Open the Meetings tab, click New meeting, choose In person or Video call, and press record. When you press Stop and save, the notes are written from everything that was captured and appear on a card in the same tab. Six steps, and the details that matter at each one.
Needs Pithflow 1.34 or newer on Windows 10 or 11. Download if you do not have it yet.
Meetings is a tab in the app's left sidebar, alongside Home and History. You need to be signed in — the tab is part of your account.
A chooser opens on the same screen asking how you are meeting. There is no separate window and nothing to configure.
In person records your microphone — everyone in the room is in that one stream. Video call records your microphone and the audio your computer is playing, which on a Zoom, Teams or Meet call is everyone else. Put on headphones for a video call.
Say you are recording notes before you press the button. Pithflow shows nothing to the other participants. Once recording, the app shows an elapsed clock and an input level meter, and uploads the recording a minute at a time in the background.
The last minute uploads, the status changes to Writing your notes, and within about a minute the meeting card appears at the top of the list with the notes filled in. Discard, next to it, throws the recording away instead — it asks twice.
Each card shows the summary, the key points ranked by how many times each came up, the decisions and the action items. Toggle to Transcript to read the raw words. Copy puts the notes on your clipboard; Export saves them as a Markdown file in Pithflow's exports folder.
Everyone is in the room with you. One stream, your microphone, and every voice it can hear is in it. The transcript has no speaker labels, because one microphone cannot honestly tell the room apart. Put the laptop in the middle of the table.
Zoom, Teams, Meet, or anything else that plays through your PC. Two streams: your microphone, and what the computer is playing. The transcript is labelled Me and Them. Wear headphones — on speakers the other side reaches your microphone a second time.
Picked the wrong one? Discard and start again. The chooser explains it in one line: pick how the sound reaches this computer.
Each meeting is one card in the Meetings tab, newest first. From the top:
The count next to each key point is the reason the notes look the way they do — here is why.
On the free plan the recorder shows a note under the clock: your plan stops a single recording at 15 minutes. When it hits that mark the recording stops on its own, uploads what it has, and writes the notes from it — nothing is lost, it just ends. Meeting audio also counts toward the weekly free allowance the dictation side uses, so a free account gets roughly one real meeting a week. Pro and Team remove the per-meeting cap; see the pricing page.
Pithflow does not announce the recording to anyone else on the call or in the room, and it will not ask you whether you told them. Say it out loud before you start. In a number of US states everyone in the conversation has to agree; the consent post lists them and what a reasonable announcement sounds like.
In the left sidebar of the Pithflow app, below Home. It appears once you are signed in. If you are on a version older than 1.34 it is not there yet — direct-download installs update on their own, and Microsoft Store installs get it once the release clears certification.
A meeting and a dictation cannot record at the same time. If a hold-to-speak or hands-free dictation is still running, let it finish or stop it, then start the meeting.
That is the free plan's cap on a single meeting — the app says so under the recorder. Everything captured up to that point is kept and the notes are written from it. Pro and Team have no per-meeting cap.
The card takes its title from the first line of the summary, so a meeting that was about the Q3 forecast is titled that way without you typing anything.
The transcript is saved first, and the notes are written from it as a second step. If that step fails, the card keeps the transcript and shows that the notes could not be written, rather than inventing them. The transcript is still yours to copy or export.
In Pithflow's exports folder inside your Windows app data, as a Markdown file named after the meeting. There is no save-as dialog; Copy is the faster route if you just want the notes in an email or a doc.
Delete on the card, then confirm. That removes the transcript and the notes from your account. Deleting your account removes all of them.
The notes are waiting when you stop.
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