Earmark Blog
Field notes on AI, meetings, and turning live conversation into shippable work.
Lessons
The Gen X Problem With the Creator Economy
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Beliefs
The Rise of the Generalist
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Lessons
The New Bottlenecks in Software Delivery
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Lessons
The Rise of the AI-Native Product Team
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Beliefs
AI Moves Faster. Your Team Still Has to Agree.
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Lessons
Cloud or Local for Voice AI? Here's Our Benchmark.
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Beliefs
Before Everyone Leaves
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Beliefs
Nobody Agreed to That
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Beliefs
Your Context Should Outlive Your Tools
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Workflows
Best AI Meeting Assistant for User Research Interviews in 2026
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Workflows
Your Meetings Belong on Your Machine: why Earmark Auto-Saves Local Markdown
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Lessons
You Can Pipe Your Meetings Into Claude. Here’s What You Give Up.
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Lessons
When Everything Can Interrupt You, Nothing Can Be a Priority
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Pain Points
The Work That Matters Is Being Pushed to the Edges
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Lessons
The Translation Tax: Why Conversation Still Creates a Second Job
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Lessons
The Infinite Workday Isn’t a Time-Management Problem
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Pain Points
The Meeting Isn’t the Problem. It’s the Work Waiting After It
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Beliefs
Why We Rebuilt Earmark Around Memory
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Lessons
Why Earmark Supports Temporary Meetings, Zero Stored Audio, and Local Markdown
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Lessons
What Not to Reinvent
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Old Way / New Way
Your Agents Can Read Everything Except What You Said
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Beliefs
Meetings Shouldn't Become Notes
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Beliefs
Meetings Shouldn’t Create More Work
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Beliefs
Daily and essential, or nothing
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Pain Points
Why product teams redo the meeting after everyone leaves
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Workflows
How to build a usage dot plot in Claude Cowork
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Beliefs
AI Note Takers Are Dead
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Upcoming Releases
The Status Update Is Dead. It Just Doesn't Know It Yet.
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Upcoming Releases
Your meetings know the answer. Soon, Earmark will help you find it.
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Beliefs
Decide Late
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Lessons
Your AI meeting summary doesn't save you as much time as you think
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Beliefs
Decisions Don't Survive
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Customer Stories
Seven people became 118. Nobody rolled it out.
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Workflows
Engineers have IDEs. Product managers have meetings.
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Upcoming Releases
We'll tell you when to click the button
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Upcoming Releases
Continue in Claude Cowork or Codex
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Upcoming Releases
You don't need to be in every meeting
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Upcoming Releases
Meeting recall you can check against the source
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Upcoming Releases
Your Meeting is the Prompt
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Lessons
Trust Increases When AI Shows Its Work
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Lessons
The Wedge Has to Be Concrete
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Lessons
The Strongest Demos Show Before and After
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Lessons
The Artifact Has to Be Immediately Useful
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Lessons
Product Teams Need AI That Understands Ambiguity
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Lessons
Users Do Not Want More AI Text
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Lessons
The Best AI Should Not Interrupt the Meeting
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Lessons
Context Matters More Than Capture
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Lessons
A Generic Summary Is Rarely Enough
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Lessons
The Transcript Is Raw Material, Not the Product
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Pain Points
The Work Is Scattered Across Too Many Tools
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Pain Points
Documentation Depends Too Much on the Individual
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Pain Points
Follow-Ups Are Fragile
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Pain Points
Teams Repeat the Same Conversations
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Pain Points
Leadership Wants Visibility Without Another Meeting
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Pain Points
Customer Calls Don't Reliably Become Product Insights
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Pain Points
Engineering Handoffs Are Too Inconsistent
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Pain Points
PMs Are Buried in Admin
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Pain Points
Decisions Get Buried
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Pain Points
Meetings Create Work Instead of Completing Work
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Buyer Mistakes
Choosing the Tool That Captures the Meeting
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Buyer Mistakes
Waiting Until the Process Is Broken
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Buyer Mistakes
Overvaluing Dashboards and Undervaluing Artifacts
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Buyer Mistakes
Accepting Messy Handoffs as Normal
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Buyer Mistakes
Confusing Recording With Remembering
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Buyer Mistakes
Buying for Personal Productivity Instead of Team Alignment
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Buyer Mistakes
Underestimating Post-Meeting Cleanup
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Buyer Mistakes
Assuming Chat-Based AI Is Enough
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Buyer Mistakes
Optimizing for Transcription Instead of Completion
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Buyer Mistakes
Treating Every AI Meeting Tool Like a Note-Taker
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Beliefs
The Best AI Will Feel Invisible During the Work
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Beliefs
Artifact Quality Is the New AI Bar
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Beliefs
"AI Productivity" Is Not a Wedge
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Beliefs
From AI Assistant to AI Operator
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Beliefs
Talk now. Leave with the work moving.
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Beliefs
Product Teams Are Drowning in Translation Work
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Beliefs
Documentation Is Not the Prize Anymore
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Beliefs
The Next Productivity Layer Won't Be Another Place to Chat
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Beliefs
Prompting Is a Tax
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Lessons
The Best AI Meeting Assistants for OpenAI Codex (2026)
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Lessons
The Best AI Meeting Assistants for Claude Cowork and Claude Code (2026)
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Lessons
The Best AI Meeting Assistants for Linear (2026)
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Lessons
The Best AI Meeting Assistants for Jira (2026)
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Beliefs
The Meeting Is Becoming the New Prompt
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