Meeting actions

Turn a transcript into a prompt for your own AI

After a meeting, the Summary, Action items and Custom prompt buttons copy a ready-made prompt with your transcript already attached. You paste it into whichever assistant you use. You can also write your own notes in the app.

The buttons copy a prompt plus the transcript. They do not generate notes. JesRecap has no local language model and no cloud AI, on Mac or Windows. The note is written by the AI tool you paste into, or by you.

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Finish the meeting

Press Stop. JesRecap mixes the tracks and transcribes locally. Everything stays on your disk.

Press an action

Summary, action items, or your own custom prompt. The prompt behind each button is yours to edit.

Paste it

The prompt and transcript land on your clipboard, for the assistant of your choosing.

Three actions, out of the box

These are the prompts JesRecap ships with. Each one is editable in settings, and each one is copied together with the meeting transcript.

Summary

For when someone needs to understand the meeting without reading forty minutes of transcript.

You will receive a meeting transcript. Create a concise, factual summary that helps someone understand the meeting without reading the full transcript. Include: - A short overview of what the meeting was about - The key topics discussed - Decisions that were actually made - Important unresolved questions or follow-ups Do not invent facts, decisions, names, owners, or deadlines. Clearly say when something was not specified.

Action items

Commitments only. Written to resist the habit of turning every idea into a task with an invented owner.

You will receive a meeting transcript. Extract only concrete action items and commitments. For every action item, provide: - Task - Owner - Due date - Relevant context Return a clean Markdown checklist. If the owner or due date was not stated, write 'Not specified'. Do not turn suggestions or general discussion into tasks, and do not invent details.

Custom prompt

Your own instruction, saved once and reused after every meeting. An example of the shape that works well:

You will receive a transcript of a client call. Draft a short follow-up email from me to the client. Cover only what was actually discussed: - What we agreed - What I owe them, and by when - What I need from them - Anything we deliberately left open Keep it under 200 words, plain and warm, no sales language. Leave a [bracketed placeholder] wherever a date or figure was not clearly stated.

Alongside the prompt actions, JesRecap can copy the plain transcript on its own, and export Markdown notes, plain text, a JSON archive, SRT/VTT captions, or the WAV audio.

Why "no cloud AI" is the feature

It would have been easier to wire the app to somebody's API and call it intelligence. We did not, and the reason is not laziness. An embedded cloud summariser means choosing an AI vendor on your behalf, and that choice carries a data policy you never agreed to.

So the copy-a-prompt action hands the text to you and stops. The transcript stays on the disk it was recorded on unless you personally move it:

  • Your AI, your rules. If your employer has approved exactly one assistant, paste into that one. If you prefer a different provider next quarter, switch. No app update needed.
  • No vendor required. Paste into a model you run yourself and no third party is anywhere in the chain.
  • The transcript moves only when you move it. JesRecap never transmits your meeting content. The copy action puts text on your clipboard, and the decision to paste it, and where, is a deliberate act you take per meeting.
  • Nothing to keep paying for. No token costs baked into a subscription, and no summary quota. If you would rather use an assistant you already pay for, that works.
  • You see the prompt. Hidden prompts are why AI summaries so often feel wrong in a way you cannot fix. Here the instruction is plain text you can read and rewrite before it goes anywhere.
  • The app ages well. A recorder that does not depend on a model provider does not break when that provider changes its API, its pricing, or its terms.

JesRecap's job is to capture the conversation and hand it to you in a useful shape. What you think with afterwards is your business.

Make the actions yours

The defaults are a starting point, not a constraint. In the app's Customize meeting actions panel you can:

  • Edit the summary and action-items prompts. Change the tone, the structure, the output format. Restore the default at any time if an experiment goes badly.
  • Write your own custom prompt. A SOAP-style clinical note, a recruiting scorecard, minutes in your organisation's house format, a translation, a risk log.
  • Choose which buttons appear, and in what order. Keep the card down to the two you actually press.
  • Rely on the transcript being appended automatically. Write the instruction only. The latest transcript is added for you when you press the button.

A prompt that consistently produces the note you want is worth more than any vendor's hidden default, and it takes about five minutes to tune.

Meeting actions, answered

Does JesRecap send my transcript to an AI service?

No. There is no cloud AI in the app and no API keys. The action copies text to your clipboard and nothing is transmitted. If you then paste it into an online assistant, that transfer is yours, made knowingly.

Does JesRecap write the summary itself?

No. JesRecap has no local language model and does not generate notes, summaries or titles. The buttons prepare a prompt; the AI tool you paste it into writes the note. You can also write your own notes in the app.

What happened to AI notes on this device?

Earlier Mac preview builds had an optional local notes model. It has been removed. Notes it wrote are kept with their meetings and stay editable.

Which AI tools can I use?

Any tool that accepts pasted text: a web chat, a desktop assistant, your company's internal deployment, or a model running locally on your own machine. Because the output is just text, nothing needs to support JesRecap.

Can I get summaries with no cloud involved at all?

Yes, if you paste the prompt into a model you run yourself. Recording and transcription are local, so the whole path from audio to written note can stay on your machine.

What exactly ends up on my clipboard?

The prompt template followed by the meeting transcript, ready to paste in one go. You do not need to attach or upload a file, and you can read the whole thing before you send it.

Can I change the built-in prompts?

Yes. Both the summary and action-items templates are editable in settings, with a restore-default option. There is also a slot for your own custom prompt.

Can I have more than one custom prompt?

There is one custom prompt slot in the current preview, alongside the two built-in templates. You can rewrite it whenever your workflow changes.

What if the transcript is very long?

Long meetings produce long transcripts, and some assistants have input limits. The plain-transcript copy and the Markdown export make it easy to work through a long meeting in sections if you need to.

Is this the same as meeting templates?

Not quite. A template is a document you fill in. A meeting action is an instruction plus the actual conversation, so the note is written from what was really said, and you decide the format by writing the prompt.

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