Your meeting library

Your meeting library is the folder where MeetCap keeps your meetings. Each meeting is a folder of ordinary files. You can open them in Finder or Obsidian, sync them with iCloud Drive or OneDrive, and let your agent read them.

Recordings aren’t in the library. They stay on the computer that recorded them; see Recordings stay on your computer.

Where the library is

You choose the folder during first-time setup. By default, it’s iCloud Drive › MeetCap, so your other Macs can open the same meetings. On a Mac that syncs Obsidian with iCloud, the default is iCloud Drive › Obsidian › MeetCap. If the Mac doesn’t use iCloud Drive, the default is Documents › MeetCap. You can also choose a folder in OneDrive, or a folder inside an Obsidian vault.

• To see where it is, open Settings › General and look at Location.
• To open it in Finder, right-click the MeetCap icon in the menu bar and choose Show Meetings in Finder.
• To move it, see Move your meeting library.

What’s in a meeting folder

Each meeting has its own folder. The name starts with the date and time the meeting started, then the title, for example 20261013-0930-weekly-sync-k3x9. If you rename the meeting later, the folder keeps its name.

Finder and Obsidian show only the files written for you to read:

• meeting.md: the meeting note. It has the date, who spoke, tags, the minutes, and a link to the transcript.
• transcript.md: the transcript. Each line shows who spoke and when.
• meeting.zh.md or meeting.en.md: the meeting note in the other language, if you have minutes in it.
• summaries.md: the summaries written during the meeting, if there are any.

MeetCap keeps its own data for the meeting in a hidden .meetcap folder. For every file, see Files and folders.

MeetCap writes the notes for you

MeetCap writes the meeting note, the transcript, and the summaries from the data in .meetcap. When you name a speaker, rename the meeting, or get new minutes, it writes them again. Changes you make to these files by hand are lost the next time.

To keep your own notes about a meeting, write them in a separate note and link it to the meeting note. To change the words of the transcript or the minutes, ask your agent, or export the meeting and edit the copy.

What else is in the library

• glossary.md: your glossary of the names and terms that come up in your meetings. See Get names and terms right with the glossary.
• The voices of the people MeetCap knows, and the library’s settings. MeetCap keeps them in the hidden .meetcap folder at the top of the library.

Use one library on several Macs

If the library is in iCloud Drive or another sync folder, each Mac that uses it has the same meetings, people, and glossary.

On a Mac that didn’t record a meeting, you can read the meeting, name speakers, get new minutes, and export it. You can’t play it back, because the recording stays on the Mac that made it.

Recording schedules and your API key stay on the computer where you set them up.

Read the library in Obsidian

Open the library folder in Obsidian, or keep the library inside a vault you already use. Each meeting shows its meeting note and its transcript, and each point in the minutes links to the line it came from. See Use MeetCap with Obsidian.