Apr 8

Add AI Actions - Reusable Prompt Templates for Text Transformation

This complements the broader Notes feature request: see comments for link.This is the feature that would make Notes genuinely transformative and not just another notes app.THE CORE IDEALet users save prompts as reusable "actions" and run them against a note's content with one click. Built-in examples might include:- Summarize this meeting into decisions and action items- Draft a follow-up email based on this call- Extract every technical term mentioned into a glossary- Rewrite this transcript as a polished blog post or document- Apply a custom template (meeting minutes, daily log, project update, etc.)Users should be able to create their own actions with custom prompts, their choice of model via existing BYOK config, and custom output formatting.CRITICAL DESIGN PRINCIPLE — NON-DESTRUCTIVE TAB MODELThis is the most important detail, and it's what makes OpenWhispr's implementation so good. Each Note should have up to three tabs:1. Notes — the user's own content (typed or dictated). The source of truth.2. Transcript — the full audio transcript, if the note came from a recording or file upload. Dual-channel speaker separation and timestamps preserved.3. Enhanced — the output of the most recently run AI action.When a user runs an action, the output lands in the Enhanced tab. The Notes and Transcript tabs are never modified. Running a different action produces a different Enhanced output but leaves the source material completely untouched. Users can regenerate freely, compare original to enhanced side-by-side via tab toggle, and experiment with different actions without ever risking their source content.From OpenWhispr's own docs: "Switch between your raw notes, the full transcript, and the AI-enhanced version anytime. Nothing gets overwritten — your original notes are always there."This is fundamentally different from how Notion AI, Mem, Reflect, and Apple Notes' writing tools work — those modify content in place and force users into accept/reject/undo loops. Non-destructive tabs are strictly better because they let users treat actions as cheap experiments rather than destructive edits.WHY THIS IS THE KILLER FEATURESuperwhisper already has BYOK across OpenAI, Anthropic, Deepgram, Groq, Mistral, and others. The AI infrastructure is already in place. Actions would largely be a UI layer on top of the existing reasoning pipeline — saved prompts, a picker UI, a folder to manage action definitions, and the tab output model. The back-end is already there.Pair this with the broader Notes feature (see comments for link) and all its capture sources:- Meeting transcripts auto-routed into Notes — the highest-value use case. The most valuable thing you can do with any meeting transcript is run "summarize into decisions and action items" against it, and Actions should be one click away from any meeting note.- File upload transcriptions into Notes — process hours of uploaded content (interviews, podcasts, lectures, recorded calls) in seconds with a single action click.- History items promoted into Notes — retroactively apply actions to past captures that you didn't realize you'd want to work with later....and Superwhisper becomes a voice-first workspace that nothing else on the market matches.REFERENCEOpenWhispr (https://github.com/OpenWhispr/openwhispr) has the full implementation in their repo. MIT-licensed. The action picker, action manager dialog, and the three-tab view are all worth studying.Happy to beta test any version of this.

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