Why I'm building a note taking app without AI
When I talk to people about what I'm building, I give 'em the pitch on Docket being a note taking system specifically designed for regular meetings.
Very commonly the first thing they reply with is something along the lines of: ah, so, with AI right?
What? But now I just have AI tools transcribe all my calls and take summaries. I haven't written notes in months.
Good for you, but you're not who I'm building Docket for.
I'm building Docket for people like me who want to actually use their own brain to distill important notes out of interactions in meetings and find a lot of value in doing so. Writing notes yourself as a driver for distilling what's important. For remembering what matters, in what can often be a lot of noise, filler, and formality. Taking (or not taking) actions with an inherent sense of their priority.
I refer to this as active note taking. It's a shift in mindset from thinking about taking notes in meetings as 'recording', which is a chore that ought to be handed off or automated, to actually distilling the few concentrated points of actual interest out of an hour of talking. Not only is this something you do not want to hand off, it's something that you can uniquely do, that you want to do, and is in a large sense the apex of the value you create for your company as a professional and smart person.