Technical docs
Guides to configure and use Reki note. Find a feature in the sidebar or search.
AI model connection
Section titled “AI model connection”- Choose a processing mode (Standard / Local) — How Standard mode (cloud processing) and Local mode (on-device only) differ, how to switch, and which features stop in Local mode.
- Choose the AI for your minutes — The AI options under Reki note “Data processing” (Reki AI, your own API key, local LLM, CLI) and how to register an API key.
- Use a local LLM server for meeting notes — Connect Reki note to LM Studio, Ollama, or llama-server on your PC or another PC on your LAN. Covers discovery, authentication, proxies, and troubleshooting.
- Connect with the Codex CLI or Claude CLI — How to process Reki note minutes, AI refinement, and chat with your own Codex CLI or Claude CLI, plus what to do when the connection fails.
- Migrate from MCP connection to CLI integration — Where the soon-to-be-retired MCP connection stands, and how to move to the CLI integration with AI agents.
- Reconnect the MCP connector — Refresh Reki note tools in ChatGPT or Claude, and learn when to delete and re-add the connector if new features are missing.
Local transcription
Section titled “Local transcription”- Machine specs for local Whisper — Guideline PC specs for running Reki note local Whisper transcription on your own machine, covering memory, CPU, GPU, and per-model sizes.
- Using Reki on-device transcription — Overview and setup steps for Reki on-device transcription on Windows and Mac built-in transcription on macOS: local transcription where audio never leaves your device.
Recording & minutes
Section titled “Recording & minutes”- Recording audio and transcription language settings — How to capture the mic, the other party, and PC audio, echo cancellation, saving and deleting recordings, and how to set the transcription language.
- Minutes format and prompts — Note styles by use (minutes, lecture notes, sales notes), custom presets, the system prompt, and auto-retry and automatic task generation.
- Share your minutes — How to email finished minutes, issue a link to share them, the difference between sharing scopes, and cases where sharing is not available.
- Transcribe an existing audio or video file — Import audio or video files you already have and create a new transcription session. Supported formats, the 25MB limit, and linking to calendar events.
- Edit the transcript and assign speakers — How to fix the transcript line by line, assign speakers to you, the other party, or participants, and regenerate the minutes after assignment.
- Polish or redo the transcript with AI — How to polish misrecognitions in the transcript with AI, reset the polish, redo the whole transcript, re-run speaker diarization, and trim the recording.
- Ask AI about your minutes (chat) — How to chat with AI over past minutes, how AI credits are used, managing chat history, and searching recent meetings exhaustively.
- Manage tasks from your minutes — How tasks generated from minutes work, their statuses, assigning owners, AI-assisted task details, and adding tasks manually.
Recording and minutes
Section titled “Recording and minutes”- Session details and editing the minutes — What you can do when you open a past session: formatting the minutes, replacing misrecognized text, asking AI to revise, attaching related files, exporting, and trimming the recording.
Integrations
Section titled “Integrations”- Save minutes as Markdown — How to auto-save minutes as Markdown files to a chosen folder, and how to bulk-export past minutes. Includes Obsidian use.
- Work with AI agents (CLI and cloud MCP) — Set up Claude, Codex, and Cursor to read Reki note minutes and add tasks over the CLI or a cloud MCP connector, plus how to update and troubleshoot it.
- Use Notes (Markdown memos) — How to keep summaries of AI conversations and things to remember as Markdown notes. Storage locations (local vs. cloud), search, and filtering.
- Add people (contacts) — Register meeting participants as people and use them for speaker assignment and task owners. Call names, vocabulary, and AI profile refresh.
- Calendar integration settings — How to connect Google Calendar, register an iCal URL, and choose Mac calendars. Used to link events with recordings.
- Save to the cloud and view on other devices — Save transcripts and minutes to the cloud and view them from your phone or another PC. Sync state, how it relates to Local mode, and deleting cloud data.
App settings
Section titled “App settings”- Permission settings (mic, screen recording, and more) — How to grant Reki note the mic, screen recording, calendar, and accessibility permissions, and what to do when it still does not work.
- Privacy and data sharing settings — Privacy mode, usage analytics, and helping improve meeting detection: what is and is not shared.
- Appearance and startup — Theme color, light/dark color mode, zoom, font, and launching at login.
- App management (restart and cache reset) — Reload the window, restart the app, clear the settings cache, and replay onboarding when setting changes do not take effect.
- Apps watched for calls — The watched-app list that decides which apps are detected as calls and offer recording, plus how to un-ignore apps.
- How the settings screen is organized — An overview of the sections on the settings screen and how to find the setting you want. Serves as an entry point to the detailed articles.
- Notification sound and screenshots — The notification sound for detected call start/end, and the keyboard shortcut for taking screenshots while recording.
- Record your work with Work log — How Work log keeps app names, window titles, and work order on your device, plus privacy, excluded-app settings, and storage management.
- Update the app to the latest version — How automatic updates work in Reki note, updating while recording, and repairing a failed update by reinstalling over the existing app.
- Developer mode and beta features — How to use Developer mode to enable individual beta features, examples of what you can turn on, and things to keep in mind.
- Contact and feature requests — How to send feature requests, bug reports, and usage questions through the in-app contact form, including the optional email address for replies.
- Check the latest information — How to use Latest information in the app to review release notes, the feature request form, surveys, the SNS share campaign, the usage guide, and license information.
- Launch automatically at startup — How to launch Reki note automatically when you log in, how it stays running, and how that relates to notifications and schedules.
Plan and account
Section titled “Plan and account”- Plan and account — Check your current plan and usage, upgrade, manage billing and cancellation, email notifications, and delete your account.
- Referral program and student discount — How to use the referral program to earn rewards with friends, and the student plan verified with an educational email.
- Usage and the free (managed) quota — How the free managed quota works without an API key, how to check this month’s transcription time and AI credits, and what to do when you reach the limit.