I built a system for active note-taking in regular meetings like 1-1s
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Hey HN! Like most here regular meetings have always been a big part of my work.Over the years I've learned the value of active note taking in these meetings. Meaning: not minutes, not transcriptions or AI summaries, but me using my brain to actively pull out the key points in short form bullet-like notes, as the meeting is going on, as I'm talking and listening (and probably typing with one hand). This could be agenda points to cover, any interesting sidebars raised, insights gotten to in a discussion, actions agreed to (and a way to track whether they got done next time!).It's both useful just to track what's going on in all these different meetings week to week (at one point I was doing about a dozen 1-1s per week, and it just becomes impossible to hold it in RAM) but also really valuable over time when you can look back and see the full history of a particular meeting, what was discussed when, how themes and structure are changing, is the meetings effective, etc.Anyway, I've tried a bunch of different tools for taking these notes over the years. All the obvious ones you've probably used too. And I've always just been not quite satisfied with the experience. They work, obviously (it's just text based notes at the end of the day) but nothing is first-class for this usecase.So, I decided to build the tool I've always felt I want to use, specifically for regular 1-1s and other types of regular meetings. I've been using it myself and with friends for a while already now, and I think it's got to that point where I actually prefer to reach for it over other general purpose note taking tools now, and I want to share it more widely.There's a free tier so you can use it right away, in fact without even signing up.If you've also been wanting a better system to manage your notes for regular meetings, give it a go and let me know what you think!
HN · launched Dec 8, 2025 · 177 upvotes (top 6%) · 2 views
Niche: ai meeting note takers · 192 launches, 21 in the last 7 days ▼ -9% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes This is a focused, standard note-taking CRUD web application designed for recurring 1-on-1 meetings, easily built with modern UI frameworks and a backend database.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Notion, Google Keep, Atomic Habits
Concerns raised: Privacy/security risk of storing sensitive employee 1-1 notes on external platform, Enterprise vendor vetting has high fixed costs, challenging for small businesses to bootstrap, Email sign-up/authentication issues - sign-in code not arriving, Unclear product positioning and target use case
Feature requests: Mobile app, Organizations appear in list immediately without refresh, Support for visual/drawing-based notes in addition to text
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 287 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #38 of 288 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 36 days after the earliest competitor.
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- SourceNote: AI Meeting Notes · ph · 2026-09-11 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- threadfork · hn · 2026-07-21 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Trace · hn · 2026-06-13 · 205 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Gote · hn · 2026-09-07 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- MeetScribe · ph · 2026-11-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- MeetCap · ph · 2026-11-09 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Pocket - Your notetaker for real world meetings · yc · 2026-03-02 · 494 upvotes · similarity 0.45
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