aside

From plan to follow-up.

Aside records calls on your Mac, puts your notes where they happened and writes up the call when you hang up. Live guidance is optional.

1Before the call

Know what you want from it.

A plan is optional. Aside records fine without one.

Aside’s next-meeting page for the Acme discovery call, with Guidance on, a Start recording button and three goals.

Goals for the call

Write a few things you want from it. Each becomes a dot on the pill.

Ready answers in the plan: SOC 2, and Salesforce sync.

Answers, ready

Add the answers you want on hand, like pricing or security, plus any background.

2During the call

Stay in the conversation.

No bot in the call

Aside records your microphone and the sound your Mac plays. Nobody gets a join request.

⌃⌥N A transcript in Aside, with two notes placed between the lines at 12:22 and 28:10.

Notes without leaving the call

Press ⌃⌥N in any app, type a line, press Return. The note lands in the transcript at the moment you started typing.

Aside’s pill: the recording light, one of three goal dots filled, and the next move: Ask who signs off above Sarah. An answer card: Before anything goes to procurement, where are you on SOC 2? Type I is done. Type II lands in March.

Guidance, when you want it

Your goals are dots that fill in, one line suggests your next move, and your ready answers appear when the topic comes up.

Or just record

Turn guidance off and the pill is only a small recording light.

3After the call

A write-up when you hang up.

A summary, the goals you reached, next steps and a follow-up email you can copy. For a plain recording, one click writes it.

The Acme discovery call transcript in Aside: who said what, with timestamps, two of your notes in place, and Summary, Transcript and Copy follow-up email at the bottom.
Summary and next steps

What happened, what was decided and who does what next.

Transcript with your notes

Who said what, with each of your notes where you wrote it.

Playback of both sides

Your microphone and their audio play back in sync.

Privacy

Your audio stays on your Mac.

Aside sends only the text it needs, and nothing is used to train AI models.

Transcribed on your Mac

An on-device speech model turns the call into text. It downloads once, about 650 MB.

Text only, when needed

Your plan and the part of the transcript a feature needs. Never audio.

Files you keep

Recordings, transcripts and notes are saved in a folder you choose on your Mac.

Read the privacy policy

The small things.

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Shortcuts from anywhere

Start or pause, take a note and end the recording from any app. Change any of them in Settings.

Acme discovery call · 12:34

In the menu bar

While you record, the menu bar shows the meeting name and a clock.

Aside in light modeAside in dark mode

Light and dark

Follows your Mac, or pick Light or Dark in Settings.

Acme discovery call · paused

Pause when you need to

Pause for anything off the record. The transcript marks the gap, and you can still take notes.

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Your languages

Pick at setup: English plus 24 European languages.

?Is Speaker 2 Dev Mehta?

Speaker names

Names come from clues in the call and voices Aside has learned on your Mac. Each suggestion shows why, and you can undo it.

Try it on your next call.

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