Find your note
When a recording stops, KeptNote transcribes it on your Mac and writes the note. The note page shows what it is doing, for example Transcribing on this Mac and then Writing your note. When the note is ready, a short drawing of a shell appears with the words Kept. and Your note is ready.
Open Home from the rail on the left. Your recent meetings are listed there. All meetings in the rail shows the full list.
Press a meeting to open its note.
To find a note by its words, press Command-K to search. See Folders and Mac folder links.
A note on the left, and its transcript on the right.
What is on the page
- The title. Click it to rename the note.
- A bar under the title with the Improve or Rewrite control, and the date and how long the meeting ran, for example Oct 9 · 27 min. Point at the date to see the full date and time.
- The note, in sections. The sections come from the template you chose for the meeting.
- A line at the end that says how the note was written, for example Written on this Mac from the transcript.
- At the top right: Record to record more, Transcript to open or close the transcript, Share to open the share menu, and a … menu.
- At the bottom, an Ask bar that says Ask about this meeting.
The … menu holds Resume recording (when the meeting can take another part), Rewrite note on this Mac, Copy note, Email draft, Move to folder and Move to Trash.
Read the moment behind a line
Point at a line in the note. Its time shows at the end of the line, for example 3:34.
Press the time.
The transcript opens beside the note at that moment. You see the words, who said them, and when. On a call, the voices are Me and Them.
The line, its time, and the sentence it came from.
A note can be wrong. The transcript is the record. If a line looks odd, read its moment.
You can also check a whole note against the transcript. Press Transcript at the top right, and search it. See The transcript panel.
Your own notes
If you typed notes during the meeting, you can switch between My notes and Enhanced afterwards. Enhanced is the written note. My notes is your text, and you can still edit it. See Notes, quotes and time chips.
If the note does not appear
- Waiting to transcribe. KeptNote works on one meeting at a time. It starts yours soon.
- Your recording is ready. with Transcribe and write note. Automatic transcription is off. Press the button.
- Your note could not be finished. Press Try again.
- Your audio is safe. Local transcription needs a one-time Whisper setup. See Whisper models.