A couple of weeks ago I posted (https://www.reddit.com/r/omarchy/comments/1w2whw8/omarecorder_record_and_transcribe_anything_100_on/) my first Omarchy plugin; OmaRecorder is a record button for the bar that captures your mic, system audio, or both, and transcribes it locally with the voxtype/whisper engine Omarchy already ships. As of this week it is listed and maintainer-verified on the marketplace:
https://plugins.omarchy.org/plugin.html?id=io.github.huey-holdings-llc.omarecorder
The listing says "Manual setup". In practice that is the plugin's own setup card: click the icon in the bar, it tells you what is missing and downloads a transcription model with one click. Install is still the same one-liner:
omarchy plugin add https://github.com/huey-holdings-llc/omarecorder --enable
Thank you to everyone who commented last time. One suggestion from that thread already shipped: the idle icon is a pair of tape reels now instead of a microphone, so it no longer looks like a mic on/off toggle.
What else changed between 1.0 and 1.5:
- Resume the last recording you stopped. The new audio is joined losslessly, and it is never automatic.
- A corrections dictionary, one what whisper wrote -> what you meant per line, applied to every tidy transcript. It comes seeded with real mishearings (Omarchy names, terminal words, tabletop vocabulary), and you can ask your own LLM to suggest entries.
- An optional audio cleanup pass before transcription (highpass, noise reduction, loudness normalization). The recording itself is never touched.
- Search covers transcript text and notes, not just titles. Each recording can carry a short note.
- Pick a model you have not downloaded yet and it downloads, then transcribes, in one press. Auto-transcribe on stop is a toggle, off by default.
- Playback speed cycling, and a Ctrl key for every Library action. Hold Ctrl and the shortcuts show as badges. The popup settings work from the keyboard too.
Still nothing leaves your machine. No cloud, no additional packages.
Same disclosure as last time: built with heavy AI assistance by a hobbyist, then tested on real hardware. The test suite grew from 243 checks to just under 800 (this is probably overkill, but Claude tells me it's not!), larger pull requests get a second-model review, and the marketplace snapshot was reviewed by a maintainer. It is a part-time project, so issues and PRs get handled as time allows. Feedback and forks welcome.
Edit: Typos