Office management edition
This week, note-taking and calendar tools take the typing off your hands, but you remain the person who fills in the context and checks the email.
Meeting notes you no longer have to write: new note-taking tools now also keep an eye on the agenda
Calendly and Teams let AI take notes, keep track of time, and draft a follow-up email, but they don't have the context that's in your head.
On 19 August, Calendly released two new tools: a Notetaker and an assistant called Callie. The Notetaker joins Zoom, Google Meet, and Teams on its own, makes a recording and a transcript, and then delivers a summary, action points, and a ready-to-send follow-up email. In Microsoft Teams, the Facilitator agent does something different: it monitors the agenda items and the remaining time during the meeting, and captures live notes. The work shifts from typing everything yourself to checking what the AI has pulled out.
Background for subscribersCalendly's Notetaker and the Facilitator agent in Teams each solve a different problem. If you want to spend less time on minutes after a meeting, the Notetaker can help. If you want to stop meetings from running over, the Facilitator agent monitors the agenda and time while the meeting is in progress. Copilot Notebooks in Microsoft 365 bring the transcript, notes, and attachments from a meeting together in one place, so you have less searching to do when writing a report. What all these tools have in common: they take over routine work, but you remain the person who checks, adds to, and provides the context that the AI does not have.
Calendly enters a busy notetaker market with one advantage: it already knows your calendar
TechCrunch analysed Calendly's entry alongside Granola, Fireflies, Otter, and Fathom. The distinction: because the calendar is built into the product, Calendly already knows when an appointment is, who is attending, and what the context is. That can lead to more relevant action points and follow-up emails. Transcription via system audio is also being tested.
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