Better meetings,
written down properly.
Practical guides to minutes, follow-ups, recording and consent, each showing the real product where it helps, and written by the people who build it.
Meeting minutes
What goes in minutes, how to write them, and how to keep them honest.
How to write meeting minutes: a practical guide with an example
What to write down, what to leave out, a format that works for most meetings, a worked example, and how to get minutes out while people still remember the meeting.
Read the guide →Action items vs decisions vs notes: what goes where in meeting minutes
A decision changes what is true, an action item changes who does what next, and a note explains why. How to tell them apart in a real meeting, with the edge cases that trip people up.
Read the guide →AI meeting workflows
What AI notetakers do, how they record, and how to check what they wrote.
Bot vs no-bot meeting notetakers: how each one records, and what changes
A notetaker bot joins your call as a participant; a no-bot recorder captures the meeting on your own device. How each one works, and what that changes for visibility, coverage and consent.
Read the guide →How to check an AI meeting summary against the recording
AI meeting summaries are usually right and occasionally confidently wrong about a name, a number or who agreed to what. A five-minute routine for checking one before you send it on.
Read the guide →Recording, by platform
Step by step, on the device you already have.
How to record a meeting on iPhone, and get notes from it
Step by step, from the first tap to the finished minutes. How to start the recording, where to put the phone, what happens if a call comes in, and what you get when you stop.
Read the guide →How to record meeting audio on a Mac, both sides of the call
A microphone alone records you, not the people on the other end of the call. How to record your microphone and the meeting audio together on a Mac, which permissions macOS asks for, and why.
Read the guide →Practical resources
Consent, follow-ups and the meetings that recur every week.
Meeting follow-up email template, with three examples
A follow-up email that gets read has four parts, sent the same day. The template, three worked examples for a client, a project team and a new supplier, and the mistakes that make people ignore it.
Read the guide →One-on-one meeting notes: what to write down and how to keep them useful
What belongs in one-on-one notes, what does not, how to keep them private, and how to make each one-on-one build on the last one instead of starting from nothing.
Read the guide →Meeting recording consent: what to know before you press record
When you need permission to record a meeting, how the rules differ between countries and US states, and the simple habit that keeps you on the right side of all of them. General guidance with sources, not legal advice.
Read the guide →How EchoPilot is built
The engineering behind the parts you should never have to think about.
Your next meeting can end with the work already drafted.
Install EchoPilot on the phone or the computer you already work on, record the next conversation you would otherwise try to remember, and read the minutes, the transcript and the drafted actions it gives you back.
Questions? support@echopilotapp.com