Advice is better when it knows the whole story.

Set who you are.

Home → Make it personal, or Your preferences / profile.

Preferences are always with you. Fill in who you are, what you own of the work, how you like to say things, and what you are working toward. Right Hand steers every conversation with that — not as a one-off note for a single call, but as the steady background of how advice should sound for you.

Keep it short and true. A clear preference beats a long biography. You can change it later; until you do, it rides along.

Teach it what to remember.

Home → Teach Right Hand, or the Memory page.

Memory is different from preferences. Preferences are always on. Memories are durable facts you want recalled when they are relevant — a decision someone made, a commitment, how a project actually stands.

Write one thing at a time, in your own words — they are kept exactly as you wrote them. Choose what kind of thing it is, say where it came from and how sure you are, and attach a person or a project when it belongs to one. Nothing is sorted for you, because a guess here is worse than a blank.

In Memory you can edit later, mark something important or wrong, restore it, and see where it came from and what it used to say. An afternoon early on still pays off. It is not the whole of the advice — it is one of the four kinds of context behind a card.

Aim the call before you talk.

Live — from the header, before you start or halfway through.

Two dials steer this conversation. They are the strongest per-meeting aims you have.

What’s this about?

One box. Say what you want this call to achieve — the decision, the ask, the outcome. Type it beforehand, or when it occurs to you mid-sentence. This is the work of this hour, not a permanent preference.

Who’s here?

Name the people in the conversation. Pick from people you have already taught it, or add someone new with their role without leaving the call. Advice can be about them — their history with you, what they care about — instead of a generic room.

Others in the room with me

The one thing the app cannot hear for itself. Tick it when the microphone covers more than you alone, and lines from the microphone stop being attributed to you.

Open the desktop app.

A browser tab can only hear you, not your call.

Right Hand needs your microphone and the audio your computer is playing — the far side of a Zoom or Meet call — and only the desktop window can take both. Open Live in a browser and it says so instead of offering a button that would half work.

Download for Mac

On macOS that second half comes from a small helper called Right Hand Audio. Allow it under System Settings → Privacy & Security → System Audio Recording, where it asks in its own name. Nothing on your screen is captured and no screen recording permission is asked for.

Headphones are the cleanest arrangement. Without them your microphone also hears your speakers, and the far side would be transcribed twice; Right Hand recognises the delayed, quieter copy and drops it. Talk over them and your own voice still goes through.

Press Start listening and grant permission. Speech appears as it is spoken and finalized text saves itself. A level beside each source shows what is being heard, and turns red if a source goes quiet on you.

Pause releases every source immediately and finalizes what it has already sent, Resume asks for them again, and End finalizes the transcript, saves the session, and reads it back for you where the advice was. Conversations are named by that review, from what was actually discussed.

Read the cards, or don’t.

At most three at a time, most important first.

When a moment is worth the interruption, Right Hand writes up to three cards: Say this, Ask, Coach, Remember, or Warning. Each expires on its own, can be dismissed, and takes a thumbs up or down that is saved with it. Dismissed and expired cards stay in a history you can open later.

Why this? on any card opens its provenance in plain language: why it appeared, what it rests on, and how long it took to reach you. A card that rests on nothing says so rather than implying otherwise.

Most moments get nothing, and that is the intended behaviour. A card you did not need costs a glance at exactly the moment you could least afford one.

Read it back afterwards.

Press End — or Conversations → open one.

Ending a session reads it back on the spot, in the column the advice was in: a short summary, the decisions, what you committed to, what the other side committed to, and the open loops. Anything it cannot attribute to a source is left out rather than guessed at. The same review is waiting on the conversation whenever you come back to it.

A session too short to have said anything — a microphone test, a few seconds of a call — is left alone rather than billed for a page of empty headings. The button is still there if you want it read back.

It also proposes durable memories. Nothing is saved until you accept it. Every proposal shows the transcript line it came from, and that quote is checked against the transcript before you ever see it — one it cannot quote is dropped. Edit the wording before saving if it did not put it the way you would.

When a proposal contradicts something you told it earlier, it can point at that memory. Saving marks the old one superseded: it stays visible and traceable in Memory, and stops being treated as your current position.