Guides

Practical answers about recording, transcribing and taking notes, useful with or without Hearkeeper.

• How to write action items from a meeting

  What makes a meeting action item actually get done: one owner, a clear verb, a due date and a definition of done, with good and bad examples to copy.

• A meeting notes template you can copy and paste

  A copy-and-paste Markdown meeting notes and minutes template with decisions, owners and due dates, plus variants for 1:1s, standups and board meetings.

• How to record Google Meet on a Mac

  Record a Google Meet call on your Mac with audio: which plans include Meet recording, why the option can be missing, what macOS can do, and how to tell people.

• How to record system audio on a Mac

  Why QuickTime misses the other side of a Zoom call, and three ways to record system audio on a Mac, with free step-by-step BlackHole instructions.

• How to record a Teams meeting on a Mac

  Record a Microsoft Teams meeting on your Mac with audio: Teams' own recording, who is allowed to use it, what macOS can do, and how to tell everyone first.

• Recording meetings: consent, the law and good practice

  Recording meetings and AI note takers: one-party and all-party consent in the US, GDPR in Europe, Iceland and the UK, and good practice for getting consent.

• How to transcribe a lecture into notes

  Record a lecture, turn it into text with free or paid tools, and shape the transcript into study notes you will actually review, step by step.

• How to run Whisper locally on a Mac

  Transcribe audio on your Mac with no upload: which Whisper model to pick, how to run whisper.cpp with Metal from Terminal, and where accuracy drops.