With Google Meet's new "Take Notes for Me" feature, I've been comparing AI meeting assistants for productivity. Here's a quick rundown:

Google Meet's AI Note-Taker

• Pros: Integrated, auto note-taking, free for Workspace users

• Cons: English only, limited customization

Top AI Meeting Assistants

1. Otter.ai

   • Real-time collaborative notes, searchable transcripts

2. Fireflies.ai

   • Powerful cross-meeting search, CRM integration

3. tl;dv

   • Video highlights, multi-language, cross-meeting reports

4. Vexa.ai

   • Custom AI prompts, adaptive learning, no-bot browser extension

5. Fathom

   • Free tier, simple interface, auto action item extraction

6. Supernormal

   • Visual AI summaries, automated slide creation

7. Avoma

   • Full meeting lifecycle management, conversation analysis

If you've tried the new Google feature, what has been your experience? Are there any other tools you've found helpful that aren't mentioned here?

I've been answering multiple zoom calls and google meetup calls almost every night. My primitive ass is using Ipad with apple pencil to take notes digitally about the meeting on my Ipad?

Is there a way I could automate the meeting where the AI could like just list all the important parts of the meeting and will create a minutes of meeting report at the end of the call?

I've been losing time and sacrificing my efficiency with my primitive method.

Please help.

Looking for an AI tool that can record Google Meet meetings using audio/mic and create meeting notes without having a bot join the call. Any recommendations for the best option in 2025?

Edit: Thanks for your recommendations guys! I have tried Notebook LM and Vomo, they work great for research and note taking.

Google Meet is introducing new AI features that can take real-time notes during meetings and even "attend" meetings on your behalf. These features aim to make it easier to catch up on what happened during calls and offer more flexibility in virtual meeting scenarios.

AI-powered note-taking

• Google's Duet AI can now take notes for you in real time during a meeting. Just click on "take notes for me," and it will summarize the meeting and list action items.

• If you're late to a meeting, Duet AI will provide a mid-meeting summary to help you catch up.

• Once the meeting ends, you can save the summary, which may include video clips, to Google Docs for later reference.

AI attending meetings for you

• Another feature allows you to let Duet AI "attend" a meeting for you. You just have to click on the "attend for me" button in the meeting invite.

• Google will automatically generate text based on your talking points, which will be visible to other meeting attendees.

• This feature can be particularly useful if you're double-booked or have to suddenly cancel a meeting.

Source (The Verge)

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I don't want something that joins my calls. I just want a notetaker that saves AI notes and/or transcription locally for me to review later. Any recommendations? Happy to pay

Hey all- I am usually attending 10s of meeting everyday and usually it's spread across Zoom, and GMeet! I make it a point to diligently take notes for each.

But recently I realized with AI, there should be something that automates this so that I can focus more on the actual conversation? I have always hated the awkward pauses I have to do while I take notes.

So any recommendations? Ideally something that can auto extract action items as well? Thanks in advance!

Update: Thank you for all the responses. I have decided to use the Echo meeting assistant

Looking for AI tools that integrate with Google Meets for efficient note-taking. Currently, I auto-generate a Google Doc for notes with each Google Calendar invite and can record meetings with transcriptions. Seeking an AI solution to either auto-populate these docs with summarized notes or distill transcriptions for easier integration.

I've tried a few of these apps now and am getting a good idea of what I want. But I cant find the perfect match for me. So I'm looking for recommendations.

First and foremost no bot. I don't want people in my meetings freaked out that AI is listening to them and I don't want to ask for permission.

Secondly the product needs to be affordable for 20hours of meetings per week.

The product should be able to merge real notes taken during the meeting with the transcript in an elegant way.

I'm looking to make a long term habit in using a product like this. So I want to chose a team behind the product that has a real roadmap and trajectory.

So far krisp and granola have been the closest to what I'm looking for.

Anyone have any recommendations and why?

Tried a few AI Note Taking apps and here are my findings:

• Coconote: Pretty good but have to create an account

• Notium: Really good + it syncs with iCloud so no account needed.

• Wave AI: Generic app with pretty bad UX, have to also create an account

I'm really wanting to move to ai notes. I need something that will allow me to turn text into notes, but also something that allows recordings that can be turned into notes. I also don't want to break the bank. Would love some feedback here.

Edit: Been using this note taker, records and turns meetings into clean notes automatically. Super low effort.

Hey everyone,

I’ve always struggled to stay focused during meetings while taking detailed notes. To solve this, I developed an app that records meetings, transcribes them, and automatically generates summaries and action items. It's called Flownote and It’s made managing my tasks and staying on top of my GTD workflow so much easier.

Here are some of the key features and benefits:

• Accurate Transcriptions: Records and transcribes meetings so you don’t miss any details.

• Summaries: Automatically generates concise summaries of your meetings.

• Action Items: Creates to-do lists and action items based on the meeting content.

• Speaker Labels: Identifies and labels speakers, so you know who said what.

• Share Links: Easily export as PDF or share notes as a web url.

• Organization: Keeps all your meeting notes and tasks organized in one place.

• Focus: Allows you to stay engaged in meetings without worrying about note-taking.

If you’re looking for a way to streamline your meeting notes and ensure you don’t miss any important details, give it a try. It’s been a game-changer for me and might help you too!

Stay productive!

Can the gpt desktop app be used for this purpose? If so that would be amazing.
It shouldn't be that hard to combine whisper + gpt for summaries of a meeting, right?

I know there are some of chrome extensions that do it, but heard mixed reviews.

I have a lot of video meetings and I'm looking for an AI tool to take notes for me, which doesn't use a meeting bot.

Are there any tools you guys can recommend?

Hey folks,

I do a lot of Google Meet calls in my job where I write down notes and I'm wondering if there's a plugin that allows me to write down notes easily?

Yes, I know that I can just write into the chatbox and then copy and paste but it's a pain removing the time stamps then.

I have AI Premium and would love to try the "take notes for me" feature. For some reason, I don't see the little ✨ icon in the top right that the docs say should be there, to enable the feature.

Other Gemini features work, like generating a background from a text prompt.

Is this maybe just for Workspace users?

Docs: https://support.google.com/meet/answer/14754931?hl=en#zippy=%2Cenable-take-notes-for-me-to-start-automatically