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AI Note-Takers Are Becoming More Than Meeting TranscriptsWhy AI note-takers are becoming more useful than meeting transcripts, and how organized conversation data can support the work that follows.Read the article →Latest articles
workflowsMeeting Recording to Recap Slides: A Five-Slide Workflow
Turn a meeting recording into recap slides with a five-slide structure and a review checklist. Separate agreed decisions from proposals before sharing.
CoHear Team · 7 min read
workflowsMeeting Recording to Action Items: A Source-Checked Workflow
Turn a meeting recording into action items with steps, a reusable prompt, and a checklist for checking owners, dates, dependencies, and sources.
CoHear Team · 6 min read
ai toolsAI meeting note-taking tools: CoHear, Fireflies, Otter, Notta and Plaud
Need phone recording plus notes, slides or study material? See why CoHear is worth trying first, and compare the workflows of Fireflies, Otter, Notta and Plaud.
CoHear Team · 9 min read
workflowsWhat Happens When Nobody Owns the Follow-Up?
A team can agree on a next step and still leave it undone when responsibility is shared only in theory.
CoHear Team · 3 min read
workflowsWhy Teams Confuse Activity With Progress
A full calendar and a long list of tasks can show activity without showing whether the work is moving forward.
CoHear Team · 4 min read
workflowsThe Problem With Perfect Recall at Work
When every workplace conversation can be searched later, teams need a better boundary between useful memory and permanent surveillance.
CoHear Team · 5 min read
workflowsThe New Workplace Problem: Too Many AI-Generated Documents
AI makes documents cheap to produce. Reading, choosing, and maintaining them still costs human attention.
CoHear Team · 3 min read
workflowsRecording a Meeting: Consent Rules, What to Say, and When You Need Permission
As recording and AI meeting notes become easier, teams need clearer rules for consent, access, and trust.
CoHear Team · 7 min read
workflowsWho Gets to Be Heard When AI Takes the Notes?
AI can record every voice in a meeting. That does not automatically mean every voice will be heard.
CoHear Team · 4 min read
workflowsThe Hidden Skill of Working With AI: Knowing When to Stop
The useful AI skill is not always finding a better answer. Sometimes it is knowing when enough is enough.
CoHear Team · 4 min read
workflowsThe Productivity Paradox of Endless Meetings
More meetings can create the appearance of coordination while leaving less time to do the work.
CoHear Team · 4 min read
workflowsThe Question That Restarts the Meeting
Why teams need to preserve the reasoning behind a decision, not just the final outcome, and how AI can help keep that context available.
CoHear Team · 4 min read
workflowsThe AI Apocalypse Isn't Here Yet. It's Changing Our Jobs.
The data points to a workplace reshuffle: AI is changing tasks, skills, and workflows before it eliminates entire occupations.
CoHear Team · 5 min read
workflowsWhy Cross-Functional Teams Keep Losing the Context
Everyone attended the meeting. Everyone left with a different story. Cross-functional teams need a shared record of the context behind their work, not just more communication.
CoHear Team · 4 min read
workflowsA Meeting Is Not the Final Format of an Idea
Good conversations need somewhere useful to go: the same discussion can become a decision brief, a report, a slide deck, or an action list, depending on what the next reader needs.
CoHear Team · 4 min read
workflowsGreat Architecture Never Happens at a Standing Desk: Capturing Epiphanies from Evening Traffic to the Shower
Why useful engineering ideas often arrive away from the desk, and how a lightweight voice workflow can capture them before they disappear.
CoHear Team · 7 min read
workflowsStop Summarizing the Whole Meeting: How I Use AI to Protect My Own Scope
A practical workflow for using a meeting recording and AI to identify your own responsibilities, confirm unclear ownership, and protect your scope after a busy project call.
CoHear Team · 6 min read
learningAI Notes for Long Lectures: How to Record a 2-Hour Class and Turn It Into Study Material
A student tests AI note-taking across three classes and discovers why organizing a lecture matters more than simply recording every word.
CoHear Team · 7 min read
workflowsYour Team Isn't Short on Meetings. It's Short on Decisions.
Why meeting discussions become clearer when teams separate ideas, recommendations, decisions, open questions, owners, and next steps.
CoHear Team · 4 min read1 / 2