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By Felix Degeler · Founder & CEO3 min read

Nobody here writes meeting notes anymore

Notes and to-dos from meetings happen automatically here: transcribe, create tasks, file them in the project hub. The human only reviews instead of writing along.

DC illustration: a checklist with ticks, the last one orange, auto-created and human-reviewed.

Key takeaways

  • Meeting notes and to-dos can be fully automated: transcribe, create tasks, file them.
  • That way nobody misses a task because they were writing instead of listening.
  • Every auto-created task gets a quick human review: output isn't outcome.

Nobody here writes meeting notes anymore. No to-dos either. That sounds chaotic but it's the opposite: a clear workflow handles both automatically, more reliably than any notes scribbled on the side.

The workflow in three steps

A transcription tool listens in during the meeting and records it. An automation turns that into tasks and files them in our project hub, including context, timestamp and a link to the spot in the conversation.

The result: nobody misses a task because they were busy writing instead of listening. The machine handles the routine work.

Still: human in the loop

Automatic doesn't mean unchecked. Every AI task gets a quick review: is this really a task? Who's responsible? What priority? Because output isn't outcome.

That's the practical application of the principle we follow throughout: AI does the legwork, the human stays in the loop. We build exactly these workflows in client projects too.

Frequently asked

How do you automate meeting notes and to-dos?
With a three-step move: a transcription tool records the meeting, an automation turns it into tasks and files them in the project hub, including context and a link to the spot in the conversation. The human only reviews the tasks.
Isn't that error-prone without human notes?
The opposite, it's more reliable than scribbling on the side. The only crucial part is the last step: each created task gets a quick review (real task, owner, priority), because output isn't automatically outcome.
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