Merriweather Help
Merriweather is a work memory that lives in your Mac's menu bar. It keeps a ledger of the work you did, remembers the meetings you ask it to, and holds the people, documents, and projects around them. Everything stays on this Mac. There is no account, no cloud, and no telemetry.
It keeps quantities of time, never prices.
Topics
- Getting Started
Install from the DMG, set up your first engagement, grant the permissions, and find where your data lives.
- The Menu Bar
What the mark and its colors mean, and every item in the Merriweather menu.
- Today and the Ledger
Today, This Week, and the Ledger, and how to correct, answer, log, and pause.
- Meetings
How Merriweather listens to and remembers a meeting, and how to name the speakers afterwards.
- Follow Through
Commitments found in your meetings, how to edit and date them, and how they stay in step with Reminders.
- Knowledge
What Meetings, People, Documents, Projects, and Known Terms each hold, and how they link to one another.
- Memory and Ask
What memory keeps, how it asks you to settle doubts, and why Ask is still early.
- Assistants
How to have Claude Code or another assistant write what it learns into a journal that Merriweather keeps.
- Engagements and Accounts
One engagement per macOS account, how to choose several, and what stays apart.
- Privacy
What stays on your Mac, what Merriweather never does, and how to remove everything.
- Troubleshooting
Fixes for the app not starting, meetings not detected, odd names, a missing far side, updates, and where the log is.
Words used here
- Memory is what Merriweather keeps: meetings, people, documents, and what was said in them.
- Remember is what it does with a meeting you ask it to.
- Engagement is one client or partner relationship. Work, meetings, and folders belong to one engagement.
- Ledger is the day's work, block by block.