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Private AI for the workday
Capture everything.
Understand what matters.
Echo Scribe captures your conversations, thoughts, meetings, and screen recordings, then organizes them into searchable work context. See what is happening, decide what matters, and improve what happens next.
Runs locally on your MacNo account or cloud backendCapture voice, meetings & screens
The work memory loop
You can’t manage what you can’t see.
Important work is spread across conversations, half-formed thoughts, meetings, and recordings. Echo Scribe turns those moments into a living picture of your work, so progress and gaps do not stay invisible.
01 / CAPTURE
Keep the moment
Speak naturally, record a meeting, or capture your screen without breaking your flow.
02 / ORGANIZE
Make it usable
Transcripts become notes, tasks, tags, projects, summaries, and searchable context.
03 / SEE
Find the signal
Understand what was decided, what is still open, and where a conversation or project stands.
04 / IMPROVE
Act with context
Follow up, ask your work memory, and use what you learn to run the next conversation better.
Capture Without Friction
Get ideas out of your head and into the work.
Press a hotkey and speak wherever you are. Echo Scribe can put polished words at your cursor, or save a thought for later. Your voice becomes an input layer for every app and an organized record of what you meant to do.
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Speak in the momentDictate into Slack, Gmail, Notes, VS Code, or any other app.
2
Let local AI clean it upFiller words and rough phrasing do not have to survive the first draft.
3
Keep movingText appears at your cursor, or the thought is saved for organization later.
Slack — #general
Hey team, just a quick heads-up: the sprint review is moving to Thursday at 3 pm. Please update your calendars and let me know if that doesn't work.
Listening…⌃ Space
Guided Templates
Run better conversations while they are happening.
Important calls are hard to lead and even harder to remember. Start a guided template for a client call, interview, coaching session, discovery conversation, or team meeting. Echo Scribe keeps the goal in view, shows what to ask next, and tracks what has been covered.
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Choose the shape of the conversationUse a repeatable guide instead of rebuilding your preparation every time.
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Stay oriented in real timeSee prompts, suggestions, and key points while you listen and speak.
3
Leave with a useful recordThe transcript, summary, decisions, and follow-up flow into your work memory.
Client discovery · Northstar● Live
Suggested next questionWhat would make this workflow feel successful three months from now?
✓Understand the current workflow
✓Identify the cost of the problem
○Define the desired outcome
○Agree on next steps
Everything Becomes Context
Capture the work around the work.
Meetings, voice notes, screen recordings, and passing thoughts all contain useful signals. Echo Scribe transcribes them, identifies what they are about, tags them, and routes them to the right project so your work does not disappear into disconnected files.
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Capture from wherever work happensUse voice, Zoom or meeting recording, or screen recording when the moment matters.
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Let the system add structureTranscripts become notes, tasks, decisions, tags, and project context.
3
Find it when you need itSearch your work memory, ask questions, and see the thread across sources.
Meeting
Northstar wants weekly progress visibility before the next review
Client discovery · tagged Northstar
Screen
Checkout drop-off begins after the pricing step
Screen recording · tagged Growth
Task
Send a follow-up with the proposed weekly reporting workflow
Created from meeting · just now
A Clearer Operating Picture
Turn scattered moments into a status you can act on.
Once the work is captured and organized, patterns become visible. See the decisions, open questions, commitments, and follow-ups that shape a project. Daily recaps, search, and local chat help you move from “what happened?” to “what should happen next?”
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Trace the threadBring together meetings, recordings, notes, and tasks by project.
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Spot what is missingSee unresolved questions and commitments before they become surprises.
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Improve the next moveUse the record to prepare, follow up, and run the next conversation better.
Northstar · work statusTHIS WEEK
12captured moments
4open decisions
7follow-ups
Discovery coverage82%
Follow-up completed64%
Next gap to resolvePricing workflow
Privacy
Your work stays yours.
No cloud backend. No account. No data sold. Dictation, recordings, transcripts, and project context stay under your control on your Mac.
Quick dictation stays ephemeral
Short voice input is processed locally and can be discarded after transcription. You decide what becomes part of your work memory.
Works fully offline
Models download once, then run locally forever. After setup, Echo Scribe works with no internet connection at all.
No account required
There is no sign-up, no license key, no tracking ID. Nothing is phoned home. Install and it works.
Your data, your folder
Notes live in a SQLite file on your Mac. Export it, back it up, or delete it — full control, always.
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