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Meetings, models and your own machine
How to get a meeting recorded, transcribed and written up on the Mac you already have: which local model it can run, what every meeting tool sends where, and how to read a year of calls from a shell or an assistant.
What is the best meeting notetaker?
Nine of them put against the same seven questions, with a link to the vendor page behind every answer.
ReadYour meetings without leaving the terminal
The Mac that records your meetings is often not the one you are typing on, and a terminal reaches it like anything else.
ReadMeetings your scripts and your agents can read
Months of calls in a local database are worth more than a folder of recordings, because a shell script and an assistant can both read them.
ReadBot or no bot: which meeting recorder fits your calls
If you need meetings you do not attend, use a bot. If you need the audio to stay on your own machine, record from the machine. The rest is trade-offs.
ReadWhich local model your Mac can run
An Apple Silicon Mac can transcribe a meeting and write the notes without anything leaving the machine. Installed memory decides which model does the writing.
ReadWhat actually leaves your Mac
Three questions to ask any meeting notes app, and Listenr's answer to each.
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Notes from your next meeting.
Record a call, read the transcript, and see whether the notes are worth keeping. Free for personal use, on macOS 15 or later with Apple Silicon.