Meeting notes

Try it

The app runs here in your browser. Nothing you type leaves it; what it saves stays in this browser, and Claude is off here. Open it on its own.

Download meeting-notes.wardian Import it in Wardian: Settings → Import.

A Wardian suite: five sealed apps that turn raw meeting notes into a summary, decisions, a checklist and open questions. It is plain JavaScript, with no WebAssembly. It shows claude:sample (AI inside an app) and what an app does when AI is not there.

App	Slot	Job	Contract
`notes`	aside	The meeting's name and its notes or transcript: typed, pasted, dropped, or opened from a `.txt` or `.md` file. A sample meeting to try. Remembers them.	emits `notes:changed` (retained); `storage`
`ai`	aside	The only part that reads the notes. Owns every call to Claude, the progress bar with Stop, the error messages, and the quick reader that needs no AI.	listens `notes:changed`; emits `notes:extracted` (retained); `storage`, `claude:sample`
`summary`	main	The summary, the decisions and the open questions, and who read them.	listens `notes:extracted`
`actions`	main	The action items as a checklist you own: tick, edit owner, task and due date, remove, add.	listens `notes:extracted`; emits `actions:changed` (retained); `storage`
`export`	main	Everything as Markdown: download it, copy it, or read it in place.	listens `notes:extracted`, `actions:changed`; `claude:downloads`

How a change flows: you type in notes → it emits notes:changed → ai reads the notes, with Claude when you press Read with Claude, or with the quick reader → it emits notes:extracted → summary, actions and export draw. When you tick an item, actions emits actions:changed, and export writes the tick into the Markdown.

With and without Claude#

ctx.cap('sample') resolves to null when this Wardian has no Claude provider. Then:

The Reader panel says AI is off, and how to turn it on: Settings → Claude, add an Anthropic API key or Amazon Bedrock, reload.
The quick reader (apps/ai/local.js) reads the notes on your device each time they change. It finds Action:, TODO, Next step:, check boxes - [ ], @name will …, Name to …, a speaker's "I'll …" in a transcript, Decision: / Agreed: / "We decided to …", and Q: or any line that ends with ?. It takes the owner from @name or the speaker, and the due date from "by Friday", "due Oct 22", "tomorrow" and the like. It gives the same answer for the same text. It does not write a summary: it lists the attendees, the headings and what it found.

With Claude set up, the quick reader still shows its result at once. Your notes go to Claude only when you press Read with Claude; the first time, Wardian asks you to allow it. ai calls sample.json(prompt, { signal }) and checks that the answer has the expected shape (shared/text.js, Text.reading). Wardian runs the request as a background job and hands back the whole answer at once, so the bar shows a running clock rather than a share done. Stop aborts the AbortSignal.

Every error code in SPEC.md 6.6 has its own message (apps/ai/claude.js):

Code	What the app says and does
`not_granted`	You did not allow Claude; press again to be asked, or change it in Settings → Permissions.
`rate_limited`	Wait a minute, then try again.
`refused`	Claude declined to read these notes.
`invalid_json`	The answer was not in the expected form; try again.
`prompt_too_large`	The notes are too long: shorten them or split the meeting. The app checks this before it sends anything.
`cancelled`	Stopped. Nothing changes.
`error`	Could not reach Claude, with the reason.

After any failure but Stop, the quick reader's result shows, with a note that says why. A reading by Claude of the same notes is never replaced by a quick one. When you change the notes after Claude read them, its reading stays, marked as out of date, until you ask again.

Saved state#

notes keeps the notes, ai the latest reading, and actions your checklist, each in ctx.store. A reload shows the same reading with the same ticks. When a new reading arrives, actions keeps your ticks on items with the same task, keeps your edits, and keeps the items you added.

Limits#

Claude sees up to 58,000 characters of notes, about 9,000 words: Wardian takes prompts up to 60,000 characters. The answer is kept short (at most 12 decisions, 20 action items and 10 questions), because Wardian allows a JSON answer about 2,000 tokens.
A file you open may be up to 2 MB, and must be text.
Copy uses the clipboard when the browser allows it in a sandboxed frame. When it does not, the app selects the Markdown and asks you to press Ctrl+C.
The quick reader knows English patterns only.

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