Miso
Miso
Miso records your calls, writes them down on your own Mac, and helps you ask better questions while they are happening. This page is everything you need to know.
Open Miso and it asks for two permissions. Both are real requirements, not nice-to-haves.
Then it downloads the speech model it uses to turn sound into text. That happens once, and it is the slow part of setup.
If a permission gets stuck. macOS only asks once. If you said no the first time, the app cannot ask again — open System Settings → Privacy & Security and switch Miso on there. Miso will show you a button that takes you straight to the right pane.
Press ⌘N, or click Start in the window, or use the Miso icon in the menu bar. There is nothing to configure per call.
While a call is running Miso shows a small waveform next to the notch. That is the one thing you need: if it is moving, Miso is hearing sound. Click it to open the transcript.
Hover the notch and it opens up. You get the last few things that were said, and two questions worth asking next based on the conversation so far. Click a question to copy it.
The meeting ends when you press End, or automatically if your Mac goes to sleep.
If Miso loses the meeting audio — someone unplugs a dock, an app changes — it keeps recording on your microphone alone rather than stopping. You will see one amber line telling you. Only losing the microphone ends a meeting.
Nothing needs saving. A meeting is written to disk while it runs and again when it ends. There is no Save button in Miso and there never will be.
Miso names the call after the meeting in your calendar, or the app you were on, and then after whatever the summary decides it was about. The moment you type a title yourself, it is yours and nothing overwrites it.
A finished meeting summarises itself and opens on the summary. The transcript is a tab away for when the summary is not enough. If there was not enough said to summarise, Miso says so rather than inventing something.
A transcript is a draft. Click any line and type — there is no edit mode and no Save. It writes itself a moment after you stop typing. Empty a line and leave it, and it is gone.
Press L on a note to label it. Type a name that does not exist yet to make it. A note holds three labels. Renaming a label renames it everywhere; deleting one takes it off every note.
Archiving takes a note out of the list without deleting it, and the list keeps a quiet way back to your archive.
The search box at the top of your meetings filters as you type and shows you the matching line, not just the meeting it was in.
Ask Miso is a question box over every call you have ever recorded. "What did we decide about pricing with Acme?" It goes and reads the notes it needs to answer, and tells you which ones it used, so you can go and check.
Connect Google Calendar in Settings and Miso will name a call after the meeting it belongs to, and can nudge you a minute before one starts. The nudge has a Start button, so joining and recording is one click.
This is entirely optional. Miso works fine without ever seeing your calendar.
This is the one choice worth understanding, and it is in Settings.
If you pick a cloud model, it is sent the transcript — the text — and never the audio. You bring your own API key, so it goes to your account and not through us. Miso tells you who wrote every answer, right next to the answer.
A local model is slower and less capable. A cloud model is faster and sharper and costs you whatever your provider charges. Neither one ever sees a recording.
Settings → Appearance. Light, Dark, or follow your Mac, and seven themes: Jet Black, Dark Glass, Light Glass, Frosty Blue, Paper, Funky Town and Pink Paper. The glass ones let your desktop blur through the window.
Single letters only work when you are not typing in a field.
Every meeting is one file on your Mac, in ~/Library/Application Support/Miso/Meetings. They are plain JSON. They are not synced, backed up to us, or sent anywhere.
Transcripts leave as Markdown, with each speaker's consecutive lines joined into a paragraph. Copy does the right thing without asking you which format.
To remove Miso completely: quit it, drag the app to the Trash, and delete that folder.
Miso ships a small server that lets an AI assistant search your notes, read one, and label it. It cannot delete, archive, or edit anything — that is a property of the server itself, not a promise. Settings has the one line of configuration you need to paste in.