Notes, screenshots, and live chat

Three tools sit next to the live transcript: notes, screen capture, and Ask Smara.

Meeting notes

Open Notes in the bottom bar or press Ctrl+N (Cmd+N on Mac).

• Write in markdown. Notes autosave locally.
• Tag a line as Decision, Action, Question, or Follow-up.
• Pin a note to a transcript moment.
• Use guided or freeform mode.

These notes feed the post-meeting summary. Keyboard shortcuts such as Space (mute) are disabled while the notes editor is focused.

Capture a window

Use Capture or Ctrl+Shift+S to grab a shared slide or window.

1. Pick the window (Zoom share, browser, slides).
2. Optionally crop away chrome, sidebars, or the webcam tile. The crop is remembered for the rest of the meeting.
3. Thumbnails appear in a strip under the transcript.

Captures are stored as img-1, img-2, and so on. After the meeting, MeetSmara captions them and makes them searchable in chat. See the post-meeting Images tab.

Ask Smara (live)

The collapsible Ask Smara panel above the bottom bar answers questions about the finalised transcript so far — never the grey preview.

You can ask in time: “last 5 minutes”, “from minute 10 to 20”, “since my last question”. Anything else uses the full finalised transcript (within a size budget).

Live chat is locked until the first line commits. Answers cite transcript lines as [#17] (or a range). Click a chip to jump there in the dual pane. Sessions later appear in global Chat tagged as a live meeting — read-only there; continue them in this panel.

Type / for starter prompts, or use the mic button to dictate a short question.