Guides

Guides to better notes — and remembering them

How AI meeting notes work, how to transcribe and take minutes, how MeetIT compares to the cloud tools, and how to actually study from a recording — written to be useful whether or not you ever use MeetIT.

AI meeting notes: how they work

How AI meeting notes are generated, whether they’re private, and the case for keeping them on your own device.

How to transcribe a meeting

Ways to transcribe a meeting, the accuracy and privacy trade-offs, and how to do it locally without uploading audio.

How to record a Teams, Zoom or Google Meet meeting

The built-in recorders, their limits, and how to record any online meeting locally — no bot, no host permission — plus the consent rules to follow.

How to take meeting minutes

What to capture — decisions, action items, owners — a simple template, and how to write minutes faster with AI.

Otter.ai alternative

An honest comparison for people who want a private, local-first meeting notetaker instead of a cloud service.

Fireflies.ai alternative

Fireflies sends a bot into your calls and stores everything in its cloud — MeetIT records locally with no bot and no upload.

Granola alternative

Granola transcribes locally but stores in the cloud — MeetIT keeps transcription, AI and storage on your device.

Active recall: the most effective way to study

What active recall is, why testing yourself beats rereading, how to practise it, and how to pair it with spaced repetition.

Spaced repetition: how it works and how to use it

The forgetting curve, why spacing your reviews beats cramming, how SM-2 and FSRS schedulers work, and how to build a daily review habit.

How to study from recorded lectures

Re-listening to a lecture rarely works. How to turn a recording into active recall and spaced repetition — and jump back to the exact moment a concept was explained.

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