Transcripted for Obsidian Users
Your Obsidian vault is your second brain. Your meeting transcripts should be part of it. Transcripted saves every meeting as a markdown file with YAML frontmatter that Obsidian reads natively. No cloud plugin, no sync service, no middleman.
Download Transcripted — FreeThe Obsidian workflow problem
Obsidian is built on local markdown files. Your notes, your links, your knowledge graph — they're all in your vault. But meeting transcripts? They're locked in cloud services, exported as PDFs, or trapped in proprietary formats. You can't link them, you can't search them, you can't build a knowledge graph around them.
Transcripted changes that. Every meeting becomes a markdown file in ~/Documents/Transcripted/. YAML frontmatter with metadata (date, duration, speakers, word count), speaker-labeled dialogue, timestamps. It's just markdown files that Obsidian reads natively.
How Obsidian users use Transcripted
Here's what the workflow looks like:
- Record a 1:1 with a teammate — Transcripted saves it as
2025-01-15-1-1-with-sarah.md - Sync the folder to your Obsidian vault using iCloud or a symlink
- Link to transcripts from your notes using Obsidian's wikilink syntax:
[[2025-01-15-1-1-with-sarah]] - Search across all meeting transcripts with Obsidian's search
- Build a knowledge graph that includes your meeting history
No API calls. No integrations. No accounts. Just markdown files that work with Obsidian out of the box.
Why local matters for Obsidian
Cloud transcription services require you to trust them with your data. They mediate access through APIs, rate limits, and terms of service. You can't build links around their output because you don't control the pipeline.
Transcripted's architecture eliminates the middleman. The files are on your Mac. Obsidian reads them directly. No API calls to external services, no rate limits, no data leaving your machine. You have full control over your meeting data.
The persistent speaker identity advantage
Most transcription tools give you "Speaker 1" and "Speaker 2." Transcripted builds voice fingerprints for each person and remembers them across meetings — weeks and months later. When you search for "what did Sarah say about the API?", it works because Transcripted knows which speaker is Sarah and has been labeling her correctly across 50 meetings.
That's the context quality that makes Obsidian workflows actually useful.
Works with Obsidian
YAML frontmatter, wikilinks, local vault sync — no cloud plugin needed.
Transcripted includes metadata in YAML frontmatter that Obsidian reads natively. Date, duration, speakers, word count — all accessible to Obsidian's metadata features.
Link to transcripts from your notes using Obsidian's wikilink syntax. Build a knowledge graph that includes your meeting history.
Sync the folder to your Obsidian vault using iCloud. Your meeting transcripts are available across all your devices.
Search across all meeting transcripts with Obsidian's search. No API, no rate limits, no cloud service.
Include transcripts in your knowledge graph. See how your meeting history connects to your notes.
Use any Obsidian plugin that works with markdown files. No special plugin required.
Give Obsidian access to your meeting context
Free. Local. Speaker-labeled. Works with Obsidian out of the box.
Download Transcripted — Free