Speak it once. Find it later. The note does not depend on AI.
Claire turns spoken thoughts into text on your iPhone while you have asked it to listen. Those notes are yours to browse, search, and delete — even if you never ask the AI anything. When you want a secretary’s help, you ask. Until then, the archive just sits on the phone.
Capture without a ritual
Ideas die in the gap between “I should write that down” and opening a notes app. Claire is for the moment you can speak: walking, driving (hands-free as the law allows), leaving a meeting, remembering a name.
You start capture. You stop capture. It is not always-on, not a desktop buffer, not a hidden recorder. iPhone only. The words become a transcript on the device.
Organize by finding, not by filing
You do not need a perfect folder tree. Search a word, a name, or a date range on the phone — including offline. Star what must survive a panic cleanup. Delete the rest the same day if you only needed it for an hour.
Nothing is sent while transcribing. If a note should never exist, erase it immediately. We cannot restore a transcript we never stored.
Text and date search →How erase and local storage work →Offline transcription →
AI is the helper, not the note-taker
Ask Claire to summarize a ramble, pull action items, or explain a passage. That step needs the internet and only sends relevant excerpts with your question. Masking can hide supported names and identifiers first.
If you never ask, the voice note still did its job: you can read it yourself.
AI memory / secretary →How masking works →Private AI assistant →