Notes from the workshop.
Why we build Savory the way we do: on-device AI, people-centric design, and software that tells the truth about itself. No content-farm cadence; when there's something worth saying, it lands here.
Meeting notes without a bot in the room
Meeting bots became normal without ever becoming welcome. Here's how Savory takes meeting notes without a bot, capturing both sides of a call on macOS with nothing joining the meeting.
Read the article →Record lectures on Mac without them leaking into work
Most apps keep class and work in one pile and split them with a filter a bug can forget. Savory's Student mode puts lectures in their own tables, so the wall is the shape of the data, not a query the code has to remember.
Record meetings from Google Calendar without inviting a bot
Taking the bot out of the room raises a fair question: a bot was convenient because it knew when to appear. Recording from the calendar event keeps that convenience without the guest on the call.
AI meeting summary privacy: what actually leaves your Mac
Most of Savory stays on your device by construction. The optional AI summary is the only path out, so here is exactly what it sends, what it strips, and what it deliberately does not.
Commitments run both directions: rethinking the meeting action item tracker
Most trackers record only your half of a commitment, which is the cheap half. Savory treats an action item as a two-person debt and reconstructs the second direction on device, so what you owe surfaces on the page of the person you owe it to.
People, not piles: why meeting notes should orbit humans
Every capture tool files meetings by date. But before a call you never ask 'what happened on the 12th?', you ask 'where did I leave things with her?'. Design for the real question.
How Savory enforces meeting recording consent before it records
Meeting recording consent in Savory is not a checkbox, it is a gate that runs before capture on calendar events. Here is the precedence chain that decides each recording, the fail-safe defaults, and the audit log you can read but not quietly rewrite.
How to record both sides of a call on Mac without a bot
Once you refuse the bot, the far side leaks from your speakers into your mic. Here is how Savory captures both sides on a Mac and cancels the echo so the transcript never argues with itself.
The audio never becomes a file: meeting transcription without recording audio
Most privacy work protects the recording. Savory does meeting transcription without recording audio: the raw sound is processed in memory, turned into text, and never written to disk as a file.
On-device meeting transcription is an architecture, not a setting
Savory runs transcription on your own hardware with WhisperKit, on macOS and iOS, so the audio never has to leave. This is the whole architecture, the integrity checks that back it, and the trade-offs we will not paper over.
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