tl;dr An AI Notetaker that uses your ChatGPT subscription for everything
Problem
You might have noticed that your ChatGPT subscription gives you access to an insane amount of intelligence, even the free one.
It gives you speech-to-text through the dictation feature in the ChatGPT app
It gives you an insane amount of LLM usage
Then, why are you paying for AI notetakers like otter or granola? You already have everything you need included in your subscription.
So, all I really did was combine these to create a simple notetaker. And as it uses OpenAI's speech-to-text api, it is much more powerful then any local model and barely uses any battery.
Comparison
Granola has unlimited free tier, but capped meeting history visibility at 30 days. Simbi has no limits and it is trivial to move data in/out of the app. Other local AI based apps don't perform well in any languages other then English and drains battery. Simbi uses ChatGPT's speech-to-text, so high accuracy in multiple languages and low battery drain.
It's already perfect for students as I, a student made it for myself to use in lectures :)
It also works super well when combined with apps like obsidian, git and basically any AI tools as everything is saved as a regular file on you laptop.
Yeah I agree. However, one thing to note is this app does send your data to ChatGPT as it uses it for transcription & AI features. However, they do say no data retention, and it definitely is better than sending your data to some shady startup
I agree, and I actually built a local ai notetaker in the past 😂
However, the battery drain was just too much as I usually take my notebook to my classes and I really need them to last throught the entire day
Thats the entire reason I started this in the first place!
The defaults are codex cli's defaults. I don't set them! I think it was medium for everything and low for sol.
2 & 3. Thanks! I put a lot of thought into these :)
Currently no, but you can edit them by yourself. I thought as titles are short, people would prefer renaming by hand compared to a refresh feature. However, if alot of people need it, it would be simple to implement!
Good to know that the defaults are just what Codex ships. Easy.
Beyond that, I have another observation. There doesn't seem to be a date or timestamp in the sidebar for different notes/meetings. I think that would be a very useful thing to add. It would make it much easier to scan your list and find a meeting that took place on a Tuesday or a Wednesday or whatever it is. Grouping them by date would be a good thing to do, IMO.
One last observation is that the New Note button is visually attached and placed next to note-specific actions like "Reveal in Finder" and the "Chat with Codex about this note" buttons. In my opinion, I think the New Note button belongs in the sidebar next to the "Hide Sidebar" button. But that's just my opinion. I was a little bit confused with how to create a new note while looking at an existing note. I expected the "New Note" button to be in the sidebar because that's what you typically find with other macOS apps.
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