Notes & Docs integration

Wave for Obsidian

Wave records and transcribes meetings, phone calls, lectures and voice memos on your phone, your computer or your watch. Install the Wave AI plugin from Obsidian's community directory and each recording lands in your vault as a plain Markdown file: properties on top, the AI summary and action items as the note, and the original transcript folded underneath. Your Wave folders become vault folders.

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One Markdown note per recording, written for ObsidianTitle, date, length, type, tags and a link back to Wave as properties; the summary as the body; action items as a task list with due dates the Tasks plugin understands; the speaker-by-speaker transcript in a folded callout. Plain text on your own device, readable by anything, now or in twenty years.
Keeps itself up to date without touching your editsThe plugin checks for new recordings every five minutes while Obsidian is open and whenever you come back to it. Edit, move, rename or delete a note and Wave leaves it alone: a note you've changed is never written over, a note you've deleted is never recreated.
Folders, phones, desktops and watches, all in one vaultA recording filed under Customer Calls in Wave lands in Wave/Customer Calls in your vault. It doesn't matter whether you recorded on iPhone, Android, Mac, Windows, Linux, Apple Watch or Wear OS, or let the Wave bot join a Zoom, Google Meet or Teams call. Works in Obsidian on desktop and mobile.

How to set it up

  1. In Obsidian, open Settings → Community plugins, search for Wave AI and install it. Enable it.
  2. Open the plugin's settings and press Connect Wave. Your browser opens app.wave.co; sign in if you need to and press Connect Obsidian.
  3. Obsidian comes back to the front and your recordings start appearing in a folder called Wave. A large library syncs in the background in a few minutes.

Full walkthrough: Obsidian setup in the Wave Help Center

Who it’s for

  • Obsidian users who want meetings, calls and voice notes in the same vault as everything else they think about
  • People who record on the go (phone, watch, car) and process their notes later at a desk
  • Anyone who wants their meeting memory in plain Markdown they own, not locked in a note-taking service

Things to know

Frequently asked

What does a Wave note look like in Obsidian?+

A Markdown file named after the recording, with properties (title, date, duration, type, platform, language, folder, tags, a link to the recording in Wave), then the AI summary, an Action items checklist, any notes you typed in Wave, and the transcript in a folded callout with speaker names and timestamps.

Will it overwrite notes I've edited?+

No. Once a note is in your vault it's yours. The plugin only rewrites notes you haven't touched, so a renamed recording or a regenerated summary in Wave updates the note unless you've edited it.

Does it work on iPhone and Android?+

Yes. Obsidian's mobile apps run the plugin the same way. Install it, press Connect Wave, and sign in once per device.

I sync my vault with Obsidian Sync or iCloud. Will I get duplicates?+

No. Every synced note carries a wave_id property. If a note for a recording already exists in the vault, the plugin adopts it instead of writing another one.

Can I choose what goes into each note?+

Yes. In the plugin's settings you can leave out the transcript or show it expanded, skip action items or your notes, choose title-only or dated file names, and sync everything or only the last 30, 90 or 365 days.

Is my data safe?+

The plugin talks only to Wave's API with a read-only token scoped to your recordings, and sends nothing anywhere else. You can see and revoke the token at app.wave.co → Settings → Developers. Wave never uses your recordings to train AI models.

Is the plugin free?+

Yes. The plugin is free and open source. Syncing uses the same Wave account you record with; Wave's free tier includes 30 minutes of recording a month.

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