Koi's notch, redone

The old notch window was a wall of buttons. Everything Koi does, all at once, every time you brushed the top of your screen. Useful, sure. Calm, no.

The new one says hello first. Hover the notch and you get a greeting with your name and the keys that call Koi, or the song that's playing. Everything else moved to tabs.

• One pill of icon tabs at the top left: Koi's ghost (home), Chat, Tools, Tray and Routines.
• Tools opens on Dictate, Documents, Record calls, Calendar and Board, then every tool, the most useful first: Teleprompter, Downloader, Copy history and Transcribe.
• Apps at the foot shows the calendars you connected. Click it for what's left today, from Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, Reminders and Koi's own.
• Drag a file up and three spots open: Files Tray, Visualize and AirDrop.

Next to Apps sits Invite & earn. Copy your link, or type a friend's email and Koi sends the invite. Your friend gets 20% off their first payment. When they pay, you get $5 of Koi credit. Five invites per account, so pick your five well.

• Calls have one colour at a time: amber while connecting, purple once Koi can hear you, and a soft fade back into the notch when you hang up. You always know when to start talking.
• Settings got a clearer two-pane layout: Preferences, then This computer. Connections is now Integrations.
• The board's yellow button always folds it into the desktop widget, even with the widget turned off. Red closes it.
• Glass wallpaper saves your photo behind glass at its own size, without setting it as your wallpaper.

The how-tos: the notch, Invite & earn, a call's colours and Settings.