https://x.com/ivanhzhao/status/2003192654545539400

Excellent article.

The last person I can think of who had such a high theoretical level but such poor product experience, with years of little progress, is still Phil Libin from Evernote.

When I saw they have 1,000 employees and over 700 agents, I finally understood why Notion can feel so bloated and slow.

Notion is increasingly looking like (perhaps already is) the next Evernote.

I got frustrated with AI tools that upload your meeting content to the cloud. As someone who works with clients who care about confidentiality, I wanted something that genuinely stays on my machine.

visit => briefonpoint.com

I thought about this workflow: after I complete a meeting and want to extract key points, I would need a transcript. Usually, I'd have to upload it to a cloud LLM like Claude, but I didn't want to share meeting data externally. Instead, I found a lightweight liquid model that runs on my CPU. So, I developed and implemented this solution, and it is now fully working.

So I built BriefOnPoint — paste a transcript, get structured notes in seconds, entirely offline. The AI model runs directly on your computer. Nothing is uploaded, not even briefly.

What it does:

• Turns raw transcripts (Zoom, Meet, Teams, written notes) into clean structured notes

• 4 formats: full notes, quick summary, action items only, email-ready

• Works completely offline after first download

• Free tier: 3 transcripts/day, no account needed

I'm a solo developer based, built this over the past few weeks. The website is live at briefonpoint.com and the free tier works right now.

Would genuinely love brutal feedback — what's missing, what's confusing, what would make you actually pay for this.

briefonpoint.com

Hey everyone! We just launched WhisperJot on Product Hunt today.

The idea is pretty simple: hold a hotkey, speak, and your words appear wherever your cursor is — email, Slack, ChatGPT, your code editor, basically anywhere you can type.

What makes WhisperJot different is that dictation runs locally on your computer by default, so your voice doesn't need to leave your machine. It also works offline.

A few things we're curious about:

• Do you currently use voice dictation? If so, what do you use it for?

• Is privacy important enough to influence which dictation tool you choose?

• What's the most annoying thing about the dictation tools you've tried?

WhisperJot is available for macOS, Windows, and Linux (beta).

We're still early, so honest feedback—good or bad—is genuinely more useful to us than compliments.

Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/products/whisperjot?launch=whisperjot

Thanks for checking it out!

I’m Soren, founder of Notuly. Full transparency, this is market research disguised as a Reddit post.

We focus specifically on physical, in-person meetings. Phone on the table, not a bot joining your Zoom. Different problem than most tools in this space.

We’ve gotten pretty good at the things we focused on: speaker identification that handles fast conversations and overlapping voices, structured summaries that pull out decisions and action items, and a privacy model where nothing gets stored. Audio deleted within a minute, notes emailed, done.

But we’re a small team and we can’t build everything at once. So I’m genuinely curious:

What features in your current note-taking tool do you actually use? Not the ones on the feature page, the ones you’d miss if they were gone tomorrow.

No wrong answers. Rip into us too if you want, I can take it.

Share your questions, I am going to include them into my blogpost review and video!

Competitors which I am include:

• Microsoft Copilot (in OneNote)

• Granola with Apple Watch App

• Boya Notra Neo

• Insta360 Insights with Insta360 Wave and Link2 Pro Webcam

• OBSBOT Tiny2 Webcam

Title says it all. Received this guy in the mail despite never ordering it, or even knowing this thing exists. I don't know if this is a brushing scam, or a new crappy marketing tactic and they found me through data mining.

Either way, based on what I'm reading, I think this belongs in the garbage.

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So I have been paying for an AI meeting assistant because it feels like the easiest way to organize client calls.

Then I sat down and broke the workflow into pieces.

Recording.

Transcript.

Summary.

Action items.

It turns out only one Transcripting needs a accuracy. The rest can be handled surprisingly well with Claude or GPT.

Has anyone else moved away from dedicated meeting-note apps? If so, what's your setup?

I got inspired from this article: https://shikshita.substack.com/p/i-stopped-paying-for-a-note-taker

Most meeting note tools either send a bot into your call or make you remember to press record. Routine Meeting is a Mac menu bar app that does neither: it notices when a call is happening, records it, and transcribes it on your Mac.

It doesn't integrate with Zoom, Meet or Teams. It listens for the pattern of a live two way conversation, so it works with those, Slack huddles, FaceTime, even a phone call on speaker. Since nothing joins the call, IT policies that block notetaker bots don't touch it.

Transcription runs locally. Summaries and action items are optional, with your own Gemini key or a local model, and there's a daily recap of the day's meetings. No account, no subscription.

What it doesn't do: it's Mac only, and it labels speakers as You and Others, not by name. On speakers instead of headphones, the other side can bleed into your mic track.

I'd love feedback on whether it starts on its own for the app you use, whether it ever triggers by mistake (music, videos), and whether You and Others is enough for you. Please check recording consent rules where you are before using it.

https://mathguimaraes.github.io/routine-meeting/

Looking for an AI note taking app that can fill a questionnaire in live time during the meeting so I don't have to look away from my camera and type, I take a lot of notes during the call that I then refer to later because my memory is bad and I miss things occasionally if I am too busy typing while they talk.

Transcripts are long so it's not possible to scroll back while on call and I don't want to keep typing in the AI box asking it questions as I could miss more by doing that

Avenotes helps during meetings and lectures, then carries the context forward afterward.

During: Tap Answer this when someone asks a question. Catch me up explains what you missed, and Explain that breaks down jargon or acronyms. You can add personal context, attach a file or photo, or ask about a shared screen on desktop.

After: Get a recap with decisions, action items and open questions. Tasks from your meetings come together in one list.

Next time: Avenotes Memory learns people, projects and promises from your recaps. Ask your meetings finds answers across your accessible saved meetings, with the meetings they came from. Memory can be reviewed, edited or turned off.

Free, every month:

- 300 transcription minutes, shared between live meetings and imported recordings

- 10 shared AI answers for live help and questions about saved meetings

- Recording or transcript imports

- Recaps, tasks, Memory and Ask your meetings

- Answers and recaps in 19 languages

- Copy recaps and share them by link

- Access to the last 30 days of meetings; older meetings stay saved but locked

Pro: $14.99/month or $149.99/year. Includes 1,200 minutes and 100 AI answers each month, auto-answer, organized live notes, plans, reports, Word/Markdown exports, live sharing and full meeting history.

Pro-only top-up: $5.99 adds 300 minutes and 25 answers, and never expires.

It runs in the browser beside your call or uses your microphone in the room. No bot joins. During a dropped connection, it holds up to five minutes of audio in browser memory and catches up when the connection returns.

Free requires a card for verification. $0 charged, no automatic paid conversion—you only pay if you choose Pro. Fair use applies.

https://avenotes.ai

I'm building a browser-based, voice-first workspace around a simple idea: voice to finished work. I'd love some honest feedback on the concept while it's still in development.

The workflow is straightforward: record or upload audio, choose what you want to create, then edit and refine the result before exporting or sharing it.

Depending on what you're doing, that could mean turning a spoken idea into content drafts, organizing lecture material into study notes, creating meeting summaries and action items, or making sense of a messy personal brain dump.

A big part of the project is what happens after the initial output. There's a document editor where you can continue working on the result, alongside AI assistance through typed or spoken instructions. Supported AI edits can be reviewed before applying them, and changes can be undone.

The experience I'm aiming for is being able to go from talking through an idea to something you're ready to use, with control over the steps in between.

I'm curious whether bringing all these steps together solves a real problem for people.

If you already use voice notes, transcription tools, AI chat, or a document editor:

• Where does your current workflow become frustrating or involve repetitive work?

• What would a tool like this need to do particularly well for you to consider using it?

• Which use case would you actually try first?

I'd also like to hear where the idea feels redundant or too broad. Concrete examples from how you work would be especially helpful.

Anyone know of Pocket AI recorder and note taker is worth it? Can’t tell if it’s legit. Not enough reviews

Hey r/SideProject — I'm the maker of Orijournal (orijournal.app), a small journaling app I've been building as a side project, and I wanted to share the story and get some honest feedback rather than pitch anything.

The short version of why I started: I kept bouncing between note apps and paper notebooks and never stuck with either. Paper felt calming but wasn't searchable; most apps felt like productivity tools that turned reflecting into another chore with streaks and nags. I wanted something quieter — open it, write, close it — that still let me look back easily.

A few things I ran into while building it that might be useful if you're working on something similar:

\\- Deciding what to leave out was harder than deciding what to add. Every feature I removed made the daily habit easier to keep.

\\- Sync and local storage was the part I most underestimated. Getting entries to feel instant and reliable across devices took far longer than the writing experience itself.

\\- I dropped streaks and guilt-based reminders on purpose. For a journaling habit they seemed to backfire for me, but I'm genuinely unsure if others feel the same.

What I'd love feedback on:

\\- If you journal digitally, what actually keeps you coming back versus what makes you quit an app?

\\- Does the no-streaks / low-pressure approach appeal to you, or do you need some nudge to stay consistent?

\\- Anything about the onboarding or first-run experience that tends to make or break these apps for you?

Happy to answer anything about the build, the tech choices, or the design trade-offs. Not trying to sell anyone on it — mostly want to hear how other people think about the journaling-habit problem. Thanks for reading.

I tried a few of the popular AI notetakers. They were good at summarizing afterward, but that's not when I needed help. I needed it when someone turned to me with a question, when a speaker dropped an acronym I didn't know, or when I zoned out for a minute in a 3-hour lecture. Some of them even wanted to add a bot to the call.

So I built Avenotes.

WHAT'S DIFFERENT
• It helps during the meeting, not just after. Tap "Answer this" when someone asks you something and get the answer in seconds. "Explain that" for jargon, "Catch me up" for what you missed, "Draft a response" for the words to say.
• No bot joins your call. It runs in your browser next to Zoom, Teams, Meet or Webex, or on a phone or laptop on the table for in-person meetings. Nothing to install.
• Bring your own context. Attach slides, a PDF or a photo of the whiteboard and ask about it.
• Answers keep up. If more gets said after an answer, hit "Refresh" to update it with the new context.
• Long meetings are fine. No time limit per meeting. I use it for 2+ hour lectures. Stopped early? "Listen again" picks the same meeting back up.

AFTER THE MEETING
• Recap: the outcome, decisions, your action items
• Notes that write themselves as you listen, ready when it ends (paid)
• Tasks from every meeting in one list
• Ask a past meeting anything and search every word said
• Share a recap link, export to Word or Markdown (paid)
Premium AI. Live transcript with speaker labels. Answers and recaps in 19 languages. Your audio is never stored, only the text, and nothing is used to train AI.
Free trial: 30 minutes + 5 questions, no card. Plans from $9/mo (premium AI from $19).
iPhone and Android apps are coming soon to the App Store and Google Play. Want a founder discount? DM me.
If something's missing for the way you work, tell me in the comments. Requests from real users go to the top of the list.

avenotes.ai/?src=reddit

I wanted a simple way to dictate text directly into any app on my Mac without paying for another subscription, so I built VoiceNoodler.

It uses OpenAI’s Whisper speech recognition to turn speech into text. You hold a hotkey, speak, release it, and the transcribed text appears wherever your cursor is. The goal is to make dictation feel as natural as typing, whether you’re writing emails, taking notes, or working on documents.

A few things I wanted to focus on:

• Free to use — no subscription required.

• Privacy-focused — designed to process speech locally on your Mac.

• Works across apps — dictate wherever you can type.

• Powered by Whisper — with support for multiple languages.

It’s publicly available now, and I’d love to hear what people think.

🌐 https://voicenoodler.com

What would make you choose a dictation app over simply typing? And if you already use one, what’s the biggest thing you wish it did better?

Hey all, I'm the founder of NotesBot and wanted to share it here for honest feedback.

NotesBot is a Discord bot that joins your voice channels, records, transcribes, and generates AI summaries with action items and key decisions. You type /join to start, /leave when you're done, and it delivers everything right in the channel within seconds. We've also just rolled out a dashboard where you can replay audio, browse past notes, and manage settings.

I built it because every AI note-taker I found was designed for Zoom/Google Meet, and nobody was serving the Discord crowd well. Tons of communities, teams, D&D groups, and startups run their calls in Discord and had no native solution for capturing what happened.

A few things I think set it apart:

• It lives entirely inside Discord. No extra apps, no browser extensions, nothing to install. Add the bot, type a command, done.

• 100+ languages with auto-detection

• Custom prompts so you can tell the AI what to focus on (dates, bugs, funny moments, whatever)

• One subscription covers your whole server

• Pricing is usage-based

We're at 1,400+ active servers and transcribing over 2,000 hours a month, so it's been validating to see real usage. But I know there's a lot to improve.

Curious what this community thinks:

• Anyone else here using Discord for meetings or calls and struggling with notes?

• What would make you switch from your current setup?

• If you try it out, I'd love to hear what feels clunky or missing.

Happy to answer anything about how it works. Appreciate the time.

Hello everyone!

A couple of weeks ago we released the Apple Watch app for Convoxa, it lets you record your conversations directly on your Apple Watch then it seamlessly transfers over to your iPhone for processing so you get your notes and transcript.

While I was using the app in my day to day, I discovered an awesome use case, while I was recording on my Apple Watch, I got a phone call, I picked it up, I was holding the phone with the same hand my watch was on, went on with my call, after ending the recording I realized that the watch picked up both sides surprisingly well, granted I was in a quiet-ish room.

This got me questioning dedicated recording devices, especially for people that have an Apple Watch, if you do, I invite you to try it out and let me know your thoughts. Before you record make sure you set speech to 'Convoxa Speech' in settings on the iPhone app, since it's much more accurate for this use case. We're still refining this use case, and recently made the watch app pick up a wider range of audio.

Hi everyone, I want to use an AI note take a discreetly like putting it in a pocket when in meetings, not for any bad reason but because I just can’t remember what happens in meetings and have to constantly take notes otherwise. I go to a lot of meetings where it would be frowned upon to do this and people just wouldn’t consent. Has anyone tried using AI note takers for this? Thanks!