Summaries
Minutist drafts a summary of each meeting from the transcript and your notes, using a local model. It runs on your machine; nothing is sent to a server.
When it runs
Section titled “When it runs”After a meeting finalises, a summary is generated in the background; open the Summary column to read it when it is ready. You can also run it yourself: the Summarise button (which becomes Re-summarise once a summary exists) in the Summary pane.
The first time you summarise, the model is downloaded: a multi-gigabyte, one-time download (the app shows the exact size). The pane shows that phase separately from the writing so a long first run does not look stuck.
What it produces
Section titled “What it produces”By default the summary is structured Markdown with these sections, any empty one omitted:
- Summary: a short overview of the meeting.
- Key decisions: what was decided.
- Action items: follow-ups, naming the owner when one was stated.
The summary is rendered for reading. Press Edit to correct the raw Markdown by hand and Save to keep your version.
Presets and a custom prompt
Section titled “Presets and a custom prompt”Open the Summary prompt section in the Summary pane to change how it summarises. Pick a preset:
- Structured (Summary / Decisions / Actions): the default above.
- Structured, skip chit-chat: the same, with greetings and small talk left out.
- Action items + owners: focused on decisions and follow-ups.
- Detailed, sectioned: a fuller record, organised by topic.
The same disclosure has a Custom prompt box. Type an instruction there and it overrides the selected preset; leave it empty and the preset is used. Re-summarise to apply a change.