What format will the summary be in?

Whatever you ask for. Prompt the model for decisions, action items, and open questions, and save that instruction as a snippet so every recap follows the same structure.

Are my meeting notes uploaded anywhere?

Only to the AI provider you configured, using your own API key. ClipHistory has no cloud or account and stores nothing on its own servers; your history stays on your Mac.

Can I summarize notes from any app?

Yes. Copy notes from Notes, a Google Doc, a transcript, or anywhere else. Once it's a clip, the summarize transform works the same.

What if I need a detail the summary left out?

Your full notes remain in clipboard history among your last 150 unpinned clips, so you can retrieve the original at any time.

Can I combine multiple summarized sections?

Yes. Use the paste stack to queue several summarized clips and paste them in order to assemble a complete recap.

Summarize Meeting Notes on Mac

Raw meeting notes are messy by nature: half-sentences, tangents, action items buried three paragraphs down. The useful version is a short summary with the decisions and the next steps. Producing that by rereading and retyping is slow, and it's exactly the kind of work an AI summarize transform handles well, especially if you can run it without leaving your notes app.

Summarize straight from your clipboard

ClipHistory is a clipboard manager for macOS with AI transforms built in. After a meeting, select all your notes and copy them. Press Cmd+Shift+V, pick the clip, and run the Summarize transform. You get a condensed version, decisions, action items, and key points, as a new clip you can paste into a recap email, a project doc, or your task tracker.

The notes can come from anywhere: Notes, a Google Doc, a shared document, or text you typed during the call. Once it's a clip, the summarize transform treats it the same.

What a good meeting summary contains

The value of a summary is in its structure. When you prompt the model, ask for the parts that matter:

Decisions made, stated plainly.
Action items with owners, if your notes mention them.
Open questions that still need answers.
Key context someone who missed the meeting would need.

Because you control the prompt, you can standardize this. A consistent summary shape makes your recaps scannable and easy to act on. ClipHistory works with five AI providers, Anthropic, OpenAI, DeepSeek, Google, or a custom endpoint, on your own API key, so you can choose the model whose summaries read best to you.

Notes stay on your Mac

Meeting notes often contain sensitive material: client details, internal plans, numbers not yet public. ClipHistory keeps your clipboard history local. There's no cloud and no account. When you summarize, the text goes directly from your Mac to the AI provider you configured with your own key, and nothing is stored on a ClipHistory server, because there isn't one.

The app is a universal binary, signed and notarized by Apple, native on Apple Silicon and Intel, running on macOS 12 or later.

A post-meeting routine

Right after the meeting, select and copy your full notes.
Press Cmd+Shift+V and select the clip.
Run Summarize, specifying the structure you want.
Read the summary. The full notes are still in your history if you need a detail back.
Paste the summary into your recap.

Two features make this repeatable. First, snippets: save your summary instruction (for example, "summarize as Decisions / Action items / Open questions") so every recap follows the same format. Second, pinned clips: pin a recurring meeting's agenda or your recap template so it's always one paste away, without competing for space against your last 150 regular clips.

Build a recap with the paste stack

If you summarize several blocks, segments from different parts of a long meeting, ClipHistory's paste stack lets you queue multiple clips and paste them in order. Summarize each section, then assemble the full recap in one pass instead of jumping back and forth.

Clean before you summarize

If your notes were pasted from a transcript or a PDF and carry broken line breaks, run Clean first. Tidied input produces a more accurate summary because the model isn't guessing where sentences end.

Summaries are only useful if they're consistent

The hidden value of standardizing your recap format is that readers learn where to look. When every recap puts decisions at the top and action items in the same place, a teammate can scan ten of them in the time it takes to read one freeform note. That consistency is exactly what a saved snippet buys you: instead of phrasing the request a little differently each time, you run the same instruction and get the same shape. The summaries become a habit your whole team can rely on, not a one-off each meeting.

Why local matters for meetings specifically

Meetings are where the unfinished thinking happens, the candid numbers, the names, the plans that aren't public yet. That's precisely the content you don't want sitting on a third party's servers by default. With ClipHistory there is no default upload: the only place your notes go is the AI provider you chose, through your own key, for the duration of the request. The clipboard history itself never leaves your Mac. If you've ever hesitated to paste meeting notes into a web tool, this is the distinction that removes the hesitation.

A one-time tool for a recurring task

Meetings recur, so summarizing them does too. ClipHistory is a one-time purchase, $19.99 for a 12-month license, with no auto-renewal, so a tool you use after every meeting doesn't turn into another monthly line item. You bring your own API key, so AI usage is billed by your provider directly at their rates.

Turn the meeting you just sat through into a recap people will read, in one shortcut, without your notes ever leaving your Mac.

Get ClipHistory for macOS ($19.99, one-time): https://cliphistory.com/download