Apr 8

Add Full-Feature Notes

Superwhisper is the best voice capture tool on macOS, but right now transcripts live as ephemeral items in History — you speak, transcribe, paste, and the capture eventually ages out. The natural next step is giving those captures a permanent home where they can become working documents.I'd love to see Superwhisper add a first-class Notes feature. OpenWhispr (https://github.com/OpenWhispr/openwhispr) recently shipped one that nails the pattern and is worth looking at as a reference implementation — it's MIT-licensed. THE CORE IDEAA Notes section alongside the existing History, where each note is a richer document than a single transcript. Notes become the persistent workspace; History stays as the ephemeral capture log. Below I've laid out the specific features I think make up a strong Notes system, organized by what they accomplish. A separate request covers AI Actions (see comments for link) since that feature is complex enough to deserve its own dedicated discussion, and it's the thing that would make all of this genuinely transformative rather than just another notes app. NOTE CREATION — MULTIPLE PATHS INTO THE WORKSPACE Notes should be creatable from four sources, covering every way users currently interact with Superwhisper: 1. FROM SCRATCHA "New Note" button that opens a blank editor. Users should be able to dictate into it or type into it freely. 2. FROM HISTORY ITEMS (ONE-CLICK PROMOTION)Today, History items live as ephemeral transcripts — they're in the list, I can copy them, and eventually they age out. For captures I want to keep and work with further, I need a way to promote them into persistent Notes. Add a "Create Note" or "Send to Note" action on any History item. Clicking it would:- Create a new Note- Pre-populate it with the transcript content- Preserve the original audio if retained- Leave the History item intact for reference This could also deliver on other feature requests like being able to append other voice transcripts to a singular output.This one mechanism alone would dramatically change how useful Superwhisper is for long-form voice work. Today, everything I capture gets paste-and-forget treatment. With a one-click "promote to note," suddenly History becomes a staging area for content I can actually build on. 3. FROM UPLOADED FILES — THE BIGGEST UNDERUSED CAPABILITY IN SUPERWHISPER TODAY Superwhisper already supports uploading files for transcription, and it's an incredibly useful capability, but it feels like it lives in the background. The outputs land in History alongside dictation captures, which isn't really where that kind of long-form content belongs.When users upload a file for transcription, the output should land in Notes as the primary destination, not just History.Why this specifically matters:- File uploads are almost always long-form content: interviews, meetings, podcasts, lectures, voice memos, recorded calls. That content is inherently something you want to keep, edit, summarize, and work with over time — it's exactly what Notes are for.- Users uploading files are explicitly saying "I care about this content." Dropping it into a linear history list treats it the same as a quick dictation to paste into Slack, which undervalues what the user is actually trying to accomplish.- Bringing file uploads front and center as a Notes workflow makes an already-powerful Superwhisper capability much more discoverable. Right now I don't think most users realize how good Superwhisper's file upload support is, because its output doesn't have a natural home. Ideal workflow:1. User drops a file (or picks one from the upload dialog)2. Superwhisper transcribes it using the chosen model3. A new Note is created automatically with the transcript, landing in a default folder or a user-picked folder at upload time4. If the file has multiple speakers, speaker analysis is applied (same mechanic as meeting capture below)5. User can immediately run AI Actions against it — see comments for link Strategic framing: This reframes file upload from "batch transcription utility" into "import recordings into my voice-first workspace." That's a much stronger product positioning, and it uses infrastructure that already exists. You're not building a new feature from scratch — you're giving an existing underused feature a meaningful home. 4. FROM MEETING CAPTURES (AUTOMATIC)When Superwhisper captures a meeting, the transcript should land in Notes automatically as the primary destination, not just in History.- Meeting captures create a new Note automatically when the recording stops- The note includes dual-channel speaker analysis (mic vs system audio), with speakers labeled inline in the transcript- Segment timestamps are preserved chronologically- If Superwhisper can pull meeting metadata from Calendar integrations (attendees, meeting title, start/end time), that should auto-populate the note's metadata Meetings are exactly the content where ephemeral History is the wrong model. You want the transcript. You want it searchable. You want to run summarization against it. You want to refer back to it weeks or months later. Notes are the right home for meeting content. History isn't.OpenWhispr handles this well: they auto-create a meeting note with the raw transcript as the default view, and users can then run an action to generate structured meeting minutes in an "Enhanced" tab sitting alongside the original. The original transcript is never overwritten, which is essential — you always want the source of truth available for reference even after you've generated a summary. ORGANIZATION — FOLDERS WITH DRAG-AND-DROPBasic organizational infrastructure. Once users have more than a handful of notes, they'll need to separate meeting notes from personal notes from project-specific notes. Users should be able to:- Create folders and nested sub-folders- Move notes between folders via drag-and-drop- Set a default folder for automatically-created notes (from file uploads, meetings, promoted History items)- See a sidebar tree view of their folder structure- Rename, move, and delete folders without losing their contents Folders are a prerequisite for any of the automatic-note-creation flows above to feel organized rather than messy. Each of those flows (file uploads, meetings, promoted History items) needs a configurable default folder destination so content lands where the user expects it. THE COMPLEMENT: AI ACTIONSThe features described above give Notes a solid foundation — a place to create, organize, and preserve captures. But the feature that would make this genuinely transformative rather than just another notes app is AI Actions with a non-destructive tab model. That's filed as a separate request because it deserves its own detailed discussion: see comments for link.Short version: reusable prompt templates that users can run against note content with one click, with output landing in a separate "Enhanced" tab alongside the original so nothing gets overwritten. Pairs with every capture source described above — especially meetings and file uploads, where the most valuable thing you can do with a long transcript is run "summarize into decisions and action items" against it. WHY THIS MATTERS OVERALLRight now, if I use Superwhisper to capture a meeting, a long dictation, or a file transcription, I have to switch to Notion, Obsidian, or Apple Notes to do anything meaningful with the output. Notes would close that loop. The whole voice-first workflow — capture, organize, refine, reference — could stay in Superwhisper. OpenWhispr is MIT-licensed if the team wants to review their implementation. The relevant pieces live in their repo.Happy to beta test any version of this.

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