Ask Wispr about your meetings and shared notes

Ask Wispr finds decisions and commitments in your meetings and shared notes. Ask follow-up questions, open the source meeting, or ask Flow to update your notes.

Ask a question

1. Open a meeting note or the Notetaker hub.

2. Type in the hub Ask bar or the meeting's Ask anything field at the bottom.

3. Press Enter or Cmd/Ctrl+Enter to send. Shift+Enter adds a line break; Escape leaves the field without sending.

Empty or whitespace-only questions send nothing. The meeting field has no send button: use the shortcut or a suggested prompt.

In a meeting, naming a person or a short keyword still searches that meeting first. Flow looks elsewhere only for another meeting or date, a public-world question, a missing answer, or meeting content unavailable to chat; answers from another meeting identify and link it in the first line.

Flow draws on meeting titles, notes, summaries, transcripts and attendee information, plus the folders an open meeting is filed in — so you can ask “what folder is this meeting in?”. It cites only meetings it read, flags uncertain speaker attribution and says what it could not find.

Hub answers show up to five clickable meeting sources ranked by relevance, plus inline citations; open a reference to review it in Flow. Older references, screens without meeting navigation and sources without usable links appear as plain text, and external citations open outside Flow. The meeting chat drawer shows no citation chips, but copied answers keep source labels.

Answers stay under roughly 250 words unless you request exhaustive detail, and long meetings or complex questions can produce partial answers. Follow-ups keep 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, so include 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 a day or date range

Ask questions like “what meetings did I have yesterday”, “my meetings with alex@acme.com on Monday” or “what's on my calendar today”. Flow uses your device's current date, local time and time zone, including daylight-saving changes; weeks run Monday through Sunday.

• Meeting dates: match calendar start time, or creation time without a linked calendar event — not the last edit.

• Note dates: use the same local-day boundaries but match when notes were modified.

• Calendar days: include finished events; an event starting at midnight belongs to the new day only.

• Coverage: answers cover meetings captured in Flow and connected Google Calendar events; other calendar providers may not be included.

• Attendee searches: recordings without a linked calendar event lack attendee data and cannot match an attendee filter.

• Large ranges: searches are capped at 1,000 matches; narrow the question for busy days or long ranges.

Ask about shared notes

Open your recordings from My notes (or Past notes) and shared notes from Shared with me, which holds both notes shared with you directly and notes others filed into a folder you own or belong to. You can also paste a shared meeting link into Ask Wispr; Flow reads it using your account, not the owner's identity, and cannot read inaccessible, missing or deleted notes. If an emailed link is rejected because it uses a tracking redirect, open it in your browser and paste the final Wispr URL.

Meetings in no folder have none to report, and chat inside a shared note cannot report that note's folders. When Flow lists a folder's notes, your own notes are read in full, while other members' notes come back as a summary with a link to open the shared note.

Shared-note chat answers only — it cannot edit the note or title, and New chat is unavailable. Reading a shared note works with Cloud Sync off, but offline reads and Ask Wispr's local shared-note search require Cloud Sync access; that search covers titles, content and owners, not transcripts.

For sign-in, app opening or permission problems, see Open a shared Wispr Flow note.

Ask Flow to edit your notes

Questions never overwrite your notes.

1. Open a meeting note and its Ask Wispr chat drawer in the desktop app.

2. Ask explicitly: “Update my notes with the budget decision.”

3. Review the result in My thoughts.

The summary is separate from your notes: rewriting it requires an explicit request and an existing summary, which cannot be blanked, and summary edits are blocked during generation or regeneration. Read-only notes cannot be edited, chat cannot rewrite transcripts, and Flow can name a meeting's folders but cannot change them.

Edits can fail when target text is missing, repeated or changes during the request. Ask Flow to reread the current text and retry with a unique target.

Manage and copy your chats

• New chat: clears follow-up context without deleting saved chats; in an open, non-shared meeting it is disabled while the chat loads.

• Past chats: opens history from the empty, unfocused hub bar or its focused suggestions row. In a non-shared meeting, use Switch chat, which appears when another chat exists or the list is loading.

• Older conversations: select Load more in hub history, or scroll to the top of a conversation for older messages. Meeting-linked history entries open the meeting note, and background replies stay marked new until opened.

• Stop processing: cancels only the running request in the chat you are viewing and replaces partial text with “[Request stopped]”. Sending another question replaces that chat's pending request; other chats continue.

• Copy response: available on a completed hub answer; in a meeting drawer, copy and feedback need a completed answer in a saved chat. Pending, streaming, stopped, failed and unsaved drawer answers have no actions.

Copy provides formatted and plain text, falling back to plain text if formatted copying fails. Citations keep readable labels such as [Planning], and external HTTP/HTTPS sources keep their links; other links, including in-app meeting links, keep only their labels.

Click outside the meeting composer or use the drawer's minimize button to close it. Stopping a recording or generating a summary can close the chat drawer; reopen it immediately, even while the summary is generating.

If Flow cannot find an answer

A no-match answer can be final: when a person or topic search finds nothing, Flow checks available transcripts and notes within your requested dates before concluding there is no match.

• No matching information: check whether you are asking in a meeting or the hub, then add a meeting title, person or time reference, or broaden the question.

• Unrecorded calendar event: Flow can report its title and times, but has no recording, transcript or notes to draw on.

• Missing or one-off meeting: Flow cannot retrieve inaccessible or deleted meetings. A one-off meeting — or one without a linked calendar event — has no recurring series to answer “last time” questions.

• Older meeting missing: older meetings can take time to become searchable. Wait, then ask again.

• Folders not reported: if Flow cannot determine an open meeting's folders, it says nothing either way rather than guessing; check the note's folders in the hub.

• Renamed folder note: a new title for a note shared through a folder appears after you reopen Shared with me.

• Shared notes unavailable: check your account and invitation, and follow any cloud-access message; organization-controlled settings require your admin. See data and privacy preferences.

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