Melo for Mac: hold Fn and just say it

Hold Fn, say it, done

Hold the Fn key in any app and say what you need: “I’m going to my friend’s tomorrow at 10 pm.” Let go, and a small Melo window opens above the app you’re in. Melo suggests the event. It goes into your calendar when you click Add.

Not quite right? Hold Fn again and say “No, half past ten.” Melo moves the card to 10:30 pm. The window doesn’t take over your keyboard, so you keep typing in your own app. The conversation is also saved as a chat in Melo.

Would you rather have the words themselves? Choose “Type where you are” in Settings, and Melo puts what you said where your cursor is.

Fn is on from the first start. Melo asks for each permission when you need it, one at a time.

The right calendar, by itself

A work meeting, the dentist, football with your kid: Melo picks the calendar that fits, also from Google Calendar if it’s on your Mac. When Melo isn’t sure, it uses the calendar you chose in Settings. Pick another one on the card and Melo remembers.

The sentence it read

When Melo makes a plan from a letter, a PDF or a photo, the sentence it used sits right under the card, with the date and time in bold. For a bill, you see the sentence with the amount. So you can check it in a second.

Fewer newsletters

Melo lists the senders of newsletters in Mail and unsubscribes you after your click. It only reads the sender, the date, whether you opened it and the unsubscribe header. It never follows a link from the text of an email. Banks, the government and your health insurer stay off the list.

From A to B

Say “from the Concertgebouw to Centraal at 9:00” and Melo gives you a link that opens the route in Maps, with the same way of travelling.

Calmer to start with

Settings are now in groups, like on your iPhone. The first start no longer opens a pile of windows: under the text field you see one line with the next step. And the menu bar shows the Melo logo.

How to get it

Already using Melo? It updates itself to this version (1.1, build 76). New here? Download Melo from kamelo.eu/app. Everything else Melo for Mac does.