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Connect Your Calendars to Oatmeal
How to get Google, Outlook, and iCloud calendars into Oatmeal in under two minutes.
On-device transcription and AI. Search across every conversation you've ever had. Free. Runs entirely on your Mac.
macOS 15 · Apple Silicon · Free Forever
Capabilities
Privacy
Transcription, summarization, and search all run locally. Your audio never touches a server. Not even once.
Intelligence
Search understands entities, context, and time—not just keywords.
Access
No subscription, no account, no usage limits. Just download and use it.
Invisible
Captures audio directly from macOS. No awkward consent prompts.
Query
Press ⌘K and ask anything. Answers synthesized from every meeting, with citations.
Ingest
Audio files, video, VTT/SRT subtitles, YouTube transcripts. Everything becomes searchable memory — processed locally, of course.
The Engine
Press ⌘⇧M to capture any call. System audio and mic recorded separately.
Parakeet transcribes. Qwen3 summarizes. Everything on Apple Silicon. Nothing uploaded.
Hybrid search finds meetings by meaning. Ask questions across months with ⌘K.
Every privacy claim is backed by architecture. No cloud calls, no telemetry, no data collection.
No network calls, no cloud APIs, no server-side processing.
Zero analytics, zero tracking. We don't know who uses it.
Download and run. No signup, no email, no password.
Works perfectly offline. On a plane, in a basement, anywhere.
Raw audio files live in your Documents folder. Your data, your device, your control.
FAQ
Journal
How to get Google, Outlook, and iCloud calendars into Oatmeal in under two minutes.
How Bayesian probability fusion replaces ad-hoc ranking to combine keywords, semantics, entity awareness, and temporal context into calibrated meeting search.
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