AI Meeting Notes — Open Source, Self-Hosted, Privacy-First

Record meetings, get transcripts, AI summaries, and action items.
Run 100% locally with no API keys, or use cloud AI for better accuracy.

Quick Start · Features · Screenshots · Roadmap · Contributing

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Quick Start

npx create-manor-minutes

Choose Local (no API keys, runs Whisper + Ollama on your machine) or Cloud API (OpenAI/OpenRouter).

Or with Docker:

git clone https://github.com/manor-os/minutes.git
cd minutes
docker compose up -d                          # cloud API mode (set keys in Settings)
# or
docker compose -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose.local.yml up -d   # fully local

Open http://localhost:9002 → Register → Start recording.

Management

./minutes start       # Start all services
./minutes stop        # Stop
./minutes logs        # View logs
./minutes health      # Check all services
./minutes update      # Pull latest & restart
./minutes backup      # Backup database
./minutes help        # All commands

Screenshots

Features

Recording & Transcription

• Live recording with real-time transcript (word-by-word streaming)
• Upload audio — drag-and-drop MP3, WAV, M4A, WebM, OGG, FLAC, MP4
• Speaker diarization — identifies who said what
• 20+ languages supported for transcription
• Local STT — faster-whisper runs on your machine, no API needed

AI-Powered Analysis

• Meeting summary — concise overview of what was discussed
• Key points extraction
• Action items with assignees and deadlines
• Meeting templates — standup, 1-on-1, retrospective, brainstorm, client call, interview
• AI chat — ask questions about any meeting ("What did we decide about pricing?")
• Local LLM — Ollama (Qwen 2.5) for fully offline summarization

Organization & Search

• Cross-meeting search — full-text search across all transcripts with context snippets
• Tags & favorites for organizing meetings
• Sort & filter by date, duration, status
• Bulk operations — select and delete multiple meetings
• Inline rename — double-click to rename meeting titles
• Pagination for large libraries

Collaboration

• Share meetings — read-only public links, one click to copy
• Webhook notifications — Slack, Discord, or any URL when a meeting is processed
• Browser notifications when processing completes
• Export — download as Audio, Text, or PDF

User Experience

• Dark mode — system, dark, or light theme
• Keyboard shortcuts — R record, S stop, Cmd+K search, D dark mode, ? help
• Audio playback in meeting detail
• Error boundary — app recovers gracefully from crashes
• PWA — installable on mobile

Self-Hosted & Private

• 100% local mode — no data leaves your machine (faster-whisper + Ollama)
• MinIO object storage for audio files
• PostgreSQL database
• Docker Compose — one command to deploy everything
• Your data, your server — no third-party analytics or tracking

Architecture

Minutes
├── phone-recorder/     React PWA (Vite)
├── browser-extension/  Chrome/Edge extension
├── backend/
│   ├── api/            FastAPI REST API
│   ├── celery_tasks.py Async processing (transcribe → summarize → extract)
│   ├── database/       PostgreSQL models & migrations
│   └── mcp_server/     MCP integration (cloud edition)
├── docker-compose.yml  Base stack (Postgres, Redis, MinIO, Backend, Frontend)
├── minutes             CLI management tool
└── installer/          npx create-manor-minutes

Editions

	Community (OSS)	Local	Cloud
Auth	Local (email/password)	Local	Manor SSO + Google
STT	OpenAI Whisper API	faster-whisper (local)	OpenAI Whisper
LLM	OpenRouter / OpenAI	Ollama (local)	OpenRouter
Storage	MinIO	MinIO	MinIO
API Keys	Set in Settings	None needed	Server-side
Cost	Your API usage	Free (your hardware)	Managed

Configuration

API keys are configured per-user in Settings (not server env vars). Each user brings their own keys.

Local Mode (no API keys)

docker compose -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose.local.yml up -d

Runs faster-whisper for transcription and Ollama (Qwen 2.5 3B) for summarization. Needs ~6GB RAM.

Cloud API Mode

docker compose up -d

Register → Settings → Enter your OpenAI key (for Whisper) and OpenRouter key (for summarization).

About

Minutes is the first standalone module from Manor AI — an operating system for one-person companies. Meeting notes flow into your Manor knowledge base, and AI agents can reference them to execute tasks.

License

MIT

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for development setup and guidelines.