Meetings, minutes
and how to run them better
Practical guides on minutes of meeting, recording in-person meetings, and getting usable notes out of rooms that mix Hindi and English.
Fireflies.ai Alternatives: 9 Meeting Note Takers Compared (2026)
Looking for a Fireflies alternative? Nine meeting note takers compared on capture, output and who each fits, plus one published blind test. Sourced, no prices.
19 Sep 2026
How Long Should Meeting Minutes Be? A Practical Guide
Most meeting minutes should be half a page to one page. Here is the right length for standups, client meetings and board meetings, and what to cut.
19 Sep 2026
Meeting Notes App: 9 Things to Check Before You Pick One
A buyer's checklist for a meeting notes app: rooms vs calls, mixed languages, speaker names, real minutes, sharing, privacy, and a test on your own audio.
19 Sep 2026How to Write Minutes When the Meeting Switches Language
Minutes for a Hindi–English, Taglish or Spanglish meeting: pick one language by who reads them, keep names and numbers as said, and use this template.
19 Sep 2026MoM Format in Hindi: मिनट्स ऑफ़ मीटिंग कैसे लिखें
हिंदी में MoM फ़ॉर्मेट: उपस्थित लोग, एजेंडा, चर्चा, निर्णय और एक्शन आइटम। कॉपी करने लायक टेम्पलेट, भरा हुआ उदाहरण और आम ग़लतियाँ। MoM format in Hindi.
19 Sep 2026Otter.ai Alternatives: 9 Meeting Note Takers Compared (2026)
Looking for an Otter.ai alternative? Nine meeting note takers compared on where they capture, what they produce and who each one fits. Sourced, no prices.
19 Sep 2026
Otter.ai Alternative for Hindi, Hinglish and Indian Languages
Otter lists six transcription languages and is built around online calls. What to use when your meetings mix Hindi and English, happen in a room, or both.
15 Sep 2026Zoom, Google Meet & Teams Transcription — Minutes Without Typing
Two ways to transcribe Zoom, Google Meet and Teams calls: send a visible notetaker, or record on your Mac or PC. Get a transcript, minutes and tasks.
2 Sep 2026Action Items From Meetings — What They Are and How to Actually Track Them
A plain definition of action items, good vs bad examples, a simple format table, why they get lost after meetings, and a tracking routine that needs no tool.
2 Sep 2026Is It Legal to Record a Meeting in India? Consent, Etiquette and What to Say Before You Press Record
The safe, normal way to record a business meeting in India — tell everyone, get a clear yes, note it in the minutes — plus scripts and when not to record.
2 Sep 2026Voice Journal Apps — Talking to Yourself Is the Fastest Way to Stay Organised
What a voice journal app should do — clean text from speech, in your language, to-dos pulled out — plus a two-minute evening routine and mistakes to avoid.
26 Aug 2026Microsoft Teams Transcription Accuracy — What It Got Right, and the Five Words It Didn't
The second result from our open challenge. A 38-minute cross-border partnership call, the same meeting through Microsoft Teams and MeetNotes, product names stripped and scored blind. Teams won on completeness. Then it renamed the products.
25 Aug 2026First Challenge Result — We Put a Real Hinglish ERP Meeting Through Fireflies and MeetNotes
The first head-to-head from our open challenge. One real two-language technical meeting, the same audio through both tools, product names stripped, scored blind by AI. Here is the full scorecard, what it does not prove, and how to beat it.
24 Aug 2026How to Actually Test Whether a Transcription App Is Accurate (in 30 Minutes, on Your Own Audio)
Vendor accuracy percentages are measured on clean studio audio and tell you almost nothing about your meetings. Here is the real method - word error rate the practical way, a blind A/B protocol, and the five failures that matter more than the percentage.
24 Aug 2026We'll Compare MeetNotes Against Any Meeting App You Name — Here's the Prompt to Judge It
An open challenge - record one real meeting, run it through MeetNotes and any rival, strip both names off, and let ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini pick a winner. The full protocol, the blind judge prompt, and what happens when we lose.
24 Aug 2026Otter vs Fireflies vs Notta vs Plaud vs MeetNotes — and How to Settle It on Your Own Audio
An honest head-to-head of the main AI meeting note takers in 2026, what each is genuinely best at, and the 30-minute blind test that answers the question for your meetings instead of ours.
18 Aug 2026AI Meeting Notes in India — ChatGPT-style Chatbots vs Sarvam vs Plaud vs a Meeting App
An honest comparison of the four ways Indians get AI meeting notes in 2026 — general AI chatbots, Indian AI platforms like Sarvam, hardware recorders like Plaud, and a dedicated meeting minutes app.
18 Aug 2026Hindi & Hinglish Meeting Transcription — Record in Any Language, Get Minutes in Yours
Why most transcription tools fail on Hindi and Hinglish meetings, what to look for instead, and how to record a mixed-language meeting and get clean English (or Hindi) minutes.
18 Aug 2026Minutes of Meeting Format & Template — Copy-Paste + Word
A clean minutes of meeting format and template you can copy right now, what each section is for, and how to get the same format filled in automatically from a recording.
9 Aug 2026MoM Format — Minutes of Meeting Format, Example & Email
The MoM format (minutes of meeting format) to copy in one block, a filled-in MoM example, and an email template to send it. Or get it written from a recording.
9 Aug 2026Plaud Alternative Without Hardware — Do You Need a ₹20,000 AI Recorder?
An honest comparison of hardware AI recorders like Plaud vs a phone app for in-person meetings — when the device is worth it, and when an app is enough.
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