Meeting notes with your own ChatGPT or Claude subscription

Plenty of people already pay for ChatGPT or Claude. Instead of adding another monthly plan for a meeting note taker, you can have them write the notes. Here is how pasting a transcript by hand compares with letting Shiyin do it.

Last updated: October 21, 2026

The trouble with pasting a transcript into ChatGPT

• You need a transcript first, which means recording and transcribing somewhere else.
• An hour-long transcript is long, and sometimes has to be pasted in parts.
• The notes come back without timestamps, so checking a doubtful line means hunting through the recording.
• You type the same prompt every time, and the format drifts.
• If a name or term was misheard, the AI repeats the mistake.

How Shiyin uses your subscription

Claude Code (the claude command) and Codex (the codex command) are the official command-line tools from Anthropic and OpenAI. Once you sign in, they run on your Claude or ChatGPT plan. After a meeting is transcribed, Shiyin hands them the transcript, your notes and your glossary, and they write the notes from a template:

• Summary, decisions, action items and open questions, each with a timestamp that plays the original audio.
• To confirm: names, terms, owners and due dates the AI isn’t sure about are listed for you to answer, and the notes are revised from your answers instead of guessed.
• Templates: General meeting, One-on-one, Interview, Lecture / talk, Brainstorm, or your own.
• Ask your meetings: “What budget did we settle on?” gets an answer with timestamps, across one meeting or all of them.

Setup

1. Install Claude Code or Codex following the official instructions and sign in once in Terminal.
2. In Shiyin, open Settings → Summarizer and choose Claude Code or Codex.
3. From then on, notes are written automatically when you stop recording.

No subscription? Use an API key (Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, or OpenAI-compatible services such as Groq and OpenRouter), or a local model in Ollama or LM Studio.

What is sent, and what it costs

Only text goes to the summarizer: the transcript, your notes and glossary, and the meeting title and date. The audio never does. Shiyin itself is free; writing notes uses your plan’s allowance or your API usage, subject to whatever limits OpenAI and Anthropic set for your plan.

To keep every word on your Mac, see local meeting transcription.