Minutes
silverstein
“Meetings, calls, voice memos, and dictation, transcribed on your own machine and saved as markdown you own. Free and open source”
Minutes is listed in AugmentArena's Memory index: the maker's own one-liner is “Meetings, calls, voice memos, and dictation, transcribed on your own machine and saved as markdown you own. Free and open source”. The concrete jobs we can justify from the source are searchable transcripts of calls, lectures and interviews and reading the summary instead of the thread.
Provenance
What we can prove, and what we cannot
Each row is a separate claim with its own status and check date — not one blanket “verified” badge.
- Human capability
- Perfect recall of work and life. Our classification, not a vendor claim.
- verified30 Oct 2026
- One-line pitch
- Quoted above.
- provider claimuseminutes.app30 Oct 2026
- Price
- Open source (MIT) — no paid tier required.
- verifiedgithub.com30 Oct 2026
- Platforms
- iOS · macOS · Linux · API · CLI · GitHub
- provider claimuseminutes.app30 Oct 2026
- Launch date
- 18 Mar 2026 — GitHub repository created_at (silverstein/minutes)
- verified30 Oct 2026
What it does
Capabilities we can name
- Transcription
- Summarisation
- Meeting capture
- Note-taking
- Sleep tracking
- Workflow automation
Concrete jobs
- Searchable transcripts of calls, lectures and interviews
- Reading the summary instead of the thread
- Turning a meeting into decisions and follow-ups
- A searchable place for everything you write down
Where it stops
- No price is published in a form our checker could read, so the price cell says n/v rather than guessing.
Alternatives
What else does this job
Obs Localvocalroyshil
LocalVocal plugin allows you to transcribe & translate speech into text locally on your machine in real time.
Similarity is our editorial judgement: same capability, closest score. It is not a vendor claim and no one paid to appear here.
Head to head
AugmentArena is independent. We do not accept payment for placement, we do not use affiliate links, and a score is our own rubric rather than a vendor claim or a user average. Prices and capabilities change: the check date above is the honest cut-off. Found an error? Tell us — corrections get the same source-and-date treatment. Dataset pass: 185 products, last full re-check 30 Oct 2026.