What is Ogma?

Ogma is a desktop app for recording in-person meetings (1–3 hours) and turning them into searchable, structured knowledge. It is named after the Celtic god of eloquence and inventor of the Ogham script: he listened well and wrote things down.

What it does

1. Record a meeting from your microphone. Audio is written as rotating 5-minute segments, so a crash loses minutes, not the meeting.
2. Transcribe via the OpenAI Whisper API, stitched into one timestamped transcript.
3. Label & summarize via the Claude API: speaker attribution (Speaker A/B/C, renameable to real names) plus structured notes — TL;DR, summary, key points, decisions, action items, open questions, and quote highlights that jump-play the audio.
4. Sync the finished notes and transcript to a Notion "Meetings" database — the canonical, cross-device store.
5. Ask Claude about it: the same binary runs as a local MCP server so Claude Code and other AI clients can search your transcripts and pull action items.

How it works

Record → 5-min WAV segments → Whisper (per segment) → stitched transcript
       → Claude (speaker labels + notes)
       → SQLite (local library) → Notion (canonical store)

Processing is cloud-based by design (roughly $1.25 per 3-hour meeting in API costs) — it keeps the app identical across devices and avoids shipping local models. See the FAQ for the cost and privacy details.

Status

Ogma is in alpha. It runs on Windows and macOS (Apple Silicon); iOS is planned.

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