Voice Memos to Obsidian
Each recording as a note in your vault, the audio playing inside it and its words below.
Steps
- On macOS 27, press “Connect” beside Voice Memos on Exporter’s home and press “Select This Folder” in the panel.
- Choose a folder inside your vault, like
~/Obsidian/Vault/Voice Memos, and press “Use This Folder”. - In Options…, set Transcribe In to the language you speak, and in Settings › Markdown pick wikilinks or standard links for the audio.
- Press “Sync Now”.
What you get
A note per recording with the audio embedded, so it plays in the note, and its transcript under ## Transcript. The properties panel shows duration, transcript, transcript_language and transcript_confidence, so a Dataview or Bases table can list the recordings your Mac transcribed, or the ones it was least sure of. index.md lists every recording with a Play link.
Pitfalls
- The audio takes room in the vault: each recording is copied once, beside its note.
- A note is written again when Voice Memos changes the recording or a transcript lands, so edit your own thoughts in a separate note that links to it.
- New recordings from your iPhone arrive once Voice Memos has them on your Mac.
Every field is in the Voice Memos docs.