Recipes

Log to your Obsidian daily note

A running log of the day, by voice: “Log, called the venue about the projector.” becomes a timestamped line in today’s daily note, under your Log heading.

• Set up the profile
• Talk
• What gets written
• Variations

Set up the profile#

1. In Macrophone for Mac, open Profiles and add a profile called Log.
2. Under Voice prefix, type log and press Return.
3. Under Where it goes, choose Nowhere — only do what’s under “Also”, so nothing is pasted or copied.
4. Under Also, choose Add Action › Save to Obsidian:
   • Vault: Choose Vault… and pick your vault's folder.
   • Note: leave empty for today's daily note.
   • Daily folder: leave empty to use the folder from Obsidian's Daily notes settings, or type one, such as Daily.
   • Under heading: Log.
5. Set Cleanup to Light if you want your words kept close to how you said them.

Talk#

Works from anywhere in the room, with Obsidian closed: it's a plain file write. Nothing is pasted, so whatever you're doing on the Mac isn't interrupted.

What gets written#

## Log
- 09:12 Standup moved to Thursday at ten.
- 14:05 Called the venue about the projector, they'll have one by Thursday.

• The note is named with your Daily notes date format (default YYYY-MM-DD). If it doesn't exist yet, it's created.
• New lines go at the end of the Log section. If there's no Log heading, it's added at the end of the note.
• A dictation with several lines keeps them, indented under its bullet.
• Paths can't escape the vault.

Variations#

• Log and send. Add the Save to Obsidian action to your Claude target too, and every prompt you send Claude is also logged.
• One running note instead of the daily one: set Note to a path such as Inbox.md.
• Apple Notes or Reminders: the same idea with Save to Apple Notes or Add to Reminders, which turns “tomorrow at 5pm” into a due date. See Obsidian, Notes, Reminders.
• From a snippet. A snippet can add context, such as {{app}}, to what you log.