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The app stores configuration in ~/.taskbean/config.json.

Core settings

Speech settings control the engine, fallback, microphone, Whisper model, live model, and whether a transcript composes text or extracts tasks. Schedule settings control Do Not Disturb and recurring-reminder hours.

Themes

The CSS identifiers are dark-roast, latte, espresso, and black-coffee. Dark Roast is the default.

Model switching

Use the model picker in Settings. A switch is locked so only one can run at a time. Taskbean unloads the current model, downloads the selected model when needed, loads it, rebuilds the agent, and runs a smoke test before reporting success. Model switching is a Settings workflow, not a chat tool.

Reminders

On Windows, Taskbean can send toast notifications with Done, Snooze, and Open actions. Do Not Disturb suppresses toasts. If winotify is unavailable, Taskbean logs the event instead of failing.

File extraction

Paste long text or upload documents to extract candidate tasks. Taskbean uses MCP and MarkItDown conversion, token-aware chunking, and local AI. Review extracted tasks before treating them as commitments.
Last modified on July 29, 2026