Fireflies: AI notetaker

Will quite often look like it’s recording but when you hit the end button, it doesn’t save anything. This happens pretty often especially it seems with important visits unfortunately. Quite disappointing.

Disappointed to say the least. I had 4 new people join and it failed to summarize two meetings and because of that I didn’t get to send notes

The AI itself is an interesting and potentially useful tool, but the whole concept is completely ruined because it forces you to login with a federated Microsoft or Google ID, and then invites itself to join every meeting on your Microsoft or Google calendar. This has the side effect of jumbling all your personal meetings and work meetings into one account where everything is saved and accessible by your coworkers. (Maybe I don’t want my coworkers to access a recording of me chatting g with my kids, you know?) Once you discover this problem and try to migrate the account to a separate ID, it requires a manual human assisted migration process which raises a whole additional host of problems and errors. Now I have one random jumble of personal and business recordings on one account and another whole random jumble of other personal and business meetings on another account. I stupidly paid for a full year of the tool in advance because I was dazzled by the AI features the first few times I tried it. Don’t make that mistake, sample this clunky service for a few months at the monthly rate first before you commit. Better yet, look elsewhere for your meeting AI tool. (Microsoft teams is slowly adding copilot features that do everything this tool does anyway.)

I just didn’t find it that helpful and ended up getting charged for an entire year with monthly charges for an extra feature I didn’t sign up for. I had to get into a full on debate with Support to cancel. didn’t leave a great taste in my mouth.

Please fix the bugs where it doesn’t let you upload or download after a little bit

This cannot be used at all without granting access to your calendar which is a major privacy concern. I decided to try it and granted it access to my junk email account’s calendar. The performance was middling at best and it failed to process my very short (15 minutes) conversation. I will say that eventually the job did go through and I viewed it via a link to my email. It’s certainly not worth granting access to my main calendar when there are other apps that are more capable and less insistent on being creepy. The only way I would use this again is if I could do so without granting calendar access.

Wonderful tool for transcribing audio, and making the spoken word searchable. I’m a longtime paid web user and happy an app was launched. While optimized for videoconference calls, I use this for transcribing Voice Memos I record of lectures, live panels, and Q&As. I’ve built up a searchable, shareable, exportable database of thoughts and things I’ve heard. As others have pointed out: don’t put too much trust in the in-app recorder. Instead best to import audio files via share sheets from Voice Memos or other recorders, which it handles well. I wish they would chill on the bloated interfaces, and focus on rock-solid speed, search, and readability. We are talking about text here: the oldest content on the web. And focus the AI elsewhere please. I don’t need to chat with a transcript of my chat, but I would love if Mr. Fred could ascertain the names of of everyone in audio uploads.

Have been using for a couple of weeks and required an initial learning curve to tweak settings to ensure Fred (ai assistant) only showed up at the meetings I want him to. It is a great tool for producing minutes of our team meetings; just a quick proof read and adjustment and they were ready to share. Had an issue with transcription of one meeting that failed and had to use extra credits to get the summary and notes prepared but that was the only time it didn’t perform as expected. I’m a fan!!

Be sure to set a privacy setting. This app has become integral to my daily routine. I recommend it highly!

I use the web version and I realized it’s sending my meetings to everyone who works at the company, also to clients who participated in only a part of the meeting. There is no clear messaging on what is sent to whom, so I don’t feel safe using this app.