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How to use Samurai Scribe
What the app does with a meeting, where everything is kept, and how to make it do more. Each page says which version it was checked with.
Common questions
- I am new. What do I do first?
- Where are my meetings and recordings kept?
- Does anything leave my computer?
- I recorded a meeting. Why is there no transcript?
- How do I make the transcript spell a name right?
- How do I sync between two computers?
- Can I delete the large audio files?
- Can the assistant change my notes without asking?
- How do I keep the assistant out of a folder?
- How do I make a skill run after every meeting?
- Why didn't my automation run?
- How do I change what goes in the summary?
- Can I keep my meetings in my Obsidian vault?
- Which features need Pro?
Start here
- How Samurai Scribe works The path a meeting takes in Samurai Scribe, from recording or import to transcript, speakers, summary, your vault and the assistant.
- Your first meeting From first launch to a transcript, named speakers, a summary and a first question to the assistant. The setup steps, the downloads, and what to press.
- Transcription Choose the language and model Samurai Scribe transcribes with, try two models side by side, and pick whether it runs on your graphics card or processor.
- The Dictionary Partly Pro Your own spellings of names, products and jargon, used wherever speech becomes text in Samurai Scribe, in meeting transcripts, live captions and dictation.
- Glossary What Samurai Scribe means by vault, meeting, run, profile, step, script, skill, automation, project, notebook, Dictionary, AI app and its other words.
The assistant
- The assistant Ask Samurai Scribe about your meetings and notes. Where to open the assistant, what it reads, citations, images, saving answers, memory and which model answers.
- Changes, modes and undo What the assistant, skills and AI apps may change without asking. The four modes, reviewing a change, a meeting's changes, undo, rewind and deleted notes.
- Live meeting help Pro With Pro, ask the assistant about the meeting you're in while it's recorded. The four quick actions, your own questions, running notes and the companion window.
Projects and files
- Projects and chats How the assistant's chats are kept. Projects and Home, starting, moving and finding chats, a project's memory, and what reaches your other computers.
- Files and the editor The Files pane shows your vault as a tree beside the assistant. Open files in tabs, make, move and delete notes and folders, and write in the note editor.
- Folder access What the assistant and connected AI apps may do in each folder of your vault, Can edit, Read only or Hidden. The defaults, how rules apply, and what each guarantees.
Your vault
- The vault Where Samurai Scribe keeps your meetings, a folder of Markdown and audio you own. What is in it, what you can edit, what to leave alone, and how to sync it.
- Using Samurai Scribe with Obsidian Keep your meetings in your Obsidian vault. Which folder choice to make, what meetings look like in Obsidian, links, tags, Dataview queries, plugins and syncing.
Skills and automations
- Skills Plain-English instructions for tasks you repeat. The built-in skills, translating a transcript, running a skill, the shared library and what a skill may change.
- Writing a skill Make your own skill in the app's editor or as a SKILL.md file. The fields, the settings the app reads, arguments, what a skill can do, and how to make it work well.
- Automations Pro Have a skill run by itself after each meeting is processed, before calendar meetings, or on a schedule. Automations need Pro and run while Samurai Scribe is open.
Profiles and scripts
- Processing profiles A profile is the recipe a run follows, from transcribing and telling voices apart to the steps that write the meeting up. Choosing, changing and making them.
- Scripting Scripts decide exactly how a profile writes up a meeting, and can update notes across your vault. Where they live, the editor, the step's settings, and a first script.
- Scripting reference Everything a Samurai Scribe script can use in scripting API 1.6: the meeting, transcript, notes, model, your vault, calendar, standard library, limits and versions.
- Scripting cookbook Complete Samurai Scribe scripts to copy and change, each checked with Validate in 0.65.0: languages, long meetings, notes in your vault, stats and more.