Show HN: Aside – Local meeting capture with vault-native AI distillation
TL;DR
I built aside this weekend because I was tired of pasting meeting transcripts into Claude Code myself to get notes that actually connected to my Obsidian vault. Every tool I tried either required an account, sent my audio to a server, or produced summaries disconnected from where I actually think. aside is a ~5MB Rust binary that records meetings and feeds them into an AI-native transcription-to-vault workflow: 1. Record — captures mic + system audio simultaneously (stereo WAV, left=you, right=them) with a timestamped TUI editor for real-time notes 2. Transcribe — local transcription via whisper.cpp, with a 7-stage cleanup pipeline that strips hallucinations, deduplicates backchannels, and merges fragments 3. Align — interleaves your memo lines with the transcript on a shared timeline, so you can see what was said around each thing you noted 4. Distill — a Claude Code skill searches your.
Nauti's Take
Aside proves you can ditch cloud uploads; a tiny Rust binary records meetings, runs Whisper locally, and stitches Claude Code into your vault timeline. If you re still dumping transcripts into random servers, you're ignoring how much faster it is to own the workflow end-to-end.
Summary
I built aside this weekend because I was tired of pasting meeting transcripts into Claude Code myself to get notes that actually connected to my Obsidian vault. Every tool I tried either required an account, sent my audio to a server, or produced summaries disconnected from where I actually think.
aside is a ~5MB Rust binary that records meetings and feeds them into an AI-native transcription-to-vault workflow: 1. Record — captures mic + system audio simultaneously (stereo WAV, left=you, right=them) with a timestamped TUI editor for real-time notes 2. Transcribe — local transcription via whisper. cpp, with a 7-stage cleanup pipeline that strips hallucinations, deduplicates backchannels, and merges fragments 3. Align — interleaves your memo lines with the transcript on a shared timeline, so you can see what was said around each thing you noted 4. Distill — a Claude Code skill searches your
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