the fine print
Everything Oris does, in one place.
The homepage covers the headline. This covers the rest, one page per decision you actually make: where your notes land, which model writes the summary, how long the audio sticks around. The machinery underneath each one is on the same page, folded away until you want it.
Get set up
The walkthrough, the permissions macOS asks for, and where your notes are going to land.
- Guided walkthrough The Mac app's setup tour: destination chosen, plugin installed if you're using Obsidian, permissions granted, first note recorded — models prepare while you learn.
- Permissions The two macOS prompts on first run, the notification prompt that follows, and the two hardware situations that decide whether Oris can hear the call at all.
- Apple Notes Meeting notes and quick notes delivered straight into Apple Notes on this Mac: pick the account and folder once, allow the one macOS permission it needs, and open the finished note from Oris.
- Obsidian and Markdown The two file destinations: a vault with cursor-anchored insertion and rename-following, or any folder of Markdown files. What each one decides, and where a note goes when the spot you reserved is gone.
Record & capture
Starting a meeting, catching a thought between them, and bringing in what you recorded somewhere else.
- Recording a meeting Start and stop from Obsidian or from the Oris app, watch the stages while the note is made, and let a forgotten recording stop itself.
- Quick Note A global hotkey, a sentence spoken out loud, and the text lands where you told it to, without opening Obsidian or anything else.
- Importing what you already have A recording that already exists, or a transcript someone else made, run through the same summarize-and-land pipeline a live meeting uses.
Your notes
What Oris writes into a note, which model writes the summary, and where every recording shows up afterwards.
- What lands in your note The summary block, the collapsed transcript, the footer naming what wrote it — and how the two sides of the call are told apart.
- Summaries and providers Which model writes your summary is a choice: on-device by default, a cloud key or your own Ollama server if you'd rather, and no summary at all if you don't want one.
- Recordings history Every recording and import in one place — when it happened, where the note landed, whether the summary succeeded, and what you can still do about it.
Settings & data
The controls, how long your audio is kept, how Oris updates itself, and what to do when something goes wrong.
- Models and language The two transcription choices — which Whisper model runs and which language it expects — plus what you see while a model is being prepared.
- Audio retention How long Oris keeps the audio behind a note, and the two settings on the Recordings tab that decide it.
- Updates Signed over-the-air updates that verify themselves before installing, and the ordinary drag-to-Trash uninstall when you want Oris gone.
- Troubleshooting The failures Oris tells you about, and where each one is recovered from.
- Feedback and the tour Tell us what broke or what you'd like, from inside the app — and take (or re-take) the one-minute tour of what Oris can do.
that's the lot
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