Transcripted for macOS Power Users

The context problem for power users

macOS power users are drowning in context. You're using the terminal, managing files, scripting workflows, and building automation. But your meetings — the richest source of context — live outside your workflow. They're scattered across cloud services, proprietary formats, and forgotten recordings.

When you're building automation, you need to remember what you said, what you decided, what you learned. When you're scripting workflows, you need to know what your team is working on. When you're reviewing notes, you need to track feedback across dozens of meetings.

Transcripted brings it into your workflow.

How it works — no setup required

Transcripted saves every meeting as a markdown file in ~/Documents/Transcripted/. Each file includes speaker-labeled dialogue with timestamps, YAML frontmatter with metadata (date, duration, speakers, word count), and Qwen-inferred speaker names.

To connect to your terminal: point your scripts at the Transcripted folder. The files are already in markdown format with frontmatter that any CLI tool can parse. No cloud sync, no third-party integrations, no data leaving your machine.

No cloud processing. No data sharing. No subscriptions. Just files on disk.

What your terminal can do with this

Once your terminal can see your meeting history, you can query and control data like:

These queries work because Transcripted produces structured, machine-readable output — not PDFs, not proprietary formats, not cloud-locked data. Plain markdown that your terminal can parse and script.

Why local matters for power users

Cloud transcription services like Granola send your data to third-party servers. That means your meeting data is stored on servers you don't control, processed by algorithms you can't audit, and potentially accessible to employees you don't know. You're trusting a third party to protect your most sensitive conversations.

Transcripted's architecture eliminates the middleman. The files are on your Mac. Your terminal reads them directly. No API calls to external services, no data leaving your machine, no third-party access. The privacy guarantee is structural, not contractual.

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 your terminal asks "what did Marcus say about the API?", it works because Transcripted knows which speaker is Marcus and has been labeling him correctly across 50 meetings.

That's the context quality that makes terminal queries actually useful.