Audio Recorder Pro

Mobile-friendly Obsidian plugin for fast local audio capture.

Features

• Real-time recording timer with clear state indicators.
• Pause / continue / stop controls.
• Minimize while recording: the recorder collapses to a small draggable pill in a screen corner so you can keep reading and writing in your vault. Tap the pill to bring the full recorder back.
• The recording can only be ended deliberately: while a take is live, the background, Escape and the close button all minimize instead of stopping. Stop saves, Discard asks twice.
• The saved embed is inserted into the note you started recording in, even if you navigated away while recording.
• Lightweight format preference with automatic fallback when unsupported on the current device.
• Optional automatic embed insertion into the active note after save.
• Enhanced embedded audio player controls in preview output (play/pause, seek, skip, speed).

Commands

• Open recorder
• Quick start recording (starts immediately and goes straight to the minimized pill)
• Minimize recorder to pill

Settings

• Save folder
• File name prefix
• Preferred lightweight audio type
• Insert audio embed after save
• Recorder pill position (reset to the bottom right corner)

Policy disclosures

• This plugin works locally and does not send audio to external services.
• No account or API key is required.
• No telemetry, ads, or self-update mechanism is included.

Acknowledgements and inspirations

This plugin draws directly on existing Obsidian audio-recording workflows, especially:

• super-duper-audio-recorder by Thiago MadPin (madpin) for audio-recorder UX direction.
• Obsidian core audio-recorder workflows for baseline recording behavior.

Credit where due:

• Matthias defined product direction, selected workflows, and performed iterative testing/QA.
• Codex produced most implementation code and release-automation scaffolding under Matthias's guidance.

Build

npm ci
npm run build

Release

• GitHub Actions release workflow: .github/workflows/release.yml
• Required release assets: main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css
• Git tag must match manifest.json.version exactly (no v prefix)