/minutes-note

Add a timestamped note during a recording, or annotate a past meeting.

During a recording

# Add a note to the active recording (auto-timestamped)
minutes note "Alex wants monthly billing not annual billing"
minutes note "Case agreed — compromise at monthly billing for experiment"

Each note gets a timestamp matching the recording position (e.g.,

[4:23]

). Notes feed into the LLM summarizer as high-priority context — the AI knows what you thought was important and weights those parts of the transcript more heavily in the summary.

After a meeting

# Annotate an existing meeting file
minutes note "Follow-up: Alex confirmed via email on Mar 18" --meeting ~/meetings/2026-03-17-pricing-call.md

Appends to the

## Notes

section of the meeting file with a date stamp.

Tips

• Notes are plain text — just type what you're thinking, no formatting needed
• Short notes work best: "pricing pushback" > "Alex expressed concerns about the current pricing structure and suggested..."
• Notes are searchable via

  minutes search

Gotchas

• Must have an active recording for live notes —

  minutes note "..."

  without

  --meeting

  requires a recording in progress. Check with

  minutes status

  first. If no recording is active, use

  --meeting <path>

  to annotate an existing file.

• --meeting

  requires the full path — Use the exact path from

  minutes list

  or

  minutes search

  , e.g.,

  --meeting ~/meetings/2026-03-17-pricing-call.md

  . Tab completion works.
• Notes don't support markdown — The note content is plain text. Markdown formatting like

  **bold**

  or

  - lists

  will be stored literally, not rendered.
• Quotes in notes need escaping — If your note contains quotes, wrap the whole thing in single quotes or escape them:

  minutes note 'Alex said "no way"'

  .