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Monitor background render jobs on Mac

In Merrimo on your Mac, you can monitor the rendering queue, inspect step progress in real time, cancel jobs, and review execution logs.

The Jobs window showing active collaborator and ComfyUI renders, a queued PDF export, finished jobs, and full prompt details.
The Jobs window lists active renders, collaborator jobs, queued exports, and finished tasks on the left, with full prompt and reference details on the right.

See jobs from the toolbar

Show me how: Monitor renders and exports in Jobs ↗

The activity item in the toolbar of the Stories window and of your story windows shows when jobs are running: pictures being drawn, and writing help from a model on this Mac or in the cloud. On macOS 26 or later it's a round, colored orb that spins while any job runs. Click it to see the same list as the Jobs window, and click Open Jobs Window in the list to open the window.

Track active render queues

Keep an eye on multiple background panel generations:

  1. Choose Tools > Jobs (or press ⇧⌘L).
  2. Each rendering panel is displayed as an active queue card with live step progress (e.g. Sampling step 18/25).
  3. Hover over any job to see which engine or collaborator machine is processing the task.
  4. Click the Stop button next to a row to cancel a render and immediately free up the GPU.

Each job is listed by a short name for what it does: Write Ahead when a model suggests what comes next in your prose, Writing Nudges for writing suggestions, Panel Render or Character Sheet for pictures being drawn, and Assistant Reply while the assistant answers in chat.

Review render logs and error details

Diagnose failed generations or engine issues:

  1. If a render job fails, its queue card displays an alert badge.
  2. Click the job to open the render details and traceback.
  3. Inspect the error traceback, memory usage stats, and engine responses.
  4. Resubmit the job or choose a different engine from Settings.

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