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Private meeting notes, explained
Short, honest guides for people who want meeting notes without sending their conversations to the cloud. Everything here reflects how Stillnote actually works: on your Mac, with no bot in the call.
August 16, 2026
Does your AI notetaker send your meetings to a third-party AI provider?
Almost every AI notetaker generates its summary by sending your transcript to somebody else's model. That is not a scandal, it is just how most are built, and it is the one question in a vendor review whose answer is a fact rather than an adjective. Here is how to ask it, and how to check the answer without trusting anyone.
Read the guideAugust 14, 2026
Your meeting recording cut out halfway through
The first twenty minutes are perfect, then the other participants are simply gone. Here is what kills a system audio capture mid-meeting on a Mac, why 69 minutes of green health signals proved nothing, and the failure underneath the failure: a transcript that credits the missing half to you.
Read the guideAugust 13, 2026
Your Mac recorded the meeting and captured no audio
The timer ran for the full hour and the file is empty, or missing everyone but you. Here is why a failed audio capture looks perfectly healthy from the inside, and the one minute check that catches it while the meeting is still happening.
Read the guideAugust 6, 2026
When a meeting transcript names the wrong speaker
A transcript that quietly puts someone else's words in your mouth is worse than one that is visibly incomplete. Here is a real capture failure that did exactly that, why a silence detector would not have caught it, and what we changed.
Read the guideJuly 28, 2026
AI meeting notes without a bot joining the call
A notetaker bot has to join your call as a participant, which means it can be seen, blocked, or simply fail to show up. Here is the alternative: capture from your own Mac, with nothing to admit and nothing uploaded.
Read the guideJuly 12, 2026
An on-device alternative to a cloud AI notetaker on Mac
Newer AI notetakers feel great: no bot, a clean summary right after the call. The open question is where the meeting gets processed and stored. Here is the on-device alternative on Mac, where nothing leaves your machine.
Read the guideJuly 6, 2026
A private alternative to cloud meeting transcription on Mac
Cloud transcription tools upload your meeting audio to their servers. Here is the on-device alternative on Mac: recording, transcription, and summaries that stay on your own computer, with no bot in the call.
Read the guideJuly 4, 2026
The private meeting notes app for Mac: on-device, no bot, no cloud
What a truly private meeting notes app for Mac looks like: recording, transcription, and summaries that run on your own computer, with no bot in the call and no audio in the cloud.
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