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CLAUDE.md

apple-voice-memos CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from jessedc/apple-voice-memos. It costs 572 tokens per session, scanned A, original, 0BSD.

A workflow for accessing Apple Voice Memos synced through iCloud on macOS, extracting their transcripts, and turning them into structured notes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find memos by title or date, retrieve their metadata and transcripts, and process the spoken content into organised notes.
Why use it?
It explains where the recordings and metadata are stored and how to select recordings and extract their embedded transcripts.

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CLAUDE.md · 46 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 46 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.

Project Overview

This is a Claude skill that provides access to Apple Voice Memos synced via iCloud on macOS. The skill walks the user through selecting a memo, extracting its transcript, and processing it into structured notes.

Architecture

The project consists of:

  • apple-voice-memos/SKILL.md — Skill definition with 3-step workflow (select, extract, process)
  • apple-voice-memos/PROMPT.md — Processing prompt sent to a subagent with the transcript for structured note generation
  • apple-voice-memos/scripts/extract-apple-voice-memos-metadata — Queries the CloudRecordings.db SQLite database with optional filtering (title search, date range, pagination, count-only mode)
  • apple-voice-memos/scripts/extract-apple-voice-memos-transcript — Extracts embedded transcripts from .m4a files using the proprietary tsrp atom format

Key Technical Details

Data Sources

  • CloudRecordings.db: SQLite database at ~/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.VoiceMemos.shared/Recordings/CloudRecordings.db
    • Core Data backed (note Z_ prefixed columns)
    • Dates stored as Core Data epoch (seconds since 2001-01-01, add 978307200 for Unix epoch)
    • Despite column names, ZENCRYPTEDTITLE and ZENCRYPTEDNAME contain plaintext
  • Audio files: .m4a files in the same Recordings directory
    • Transcripts stored in proprietary tsrp atom within the m4a container
    • Not all recordings have transcripts (generated on-device by Apple)

Commands

This is a Claude skill project, not a traditional development project. There are no build, test, or lint commands. The Python scripts are standalone executables that require only Python 3 standard library.

To test the scripts locally:

# List recent recordings (metadata)
python3 apple-voice-memos/scripts/extract-apple-voice-memos-metadata

# Extract transcript from a specific file
python3 apple-voice-memos/scripts/extract-apple-voice-memos-transcript "<FILENAME>.m4a"

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apple-voice-memos CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository jessedc/apple-voice-memos (18 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed 0BSD. It adds 572 tokens to every session, about $0.0029 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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