Documentation

Voice Inbox is a privacy-first initiative to ensure your data remains yours:

1. Vault stays local: Nothing from your Obsidian vault ever leaves your device, and our anonymous analytics never touch your vault's content.
2. No retention: Transcription and calendar event recognition are the only features requiring internet access. We do not retain recordings or transcripts after processing.

For more details, please see our Privacy Policy.

To use Apple's built-in speech recognition:

1. On the Home view.
2. Tap the pencil icon at the bottom-right.
3. When the keyboard is present, tap the microphone at the bottom-right.

Using this is free and fast, but the accuracy is significantly lower.

More here: Dictate text on iPhone - Apple Support

Recordings should be relatively short, ideally under 15 minutes. You can record many entries, but not a single excessively long one. The recording feature is not designed for long-form content like meetings; recordings over 50 minutes are not currently supported.

While Voice Inbox is designed to work seamlessly with Obsidian's Daily Notes, you can choose to use Single File mode.

This allows you to add all your entries to a specific file of your choice (e.g., inbox.md) within your vault. You can also configure whether new entries are appended to the end or prepended to the top of the file.

While Obsidian integration is a core feature, you can set the journal location to Local.

In this mode, your notes are stored safely on your device within the app. This makes Voice Inbox a powerful standalone "voice-to-text" inbox for capturing thoughts on the go, even if you don't use Obsidian.

Voice Inbox is intentionally designed as a lightweight capture tool, not a full-featured editor or even an Obsidian alternative. The idea is to quickly capture whatever is on your mind and perform heavy editing later on a larger screen.

A major benefit of this approach is that you don't have to worry about accidentally modifying or deleting anything in your Obsidian vault while you're in a hurry or on the go.

To jump back to the most recent journal entry from any historical view, tap on the date displayed at the top of the screen.

On the Inbox view, the icon at the top-right of each entry indicates its current processing state.

Prerequisites:

• "Add Calendar Events" is enabled.
• Permission to access the calendar must be granted.
• A calendar event can only be added via voice entries.

Unlike voice assistants like Siri, there's no need to say:

Add an event to my calendar ...

Instead, simply mentioning the event and date will work. For example:

I'll talk to Sam about the project tomorrow at 10 a.m.

These are the details of the event that you might include in the recording:

• Title
• All-day
• Start Date
• End Date
• Location
• Notes

If no event is recognized, the Calendar button for the entry on the Inbox view will be greyed out; otherwise, an event will be added to your Calendar. Click the button for details.

Currently, events in the past are ignored.

Events will be added to the default calendar configured in the Calendar app.

Check the Choose a default calendar section on this page: Change your Calendar settings on iPhone

Editing events directly within Voice Inbox is not currently supported.

Modifying existing calendar entries requires "full access" permission to the Calendar, which is a sensitive permission to ask for.

If you require this functionality, please provide feedback via email to help us prioritize future development.