How to use Hermes to get a nightly digest of your meetings

Some days are wall-to-wall calls: a coaching session, two client check-ins, a pitch. Weeve catches all of it. Every recording is transcribed and summarized on your Mac before you've refilled your coffee. But five good summaries you never re-read are worth about as much as no summaries at all.

Here's the fix this guide builds: every evening at nine, a message arrives on your phone. One line per meeting. Every decision made that day. Your action items, separated from everyone else's. And one "thread to watch", the unresolved question most likely to cause trouble later. Total reading time: about a minute.

The assistant doing the work is Hermes, a free, open-source AI agent from Nous Research. It runs quietly on your Mac (or a small server), reaches you through Telegram, WhatsApp, Slack, Discord, or Signal, and has a built-in scheduler you talk to in plain English. No cron syntax, no code.

Before you start

You'll need Hermes installed. Their site offers a one-command installer and a setup wizard that connects your chat app; expect 30 to 45 minutes if this is your first time with this kind of tool. You'll also want Weeve's auto-generate summaries switched on in Settings, so every meeting gets notes without you asking.

Step 1 — Move your meetings somewhere easy to find

Weeve keeps each meeting as a small file on your Mac, tucked into a system folder by default. Make life easier: in Weeve, open Settings → Data & Storage, click Change folder, and choose a new folder called Weeve in your home folder.

Peek inside with Finder: Weeve → Users → a folder with a long name → Recordings. One file per meeting, holding the title, date, speaker names, and the summary. That's Hermes' reading material.

Step 2 — Introduce Hermes to the folder

Hermes takes standing instructions as plain text. Give it this (paste as-is):

## Weeve meeting data

My meetings are saved in ~/Weeve/Users/<the-long-folder-name>

## Weeve meeting data

My meetings are saved in ~/Weeve/Users/<the-long-folder-name>

## Weeve meeting data

My meetings are saved in ~/Weeve/Users/<the-long-folder-name>

The "ready" detail matters. Weeve creates the file when a recording starts and fills it in as processing finishes, so the file's presence and the meeting being done are two different moments. For a 9 p.m. digest this hardly ever bites, since everything from the day finished processing hours ago, but the rule keeps the edge cases clean.

Step 3 — Ask for the digest

This is the whole "programming" step. Tell Hermes, in chat:

Two lines there earn their keep. "Stay silent" means no empty digests on quiet days. A message that arrives when there's nothing to say trains you to ignore it. And the language line matters because Weeve summarizes meetings in the language they were held in, so your Dutch standup produces Dutch notes; letting the digest match beats a clumsy translation of your own conversation.

The part that gets better on its own

Hermes has a habit other assistants lack: after doing a job a few times, it can turn the routine into a written "skill" it keeps and reuses. Ask it: "Turn the Weeve digest into a skill." From then on the procedure is documented and consistent, and it becomes a building block. "Use the Weeve skill on the last month and tell me which meetings never produced a single action item" becomes a one-line request. Most calendars do not enjoy answering that question.

Other requests that work well once the folder is connected: a Friday "promise audit" listing every commitment from the week that nobody has mentioned since; a morning-briefing version at 7:30 covering yesterday; separate digests per project sent to different channels.

Where your data goes

Everything Weeve does (recording, transcribing, summarizing) happens on your Mac, full stop. The digest step is where you have a choice. Hermes thinks using whichever AI model you connect, and with a cloud model your summaries pass through that provider each evening. Hermes also works with models that run locally, which keeps the entire loop on your own hardware, the consistent choice if your meetings involve client confidences. A middle path: the digest only needs the summaries, never the full word-for-word transcripts, and the instructions above already respect that.

Setup is an evening. The payoff is the opposite of a productivity system: nothing to maintain, nothing to remember, just a one-minute message that means no meeting slips through the cracks again. A digest tells you what happened; if you want the notes filed away as well, our OpenClaw guide covers that half.

A nightly digest is the smallest version of a much bigger idea. How we built an AI company brain at Weeve covers what the same conversations look like once they accumulate into a shared, reviewed source of truth.