Skip to content
Pensum Docs

Recording

Press Cmd+Shift+R to start recording. Pensum:

  1. Creates a meeting note in your meetings folder with frontmatter (date, time, status)
  2. Opens the note so you can take notes alongside the recording
  3. Captures audio via your device microphone
  4. Saves the audio as .webm in your recordings folder

Press Cmd+Shift+R again to stop. The note is updated with the end time and status changes to completed.

Meeting note

Section titled “Meeting note”

The note is created with structured frontmatter:

---
type: meeting
id: 01ABC
date: 2026-05-14
start_time: "14:00"
attendees: []
project:
status: in-progress
recording: Recordings/2026-05-14-1400.webm
---

Add attendees and project after recording starts. These are used by summarization and speaker identification.

Mobile

Section titled “Mobile”

On Obsidian Mobile, recording uses the WebView’s MediaRecorder API. Audio quality depends on the device. Transcription is deferred to desktop by default.