Scribe is a Mac app for everything you mean to come back to. Paste a link and get the summary, the takeaways and the quotes worth keeping. Record a meeting and get the decisions and who owes what. Then ask your notes a question and get an answer that cites where it came from.
macOS 14 Sonoma or later · Apple silicon & Intel · 14-day free trial at launchTreepie Scribe is an AI note-taking app for macOS. It keeps the links you read, the meetings you sit in, the highlights you clip and the notes you write in one searchable library. Scribe summarises articles into takeaways and quotes, records meetings from your Mac's microphone and system audio and turns them into a summary, a transcript and assigned action items, and answers questions across everything you have saved, citing the notes it used.
Each one is a window in the app, not a roadmap promise. Together they replace the read-later app, the meeting bot, the to-do list you never check and the folder of notes nobody can search.
Most meeting notes are written by whoever is least busy, and read by nobody. Scribe writes them while you talk, then gives you the part that matters: what was decided, who owes what, and the line someone said that you'll want to quote later.
You Quick one: where are we on the activation checklist?
Lena Design is done. Engineering estimates about a week and a half.
Marco Can we ship it behind a flag to 10% of new signups first?
You Yes, let’s do that. Lena, can you set up the funnel dashboard?
Lena Sure, I’ll have it ready by Monday.
Marco I’ll write the rollout note for support.
You Great. We’ll review results on the 20th.
Ship the activation checklist behind a flag to 10% of new signups first, then review the funnel on the 20th.
Action itemsLena: set up the funnel dashboard by MondayMarco: write the rollout note for supportYou: review rollout results on the 20thMost PRDs fail because they record decisions instead of driving them. The author proposes a one-page format that leads with the problem, the success metric and explicit non-goals, and pushes the detail into linked appendices.
Key takeaways“A spec nobody reads is just a diary with headings.”#product #writing · Folder: Reading list
A bookmark tells you that you once found something useful. A Scribe summary tells you why. Every saved link carries its summary, takeaways and quotes, so the article you read in March is still useful in October — and searchable by what it argued.
Scribe reads what you saved yesterday and the meetings you had, and writes the one paragraph you'd have written yourself if you had the time. Underneath: what you still owe people, what you meant to read, and one highlight resurfaced so good ideas don't sink.
This week is about activation. Q4 planning made it the north star, Priya wants an activation story for the board deck, and your checklist onboarding idea is the most concrete lever. Pricing work moves to November, and the Search v2 beta holds for Dec 2.
“Every interruption costs more than its duration. The real price is the twenty minutes it takes to remember what you were thinking.”
Notes, highlights, saved links and meeting recordings live in Scribe's library on your own disk, where Time Machine backs them up with everything else. Take the whole library elsewhere by copying the folder, or export any note as Markdown or PDF.
Scribe will be sold the way the other Treepie Mac apps are: a plan, monthly or yearly, in US dollars, pounds, dirhams or rupees, verified by a licence key on your Mac.
People whose job is mostly reading, meeting and remembering — and who are tired of losing the good parts of all three.
Most people stitch this together from a read-later app, a meeting bot and a notes app. Here is what changes when it is one library.
| Read-later app | Meeting bot | Plain notes app | Treepie Scribe | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saves links | Yes, mostly unread | No | As pasted URLs | With summary, takeaways and quotes |
| Records meetings | No | Joins the call as a bot | Not at all | From your Mac, no bot |
| Action items | None | Per meeting | Typed by hand | From every meeting and note, in one list |
| Search | Titles and tags | Within one meeting | Exact words | By meaning, across everything |
| Answers questions | Never | About one meeting | No | Across your whole library, with sources |
| Where it lives | A website | Someone else's cloud | Varies | A Mac app, library on your disk |