Self-Host Your Meeting Notes — Nothing Leaves Your Laptop

The one-page companion to the video. Every AI notetaker in your calendar quietly ships your private meetings to a server you've never seen. Meetily is the free, open-source fix — it records, transcribes, AND summarizes your meetings 100% on your own machine (23,600+ GitHub stars, MIT license, macOS + Windows + Linux). This is the exact setup, so you're recording your first private meeting tonight. INSIDE: (1) THE 5-STEP SETUP — download Meetily from GitHub Releases (Mac .dmg / Windows .exe), install the free Ollama app and pull one small model for offline summaries (two commands), point Meetily at your model, record your first meeting (it listens to your machine, so it works with Zoom, Meet and Teams), and generate a structured summary with key points, decisions and action items. (2) PICK YOUR SUMMARY BRAIN — local vs cloud, when to use each: Ollama (local) is the default for anything sensitive — offline, free per meeting, nothing leaves your machine; Claude / Groq / OpenRouter give sharper writing but the transcript leaves to be summarized, so only for calls you'd forward in an email. (3) THE PRIVACY CHECKLIST — six checks (confirm local summaries, back up your own transcripts, get consent before recording, use your own API key and read the retention policy, delete what you don't need, protect the data folder on a shared machine). (4) THREE COPY-PASTE SUMMARY PROMPTS that work with any model — a sharper summary, a follow-up email, and a risk scan. Plus the honest note: Meetily is real but young (270+ open issues), there's a paid Pro tier (~$10/mo) for exports and speaker labels on top of the free core, and a good local model asks something of your computer. This is an independent guide; Meetily is an open-source project by Zackriya Solutions.

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