FAQ
AI notes, answered
Straight answers about using AI for notes, including how Nuotes compares to meeting tools like Zoom and Teams, and what it doesn't do.
Using AI to take notes
What AI can help me take notes during lectures?
Nuotes works well here. Tap the mic during a lecture, say the point you want to keep, and it's saved as a note in your account before you lose the thread. It's built for quick personal capture in the moment, not for transcribing the whole lecture word for word.
Is there an AI that takes meeting notes?
Yes, a few different kinds exist. Some tools transcribe an entire call automatically (Zoom's AI Companion and Microsoft Teams both have this built in). Nuotes takes a different approach: instead of recording the whole meeting, you tell it the specific things worth remembering, by voice or text, and it stores and organizes those.
What AI should I use to take notes in meetings?
It depends on what you actually want. If you need a full transcript and summary of everyone who spoke, a call-recording tool built into your meeting software (Zoom, Teams) is the right fit. If you just want to capture your own key takeaways quickly, without recording the whole call, that's what Nuotes is for.
How to use AI to take meeting notes
Open Nuotes, tap the microphone, and say what you want to remember as it comes up, a decision, an action item, a follow up. Each one becomes its own searchable note. Afterward, ask Nuotes what you said about a topic and it answers directly instead of making you scroll through everything.
How to use AI for meeting notes
Talk to Nuotes the way you'd tell a colleague to remember something. There's no template or meeting mode to set up first. Say the note, it's stored under your account, and you can ask for it back later from your phone or laptop, in or out of that meeting.
How do I use AI for meeting notes?
Sign in to Nuotes, open the assistant, and either speak or type what you want captured. It works best for the handful of things you actually need to remember from a meeting, rather than a full transcript of everything that was said.
AI notes in Zoom, Teams, and other meeting tools
How to enable AI notes in Teams
Microsoft Teams' AI note-taking (part of Copilot) is turned on from within Teams itself, usually by the meeting organizer under the meeting's recording and transcription settings. It's a Microsoft feature, not something Nuotes controls. Nuotes runs alongside it as a separate, personal place to jot the things you specifically want to keep.
How to turn on AI notes in Zoom
Zoom's note-taking lives inside its own AI Companion feature, enabled from Zoom's account or meeting settings by a host or admin. That's a Zoom setting, not a Nuotes one. If you want a lighter, personal notes app on the side, Nuotes is built for that instead of full call transcription.
Does Zoom AI Companion take notes?
Yes, Zoom AI Companion can generate meeting summaries and notes automatically as part of Zoom. It's a built-in Zoom feature. Nuotes isn't a Zoom integration. It's a standalone notes app you talk to directly, useful for capturing thoughts before, during, or well outside of any call.
How to take AI notes on Zoom
Within Zoom, that's handled by AI Companion in your meeting or account settings. Outside of Zoom, or if you'd rather keep a personal running list instead of a full call summary, you can open Nuotes and speak your notes directly to it at any time.
What is Read AI meeting notes?
Read AI is a separate third-party app that joins calls to transcribe them and generate meeting analytics and summaries. It's a different category of tool from Nuotes, which doesn't join or record calls. Nuotes is for the notes you choose to say out loud yourself, whenever you want.
What is Read AI meeting notes in Teams?
Read AI can connect to Microsoft Teams to transcribe and summarize meetings held there, similar to how it works with other video call platforms. That integration is specific to Read AI. Nuotes doesn't connect to Teams. It's a separate personal notes assistant you use on your own terms.
How does Perplexity AI handle voice notes?
Perplexity AI is primarily built as an AI answer engine for research and search, not as a dedicated voice notes app. Nuotes is built specifically around the opposite workflow: you speak or type something you want to remember, and it's stored, searchable, and can be updated later by asking.
Turning video into notes
How to make notes of a YouTube video using AI
Nuotes doesn't currently import YouTube links or process video files. What it does well is personal notes you say or type yourself, so a natural workaround is to watch the video and tell Nuotes the points worth keeping as you go, rather than feeding it the video directly.
How to make notes from a YouTube video using AI
There's no built-in video import in Nuotes yet. If a video has a few key takeaways you want to remember, the quickest path today is to speak them to Nuotes yourself once you've watched or skimmed it, and let it store and organize them for you.
How to convert a YouTube video into notes using AI
Nuotes isn't set up to take a video URL and generate notes automatically. It focuses on notes that come from you directly, by voice or text, rather than pulling content out of external media.
How to turn a video into notes with AI
Not something Nuotes handles directly today. It's built around capturing your own spoken or typed thoughts, not extracting information from an existing video file. For now, narrating the highlights back to Nuotes after watching is the closest fit.
Notes apps for specific professions
Does SimplePractice have AI notes?
SimplePractice is practice-management software for health and wellness providers, and it offers its own AI-assisted clinical documentation features as part of that platform. Nuotes is not a clinical or practice-management tool. It doesn't handle session documentation, billing, or compliance, and isn't a substitute for a system built for that.
What is the best AI notes app for therapists?
Clinical and therapy documentation is a specialized category that needs compliance, session templates, and record-keeping built for healthcare, which is a different job from what Nuotes does. Nuotes is built for everyday personal notes, reminders, and things you want to remember day to day, not clinical session documentation.