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the vault.
Field notes on building a second brain that actually holds everything — the meetings you record, the words you dictate, and the pages you type — in one local-first vault on your Mac. Half product philosophy, half practical guides for getting back what you said yesterday.
Your company's second brain: every meeting, note, and dictation in one vault
The "second brain" was supposed to hold everything you know. For most teams it holds everything you typed — and quietly loses everything you said. Here is what a second brain looks like when meetings, dictations, and notes share a single local-first vault, and why that changes what your team can remember.


How to record meetings on Mac without uploading your audio to the cloud
Most AI meeting tools ship your audio to a vendor server before you see a word of transcript. Here is what "local-first meeting recording" actually means on macOS, why it matters, and how to set it up in five minutes.

Why we built Hyprcore: one workspace for the words you type, the words you say, and the words you mean to remember
A wiki, a meeting recorder, and a dictation app — together in one native macOS workspace. Here is the problem that made us combine them, and why that combination matters more than any one feature.
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