Turn iPhone voice memos into searchable Obsidian notes

Turns a recorded voice memo into a summarized note that lands straight in your Obsidian vault.

How the work actually flows

A straight line.

Pattern: Sequence (1)

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Starts itA stepA record or sheetResultPayoff
Build size
Standard

A mid-size build with several tools working together.

Business functions
Voice & PhoneKnowledge Base & RAGDocument Processing & OCRAPI & Webhook IntegrationScheduling & CalendarFile & Cloud Storage
Connects
Google DriveOpenAI

The problem it solves

You take notes during meetings on your phone, but they sit in Voice Memos as audio you never revisit, or you spend time afterward typing everything up by hand. Important details get lost between recording and filing.

Who it fits

A professional who wants private, searchable meeting notes without manual typing.

How it works

  1. A voice memo is recorded on your iPhone
  2. The recording is transcribed on your device
  3. The transcript is optionally summarized by AI
  4. The note is converted into a Markdown file
  5. The file is uploaded to a Google Drive folder synced with your Obsidian vault
What you get

Meeting notes waiting in your vault untyped

Record a voice memo on your phone and find a clean, summarized note waiting in your Obsidian vault afterward.

What you get

A structured Markdown note of the meeting, ready to search inside Obsidian.

What you need

An iPhone with Shortcuts set up, a Google Drive account, and optionally an OpenAI API key.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

That is what a Fractional Chief AI Officer figures out with you, before anyone writes a line of code.

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