Barside
Barside is a free desktop productivity app that brings together notes, tasks, reading, meetings, community spaces and AI tools. Notes support links, maps, drawings, kanban boards, tables and charts, and can be imported from Notion, Obsidian or Evernote. Checklists appear on a task board with due dates and reminders. Articles and newsletters go into a reading inbox for highlighting. Community and team spaces include chat, polls, shared notes and files. Video meetings include screen sharing and live captions; screen recordings can be added to notes and edited into captioned clips. An AI assistant and scheduled agents use accounts from Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or OpenRouter, and changes can be undone. Barside connects to Claude Code and Cursor through MCP. The app also includes a password vault, clipboard history and system-wide search. Notes are stored locally and work without an account.
Learn more about Barside
Otter.ai
3.0 out of 5 stars
(2 Ratings)
Otter is where conversations live. Generate rich notes for meetings, interviews, lectures, and other important voice conversations with Otter, your AI-powered assistant. Organizations who have the Otter advantage. Teams big and small trust Otter to transcribe their important conversations. Our shiny new release, Otter 2.0, adds more functionality to improve collaboration and productivity. The Teams plan includes capabilities designed especially for small and medium businesses and teams in larger enterprises. Record and review in real time. Search, play, edit, organize, and share your conversations from any device. Record conversations using Otter on your phone or web browser. Import or sync recordings from other services. Integrate with Zoom. Get real-time streaming transcripts and, within minutes, rich, searchable notes with text, audio, images, speaker ID, and key phrases. Share or export voice notes to inform others and get on the same page.
Learn more about Otter.ai
Granite
Granite is an encrypted Markdown note-taking and knowledge management app for individuals and teams. It organizes notes with wikilinks, tags, backlinks, a graph view, daily notes, templates, and offline search, and syncs them across web, desktop, and mobile devices. Each vault has its own encryption key. The built-in MCP server lets Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and other compatible AI tools search, read, and update notes in authorized vaults, with answers that cite the source notes. Teams can co-edit shared vaults, add comments and mentions, and publish notes to the web. Business adds SSO, SCIM, audit logs, and security policies. Notes are never used to train AI. Granite offers a free one-vault plan, a Pro subscription, and per-seat Business plans.
Learn more about Granite
Lazy
Lazy takes you from your rawest personal captures to the most structured notes intelligible to everyone. Save newsletters with one shortcut, no more forwarding to complicated email addresses. Automatically sync your highlights and notes from your Kindle. Capture ideas the instant you get them, whether you are on a computer or a mobile. Clip anything for later, from articles to Twitter threads, videos & more. Capture the best of Twitter, and read threads later even if the original tweet is deleted, no tweet bot is publicly involved. Capture key points mentioned in videos and take actionable notes. One shortcut, an article, a link, an author captured, save to read later. Natively build-in note-taking features like email notes in hey feel like a good step in the right direction - but email is just one distinct silo in your productivity stack.
Learn more about Lazy