Listener

The Listener records a meeting, a brainstorm, or a call while your companion listens along. When the session ends, you get a note containing a summary and the full transcript.

First-time setup

The first time you open Listener, you’re walked through a consent flow explaining what the Listener captures and how it’s used. You need to accept before starting a session.

The Listener only records when you explicitly start a session. It never runs on its own.

Starting a session

Open Listener from the sidebar. Pick where the audio comes from, confirm everyone present is okay with being recorded, and select Start Listening.

Microphone — just your mic, for in-person meetings, brainstorms, and voice notes
Mic + Computer — your mic plus your computer’s audio, for Google Meet, Zoom, or anything playing through your speakers

If you’ve recorded before, the welcome screen also shows a resume strip for a session you left running and a list of your earlier sessions, so you can pick up where you left off.

During a session

The orb at the centre of the screen reacts to what it’s hearing, so you can tell at a glance that capture is working. While the session runs you can:

Watch the transcript build live as people speak
Talk to your companion in the chat panel alongside the session, without stopping the recording
Capture a screenshot of what’s on your screen (⌘⇧S) — slides, a whiteboard, a shared document. Screenshots are placed in the transcript at the moment they were taken and end up in the finished note.

You can keep using the rest of the app; the Listener carries on in the background.

Ending a session

Select Stop. Your companion finishes the transcript and creates a note in Notes, labelled Listener so you can tell it apart from something you wrote yourself.

If a session ends on its own — you close the tab, or the audio stops — it’s finished the same way, not lost.

The note you get

A Listener note has two views, switched with the pill at the top:

Summary — your companion’s write-up: what was discussed, decisions, and Action Steps
Transcript — the full text of what was said, with screenshots in place

The summary is written after the session ends rather than while you wait, so a long meeting doesn’t hold you up. If your account has no allowance or credit left when it runs, the note opens on the Transcript with “Add credit to generate your summary” — top up and it generates. You can also regenerate a summary at any time if you want another pass.

Naming the speakers

Transcripts label voices generically at first. Rename a speaker once and every mention of them updates across the note.

Browser requirements

Capturing your computer’s audio — meeting sound rather than just your mic — requires Chrome 105+. Your microphone works in any modern browser.

Finding past sessions

Every Listener note lives in Notes alongside everything else, labelled Listener. Open the note to read the summary or the transcript, or jump back to the conversation you had during the session.