Libre Voice Note — voice-to-markdown capture for vault
Hey all — I made the Cycle In Sidebar plugin a while back, so I've been around the Obsidian ecosystem for a bit.
Lately I've been scratching my own itch: I wanted a way to capture voice notes on my phone and have them show up in my vault as markdown files, without fiddling with copy-paste or format conversion.
So I built an Android app called Libre Voice Note. It runs Nvidia's parakeet AI model locally on your phone (no cloud, no subscription), transcribes what you say, and syncs the .md file to your vault folder through Google Drive or Dropbox.
I've been thinking of it as kind of a "physical plugin" for Obsidian — it's not in the app, but it feeds directly into your vault. Press a volume button, talk, and it just shows up in your notes.
A few things that might matter to this crowd:
- Transcription is fully on-device. Nothing leaves your phone.
- Output is plain markdown. No proprietary format.
- There's a hands-free "focus mode" where you just hit a volume button to start/stop.
- It's free.
Mostly built this for myself but figured others here might have the same workflow gap. Happy to answer questions or hear how you'd want something like this to work.
[link to google play store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.garnetsoft.voicenotemobile)