# Which Note-Taking Software Enables Teams to Stay Fully Present in Meetings Without Pausing to Document?

For meetings where someone always ends up half-listening because they're typing notes, a few Note-Taking Software tools are built specifically to remove that tradeoff.

Fathom (5/5, 7,042 reviews): reviewers describe it as the reason they stopped taking notes altogether, auto-join, transcription, and takeaways that let them focus on the conversation and pull up specifics afterward instead of during. The one recurring gap reviewers mention is accuracy on strong regional accents and non-native English, which occasionally means a manual pass on the transcript.
Otter.ai (4.4/5, 504 reviews): reviewers highlight live transcription and speaker identification as what lets them stay engaged in discovery calls and cross-functional meetings instead of scrambling to capture names, dates, and objections in real time. Reviewers are candid that transcription accuracy drops with heavy cross-talk, background noise, or specialized jargon, and that its expanding feature set (agents, workflows, more integrations) works best with some team-level governance rather than everyone building their own process.
Bluedot (4.8/5, 223 reviews): reviewers consistently point to its bot-free design (no visible participant joining the call) as what keeps meetings feeling natural while still generating accurate transcripts and CRM-synced summaries in the background. Review volume here is thinner than the other two, and a few users note the free tier's meeting limits and some rough edges in speaker labeling.

For anyone who's switched to one of these specifically to stop multitasking during calls, did it actually change how present you are in the room, or just move the note-taking to after the meeting instead of during it?

##### Post Metadata - Posted at: 12 days ago - Author title: SEO Content Writer - Net upvotes: 1 ## Comments ### Comment 1 Your closing question has a sharp answer hiding in it. These tools reliably remove capture from the meeting, but whether they remove the work depends on whether anyone actually needs to read the notes afterwards. A lot of teams end up more present in the call and spend the saved time reviewing summaries later, which is still a win because the reviewing can be skimmed and the listening can't. The bot-free design described for Bluedot is a nice illustration of the other half of presence, which is how the room feels to the person being recorded. ##### Comment Metadata - Posted at: 12 days ago - Author title: Tech Consultant ## Related discussions - [How well does Trello scale into a larger team?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/1-how-well-does-trello-scale-into-a-larger-team) - Posted at: over 13 years ago - Comments: 6 - [Can we please add a new section](https://www.g2.com/discussions/2-can-we-please-add-a-new-section) - Posted at: over 13 years ago - Comments: 0 - [Quantifiable benefits from implementing your CRM](https://www.g2.com/discussions/quantifiable-benefits-from-implementing-your-crm) - Posted at: over 13 years ago - Comments: 4