Ask the AI about your meetings in Flow chat

Last updated: November 4, 2026

Available on: Mac, Windows

Ask Notetaker chat to catch up mid-meeting or review a meeting afterward. Questions never overwrite your notes: in writable meetings, edits to notes, titles, summaries or speakers happen only when you ask. Read-only and shared-note chats can only answer.

Ask a question

  1. Click into the message field. It never takes your cursor on its own, so typing elsewhere isn't interrupted.

  2. Type your question — for example, "What's he saying about the Q3 budget?" Live-meeting chips send their text as your question.

  3. Press Enter to send; Shift+Enter adds a line and Escape leaves the field. You can keep drafting while an answer generates.

  • What chat answers from: The open meeting's transcript, notes, title and summary are the default subject. Other meetings are searched only when your question clearly concerns something else; an answer from another meeting identifies and links it in the first line.

  • Clarifying questions: When the assistant needs more detail — for example, which person you mean — it asks as an ordinary reply. Answer in the same message field; your answer starts a new turn.

  • Follow-ups: Only recent conversation context carries forward and long messages may be shortened, so restate details your next question needs. Replies stay short unless you ask for exhaustive detail.

Check the answer and its sources

Answers use the transcript when available, not an attendee list, so a more complete transcript supports more accurate answers. The assistant attributes a statement to someone only when the words make it clear, and says when it is unsure.

  • Meeting citations: Up to five consulted meetings appear below an answer, most relevant first, with their saved titles and dates; further cited meetings aren't listed, and untitled meetings show as "Meeting". Selecting a citation or meeting link (or pressing Enter or Space on it) opens the meeting in the app, not a web page; some older citations, and windows that cannot navigate to meetings, stay non-clickable.

  • Missing information: If a meeting cannot be found or accessed, the assistant explains what it couldn't find instead of inventing an answer. For an unrecorded calendar event it gives the title and start/end times and says it wasn't recorded. A meeting outside a recurring series has no earlier occurrences in that series.

How dates and search order work

Questions like "what meetings did I have yesterday" use your device's time zone, including daylight-saving changes, and cover the whole calendar day rather than only what's still upcoming. Times appear in your local zone and weeks run Monday–Sunday. A day includes meetings starting at or after local midnight but not the next midnight, so a meeting starting at 11:50 p.m. and running past midnight belongs to the earlier day.

Date filters use the linked calendar event's start, or the recording's creation time when no event is linked — not the notes' edit date. Results are ordered by most recent edits, so editing an old meeting can move it up without making it match today's date filter.

Stop or copy an answer

While a reply is pending, select the square Stop processing button that takes Submit's place; sending a new question also stops the running answer. The partial answer becomes [Request stopped], or a previously saved answer reappears. Stopped and failed answers offer no copy or rating actions; successful answers in saved chats keep your Helpful and Not helpful ratings.

  1. Select Copy on a completed answer.

  2. Paste it into your destination editor. Response copied confirms the copy; Couldn't copy response means it failed.

  • Rich editors: Keep headings, bold, italics, bulleted and numbered lists, tables and code blocks; task checkboxes paste as ☑ or ☐ characters, not interactive controls. If formatted copying fails, Flow falls back to plain text.

  • Plain-text editors: Keep readable bullets, numbering, tab-separated table rows and code indentation, without formatting markers.

  • Citations and links: Copied citations use the concrete source name in brackets, such as [Planning]. Only http/https links stay clickable — email, phone, file and in-app meeting links keep their labels without the link. Scripts, remote images and divider lines are removed; image descriptions remain.

Manage your chats

  • Switch chat: The history icon appears when another chat exists; select a title to open its messages. Unnamed chats appear as "Untitled chat".

  • Working while an answer finishes: You can keep using the app; New response ready marks an answer received in another chat.

  • Rename: Open a chat's … (Chat actions) menu. Enter or clicking away saves the title; Escape cancels.

Warning: Deleting a chat cannot be undone, and deletion applies to the whole chat, not individual messages.

  1. Open the chat's … (Chat actions) menu.

  2. Select Delete.

  3. Confirm "Delete this chat? This cannot be undone." Deleting the open chat returns you to a fresh chat.

Access and privacy

Account and cloud storage

Notetaker must be enabled for your account, and organization settings can block the assistant's meeting and calendar access.

Under an active personal or organization HIPAA agreement, meeting chat still works as described here. Automatic meeting titles, meeting suggestion chips (such as Ask chips and follow-up email), the manual Add Summary action and meeting chat all work under a BAA; their text is only ever processed by AI providers covered by Wispr's BAA.

Your Dictation cloud storage setting (labeled Cloud Sync in some versions of the app) applies to dictation only and doesn't block Notetaker meetings, chat or sharing. With it off, existing local chats can still be read, renamed, continued and deleted locally, but chat history and older messages aren't downloaded and new messages, ratings and deletions aren't uploaded until it is on.

Shared notes

Searches across meetings cover only meetings you own — notes shared with you are not included, though you can open a shared note and chat about it directly. Shared-note chats aren't uploaded: the empty chat shows "Chats for shared notes are not saved", and deleting one removes its local copy.

The assistant sees only content you can access under sharing permissions, invitations and the owner's organization policies. Domain or "anyone with link" access never includes the raw transcript, and even invited recipients cannot read it when the owner's organization shares notes without transcripts. Non-owners don't receive the owner's private @-mention speaker labels or contact links, and the assistant does not look up attendee email addresses. Instructions embedded in retrieved meeting or note content are treated as source material, not commands for the assistant.

An unavailable shared link doesn't reveal whether it is missing or access is denied; an unavailable transcript doesn't reveal whether it is absent, withheld or removed.

Deleted meetings and transcripts

Warning: Deleting a meeting removes its transcript data and meeting chats. You can't restore, re-upload or re-transcribe the transcript and audio in Flow, so treat the deletion as permanent. The meeting stays searchable and its summary and My Notes survive, so chat can answer from those notes — but not from details that existed only in the deleted transcript.

Transcripts are kept until you delete the meeting. For specific retention requirements, contact your account team.

Still need help?

Meeting chat can show "Something went wrong. Please try again.", "Could not save this message. Try again.", "Could not get a response. Try again." or "Something went wrong. Try again." Resend your question; the answer should appear in the chat. For "Could not load chat history.", select Retry and check that your chats reappear.

Contact support if another attempt still fails, history won't load after Retry, or access is blocked unexpectedly. Include your platform, device, the exact error and what you tried.