The windows, the switches and the shortcuts

Moving and resizing

Drag a window by its header — the strip along the top with the title. Resize it from any edge or corner. Both windows remember where you left them, per monitor.

Everywhere except the header and the buttons, clicks pass straight through to whatever is underneath. You can click a control in Zoom that is behind the transcript without moving anything.

⌥⌘L puts both windows back where they started, which is the fastest fix if one ends up on a monitor you no longer have.

Switching the functions on and off

Four switches — transcript, translation, prompter, and saving to history — each work on their own and take effect immediately, including in the middle of a call. What is off is not billed: a prompter that is switched off is not run on the server at all.

The same four switches live in three places, and they always agree with each other: the Subtl icon in the macOS menu bar, the header of the window itself, and the Live panel in the app.

Reading back over what was said

The transcript follows the conversation, unless you scroll up. Then it stays where you left it and a button appears telling you how many new lines arrived; press it to jump back to the present.

Because clicks pass through the window, scrolling it needs one keystroke first: ⌥⌘O gives the window the mouse. Press it again to hand the mouse back to the call.

The shortcuts

These are worth remembering; everything else in the app is clickable.