Ask Wispr about your meetings and shared notes
Last updated: September 19, 2026
Available on: Mac and Windows.
Ask Wispr finds decisions and commitments in your meetings and shared notes. Ask follow-up questions, check source meetings, or ask Flow to update your notes.
The hub Ask Wispr bar appears after you record a meeting; connecting a calendar alone is not enough.
Ask a question
Open a meeting note or the Notetaker hub.
Type your question in Ask anything; in a meeting, the field is at the bottom.
Press Enter to submit.
The meeting field is single-line; Enter always submits. In the hub bar, Shift+Enter inserts a newline; Submit query also sends text. Empty or whitespace-only questions send nothing.
Where you ask | Search scope |
Open meeting | Its transcript, notes and earlier chat turns. |
Notetaker hub | Your meeting notes more broadly. |
The drawer searches the open meeting first, even when you name a person. Short keywords search the open meeting's transcript and notes rather than being answered as questions.
It looks elsewhere only for another meeting or date, public-world questions, or when this meeting lacks the answer. When another meeting supplies the answer, the first line says so and links it. Without the open meeting's content available to chat, the drawer searches across meetings.
Flow answers from meeting titles, notes, summaries, transcripts and attendee information. It cites only meetings it read, flags uncertain speaker attribution and says when it cannot find an answer.
Hub answers show up to five clickable meeting sources; drawer answers use in-text meeting links, not citation chips. Open a meeting reference to review it in Flow.
Follow-ups retain context, but very old turns can stop influencing answers. Restate earlier details when needed.
Flow can use web search for public-world questions. It does not know your location; provide one for “near me” questions or answer its clarification request.
Flow does not follow instructions embedded in retrieved meetings, notes or web results.
Ask about shared notes
My notes (or Past notes) contains recorded meetings. Shared with me contains shared notes; its search matches only loaded titles, not bodies, summaries or owner names. Load more shared notes before searching older entries.
Paste a shared meeting link into Ask Wispr to read that note. If an email link is rejected, open it in your browser and paste the final shared-note URL.
Note: Flow sees only what your account's sharing permissions allow. The owner's private notes remain owner-only. Transcripts require ownership or an explicit invitation, plus permission from the owner's organization. Domain/team or anyone-with-link access is not enough; an invitation cannot override an organization's notes-only policy.
Shared-note chat is answer-only: it cannot edit the note. New chat is unavailable.
Warning: Chats for shared notes are not saved. Revoked access deletes associated local chats and closes an open note with “Shared note is unavailable.” A temporary network failure does not close the note.
Shared-note reading works with Cloud Sync off. Offline reads and Ask Wispr's local shared-note search require Cloud Sync access; that search covers titles, content and owners, but does not include transcripts.
From a shared-note web page
The Ask bar appears for readers, including owners, after the note loads and sign-in requirements are satisfied, above 560px browser width.
Select Ask anything about this meeting, or focus it and press Enter or Space.
Select Open in Wispr Flow or Download Wispr Flow when offered.
The bar sends no question. If the app cannot open or returns you to the browser, follow the sign-in prompt or ask the owner.
For sign-in, app opening or permission problems, see Open a shared Wispr Flow note.
Ask Flow to edit your notes
Questions do not overwrite your notes. Requested edits target sections, save automatically and are explained in chat.
Open a meeting note and its Ask Wispr chat drawer in the desktop app.
Ask explicitly: “Update my notes with the budget decision.”
Review the result in My thoughts.
The summary is separate from your notes, not a downloadable chat attachment. Summary rewrites require an explicit request and an existing summary; it cannot be blanked. Read-only notes cannot be edited, and chat cannot rewrite transcripts.
Manage your chats
New chat: clears follow-up context without deleting saved chats. In the drawer, it requires an open, non-shared meeting and is disabled while loading.
History: switch conversations through Past chats in the empty, unfocused hub bar. In non-shared meeting drawers, History appears while loading or when another chat exists; it is unavailable during loading. Scroll to the top to load older messages. Hub history marks background replies as new until opened.
Stop: cancels only the viewed chat's request and leaves “[Request stopped]”. Sending another question replaces that chat's pending request; other chats continue.
Copy and feedback: appear only on completed, saved answers.
Warning: Deleting a chat is permanent. The confirmation reads “Delete this chat? This cannot be undone.”
Recording stop or summary generation can close the drawer; you can reopen it immediately, even during generation.
If Flow cannot find an answer
No matching information: check the meeting drawer versus hub scope, then add a meeting title, person or time reference, or broaden the question.
Older meeting missing: older meetings may take time to become available as indexing catches up. Allow indexing to finish, then retry.
Shared notes unavailable: check your account and invitation. Follow any cloud-access message; organization-controlled settings require your admin. See data and privacy preferences.
Request failed: for “Chat request failed. Please try again.” or “No response from assistant.”, retry your question.
Still need help?
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