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AI meeting notes, answered
Short, direct answers to the questions people ask about AI notetakers: recording without a bot, sales and interview notes, following up on action items and decisions, and searching past meetings.
Recording
How do I record and transcribe a Zoom meeting without a bot joining?Use an AI notetaker that records from your own computer instead of joining the call. Acta's desktop app for Windows and Mac records the Zoom desktop app, and the Acta Chrome extension records Zoom in the browser, so no bot or extra participant appears in the meeting. After the call, Acta writes the transcript with speaker names, a summary and the action items.Read the answer How do I take AI notes in Microsoft Teams without a bot?Record the meeting from your own computer. Acta's desktop app for Windows and Mac records the Microsoft Teams desktop app, and the Acta Chrome extension records Teams in the browser. No bot joins the meeting, and Acta turns the recording into a transcript with speaker names, a summary and action items.Read the answer How do I get AI meeting notes in Google Meet without a bot?Add the Acta Chrome extension and start recording from the Google Meet tab. It records the call from your browser, so no bot joins, and Acta writes a transcript with speaker names, a summary and the action items after the meeting.Read the answer
Sales & hiring
How can I get MEDDPICC notes from sales calls automatically?Record your sales calls with an AI meeting assistant that has a MEDDPICC template. Acta records the call on Zoom, Google Meet or Teams and writes a MEDDPICC report afterwards: the Economic Buyer, Champion, Decision Criteria and Process, Paper Process and Competition, with the details still missing so you know what to ask next time.Read the answer How do I get interview notes and candidate scorecards automatically?Record the interview with an AI meeting assistant that has a candidate assessment template. Acta records interviews on Zoom, Google Meet or Teams, with or without a bot, and writes a candidate evaluation after each one, so every interviewer's notes follow the same structure.Read the answer
Follow-through
How do I turn meeting action items into Jira tickets?Use an AI meeting assistant that creates tickets from the meeting. Acta's Ticket suggestions template reads the meeting, lists the tasks that were agreed, and creates them as tickets in Jira, Asana, ClickUp or Monday.com once you connect your account.Read the answer How do I track action items from all my meetings in one place?Use an AI meeting assistant with an action item tracker. Acta pulls the action items out of every meeting with their owners and due dates and lists them in one place, with totals for open, overdue, due this week and done. You can group them by meeting or by person, remind an owner, and turn on a daily follow-up email so nothing slips.Read the answer How do I keep a log of the decisions made in meetings?Let your AI meeting assistant keep the decision log for you. Acta records the decisions made in each meeting with who decided and who owns them, links the action items that follow, and keeps the history when a later meeting changes or reverses a decision, with the quote and the moment it was said.Read the answer
Search & reports
Can I ask questions across all my past meetings?Yes. With Acta you choose a set of meetings, such as every call with one customer or a month of standups, and ask in plain English. Acta searches those transcripts and writes the answer from what was actually said, using retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).Read the answer Can AI write SOAP notes from a patient consultation?Yes, as a draft for the clinician to check. Acta's Clinical visit note template drafts a SOAP note (Subjective, Objective, Assessment, Plan) from the recorded consultation, using only what was said. Before recording clinical meetings, check that your data-processing agreements cover patient data.Read the answer
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