History and Search

How History Is Stored

Steno writes transcript history as JSON under Application Support:

• ~/Library/Application Support/Steno/transcript-history.json

Important limits and behavior:

• persistence keeps up to 500 entries by default
• app UI surfaces entries from the last 30 days
• newest entries appear first

Each entry includes:

• timestamp
• app bundle identifier
• raw text
• cleaned text
• insertion status

Search and Groups

History search matches against:

• cleaned text
• raw transcript text
• app bundle identifier

Results are grouped by day label to stay scannable:

• Today
• Yesterday
• long date format for older entries

Copy Paste Delete

For each entry you can:

• copy text to clipboard
• paste via clipboard action
• delete entry

The Record tab also includes "Paste Last Transcript" as a fast recovery path.

Recovery Tips

When insertion fails in your target app:

1. Open History.
2. Find the latest failed row.
3. Use Copy or Paste from Steno.
4. Adjust insertion method order in settings if failures repeat.