Trillian

Trillian

macOS menu-bar app · 1 credit per transcript delivered

Trillian is the macOS menu-bar app that connects your local Obsidian vault to Deep Thought's cloud transcription. Captures from Apple Voice Memos, uploads to Deep Thought via the Public API, polls for completion, and writes the transcript into `/_inbox/.md` per the core-skills CR-012 inbox schema. Free Mac app; the cloud round-trip costs 1 credit per transcript delivered to your vault, drawn from the same 10-credit-per-month pool record-me uses for AI features.

Key capabilities

  • Voice Memos Watcher - Detects new recordings in the Apple Voice Memos sandbox without LaunchDaemon root access
  • Vault Inbox Delivery - Writes audio to `/_inbox/.audio/.m4a` and transcript to `/_inbox/.md` per the canonical _inbox/ schema
  • Captures Menu - Live counts in the menu bar: pending, processing, done, paywalled
  • HTTP Basic Auth - Stores DT username + password in macOS Keychain; never written to disk in plaintext
  • Forward-compatible - Works against the unmodified DT today; the paywall flow activates when CR-152 deploys
  • Sparkle Auto-Update - Signed and notarized DMG distribution via tandregbg/trillian-releases

Specialized applications

  • Personal Voice Capture - Drop a voice memo on iPhone, see the transcript in Obsidian within a minute
  • Knowledge Worker Pipeline - Voice memos → Deep Thought → vault → core-skills → Marvin dashboard
  • Field Audio Sync - Capture interviews on the iPhone, get transcripts on the laptop without manual import
  • Local-First Power Users - Audio + transcript paired in your local vault, then process with `/inbox`, `/transcript`, `/tasks`

Install on macOS

macOS 13.0 or later. Ad-hoc-signed alpha — runs the same as any app once Gatekeeper is told to trust it for first launch. Auto-updates after that.

  1. Download the zip
  2. Unzip and clear quarantine: unzip Trillian-1.6.0-alpha.2.zip && xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine Trillian.app
  3. Move to Applications: mv Trillian.app /Applications/
  4. Open it: open /Applications/Trillian.app

After first launch. Click the menu-bar icon (blue bridge), open Settings, fill in your Deep Thought credentials in the Captures tab. Trillian polls the release feed daily — future versions update automatically.

Download Trillian 1.6.0-alpha.2 ↓ All releases