Show HN: Meeting Notes Sync – import transcripts and AI summaries into Obsidian

Developer Andrea Grandi released an Obsidian plugin that syncs meeting transcripts, notes, and AI summaries from MacParakeet and Fellow into a user's vault, merging recordings from both sources into a single folder. The plugin is pending community-store review and can be installed via BRAT or manually.

Sync meeting transcripts, notes, and AI summaries from MacParakeet and Fellow into your vault. Obsidian plugin that syncs your meeting transcripts, notes, and AI summaries into your vault — from MacParakeet https://macparakeet.com and Fellow https://fellow.app , one folder per meeting. A meeting recorded by both sources merges into a single folder instead of duplicating. Summary MacParakeet .md , Summary Fellow .md , so a meeting captured by both stays unambiguous. merge-confidence: low for review. Meetings/2026/06 - June/2 - Weekly Standup - Jun 11th/ 2 - Weekly Standup - Jun 11th.md ← index: macparakeet-id + fellow-id + interval Summary MacParakeet .md Transcript MacParakeet .md Notes.md Summary Fellow .md Action Items Fellow .md Transcript Fellow .md Each source is toggled independently; a disabled source is completely inert — no requests, writes, or notices. Reads meetings from macparakeet-cli no network, no accounts, no database access . Requires macOS with MacParakeet https://macparakeet.com installed the CLI ships inside the app or the standalone CLI brew install moona3k/tap/macparakeet-cli , and Obsidian desktop. The plugin auto-detects the CLI Homebrew paths, then the app bundle ; override the path in settings if needed, and the health check confirms it. Enable it in Settings → Meeting Notes Sync . Polls Fellow's REST Developer API for cloud AI recaps. Setup: acme in acme.fellow.app and ⚠️ The Fellow key is stored in plaintext in data.json standard for API-backed plugins . If your vault is in git or a synced folder, exclude that file and treat the key as a secret; revoke it in Fellow if it leaks. Pending community-store review — until it lands there, install via BRAT https://github.com/TfTHacker/obsidian42-brat Add beta plugin → andreagrandi/obsidian-meeting-notes-sync , or manually drop main.js + manifest.json from a release https://github.com/andreagrandi/obsidian-meeting-notes-sync/releases into <vault /.obsidian/plugins/meeting-notes-sync/ and enable the plugin. To build from source: git clone https://github.com/andreagrandi/obsidian-meeting-notes-sync cd obsidian-meeting-notes-sync && npm install && npm run build copy main.js + manifest.json into <vault /.obsidian/plugins/meeting-notes-sync/ If you used an earlier build under the macparakeet-sync id: quit Obsidian, rename <vault /.obsidian/plugins/macparakeet-sync/ → meeting-notes-sync/ , reopen, and re-enable. This keeps data.json numbering, snapshots, file ownership so the next sync is a no-op instead of re-importing. Existing folders keep their names; only new artifacts get the source suffix. Sync runs shortly after launch and every 30 minutes configurable; 0 disables , or on demand via the ribbon icon / Sync now . The main settings: Meetings/… is the root . {year} · {month} · {monthName} June · {monthShort} Jun · {day} · {dayOrdinal} 2nd · {date} YYYY-MM-DD · {n} per-month number · {title} . Unknown tokens are left as-is. Default: Meetings/{year}/{month} - {monthName}/{n} - {title} - {monthShort} {dayOrdinal} → Meetings/2026/06 - June/4 - Core sync-discovery - Jun 2nd . The trailing date disambiguates recurring meetings that share a title. Overlap threshold fraction of the shorter meeting, default 0.5 and minimum overlap minutes govern when two sources' meetings are treated as one. Raise them to merge more conservatively. | Command | What it does | |---|---| Sync now | Sync enabled sources; reports X new, Y updated, Z unchanged | Check connection | Verify macparakeet-cli is reachable Fellow's check lives in settings | Force re-sync | Re-process all in-scope meetings picks up in-place regenerated summaries | {n} and the folder name are frozen on first import and never change — a later source merges in without renumbering.Each source sits behind a common adapter and a source-agnostic engine: MacParakeet via macparakeet-cli meetings list/show/results list --json , Fellow via its REST API /me , /recordings , /recording/{id} , /note/{id} with updated at change detection. Meetings are merged across sources by interval overlap, and sync state numbering, per-file ownership, per-source snapshots lives in data.json . Details in PLAN.md PLAN.md . npm install npm run dev esbuild watch npm test vitest npm run build typecheck + production bundle CI runs build + tests on every push and PR. Live Fellow test — npx -y tsx scripts/fellow-live-test.mts runs the real engine local CLI + live Fellow API into a temp vault. It reads FELLOW SUBDOMAIN / FELLOW API KEY from .env see .env.example for the harness only; the plugin itself never reads the environment — end users configure the subdomain and key in the settings UI. Releasing — npm run release <major.minor.patch e.g. npm run release 0.3.1 bumps package.json , manifest.json , versions.json , and the lockfile, then commits and creates the unprefixed X.Y.Z tag. Push it git push origin master && git push origin <version to trigger .github/workflows/release.yml , which attests main.js 's build provenance and attaches main.js + manifest.json to a GitHub release Obsidian downloads only those two; versions.json is read from the repo . A plain npm run script is used not the npm version lifecycle hook so it works regardless of a global ignore-scripts=true . Community-store submission to obsidianmd/obsidian-releases https://github.com/obsidianmd/obsidian-releases is a one-time manual step after the first release.