Typing while listening is neither.
Split your attention between the client and the keyboard and you get shallow notes on top of a shallower conversation. Clients can hear it happening.
The notetaker that never records.It hears your call start, writes the note, and files it in Obsidian or Apple Notes.No bot joins. Nothing is uploaded.
macOS 14.4+ · free for 7 days, no card
Live transcript
Them: So timeline-wise we'd want to start fairly soon.
You: We can start in two weeks from our side.
Them: On budget — 25k is too high for this phase.
You: Then let's scope a pilot instead.
Them: Deal. Pilot at €18k for three months.
Transcribed on this Mac. The audio is never written to disk.
31 min · 2 people · €248.00
Pilot agreed at €18k for three months, starting in two weeks.
Action items
You — send the SOW by Friday
Sarah — intro to Marcus (CFO) next week
You finish the call useful and present, then spend twenty minutes rebuilding it from memory. Or you weren't present, because you were typing. Six calls a week is most of a working day spent writing down things you already said.
One real session, end to end. Sarah's pricing call, thirty-one minutes, nothing pressed at either end, and no audio written to disk at any point.
Nothing to press and nothing to add to the invite. Fazit watches which app is holding the microphone, so the session opens when Zoom, Meet or Teams does, and closes when they do.
Zoom took the microphone. Fazit opened a session on its own.
Session opened automatically · nothing pressed
Speech becomes text on your Mac as the call runs, using Parakeet through CoreML. The audio exists in RAM and nowhere else, so there is no recording to upload even if something wanted to.
Them: On budget — 25k is too high for this phase.
You: Then let's scope a pilot instead.
Them: Deal. Pilot at €18k for three months.
Transcribed on-device · audio never written to disk
Fazit reads the meeting off your calendar, counts who joined, and runs a live cost against the clock. A 31-minute call with two senior people costs about €248. Most teams have never seen that number.
€248.00
Sarah — VP Sales€139.50
You€108.50
31 minutes · 2 people · €248.00
A finished note lands in Obsidian or Apple Notes: decisions, numbers, and who owes what by when. You keep the note. The audio never existed to keep.
Sarah — pricing
Pilot agreed at €18k for three months, starting in two weeks.
Action items
You — send the SOW by Friday
Sarah — intro to Marcus (CFO)
Written to your vault · nothing left behind
The speech model that writes your call notes also types for you. Hold the key, say the sentence, let go, and it lands in whatever field had focus.
Message
Fazit never takes focus, so the words go where your cursor already was.
Every other notetaker asks you to trust a retention policy. Fazit removes the thing the policy is about. There is no audio file at any point, so deletion is not a promise anyone has to keep.
Zoom · Sarah — pricing
Your client sees two people in the participant list, because there are two people. Nothing to explain at the top of the call.
Over 31 minutes of capture
Transcription runs on-device and the note is written by a local model on localhost. The one-time model download is the only network traffic Fazit ever makes.
~/Obsidian/Fazit
Audio is transcribed in memory and gone the moment text exists. There is no file to leak, subpoena, or accidentally sync to a cloud drive.
For regulated and confidential work
One email, no password. A sign-in link lands in your inbox and opens your account. VAT is handled at checkout and your license attaches to the same address.
Start a 7-day trial or buy outright, and the download unlocks in your account. Drag to Applications, open it, point it at your Obsidian vault. The usual Mac install, done in a minute.
macOS asks for the microphone and audio capture on your first session. Fazit installs the local models itself, so there is nothing to configure in a terminal.
Say the honest line, “I take notes with a local tool, it doesn't record audio,” then forget about it. The session starts on its own and the note is waiting when you hang up.