Moving to a new Mac

Ocelli has no account. Your notes, recordings and licence live on your Mac, so they move the way your other files do.

With Migration Assistant or Time Machine

Apple's Migration Assistant, or restoring the new Mac from a Time Machine backup, brings nearly everything along: your notes, recordings, dictation history, settings and your licence.

Then open Ocelli and allow calendar access again when it asks. If a speech model is missing, Ocelli downloads it again by itself.

With a fresh install

Without a migration, Ocelli starts empty. Your licence comes back in one click: open the purchase mail and click "Open Ocelli to activate". You can also paste the key in Settings › License. Lost the mail? Get it sent again.

Your notes are Markdown files in a folder, ~/vault unless you picked another one, and Ocelli keeps that folder in git. If you push it to a git remote of your own, clone it on the new Mac. Otherwise copy the folder over. If it ends up somewhere other than ~/vault, choose it in Settings › Notes.

The audio of your recordings is in ~/Library/Application Support/Aside/recordings. Copy that folder to the same place on the new Mac to bring it along. The folder is still called Aside, the app's old name.

Your own API key, and teams

If you use your own AI provider key, it is kept in the Mac's keychain, not with your notes. If Ocelli asks for it on the new Mac, paste it again in Settings.

On a team, a teammate approves the new Mac when it joins again, and your Recovery Kit is the only way back in if every Mac is lost.