Features · After the call
The notes are a file in your folder.
Summary, decisions, action items and open questions, with the full transcript underneath. Written as markdown the moment the call ends, to a folder you chose during setup. Open it in anything.
Recording · 47:12Call ended · writing notesNorthwind Platform – discovery
SummaryTwo Kubernetes clusters and one audit trail needed before the January review. Pilot scoped to one cluster; the questionnaire starts now.
Decisions- Pilot limited to the production cluster
- Questionnaire runs in parallel with the pilot
- You: send the security questionnaire tonight
- Marcus: name a budget approver by Friday
The default. A free local model writes the notes and nothing crosses the line.
Switch the view, or change who writes the notes, and watch the line on the right.
A file you own beats a page you rent.
Every meeting tool has a page for your notes. It lives on their servers, opens in their app, and is yours for as long as you pay. NoteHand writes a plain markdown file instead, sorted by year and month, in a folder on your Mac.
That one decision changes everything downstream. Spotlight finds it. Obsidian, VS Code and Notes open it. Time Machine backs it up. iCloud Drive or Dropbox syncs it under your account. Delete the app and the files are still there.
Notes
Where the file ends up
Your notes app
Point the export folder at an Obsidian vault or a Notes-synced folder and every call appears there as a page, with the transcript folded underneath.
Your own sync
Put the folder in iCloud Drive or Dropbox. The files travel between your Macs under your account, and we are not in the path.
Scripts and search
The header of every file carries title, start time, duration, source app and models as frontmatter. grep it, query it, build on it.
Just a folder
Or leave it at ~/Meetings and open the files in Finder. Nothing about the app assumes you want more than that.
What is in the file?
Four sections written by the notes model: a summary, the decisions, action items with a name against each, and the open questions. Under them, the full transcript with timestamps and a marker for which side was speaking.
Above them, a frontmatter block: title, start time, duration, source app, speech model, notes model, and the time consent was confirmed. The notes are a reading of the call; the transcript is the record. Both are in the same file, and the file is yours.
Where people read them
The file goes where you already work, so the notes get read.
Compared
A file in your folder vs notes in a vendor's database
| Vendor database | Markdown file | |
|---|---|---|
| Opens in any app | ✕ | ✓ |
| Found by Spotlight and grep | ✕ | ✓ |
| Backed up by Time Machine | ✕ | ✓ |
| Syncs under your own account | ✕ | ✓ |
| Still there if you stop paying | Export once | ✓ |
| Readable without the vendor | ✕ | ✓ |
| Needs an account | ✓ | ✕ |
Notes
Why a file
Plain markdown, no export step
There is nothing to export because nothing was locked up. The file the app writes is the file you keep.
One folder of access
The export folder is the only place on disk the app can reach. You chose it during setup; you can change it in Settings.
Your choice of author
A free local model through Ollama writes the notes by default. Use your own OpenAI or Anthropic key if you prefer, or turn notes off and keep the transcript.
Questions
The ones we get asked about Notes.
Where do the notes go?
Into the export folder you chose during setup, sorted into year and month subfolders, one markdown file per call. The default is ~/Meetings.
What does the notes model see?
The transcript text. Never the audio. With the default local model, the text does not leave the Mac either.
Can I use my own OpenAI or Anthropic key?
Yes. Set it in Settings and the notes are written by that provider, under your account and their terms. Only transcript text is sent, and the line on this page shows exactly that crossing.
What if I choose no notes?
The file still gets written with the frontmatter and the full transcript. Nothing is generated and nothing crosses the line.
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