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Bot-free interview capture
Press a hotkey, start the meeting. System audio + mic, recorded locally. No guest joins your interview. Your IRB consent paperwork stays accurate.
→ Meeting capture
§ For researchersAll use cases
Every interview, every seminar,
in your second brain.
Researchers live in long, dense, audio-first sessions: interviews, advisor meetings, conference talks, journal-club discussions. Dettivo captures all of them locally and writes the full bundle straight into your Obsidian vault — so the next paper, grant, or thesis chapter can find it.
Tools you already useObsidianZoteroNotionApple NotesLogseqRoam
§ The current circuit
How most researchers do this today
You record on a Zoom H5 or your phone. You pay Otter or a transcription service. The transcript lives in their cloud. You copy-paste into your notes weeks later, when the citation matters and the audio is gone. The cross-reference between two interviews never happens because nothing connects them.
§ How Dettivo fits
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Meeting Mirror → Obsidian
Pick your vault as the mirror folder. Every meeting becomes YYYY-MM-DD/HHMM-sessionId/transcript.md + notes.md + details.md. Linkable, taggable, searchable, forever.
→ Meeting Mirror
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Cross-meeting knowledge search
Ask "did Professor X say anything about the dependency assumption" and get cited answers across every recording you’ve ever made.
→ Cross-meeting Q&A
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Speaker relabeling
Diarization runs on-device. Rename "Speaker 1" to "Dr. Alvarez" once and Dettivo remembers her voice for next session.
→ Speaker identity
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Custom dictionary
Per-language vocabulary lists. Teach Dettivo your field’s jargon, the names of your co-authors, the spellings of your dataset. It applies the dictionary before polish.
→ Custom dictionary
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Quick Note for fieldwork
⌘⇧N anywhere on your Mac records a markdown note straight to Inbox/. Capture a thought between sessions without breaking flow.
→ Quick Note
§ Adjacent cost
Tools your role typically pays $204/year for. Dettivo is $45 once.
That number is a typical mix for researchers (one transcription tool + one meeting service). Dettivo replaces the meeting service entirely and the dictation tool, paid once.
Your second brain shouldn’t live in someone else’s cloud. It lives in your vault.
Launching April 2026