An App for Voice-Based Note-Taking

Introducing "Nabu Voice Notes"

Hey!

This is a short message about my latest project, Nabu Voice Notes. It’s a barebones app for voice-based note-taking. Right now, it’s still in a pre-alpha, crappy state of development, but you’re welcome to take it for a spin.

The app's purpose is simple: to allow me to take voice-based notes while on the go. There are many apps for this, but none totally serve my workflow—actually, who am I kidding? I just wanted to implement something like this for my own. I wanted something super simple: just press a button, record a voice note, and then send the transcription to an LLM for quick proofreading and text cleanup.

I’m using Streamlit for a very clean and simplistic UI. Just a sound recorder and a list of stored notes.

Down the road, there are a couple of things I’m pretty sure I’ll end up implementing because these are features I desperately need:

• Append new content to an existing note.

• Manually edit notes (for now, it’s only audio-based).

• Add custom post-processing to notes using a user-provided prompt.

• Bulk-export all notes as gzipped Markdown files.

• RAG-based search over existing notes.

If you want to try it, check the online version or fork the repo (yeah, it’s fully open source!) and run a local version. If you use my online version, you’ll start with 10 free notes, and then you’ll have to get some credits (hey, I gotta pay servers and LLMs and stuff!). 

However, as always, premium MHI subscribers will find below a 100% discount on adding 1K credits (more notes than you’ll ever need).

And that’s it for today.

Best,
Alex