5 Best AI Notetakers (2026), Tested and Reviewed

A growing collection of pocket-size gadgets lets you easily make recordings and extract info from them. Here are our favorites. +++lead-in-text Whether sitting in a class, meeting, or interview, I’ve never been fond of taking notes, and I’m far from alone. Not only does the process of scribbling something down cause me to miss what was said immediately after, but I also suffer from awful handwriting, meaning that I can rarely read the notes anyway. Recording interviews has long been a solution, but transcribing interviews is another step (with extra cost) that can leave you with thousands of words of material to sift through, much of it irrelevant.