The Meeting Note Tools Made Me Stop Listening
Fireflies and Otter are great. They also gave me permission to zone out, and I paid for it.
Once a bot started catching every word, I stopped taking my own notes. Then in a key meeting I tuned out, the bot mis-transcribed one number, and I walked away with the wrong decision in my head.
The transcript was there, but I'd outsourced understanding, not just recording. The note tool captured words and missed meaning.
Now I write one sentence per meeting by hand - the decision and the owner. The bot handles the archive; I handle comprehension.
Let the machine remember. Keep the thinking for yourself.