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How to use AI on your meetings with nothing leaving your Mac

Updated November 3, 2026

Meeting notes are some of the most sensitive things you own: clients, salaries, health, plans nobody else should know yet. You can get AI help with them without sending them to anyone.

Step 1: Memento already does the basics locally

Recording, transcription, who said what, the summary and the tasks all run on your Mac. So does Ask: type a question and Memento answers from your meetings, with a link to the exact moment. No setup needed.

Step 2: add a bigger local model for harder questions

If you want a larger model to dig through your whole archive, run one on your Mac with LM Studio and let it read Memento:

  1. Install LM Studio and download a model that supports tool use. A larger model gives better answers but needs more memory.
  2. In Memento, open Settings › General › AI assistants (MCP) (called “Claude” before version 1.3), turn on Let AI assistants read your meetings and press Connect… next to LM Studio. Choose the folder Memento suggests.
  3. Restart LM Studio. Memento appears in the Program tab of the right sidebar; turn it on.
  4. Ask in a chat: “Which tasks are still open from this week’s meetings?”

The model, the questions and the answers all stay on your Mac. You can switch the Wi-Fi off and it keeps working.

Prefer Claude or Codex? See how to connect them, and keep in mind that cloud assistants send what they read to their provider.

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