AI note takers are so funny to me. Like what are you gonna do with all those notes? Go home after a long day, draw a nice bath, and flick through some shitty AI summaries?

And it’s AI so you literally can’t 100% trust it which is like half the reason I take notes by hand (to keep an honest record).

Tune out of the useless meeting and do something useful with your time. Read the 5 bullet point summary afterwards.

If it gets things wrong, oh well. Not much of value was lost.

This describes the vast majority of meetings held in the corporate world.

> what are you gonna do with all those notes?

Dump them in Obsidian with an LLM agent bolted on. This note may never be consciously re-read, but it will become silent part of the context for conversations with the agent in the future. It is _ridiculous_ how useful this approach is.

That pertains to work meetings, though. I would never bring a recorder to a coffee shop.

I mean most of these tools pair the notes/transcript with a video recording of the call. It can be super helpful to search the summaries to find the right recording, and then click the line in the transcript to re-watch the meeting.

For work, this is strictly better than not recording the meeting, as it allows for much faster searching, and it is very rarely wrong about the high level topics of a convo. I almost always go "General AI summary search" -> Transcript -> recording when trying to remember a specific item from a call.

That being said the parent article is spot on and I can't imagine someone bringing a recording to a conversation they aren't being paid to have.