Otter Remembers My Meetings So I Don't Have To

I used to scribble notes in meetings and miss half of what was said. Otter transcribes live with speaker labels, and now I actually search my meetings instead of guessing.

It's not flawless. In a noisy room accuracy dips, and the auto-summary is hit or miss. But the searchable transcript alone pays for the tool.

Fireflies is the alternative if you live in a calendar with a dozen apps to connect, but for straight recording-and-recall, Otter is the one I open.

The habit change matters more than the feature: I stopped trying to remember and started trusting the log. My follow-ups got faster and my anxiety about missing something dropped.

A meeting tool's job isn't to be perfect. It's to be there, every time, so the human can be present instead of taking notes.