Minutes

Settings

IDENTITY

Your name

Used to attribute meeting content to you ("Mat said…"). Leave blank if you'd rather stay anonymous.

Your email addresses

Comma-separated. Every address you send from, so calendar attendees arriving under different emails fold onto the same person.

Name variants

Comma-separated. Alternate forms — nicknames, formal spellings — so everything folds onto your canonical name.

GENERAL

Language

Display language for the app, menus, and notifications.

Show completion alerts

Critical Coach alerts when the HUD is hidden

Play sound cues for start, stop, and complete

Open Minutes at login

Quick Thought shortcut

or Caps Lock / fn

Hold to record a quick thought, or tap to lock and tap again to stop.

DICTATION

Dictation shortcut

or Caps Lock / fn

Hold to dictate, or tap to lock and tap again to stop.

Where dictated text goes

Minutes verifies the target before inserting. If typing is unavailable or the app changes, your transcript stays on the clipboard.

Writing style

Natural formatting is deterministic and stays on this device. It does not rewrite meaning.

Microphone

Uses the same microphone as recordings. The list refreshes when opened.

History

Turning history off never discards audio from a failed or interrupted capture.

Recent dictations

Advanced

Dictation whisper model

Smaller models are faster. Base is recommended.

Exact voice-edit commands

Log dictations to daily note

Silence timeout

Used only for dictation started inside Minutes. Shortcut gestures finish shortcut dictation.

LIVE TRANSCRIPT

Backend

Standalone live transcript currently inherits your main transcription engine.

Keyboard shortcut

Toggle live transcript on/off from any app.

COMMAND PALETTE

Keyboard shortcut

Open the Minutes command palette from any app.

TRANSCRIPTION

Engine

The main engine controls batch, recording, and recording-sidecar transcription. Standalone live transcript has its own backend setting above.

Whisper model

Parakeet backend

Checking Parakeet backend…

Parakeet cannot currently receive Minutes' secure private audio; retained preferences resolve to Whisper.

Transcription language

Leave this on Auto-detect for mixed or unknown audio. Pick a language only when Whisper is consistently guessing wrong.

Speaker diarization (identify who said what)

COACH

A quiet nudge, right when it helps.

Private live coaching during meetings. Coach listens alongside your recording and never controls it.

Coach

Turn live meeting guidance on or off.

Meeting goal (optional)

What do you want out of this meeting?

AI model

On-device (private, recommended) Meeting speech stays on this Mac. Cloud Uses the connection you already configured.

One quick setup

Coach needs a small on-device AI model to run privately on your Mac.

When recording starts

Off keeps manual starts available.

Only alert me when it matters

Keep routine suggestions quiet; show critical coaching alerts.

Advanced

Provider and model details will appear here.

AUTO-SUMMARIZATION

Automatic pipeline summarization

By default, Claude summarizes your meetings conversationally via MCP — no configuration needed. Turn this on only if you want summaries generated automatically in the recording pipeline.

Agent command

Ollama URL

Base URL for your local Ollama server.

Ollama model

Name of a model you've pulled in Ollama (e.g. llama3.2, qwen2.5, gemma3).

Connection type

Pick the closest match. Minutes will fill the technical fields below.

Connection URL

Paste the base URL ending in /v1, /openai, or /compat. Minutes adds /chat/completions automatically.

Model

Use the model name your server or gateway expects.

API key

Paste a key once. Minutes stores it securely.

Advanced: env var fallback

Optional. Use this only if you prefer launching Minutes with a shell-managed secret.

PIPELINE HOOKS

Post-record command

Shell command run after each recording is processed. The transcript file path is appended as the final argument. Leave blank to disable.

CALL DETECTION

Detect calls automatically

Polling interval

How often to check for active calls (seconds).

Cooldown

Minutes to wait before re-triggering call detection.

Google Meet detection (experimental)

Opt-in browser integration for Meet in Chrome/Safari. Uses stronger meeting-URL matching, may require macOS browser automation permission, and backs off after failures instead of probing every second.

Microsoft Teams (web) detection (experimental)

Opt-in browser integration for Teams meetings in Arc, Chrome, and Safari. Matches Teams meeting URLs only (chat/calendar pages are ignored). Requires macOS browser automation permission on first use, and backs off after failures instead of probing every second.

Stop when call ends

When the detected call app exits mid-recording, show a countdown prompt with Stop now and Keep recording. Only applies to recordings started from the call-detection banner.

Auto-stop countdown

Seconds to wait before stopping when the call ends.

PRIVACY

Hide windows from screen sharing

Recording consent reminder

Shows a local-transcription disclosure before recording a meeting. A disclosure aid, not advice; make sure everyone present has agreed where required.

Disclosure script

Default frontmatter basis

Optional value stamped into meeting frontmatter when no per-recording basis is supplied.

Meeting-adjacent desktop context

Off. App/window context stays disabled until you turn it on.

Focused window titles

Uses the best available platform APIs for focused-window titles. On macOS, missing Accessibility permission limits title capture.

Browser title context

Opt-in browser tab and window titles only. URLs and domains are not collected in v1.

Allowed apps

Optional comma-separated allowlist. Leave empty to allow all apps except denied ones.

Denied apps

Comma-separated app or bundle-id fragments to suppress from desktop context capture.

Capture screen context during recordings

Screenshots sent to vision LLM for context. Requires Screen Recording permission.

Screenshot interval

VAULT SYNC

Connect an Obsidian or Logseq vault

Checking...

RECALL AGENT

AI agent for the Recall panel

Auto-approve all tool calls

Extra launch flags

Additional CLI arguments passed when starting the agent

Use Terminal instead

Chat is the simpler experience. Terminal keeps the assistant's full controls for power users.

STORAGE

DIAGNOSTICS

System readiness and audio permission checks

Retry failed captures and unprocessed audio files

ADVANCED

Edit config.toml

Tuning knobs not shown in this panel — silence thresholds, diarization parameters, watcher paths, knowledge-base integration, and more — live in your config file.

Configuration reference

Full list of every config key, its default, and what it does.

Config file:

Set up CLI

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