The 5-minute setup

Set it up once.
Never take notes again.

Everything below takes about five minutes. When you're done, every meeting you have — Zoom, Teams, Meet, or in-person — records, summarizes, and files itself.

01

Create your free account

~ 30 sec

Create your account with email, Google, or Apple. The free plan is yours forever — 30 minutes of AI processing every month, all 16 templates, no credit card.

  • One account works across desktop, mobile, Chrome, and web
  • Nothing to configure yet — just sign up and keep going
02

Install the desktop app

~ 2 min

Download the desktop app — it lives in your menu bar and does the automatic recording. The first-launch wizard walks you through two permissions:

1. Screen Recording

This is how macOS lets apps capture system audio— the voices of everyone else on the call. System Settings → Privacy & Security → Screen Recording → toggle Note Genie on.

2. Microphone

Captures your side of the conversation. If you skip it, Note Genie still records everyone else — you just won't be in the transcript.

macOS 13+ · Windows 10+ · Ubuntu / Fedora
TipThis is the step that makes Note Genie work without a premium Zoom account— the desktop app records locally, so it doesn't care whose meeting it is or what plan you're on.
03

Connect calendar & meeting apps

~ 2 min

Open Dashboard → Integrations and connect what you use. All of this is optional — the desktop app already records everything — but integrations make it fully automatic:

Google Calendar / Outlook

See upcoming meetings in the app and auto-record them. Per-calendar toggle, and you can exclude any meeting or recurring series.

Zoom

If your Zoom plan has cloud recording, connect it once and every cloud recording imports itself — Zoom's transcript and real speaker names included. On a free Zoom plan? Skip this; the desktop app has you covered.

Microsoft Teams

Your Microsoft 365 admin connects it once for the whole organization — then every recorded Teams meeting lands in the organizer's Note Genie automatically. No bot in the call.

Google Meet

Connect your Google account and Meet recordings import from Drive as soon as Google finishes processing them.

04

Add Chrome & mobile

~ 1 min

Two more installs and you're covered on every surface:

  • Chrome extension — catches browser-based meetings, records any tab, and turns webpages into PDFs for your knowledge base. Add to Chrome ›
  • iPhone / Android app — in-person meetings, lectures, voice memos; push notification when notes are ready. App Store › Google Play ›
05

Record your first meeting

~ 0 clicks

Join your next call like you always do. The desktop app detects it and this appears in the corner of your screen:

Zoom meeting detected — recording24:31
  • Virtual meeting? Zoom, Teams, and Meet are auto-detected. Nothing to click.
  • In person? Open the mobile app and tap record.
  • Already have a recording? Upload any audio, video, PDF, or document from the web dashboard — AI processes it the same way.
  • Sensitive conversation? Flip on Privacy Mode and nothing leaves your device.
06

Meet your notes

~ 30 sec later

About 30 seconds after the meeting ends, your notes are ready: a speaker-labeled transcript on one side, structured notes on the other — TL;DR, key takeaways, decisions, and action items.

Discovery Call — Northwind HealthTemplate: Sales — MEDDPICC

Transcript — speakers detected

Dr. Reyes 08:12 Our biggest bottleneck is charting — clinicians lose two hours a day.

You 08:31 If we automated that, what would the impact be per clinic?

Dr. Reyes 08:44 Roughly $30k a month across the network. That's the number the board cares about.

Structured output

Metrics$30k/mo charting cost across network
Economic buyerBoard — Dr. Reyes presents monthly
Identified pain2 hrs/day clinician charting time
Next stepPilot proposal for 3 clinics by June 1
TipPick the template that matches the meeting — sales call, SOAP note, lecture, interview, 1:1 — and the summary restructures itself for that job. Set your default in Settings, or add custom AI instructions on the Pro plan.
07

Build your knowledge base

the part you'll love

Create a folder per client, project, or class, and drop every related meeting in it. The folder becomes a knowledge base of everything you've ever discussed — and Ask AI answers from all of it, citing the exact meeting and minute:

Folders / Acme Corp — Website Rebuild

Every meeting, one place

Kickoff — scope & goals

Mar 4 · 42 min

Design review v1

Mar 18 · 31 min

Budget check-in

Apr 2 · 18 min

Weekly sync #6

Apr 9 · 27 min

Stakeholder demo

Apr 23 · 55 min

✦ Ask AI — searches all 23 recordings

What budget did we finally agree on for phase 2, and who approved it?

Phase 2 was approved at $48,000 — up from the original $40k to cover the CMS migration. Dana approved it and asked for invoicing in two milestones.

Budget check-in · 12:41Weekly sync #6 · 03:18
Ask anything about this project…
  • Folder Intelligence auto-builds insight tabs across every recording — action items, themes, requirements — and updates as you add meetings
  • Drop in PDFs, documents, and photos too — they're read and become part of the same searchable knowledge
  • No more "where did we discuss that?" — ask the folder and click straight to the moment it was said
08

Share & collaborate

~ anytime

  • Share a recording — one link with the video/audio, transcript, and summary. Expires automatically; revoke it anytime.
  • Share a folder — invite teammates as admin, editor, or viewer. They see the whole knowledge base and can ask it questions too.
  • Recap emails — send the summary and action items to everyone who was in the meeting, right from the recording page.
  • Comments & @mentions — discuss specific moments inline; mentioned teammates get notified.

Five minutes now.
Every meeting after, handled.

30 free minutes every month. No credit card.

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