SAID IN THE ROOM
“Maybe we should revisit it after the holidays.”
About Noter
The meeting is an input. The follow-through is the work.
Noter is a macOS meeting assistant that records without sending a bot, writes the notes, separates real commitments from loose conversation, and prepares the work that follows. It is built for people whose day depends on remembering what they promised across many relationships.
NOT A COMMITMENT
Preserve the ambiguity. Do not invent the task.
A useful system knows when the evidence is insufficient.
Most meeting tools optimize the summary. Noter optimizes the handoff: what was decided, what is still open, what you actually committed to, and which next step is safe to prepare.
CAPTURENo meeting bot
Microphone and system audio are captured on the Mac.
EVIDENCEQuotes before tasks
A commitment needs first-person evidence before it becomes yours.
CONTROLSensitive actions ask
Sending, deleting, paying, and overwriting cannot be silently granted away.
PLATFORMMac, deliberately
The shipped product is a signed, notarized Apple Silicon desktop app.
Why it exists
Capture became table stakes. Context and judgment did not.
A transcript can tell you what was said. It cannot, by itself, decide whether “we should” was a decision, whether “after the holidays” means a due date, or whether a suggested CRM update is safe to file.
Noter keeps those distinctions visible. It carries the quote, person, meeting, and unresolved detail forward so confirmation is a click—not a reconstruction of the conversation.
The product boundary
Narrow actions, grounded in real work.
Noter is not trying to become a general computer-use agent. It starts with meeting-derived context and uses that context to prepare specific work across the apps and files you choose.
Bring forward the few facts that change the meeting.
Calendar context, people, prior conversations, files, and open commitments become a concise brief.
Keep the transcript and your own judgment together.
Live transcription, typed notes, custom vocabulary, and questions about the conversation stay available while it is happening.
Prepare the deliverable, then show the reason.
Tasks, messages, documents, and connected-app changes remain grounded in the meeting and gated by risk.
What ships today
A real beta, with explicit limits.
Noter is pre-1.0 and available through a private beta. The site only describes shipped behavior and does not present roadmap work as available.
- Platform
- macOS desktop; Apple Silicon builds ship today.
- Meeting capture
- Google Meet, Zoom, and Microsoft Teams are detected automatically; audio-level capture also works with other calls and in-person conversations.
- Storage
- Notes, transcripts, meetings, people, tasks, and agent sessions live in local SQLite, with a server mirror for sync and server-side jobs.
- AI providers
- Anthropic and OpenAI through Noter’s backend; Deepgram or Recall.ai for transcription.
- Availability
- Private beta. There is no public paid plan or billing system yet.
See what happens after the notes.
Join the private macOS beta. Access is free during beta and no credit card is required.