Build Your Own AI-Powered Meeting Notes System This Weekend

Build Your Own AI-Powered Meeting Notes System This Weekend Turn hours of manual note-taking into an automated workflow with Python, Whisper, and Claude We've all been there: you finish a meeting, realize you should have taken better notes, and spend the next 20 minutes trying to reconstruct what was discussed from fragmented memories and a few bullet points. This weekend, let's fix that permanently. We're going to build an AI-powered meeting notes system that: Transcribes audio recordings using OpenAI's Whisper Generates structured summaries with action items using Claude Saves everything to Markdown files for your second brain Total time: 2-3 hours. Difficulty: Beginner-friendly. What You'll Need Python 3.9+ An Anthropic API key (for Claude) Basic terminal knowledge Audio files of meetings (or a microphone to record new ones) Project Structure meeting-notes/ ├── transcribe.py ├── summarize.py ├── main.py ├── recordings/ ├── transcripts/ └── summaries/ Step 1: Set Up the Environment m