タグ: Otter AI

Every ranking of the best AI note taker on the first page of Google is published by a company that sells one. Shadow ranks Shadow first, under a byline that openly describes the author as an AI writer. Jamie ranks Jamie first. The most thorough roundup of the lot has not been updated since 4 March 2026, and several of the prices in it are now wrong. We sell no meeting note taker, so we have nothing to put at the top. What follows is six apps ranked on what they actually do, with every price pulled directly from the vendor on 1 August 2026. We also cover two things […]

On July 16, 2026, Google renamed NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook, folding its popular research tool into the wider Gemini brand. If you woke up to a new blue-purple logo and a different name at the top of your screen, nothing is broken and nothing is gone. It is the same product, at the same address, with your notebooks exactly where you left them. To see which Gemini models now sit behind the tool and how the lineup compares, read our Gemini model comparison. The change matters because NotebookLM was not a niche experiment; it had grown to 30 million users and more than 600,000 organizations before the rename. This article […]

OpenAI just published its prompting playbook for GPT-5.6, and the headline finding upends how most people write prompts. In OpenAI’s own testing, stripping repeated instructions out of a system prompt raised evaluation scores by roughly 10 to 15% while cutting total tokens by 41 to 66% and cost by 33 to 67%. The giant rule lists you wrote for older models are now making GPT-5.6 slower, more expensive, and less accurate. This GPT-5.6 prompting guide pulls the seven changes that matter most into plain English. You will learn why “state each instruction once” beats long rule stacks, how to pick between the new Sol, Terra, and Luna models, how the […]

Otter AI pricing in 2026 covers four plans. Basic is free at $0/month, Pro costs $8.33/user/month annual ($16.99 monthly), Business costs $19.99/user/month annual ($30 monthly), and Enterprise is custom-priced with SSO and OtterPilot for Sales. The free Basic tier includes 300 transcription minutes per month with a 30-minute cap per conversation, Pro lifts the allowance to 1,200 minutes and 90 minutes per call, and Business removes the minute cap entirely with a 4-hour ceiling per meeting. The catch on Pro is that Otter quietly cut the plan from 6,000 to 1,200 transcription minutes without lowering the price, so heavy users burn through the allowance in under two weeks. This guide […]