Daisy

Three recording modes

Daisy ships three recording modes, all backed by the same on-device Whisper transcription engine. They differ in what they capture and where the text lands. The widget centre changes colour so you know at a glance which mode is active.

Meeting (orange)

Captures your microphone and the other side of the call together — Zoom, Google Meet, Telegram, Webex, anything that plays audio on your Mac. No bot in the meeting, no link to install for participants. The widget centre matches the macOS systemOrange mic-active indicator at the top of your screen, so you can tell at a glance that something is listening.

Trigger:

  • Click the widget
  • Hotkey (default ⌘⇧R, configurable in Settings → Recording → Shortcuts)
  • Calendar auto-start — if you connected Google Calendar, Daisy can offer to auto-record meetings as they begin (see Settings → Recording → Meetings)

Output: one full Markdown recording in your Library folder with transcript, summary, and action items.

Voice notes (coral)

Quick one-off thoughts captured the way a voice memo app would — microphone only, no system audio, no meeting context. Hit a hotkey, talk, hit it again. The transcript lands in your Library as a standalone recording.

Trigger:

  • Hotkey (configurable on the Voice notes row in Settings → Recording → Shortcuts) — single tap to start, single tap to stop
  • Or click the widget when the widget is already set to voice-notes mode

The widget centre goes pink-coral while capturing — deliberately off the recording-orange axis so meetings and voice notes read as two different dots at peripheral vision.

Output: same Markdown recording format as meetings, just with only one speaker (you).

Dictation (lilac)

Wispr Flow-style. Hold a hotkey, talk naturally, release. The transcribed text gets pasted at your cursor in whatever app you’re typing in. No recording, no Library file — just text-to-cursor.

Trigger:

  • Hold the hotkey set on the Dictation row in Settings → Recording → Shortcuts. The Fn (globe) key is supported as an option but requires Accessibility permission (CGEventTap).

The widget centre goes vivid lilac while dictating — same colour-state vocabulary as the rest of Daisy.

Output: text pasted at your cursor via Accessibility ⌘V. Your previous clipboard contents are restored 10 seconds after the paste so dictation doesn’t trash whatever you had copied.

Switching between modes

Each mode has its own hotkey, set on its row in Settings → Recording → Shortcuts. The fastest way to switch is to use the hotkey of the mode you want — Daisy starts that mode straight away, whatever the widget last did.

Pick whichever hotkey you reach for most (usually meetings) and let it become muscle memory; the other two are a keystroke away when you want a different mode for one specific capture.

Where the text goes — summary

  • Meeting → Library folder, one Markdown file per recording with summary + transcript + action items.
  • Voice notes → Library folder, one Markdown file per recording, same shape as a meeting (just shorter).
  • Dictation → pasted at your cursor. Nothing saved to Library. If you want a record of what you dictated, use Voice notes instead.