Guides
Plain answers to what people search before they record a call.
How to get notes with no bot in the call, what to tell the people on it, and what to ask any notetaker before you trust it with client calls.
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Updated 15 October 2026
A Granola alternative for Windows and Linux
Granola lists no Linux app. Recordist records calls with no bot on Mac, and on Windows and Linux as a preview, and writes the transcript on your own computer.
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Updated 15 October 2026
A meeting recorder that works offline
A meeting recorder that records, transcribes, searches and writes notes with no network: the speech model and the notes engine run on your own computer.
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Updated 15 October 2026
A notetaker that keeps the audio
A meeting notetaker that keeps the recording on your own computer, so you can open any decision at the line it came from and hear it said, while the audio is kept.
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Updated 15 October 2026
Meeting notes without a bot in the call
How to get meeting notes with no bot joining the call: record on your own computer, tell the people on the call, and have the transcript and notes written there.
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Updated 15 October 2026
Notes for HR interviews and one-on-ones
Interview and 1:1 notes kept on your own computer: the other person asked first, notes that never rate anyone, and the recording to check them against.
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Updated 15 October 2026
Private meeting notes for consultants
Meeting notes for client calls that stay on your own computer: no bot in the call, the follow-up drafted and checked against the transcript, no account.
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Updated 15 October 2026
Record a Zoom call without a bot
Record a Zoom call on your own computer with no bot in the participant list, whoever hosts it: your microphone and the call, transcribed and written up there.
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Updated 15 October 2026
Teams meeting notes without Copilot or a bot
Notes from Microsoft Teams calls with no Copilot licence and no bot: record on your own computer, on any Teams call, including one another company organised.
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Updated 14 October 2026
The AI notes built into Zoom, Teams and Meet, compared with notes on your own computer
What Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet need for AI meeting notes, where the notes are kept, who controls them, and what happens on calls others host.
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Updated 8 October 2026
An AI notetaker privacy checklist for IT, security and legal reviewers
A checklist for reviewing any AI meeting notetaker: where audio goes, retention, access, model training, bots, consent, admin controls and deletion.
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