How Minutes keeps your notes yours
Dark text is yours, grey text came from the transcript. Why MeetingMate decides that by matching, not by trusting the model.
The core of MeetingMate is one button: Minutes. You jot rough notes during the meeting, MeetingMate transcribes it on your computer, and Minutes turns the two into meeting minutes: a short summary, the discussion by topic with who said what, decisions, action points and open questions. Your own words stay dark. Everything added from the transcript is grey.
Why the colours matter
Your notes record what you judged important at the time, and you trust them more than any summary. AI-written text is usually right, sometimes wrong, and occasionally confident about something nobody said. If the two look the same, your own notes lose their value. So dark means you wrote it; grey means it came from the transcript and is worth checking.
Why we don't just ask the model
We could ask the model to label which lines were yours. But a model rewriting notes tidies them, fixing typos and merging bullets, and afterwards it may claim a reworded line as yours or mark one of yours as its own. It is not a reliable witness to its own edits.
So MeetingMate checks instead: each line of the minutes is compared with what you typed, and shows dark only if it closely matches your original notes. This is deliberately conservative. A heavily reworded point of yours may come back grey; we would rather under-claim your authorship than put your name on words you didn't write.
Only what was said
Action points list an owner and task, and a due date only when someone gave one. If nobody set a date, there is no date. Names follow the same rule: the transcript tags lines Me and Them, and the minutes name the other person only when exactly one other attendee is listed. With several people on the other end, they stay "Them" rather than a guess.
Templates, and minutes ready to send
Minutes follow a template (Standard, 1:1, Standup, Customer call, Interview, or your own) that sets the sections; the facts still come from your notes and the transcript. Download the minutes as a Word document, ready to send and without the transcript, or the full meeting as Markdown. Read them first: the grey shows you where to look.
If the transcript mishears a name, Fix a word corrects it and remembers it for next time.
Minutes should make your notes complete without making them less yours. The grey text is the help. The dark text is still you.
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