A summary is only useful if you can trust it, and you can only trust what you can check. Oatmeal builds its summaries so every part can be traced back to the transcript.
How a summary is built
Oatmeal reads the meeting five minutes at a time and summarises each stretch from what was actually said. Then it writes:
- an overview of the whole meeting,
- follow-ups that came up, and
- a timeline of how the conversation went.
All of it is written on your Mac by a summary model you’ve added. Nothing is uploaded.
Make it fit the meeting
Pick the style that matches the meeting: General, Standup, 1:1 or Interview. Choose Crisp, Balanced or Detailed. Add your team’s names, product names and jargon to the preferred terms so they come out the way you write them.
Your notes come first
Your own note is the page; the summary sits beside it. When part of a summary is worth keeping, Add to notes puts it on your page, where you can edit it like anything else you wrote.
Decisions and action items work differently: they stay suggestions until you confirm them. See decisions and action items.