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Today
Your home page: the day ahead, what you owe people, and who to check in with.
Groupthink Desktop App
Download, install, and sign in to the Mac and Windows app.
Groupthink on iPhone
A quick tour of the iPhone app, from signing in to your first recording.
Where Groupthink's Memory Comes From
Every way Groupthink learns about the people in your life, what each one reads, and whether it is on.
Capture
Meetings, texts, voice, and uploads: every way to get a conversation into Groupthink.
Conversations
Everything Groupthink took in, in one feed, with each source and its settings in the sidebar.
Voice
Voice Dictation: hold fn, speak, and your words appear wherever you are typing.
Typed & pasted
The capture box: type one sentence about someone and Groupthink files it. Paste longer notes too.
Log an Interaction
Add a coffee, call, or visit to someone's record by hand.
Messages
Your text conversations in Conversations, where to turn the Messages source on, and the Count who you text switch.
Capture a Text Conversation
Paste a text thread and file it onto the right person.
Import Your Messages History on a Mac
Add your past Mac Messages conversations to your contacts.
Forward meeting notes and email threads to Groupthink, by hand or with a Gmail filter.
Slack
What the Slack source shows in Conversations, and how to paste a Slack thread in.
Files
Upload images, PDFs, and voice memos and turn them into notes about people.
Bring In Your Old Notes
Available by request: hand Groupthink a pile of notes you already wrote about people, and each one lands on the people it mentions.
How the notetaker joins your meetings
Choose how the notetaker joins, add it to one meeting or take it out, start notes yourself, and let recording start on its own.
Privately Recording Meetings
Take notes on a meeting without a bot joining the call.
Capturing On-Screen Content
Also capture what people show on screen, not just what they say.
Activity Capture on Your Mac
See where your attention went on your Mac, and with whom.
Recording Conversations on iPhone
Record in-person conversations and transcribe them on your phone.
Your people
The people you know and what you have learned about them.
Goals
Write down what you are working toward and who can help.
How It's Felt
Keep a private note of how time with someone felt to you, and see it over time.
Import Your LinkedIn Connections
Bring the people you are connected to on LinkedIn into Groupthink, and choose who comes in.
Lists
Keep a list of people, like your holiday card list, with their current mailing addresses.
People and "Who Is This About?"
File what you capture to the people it is about.
Relationship Intelligence
Everything about one person on a single page.
Relationships
A memory for the people in your life and work, built from your conversations.
Remember Our Year
Look back at a year with someone, month by month, and keep the moments you want to mention.
Roles
Say who someone is to you, even when the answer is more than one thing.
Staying in Touch
See who you are falling behind with and reach out.
The Advisor
Ask about the people in your life and get a straight answer, with the sources it came from.
The Advisor on iPhone
Ask about your relationships, check the sources, and confirm the changes it suggests.
Before and after meetings
Prep, recaps, action items, and sharing notes.
Daily Brief and meeting prep
A briefing on the people in your next meetings, on the agenda page and on Today, plus a 5pm weekday email to prep for tomorrow and an optional morning email at a time you choose.
Linked People
Connect a meeting to people so what you learn lands on their profile.
Managing Agenda Permissions
Choose who can open, edit, and share each note.
Ending a Meeting
How the notetaker stops and your recap gets made.
Gifted Recaps
Free full recaps for people on your meeting who are outside its workspace.
Correcting Speaker Names in Transcripts
Put real names on the speakers in a transcript.
Action Items
See everything people promised in your meetings, in one list.
Projects
Keep the meetings and notes for one deal or client together.
Project Tasks
Do a task yourself, give it to someone, have Groupthink do it, or hand it to ChatGPT, Claude or Dots.
Exporting Meeting Transcripts and Summaries
Download a transcript or copy a recap to use elsewhere.
Sharing a Meeting With Someone Who Doesn't Have an Account
Share a recap or agenda with anyone by email.
How to View Meeting Notes Shared With You
How to open meeting notes someone shared with you.
Scheduling
Booking pages, sharing when you are free, and calendar sync.
After Someone Books
What happens on your side when someone books time with you.
Keep Your Calendars in Sync
Keep two calendars from double-booking you.
Make a Plan
Turn the plan you are making in your texts into a time on your calendar.
Move an Event to Another Day
Push an event you did not get to onto another day.
Share Your Availability
Share when you are free as text or as a booking link.
Your Booking Page
What people see when they open your booking link.
Connect your tools
Calendars, Zoom, Slack, GitHub, AI assistants, and more.
Connect your calendar
Connect Google Calendar or Outlook so Groupthink can see your meetings, and reconnect it if it stops working.
Follow a Live Call With Your AI Assistant
Send Groupthink into a call from Claude and ask about it while it is still going.
GitHub Issues
Turn meeting action items into GitHub issues.
GitHub Repo Sync
Keep a GitHub repo in sync with your Groupthink record.
Google Meet
Get notes and recaps from your Google Meet calls.
MCP Server
Full reference for connecting AI assistants to Groupthink.
Microsoft Teams
Get notes and recaps from your Microsoft Teams calls.
Slack
Send meeting summaries to a Slack channel or DM.
Use GitHub Activity as Relationship Signal
Count the people you work with on GitHub, not just in meetings.
Zoom
Get notes and recaps from your Zoom calls.
Account and privacy
Sign-in, settings, notifications, billing, and your data.
Close Your Groupthink Account
Close your account from Settings, what closing does, and when your data is deleted.
Export Your Data
Download a copy of your data, on any plan.
Manage Notification Settings
Choose which alerts you get by email, desktop, and phone.
Managing Your Billing & Subscription
Change your plan, payment method, or invoices, or cancel.
Privacy and On-Device Permissions on iPhone
What stays on your phone and what the app asks to access.
Settings on iPhone
What each part of the iPhone Settings tab does.
Signing in to Groupthink
Sign in with Google, Microsoft, Apple, or an email link.
User Settings
Where to manage your account, meetings, and integrations.
Fix a problem
When something is not working the way you expect.
iPhone App: Known Issues and Limitations
What the iPhone app can and cannot do right now.
Known Issues
Current problems we know about, and how to work around them.
Recover Your Notes When the Notetaker Misses a Meeting
Get notes back when the notetaker missed a meeting.
Troubleshooting Private Meeting Recording
Fixes for silent or cut-short private recordings.
Troubleshooting the iPhone App
Fixes for common problems with the iPhone app.
When the notetaker doesn't join or isn't let in
Why the notetaker stayed out of a meeting, and what to do about it.
Helping someone with Groupthink as an AI assistant? Read groupthink.com/llms.txt for an index of every doc in plain text.