Welcome to the Docapybara blog.
Docapybara's opening note: one calm vault for PDFs, meeting transcripts, and the workflows we'll keep writing about.
If you've been following along, you already know the shape of the product: one person, one vault, markdown-native pages with a built-in agent that acts on your documents instead of just chatting about them. This blog is the place we'll write about the stuff that sits around that core — the workflows we use ourselves, the tradeoffs we make, and what works (or doesn't) when you put an AI agent in front of your entire notes graph.
A few things we want to cover early:
- Chatting with PDFs that actually work. Uploading a paper and asking useful questions about it is one of those features that sounds simple until you try it on a 300-page report. We'll break down how Docapybara converts PDFs to markdown on upload so the agent sees searchable text, not opaque blobs, and why that matters for answer quality.
- Meeting transcription with speaker labels. Recording a call and getting back a transcript is easy; getting back a transcript that distinguishes between "you" and "the person you're interviewing" is where the real leverage shows up.
- Living inside one vault. Single-user isn't a constraint — it's a design choice. We'll talk about why the shape of Obsidian (not Notion) is the one we keep coming back to.
What's coming
We've already started writing the pieces we wish existed when we were evaluating tools ourselves. Here are three to watch for:
- Claude Code for Documents — why non-developers deserve the same AI-acts-on-your-work experience that developers got with Cursor and Claude Code.
- AI Meeting Note Taker — upload a recording after the call, get speaker-labelled transcripts and action items without a bot lurking in your meeting.
- AI for Work — the generalist case for an agent that acts on your docs, not another side panel that summarises what you already read.
- How to Use AI in Sales — five concrete workflows that delete the 40% of a sales rep's week spent on admin instead of selling.
Expect posts roughly when we have something worth saying. No filler, no listicles. Subscribe via RSS (coming soon) or just bookmark this page.
— The Docapybara team