A personal knowledge management system that structures voice message transcripts into an organized, tag-based local database.
Install & Download
1. ClawHub CLI
The fastest way to install a skill directly from the registry.
npx clawhub@latest install voice-notes
2. Manual Installation
Copy the skill folder to one of these locations
~/.openclaw/skills/ <project>/skills/ Priority: Workspace > Local > Bundled
3. Prompt Installation
Copy this prompt to OpenClaw to install it automatically.
Help me install voice-notes using Clawhub. If Clawhub is not installed, install it first (npm i -g clawhub).
Prefer to download?
Get the raw skill files in a ZIP archive.
What is Voice Notes?
Voice Notes is a sophisticated organization layer for your AI agent's voice interactions. While the platform handles the heavy lifting of speech-to-text conversion, this Openclaw Skills addition focuses on turning those raw transcripts into a structured, searchable, and interconnected knowledge base stored entirely on your local machine. It serves as a digital garden for your spoken thoughts, ensuring that every insight captured via voice is categorized, linked to related concepts, and easily retrievable for future use.
By leveraging this skill, you can move beyond simple transcript storage. It implements progressive note-taking strategies, allowing your agent to detect related content, prevent duplicates, and manage complex information hierarchies. Whether you are brainstorming project ideas or recording meeting highlights, Voice Notes ensures your data remains private, organized, and useful within the Openclaw Skills ecosystem.
Voice Notes Use Cases
- Organizing stream-of-consciousness brainstorming sessions into structured project plans.
- Building a searchable local knowledge base from daily voice memos or meeting transcripts.
- Linking related ideas across multiple voice sessions to identify patterns and themes.
- Safely archiving superseded thoughts while maintaining a clear evolution of ideas.
How Voice Notes Works
- The agent platform receives audio and transcribes it using its configured speech-to-text service.
- The resulting text transcript is passed to the Voice Notes skill.
- The skill immediately saves the raw text to the transcripts directory to prevent data loss.
- It searches existing notes to find overlapping topics or related tags defined in the memory registry.
- It either appends the new information to an existing note or creates a new structured document with appropriate links and tags.
- Large documents are automatically split into parent and child notes to maintain readability and performance.
Voice Notes Setup
Ensure your agent platform has speech-to-text enabled. Then, initialize the local storage directories using the following command:
mkdir -p ~/voice-notes/{transcripts,notes,archive}
Configure your memory.md file using the provided template to establish your initial tag registry. This allows the Openclaw Skills integration to start organizing your data immediately.
Voice Notes Data Schema & Taxonomy
All data is stored locally in the ~/voice-notes/ directory with the following structure:
| File/Folder | Description |
|---|---|
| memory.md | The hot registry containing the tag registry and recent activity logs. |
| index.md | A master index of all notes, including their associated tags and cross-links. |
| transcripts/ | Storage for raw, unedited text transcripts from the agent platform. |
| notes/ | Processed and structured documents generated from transcripts. |
| archive/ | Historical or superseded content moved here rather than being deleted. |
This schema ensures that Openclaw Skills can manage your data with high availability and clear taxonomy.
Voice Notes Advanced Features
- Progressive Disclosure: Implements a tiered loading system to keep the agent's context window clean by only loading individual notes on demand.
- Automated Document Scaling: Automatically splits notes exceeding 100 lines into a hierarchy of linked documents, similar to Notion's structure.
- Related Content Detection: Intelligence to search existing local files before creating new ones, preventing data silos and fragmentation.
- Tag Registry Management: A centralized tag system that prioritizes reuse over the creation of redundant categories.
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