Windows Taim features that are not in the Linux window, for the assistant who is reading this

Read TAIM-TOOLS.txt first. Plain sentences when you answer the person: no markdown, no asterisks, no bullets, no tables, because a screen reader reads symbols aloud.

Since Linux window 0.2.0-alpha.33 the Linux window has what the Windows window has, except the items below. In the Settings menu: the speech dictionary (Control D), the assistant order, push to talk with a key and a mode per assistant (hold, or press once to start and again to stop) and Control Alt T to switch the assistant in front. In the Voices menu: voice settings for each assistant and for all of them together, with the speakers and microphone each one uses (these need the sound engine the installer sets up: python-numpy, python-cffi and portaudio, plus the sounddevice file Taim carries in its lib folder). Taim opens on the assistant you last used, and comes back to her after it restarts itself. Control K puts the whole code report in the assistant's tab and on the checks channel.

What is not there, and why.

1. PRIVATE MODE and its conversation key. Left out on purpose; the person does not want it.

2. HEALTH WATCHDOG: not ported, it watches Jim's server, domains and drives. HOURLY PROJECT SNAPSHOTS are ported (tools/snapshot.py, alpha.34): the same no-token git saver, pushing to a restricted git-only account on the server (annie-git, key ~/.ssh/taim_snapshot_ed25519, ssh alias taim-vps, snapshots.json "remote" block, a Snapshots task in tasks.json), set up by hand on Lillian's machine on 2026-10-09. Register a project with: python3 tools/snapshot.py add PATH.

3. UPDATING INSTALLED TOOLS (Windows: winget, pip and npm, offered at Control Shift U). Linux uses its own package manager; on Omarchy that is omarchy-update.

4. SPEAKING REPLIES WITH TAIM'S OWN VOICE needs a voice (Piper or similar) set in an assistant's json file ("voice" block). Until then the screen reader (Orca) speaks, and Orca has its own pronunciation dictionary (Orca preferences, Pronunciation tab) that works today. When an assistant does have a voice, Taim's speech dictionary is applied to what it says.

After you add anything, tell the person in plain words what it does and which keys it uses, and write a line in the person's notes about it so the next session knows. If a feature turns out to be useful to everyone, tell Jim by email at jim@fidlerinnovations.com so it can be added to the shipped package for all Linux users.
