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Meeting Notes
You Own
Char captures every meeting without a bot and keeps data on your device.
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Focus on conversation
while Char makes notes
During meeting
Char keeps track of everything that happens during the meeting, includes context about previous conversations and people you talk to.
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design weekly.md
1:1 with John.md
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After the meeting, Char combines your notes with transcripts to create a perfect summary.
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Mobile UI Update and API Adjustments
- Sarah presented the new mobile UI update, which includes a streamlined navigation bar and improved button placements for better accessibility.
- Ben confirmed that API adjustments are needed to support dynamic UI changes, particularly for fetching personalized user data more efficiently.
- The UI update will be implemented in phases, starting with core navigation improvements. Ben will ensure API modifications are completed before development begins.
New Dashboard – Urgent Priority
- Alice emphasized that the new analytics dashboard must be prioritized due to increasing stakeholder demand.
- The new dashboard will feature real-time user engagement metrics and a customizable reporting system.
Own your
data
Data stays on your device and not locked in a cloud.
Local or cloud,
your choice
Run fully local, bring your own API key, or use Char cloud. Switch anytime.
Works
everywhere
Captures system audio. Works on Zoom, Teams, Meet, in-person, or offline.
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Drop in audio files or transcripts to turn them into searchable notes.
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languages
Char uses best-in-class transcription models and updates them continuously. Speak in the language you think in.
Get more from every note with AI
Ask questions, execute tasks, and grow your knowledge base—all from your meeting notes.
Before meeting
Get a quick brief before the call
Get the relevant info about people, goals and previous meetings. Char links contacts and conversations, search through them and get a whole picture.
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During meeting
Chat during live meetings
Get instant answers from the current transcript and past meeting context without breaking your flow.
Weekly Team Sync
42:17What's the timeline for the mobile UI?
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After meeting
Chat with your notes
Query your entire conversation history. Find decisions, action items, or topics discussed in previous meetings in natural language.
What did Sarah say about the timeline?
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Char grows with you
Add people from meetings in contacts, grow knowledge about your chats and context of previous meetings
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Sarah Chen
Product Lead · Acme Inc
sarah@acme.com · +1 (415) 555-0123
Last conversation
Discussed Q2 roadmap priorities and timeline for the mobile redesign. Agreed to share updated specs by Friday.
Have your contacts in one place
Import contacts and watch them come alive with context once you actually meet.
- All your chats linked
- Generate summaries from meetings
Weekly Team Sync
Starting in 2 min
Work with your calendar
Connect your calendar for intelligent meeting preparation and automatic note organization.
- Automatic meeting linking
- Pre-meeting context and preparation
- Timeline view with notes
Build for every conversation
The only meeting AI you can fork, fix and make your own
Build React extensions, automate with shell hooks, bring your own keys. Self-host or run local. No proprietary modules, just open source code you can inspect and modify.
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Learn moreWhat people are sayingChar was formerly Hyprnote. Read about the rename.
Been using Hypernote for a while now, truly one of the best AI apps I've used all year. Like they said, the best thing since sliced bread
I love the flexibility that @tryhyprnote gives me to integrate personal notes with AI summaries. I can quickly jot down important points during the meeting without getting distracted, then trust that the AI will capture them in full detail for review afterwards.
I'm actually very pro meeting recording and ai summarization. But I'm not ok with bots joining as fake humans accomplish this. It's a meeting between you and me. Not you and me and some startup's viral growth strategy. Granola is great. Gemini does this well in Google Meet. Hyprnote is great and fully local. But use them with consent. My tweet is about how ridiculous and self important it looks when you show up to a meeting with random bots as entourage.
Hyprnote has been on my radar since their time in YC S25 as “that local-first meeting notes thing,” and I finally took a closer look today. It immediately hit a nerve I’ve had with AI note tools for years. I love the idea of getting help with meetings. I really don’t love bots joining every Zoom call or my audio being streamed to some mystery server “for quality purposes”. @tryhyprnote leans into that tension in a pretty honest way. It calls itself a local-first AI notepad for private meetings, and the “private” bit is not just a tagline. There are no meeting bots and no calendar guests. It just listens directly to the audio going in and out of your computer, gives you a realtime transcript, and lets you stay in the conversation instead of turning into a court reporter. You still have a simple notepad to jot quick memos during the call. Those act more like hints than homework. After the meeting, Hyprnote can use your memos to shape a personalized summary, but that part is optional. If you forget to take notes altogether, it can still generate a recap from the transcript. The tech stack is pretty nice if you are into that sort of thing. TypeScript and React on the UI, Rust and Tauri for the desktop app. The cool part is what that enables. You can run the whole thing offline with LM Studio or Ollama. No Wi‑Fi, no outbound requests. That makes it genuinely interesting for teams that care a lot about compliance or even air‑gapped environments. And if you do want cloud models, it does the “bring your own LLM” thing with Gemini, Claude, Azure‑hosted GPT, etc., so it can fit into whatever your company’s approved stack is. If you have been waiting for an AI meeting assistant that behaves like a real desktop app and respects the fact that you might not want to ship your raw meeting audio to the cloud, Hyprnote is worth a look
@getcharnotes is by far one of my favorite AI secret weapons as of late. It's an AI notetaking tool, and there's a ton, but it's the best open source one that respects privacy & isn't a walled garden like others No affiliation, just love their product & hope they succeed
I love the flexibility that @tryhyprnote gives me to integrate personal notes with AI summaries. I can quickly jot down important points during the meeting without getting distracted, then trust that the AI will capture them in full detail for review afterwards.
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Char values privacy and community, so it's been transparent from day one.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What languages does Char support?
45+ languages including English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Mandarin, and more.
Can I import existing recordings?
Yes. Upload audio files or transcripts to turn them into searchable, summarized notes.
Does Char train AI models on my data?
No. Char does not use your recordings, transcripts, or notes to train AI models. When using cloud providers, your data is processed according to their privacy policies, but Char itself never collects or uses your data for training.
Is Char safe?
Char doesn't store your conversations. Every meeting audio, transcript, and note is a file on your computer. You decide if your data ever leaves your device.
How is Char different from other AI note-takers?
Plain markdown files instead of proprietary databases. System audio capture instead of meeting bots. Your choice of AI provider instead of vendor lock-in. Open source instead of a black box.
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