What’s the best botless AI note-taking setup for phone calls?
I’m curious what people here are using for AI note-taking specifically around phone calls.
Right now I’m using Plaud, and honestly I like it more than most of the alternatives I’ve tried. The hardware works great for in-person meetings, and the desktop app is solid because it automatically joins my Zoom/Teams/Meet calls without bots. Huge plus for me.
I also built a workflow where:
- Plaud transcript → Zapier → Claude
- Claude formats the notes/actions properly
- Notes get emailed to me + pushed into Notion
That part actually works pretty well.
My biggest issue is traditional phone calls and mobile Teams calls.
For normal phone calls, I still basically have to use speakerphone so Plaud can hear both sides clearly, which feels clunky. I’d love something more native/mobile-first that can automatically capture and summarize calls cleanly without weird workarounds.
A few things/preferences:
- Otter isn’t for me
- Fireflies also not really my thing
- Granola looks interesting but I don’t want to manually take notes during calls
- I strongly prefer botless AI if possible
- Desktop auto-join is basically mandatory at this point
- Biggest gap right now is iPhone/Samsung mobile call capture + mobile Teams calls
Curious what people here actually use in production day-to-day.
Is Plaud basically still the best option for this use case right now, or are there better workflows/tools I should be looking at?