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Use MeetCap with Obsidian

Your meeting library is a folder of Markdown notes, so Obsidian can open it as it is. MeetCap writes the notes, and Obsidian shows them with their links and properties.

Open your meetings in Obsidian

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Do one of the following:

  • Open the library as a vault of its own. In Obsidian, open your meeting library folder as a vault.
  • Put the library in a vault you already have. Move the library into your vault’s folder. The meetings go beside your notes, and nothing there is overwritten. See Move your meeting library.

To find your library folder, right-click the MeetCap icon in the menu bar and choose Show Meetings in Finder.

If this Mac syncs Obsidian with iCloud

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On a Mac that syncs Obsidian with iCloud, the library is in iCloud Drive › Obsidian › MeetCap by default. Open this folder as a vault in Obsidian to read your meeting notes on your Mac and iPhone.

If your library is somewhere else, Settings › General suggests moving it there.

What you see

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Each meeting is a folder named with its date, time, and title, for example 20261013-1847-weekly-sync-1wk6. It holds:

  • meeting.md, the meeting note: properties, the minutes, and a link to the transcript.
  • transcript.md, the transcript, with each speaker and time.
  • meeting.en.md or meeting.zh.md, the minutes in the other language, if you wrote them.
  • summaries.md, the summaries from during the meeting, if there are any.

Each point in the minutes links to its line in the transcript. During a meeting, meeting.md and transcript.md update as people speak.

Because every meeting note is named meeting.md, search by meeting title rather than file name. Each note lists the meeting title and date as an alias in its properties.

The library also holds glossary.md, your glossary, shown as a table. MeetCap keeps its own data in a hidden .meetcap folder, which Obsidian doesn’t show.

Add tags

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The note properties include tags. To tag every new meeting, add tags under Default note tags in Settings › General. MeetCap adds them to the note of each meeting from then on.

Keep your own notes separate

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MeetCap writes the meeting notes from the meeting’s data. It writes them again when something changes, such as a speaker’s name or new minutes. Edits you made in Obsidian are then lost.

  • Write your own thoughts in a separate note and link it to the meeting note.
  • To change a name or the minutes, do it in MeetCap or ask your agent.
  • You can edit glossary.md directly. MeetCap keeps your changes.