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Clipnote is a notepad for saving and organizing content generated in AI conversations. It stores plain text, Markdown, and HTML clips, preserving HTML layout and interactivity, and lets users search, pin, archive, version, restore, and delete them. Clips can be private or shared through public URLs, and collections bundle multiple clips into one shareable page. Through MCP connections with Claude and ChatGPT, an assistant can save a new clip, retrieve a clip's content to inform a response, or update an existing clip. Updates automatically preserve the previous version. Clips can also be created or updated manually by pasting text or uploading a file.

Steno is an open-source, privacy-first desktop AI notepad and meeting notetaker for Windows and macOS, intended for confidential conversations. It records microphone and system audio, provides live or post-meeting transcription with speaker labels, generates summaries, and supports natural-language queries across individual notes or the meeting library. Its local mode uses on-device AI models; on Apple Silicon, live transcription uses Parakeet TDT v3 through MLX, while Whisper supports post-stop transcription in 99 languages. On macOS 14.4 and later, native Core Audio Tap captures both sides of virtual meetings without a virtual audio cable and with selectable microphone input. Steno can detect meeting start and end events, offer to start or summarize recordings, append recordings to existing notes, provide global recording shortcuts, and include user notes in generated summaries. Notes, transcripts, and summaries are stored as editable Markdown, with one-way synchronization to an Obsidian vault and report templates for structured outputs. The project states that local recordings, transcripts, and summaries remain on the device and have no cloud usage limits; users can alternatively configure hosted models through OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS Bedrock, or a custom API endpoint.

Fathom is an AI meeting-notetaking service that captures and transcribes Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams calls, then produces summaries, action items, searchable transcripts, and follow-ups. It can record meetings with or without a bot, answer questions about past conversations, monitor selected topics, and send meeting data to tools including Slack, Salesforce, HubSpot, Notion, and Asana. Its meeting data can also be used in ChatGPT and Claude as context. Fathom offers a free individual plan and team features such as CRM updates, shared conversation visibility, and AI scorecards.

OpenWhispr is an open-source, cross-platform desktop voice-to-text application for macOS, Windows, and Linux. A global hotkey captures speech and inserts the resulting text at the cursor in another application; dictation can use local Whisper or NVIDIA Parakeet speech-to-text engines, where audio remains on the device, or cloud providers through user-supplied keys. It also supports dictation translation, AI-agent commands, meeting transcription with speaker diarization and voice fingerprinting, audio and video transcription, and searchable notes with semantic search and optional cloud sync. The application is built with Electron, React, TypeScript, SQLite, whisper.cpp, and sherpa-onnx, and provides an API and MCP server for programmatic access to notes and transcriptions. The repository describes it as having no data collection or telemetry and distributes installers for the three supported desktop platforms. It is licensed under the MIT license.

Wispr Flow is an AI voice-to-text dictation tool and notetaker from Wispr that uses speech recognition and contextual editing to convert natural speech into polished, formatted text across applications on Mac, Windows, iPhone, and Android. It removes filler words, corrects repetitions and self-corrections, adds punctuation, and formats spoken input for writing, messaging, coding, creating prompts, and interacting with desktop applications. Wispr Flow Notetaker is available on Windows and Mac.