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minutes

Open-source conversation memory for AI assistants. Record meetings, capture voice memos, search everything — your AI remembers every conversation you've had.

Website | GitHub | MCP Server | Desktop App

Install

cargo install minutes-cli
minutes setup --model tiny    # Download whisper model (75MB)

Or via Homebrew on macOS:

brew tap silverstein/tap && brew install minutes

Quick start

minutes record                # Start recording
minutes stop                  # Stop and transcribe
minutes search "pricing"      # Search across all meetings
minutes actions               # Open action items

What it does

Record meetings and voice memos from your microphone
Transcribe locally with whisper.cpp (Apple Silicon optimized)
Diarize speakers with pyannote-rs (native Rust, no Python)
Extract action items, decisions, and people into structured YAML frontmatter
Search across all conversations by keyword, person, or topic
Track commitments and relationships across meetings
Sync voice memos from your phone via iCloud/Dropbox/any folder sync
Integrate with Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, Obsidian via MCP

Key commands

Command	Description
`minutes record`	Start recording from microphone
`minutes stop`	Stop recording and transcribe
`minutes process <file>`	Transcribe an audio file
`minutes search <query>`	Full-text search across meetings
`minutes actions`	List open action items
`minutes people`	Relationship intelligence
`minutes commitments`	Track what you promised who
`minutes watch`	Auto-process voice memos from a folder
`minutes dictate`	Speak-to-text (clipboard + daily note)
`minutes health`	System diagnostics
`minutes setup`	Download models and configure

Output format

Meetings save as markdown with structured YAML frontmatter:

---
title: Q2 Pricing Discussion
date: 2026-03-17T14:00:00
duration: 42m
action_items:
  - assignee: mat
    task: Send pricing doc
    due: Friday
    status: open
decisions:
  - text: Run pricing experiment with monthly billing
---

Works with Obsidian, Logseq, grep, or any markdown tool.

Features

Feature	Details
Transcription	whisper.cpp, local, multiple model sizes
Speaker diarization	pyannote-rs (native Rust, ~34MB models)
Voice activity detection	Silero VAD (prevents hallucination loops)
Audio formats	m4a, mp3, wav, ogg, webm (ffmpeg or symphonia)
GPU acceleration	Metal, CoreML (macOS), CUDA (Linux/Windows)
Phone voice memos	Folder watcher + iCloud/Dropbox/Syncthing
MCP server	15 tools + 7 resources for Claude/Cursor/Windsurf
Desktop app	Tauri v2 menu bar app (macOS, Windows)
Privacy	Everything local, 0600 permissions on output

Claude / MCP integration

No API keys needed — Claude reads your meetings via MCP tools.

# MCP server (no Rust required)
npx minutes-mcp

You: "What did Alex say about pricing?"
Claude: [searches meetings] → synthesizes answer from transcripts

GPU acceleration

cargo install minutes-cli --features metal    # macOS Metal
cargo install minutes-cli --features coreml   # macOS Neural Engine
cargo install minutes-cli --features cuda     # NVIDIA CUDA

License

MIT — Built by Mat Silverstein

minutes-cli 0.8.0