{"slug": "show-hn-nod-mac-meeting-notes-that-don-t-join-the-call-or-store-audio", "title": "Show HN: Nod – Mac meeting notes that don't join the call or store audio", "summary": "Nod, a new AI notepad for macOS, captures and transcribes meetings, calls, and voice notes without joining the call or storing audio, processing audio in five-second chunks and discarding it immediately after transcription. The tool offers searchable, editable notes in over ten languages, with data encrypted and stored in EU-based servers, and emphasizes privacy by not integrating with meeting apps or sharing notes.", "body_md": "Nod is an AI notepad for macOS that turns your meetings, calls, and voice notes into clean, searchable notes — without joining your meetings or storing audio.\n\nCaptured on your Mac, kept in one place, and shaped around you.\n\nAs is — without Nod\n\n1:1 with Maya\n\nstuck on Q2 roadmap\n\nteam morale dipping, post-reorg\n\npromotion convo: Andriy\n\nscope Q3 demo by fri\n\nWith Nod\n\n1:1 with Maya\n\nNod listens through your Mac's audio. A call in any app, a podcast, a video you're watching — whatever's playing, Nod captures it and turns it into notes. Calls never see a bot in the room.\n\nQuiet by design\n\nA small glyph at the top of your screen — no dock icon, no window stealing focus, no cmd-tab clutter. Click it to start a recording, open your library, or quit. That's it.\n\nMaya Schneider\n\nmaya@getnod.com\n\nProduct weekly — onboarding flow\n\nDecisions\n\nAction items\n\nOpen questions\n\nAfter the call\n\nTitle, summary, transcript. Editable. Saved as you type. Nothing you have to clean up before sharing.\n\nKnows your context\n\nTell Nod who you are once. Your role and what you're shipping get threaded into every summary and every answer — so recaps land in your world, not a generic one.\n\nWhat Nod remembers about you\n\nSavedYour name\n\nWhat you do\n\nWhat you're working on\n\nYou told the team you'd open two engineering roles this quarter and have a shortlist ready before the next 1:1 with Klara.\n\nPolyglot by default\n\nNod transcribes and summarizes meetings in ten-plus languages — your team writes the way they think.\n\nTrust\n\nQuiet, verifiable facts about how Nod handles your data. Each one links to the section of our security doc where it's spelled out.\n\nAudio is processed in ~5-second chunks and discarded the moment the transcript returns. Only the transcript and summary are saved.\n\nNeither we nor our subprocessors. Calls route through OpenRouter with Zero Data Retention and providers with no-train commitments (Azure OpenAI, Google Vertex).\n\nSupabase Postgres in AWS eu-west-1 (Ireland). TLS 1.2+ in transit, AES-256 at rest, Row-Level Security per user.\n\nNo team workspaces, no shared notes, no public links — your meetings are visible only to you.\n\nFull document: [Security & Privacy](/policies/security)\n\nFAQ\n\nNo. It listens through your Mac and that's it. No bot in the participant list, no \"Nod has joined\" moment, no link to share with the host. The people on your call don't see anything new.\n\nEleven for now: English, Mandarin, Hindi, Spanish, French, Arabic, Bengali, Portuguese, Russian, Urdu, and Ukrainian. Whatever language the meeting is in, that's the language your notes come back in. I'll add more as people ask.\n\nNo. Audio is held in memory only long enough to chunk it (~5 seconds) and transcribe it. The bytes are released the moment the transcript returns — no file, no waveform export, no cloud-stored audio. Only the transcript and your AI summary are saved. Details: [Security § Audio recordings](/policies/security#audio-recordings).\n\nIn Supabase Postgres in the EU (AWS eu-west-1, Ireland), encrypted at rest with AES-256. Per-user Row-Level Security on every table. See [Security § Infrastructure](/policies/security#infrastructure).\n\nNo. Neither we nor our subprocessors. LLM and Whisper calls go through OpenRouter with Zero Data Retention enabled and all \"may train on request data\" routes disabled — so the upstream providers (Azure OpenAI, Google Vertex) don't train on your data either. Details: [Security § Model training](/policies/security#model-training).\n\nYeah, all three. Nod listens to your Mac's audio, so it doesn't care which app the call is in. Slack huddles, Discord, FaceTime, even a phone call you've got on speaker — all the same to it.\n\nNod doesn't post a notice in the meeting chat — it can't, because it runs locally on your Mac and never integrates with Zoom, Google Meet, or Microsoft Teams. So letting other participants know is on you.\n\nBefore your first recording, Nod shows a one-time disclaimer reminding you to get consent from everyone on the call. Recording laws vary by place — some require all-party consent. See the [Recording & Consent guide](/policies/consent) for a quick reference.\n\nStart with your next conversation. Free during beta. 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