Show HN: Trace – Offline Mac meeting transcripts you can flag mid-call
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Please bear with me though, I'm confident that this is at least a little novel.I primarily built Trace for myself.
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I'd been using MacWhisper, but there was enough fiddling before each call that I'd forget to start it and walk out of an hour-long meeting with nothing written down.
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So the things I cared about most were that it's quick to activate and stays out of the way.
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You activate Trace by pressing a global shortcut (configurable), which reveals a small bar at the bottom of your screen (there's also a keystroke and/or option to hide it entirely if you'd rather not see it at all).As I was building it I wanted to bake in a couple of workflows I'd wished for in other transcription apps.1.
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The note shows up in the resulting transcript...
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