3, or actually 4?

A question offering both times is a choice, not a correction.

You said: Let’s say 3, or maybe 4.

You get: Let’s say 3, or maybe 4.

A hedge keeps both.

You said: She said Tuesday, no, Wednesday, so I’ll pencil in Wednesday.

You get: She said Tuesday, no, Wednesday, so I’ll pencil in Wednesday.

Quoting what someone else said stays word for word.

3 more examples

You said: Tuesday, actually Wednesday works better for me.

You get: Tuesday, actually Wednesday works better for me.

The correction runs straight into a new thought, so nothing is spliced.

You said: Wait 10 minutes and then call. I mean it, we ship Friday.

You get: Wait 10 minutes and then call. I mean it, we ship Friday.

Cue words used as ordinary words are left alone.

You said: I need three things, no wait, two items.

You get: I need three things, no wait, two items.

Things and items are different kinds, so nothing is swapped.

Known gaps

Not yet: rewording a whole phrase (“bring your own sleeping bag, correction, bring your own pillow”), times spoken as words (“by noon, sorry, by two”), and a correction followed straight by a verb (“no 3 chairs are already there”). Those are known and stay as spoken for now.

Also in Tidy

“Chat GPT” comes out as ChatGPT everywhere.
If you use the optional vocabulary pack, spoken brand names such as “SEO AEO” and “D Mark” are corrected again. They had silently stopped working in 0.248.

FORMAT

Emails come out laid out, wording untouched

Format now recognizes many more of the ways people open and close an email, and never rewrites a sentence: only the layout differs from Tidy. If Format changes a word that Tidy would have left alone, report it.

You said: Hey Dana thanks so much for the update. Thanks, Thomas.

You get: Hey Dana,

Thanks so much for the update.

Thanks,

Thomas

2 more examples

You said: Hi Dana and Jordan, the fix is live. Take care, Thomas.

You get: Hi Dana and Jordan,

The fix is live.

Take care,

Thomas

You said: Hi Dana, the fix is live. Thomas.

You get: Hi Dana,

The fix is live.

Thomas

Every greeting and closing it recognizes

0.248 already put a simple greeting and sign-off on their own lines. The eight rules that used to change wording in specific sentences are gone, so Format never rewrites a sentence.

Greetings it now recognizes

“Hi all,” “Hey team,” “Hello everyone,”
“Good morning Dana,”
“Hi Dana and Jordan,” “Hi Dana, Jordan and Riley,”
“Hey Dana thanks so much” with no pause after the name

Closings it now recognizes

“Thanks again,” “Take care,” “Talk to you soon,” “Have a good one,”
“Thanks. Thomas.” and “Thanks! Thomas.”
“All right, take care.” with a spoken lead-in
A closing with nothing after it, or just your name at the end

A short list, when you say how many

Say the count first, then the items as A, B, C. Each item goes on its own line, the commas and the “and” stay exactly as spoken, and the sentence after the list starts a fresh paragraph. Letters without a count (“I got an A, the best grade”) stay in the sentence.

You said: Hi Morgan, let’s get Riley to take care of the 3 items that we needed. A, the agenda for tomorrow, B, the report from last week, and C, the updated numbers on the app. All right, take care. Thomas

You get: Hi Morgan,

Let’s get Riley to take care of the 3 items that we needed.

A, the agenda for tomorrow,
B, the report from last week,
and C, the updated numbers on the app.

All right, take care.

Thomas

Known gaps in Format

Not yet: “Good afternoon,” with no name after it; a two-word first name with no pause (“Hi Mary Ann thanks”); a first name that is also a common word with no pause (“Hi Will thanks”); and long prose beyond emails, where paragraphs only break where Format is sure. Cleanup speed is back to what 0.248 had.

PLEASE TRY THESE

Three dictations that cover the changes

Speak them your own way rather than reading ours. Pick the level in the app first. The Tidy checks work in Format too.

Tidy: a few sentences where you change a time, a day, a name or a number mid-sentence, each with a different cue word. Pause before the cue.
Tidy: talk the way you talk, with a like or a you know in the middle of a sentence. It should vanish, and the sentence should still mean what you meant.
Format: an email with a group greeting or two names, three or four sentences, and the closing you actually use.

Five more, if you have time

Tidy: sentences that use wait, actually, no, or I mean in their ordinary sense. Nothing should be removed.
Tidy: a real choice (“3 or 4?”) and a quote of someone else correcting themselves. Both should stay as spoken.
Format: an email that ends with just your name.
Format: a list: say how many, then “A, …, B, …, and C, …”, then one more sentence.
Format: a long paragraph of ordinary writing. Only the layout should differ from Tidy, never a word.

WHEN SOMETHING COMES OUT WRONG

Send what you got and what you expected

A line or two is enough. The beta already keeps the audio and both versions of the text, so the time you dictated it lets us find the rest. Use the This was wrong… item on any recent dictation in the menu, or the support form. A correction that did not resolve, and a correction that fired when you meant to keep both, are equally useful.

BETA CHANGE LOG

Recent betas

0.260 · 7 September 2026: A like or you know between pauses now goes after any word, not only after small connecting words; a comma stays where you changed direction or asked a question. The few kept shapes: a comparison after tastes or was, roughly before a number, such as before a name, a list item, the verb like, and a tag question (you know?).
0.258 · 5 September 2026: Spoken corrections resolve in Tidy, and a like or you know between pauses goes. Format recognizes more greetings and closings, lays out lettered lists after a count, and never changes wording. Cleanup speed back to the 0.248 level. Beta Notes link under the version in the menu.
0.248 · 2 September 2026: Format lays out emails: greeting line, paragraphs, closing and name. Extra Tidy safeguards for literal punctuation and times. A separate Review with Apple Writing Tools action for the latest dictation.
0.243 · 31 August 2026: Three levels, Off, Tidy and Format, replace Rewrite. Cleanup no longer waits on an AI model, so it is instant.