Talk in. Markdown out.

Quickstart

brew install scty-inc/tap/tokdown
open -a TokDown

Then click the menu bar icon and press Record, or pick a meeting from your calendar.

• macOS 26 on an Apple Silicon Mac. macOS only.
• macOS downloads Apple's speech model once. Transcription then runs on the Mac.
• Permission to record audio and the microphone. Calendar is optional.

The file is the database

Each recording is one markdown file, named by date. Audio is deleted once the transcript is saved.

~/Documents/Transcripts/2026-03-13_16-00_Quarterly_planning….md

---
title: "Quarterly planning kickoff and budget review with hiring updates"
source: "manual_recording"
audio_source: "system_audio_and_microphone"
recording_started_at: "2026-03-13T16:00:00Z"
recording_ended_at: "2026-03-13T16:12:00Z"
---

# Quarterly planning kickoff and budget review with hiring updates

Coming: Limitless Pendant

An iPhone companion for the Limitless Pendant is in the same repo. It builds, but it is not released. The phone does not send audio to the Mac. It transcribes on the iPhone and pushes the same kind of markdown file to a GitHub repo you choose.

Why

Can a meeting transcript be a plain file on your own Mac, with nothing sent anywhere?

Notes are more useful as markdown you can search, version and hand to an agent. Apple's on-device speech API in macOS 26 made a small, local recorder possible. The hard part was capture. Screen capture recorded silence with the lid closed, and a restart once destroyed a 49-minute recording. Now TokDown keeps recording with the lid closed and finishes interrupted recordings on next launch.

If you delete it tomorrow, you lose nothing you finished

Your transcripts stay where they are, as plain files. Only a recording that was cut off and never finished stays behind as raw audio.