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Mochi: a desktop pet for Obsidian notes

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Mochi is a macOS desktop pet that turns spoken thoughts and meeting audio into markdown notes in an Obsidian vault.

Why it surfaced

Press Option-Space and talk: Mochi transcribes on the Mac, preserves the exact transcript, and adds a tidied version to a folder you control. Its unusually specific pitch combines local speech recognition, four-voice meeting separation, plain markdown files, and a tiny animated companion that is meant to make note-taking habitual.

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