Guides

How to take meeting notes and transcripts on a Mac, and how Shiyin differs from other tools.

• How to record Zoom, Teams and Google Meet on a Mac

  Four ways to record online meetings on a Mac compared: built-in recording, BlackHole, meeting bots, and capturing the system audio directly with a live transcript.

• Local meeting transcription on a Mac

  Most transcription services upload your recordings. Here is how to transcribe meetings and identify speakers entirely on your Mac, which steps use the internet, and how to set up a fully offline workflow.

• Meeting notes with your own ChatGPT or Claude subscription

  You may not need another meeting-notes subscription. Compare pasting a transcript into ChatGPT by hand with letting Shiyin write timestamped notes through Claude Code or Codex.

• Open-source alternatives to Granola and Otter for Mac

  Shiyin, Meetily, Anarlog and Minutes compared with Granola and Otter: price, where transcription runs, speaker identification, meeting bots and platforms. Checked October 2026.