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How to Host Your First Groupthink Meeting
Looking to make your meetings more efficient and organized? Whether you’ve enjoyed a Groupthink meeting or are curious about how it can help you, hosting your first meeting is simple and rewarding. Hosting a meeting on a new platform may seem kind of daunting if you are used to another video meeting platform, but Groupthink […]
Ali Tyler
Maximize Your Meetings with Automated Meeting Templates
Are your recurring meetings eating up your time without any clear outcomes? Without the right structure, these meetings can feel like a waste of time and leave important topics untouched or forgotten. The solution is simple: create an agenda to make sure that recurring meetings stay on track and have a consistent structure. But, let’s […]
Ali Tyler
June Groupthink Improvements: Emojis, Threaded Chat & More!
We’re thrilled to announce our latest updates in June, packed with new features and improvements designed to enhance your experience with Groupthink. Here’s what’s new in our latest releases: Emoji Reactions Express yourself quickly and easily with our new emoji reactions to chat messages! Just like in Slack, you can now use a 👍 , […]
Elle Morrill
Introducing Free Cross-Platform Meeting Recording Storage
You told us it is way too hard to browse and explore your recorded meetings with your other providers, and we listened. Today we’re excited to share v1 of meeting records — which will show up as “Recordings” in the menu. Your meeting recording is also embedded on the individual meeting recap page, and includes […]
Elle Morrill
Introducing OKR Tracking in Groupthink
Groupthink now has OKR tracking so you can associate agenda items with your goals! Have you ever sat in that meeting where you’re wondering: “what the heck does this convo have to do with our goals?” or even worse “who is this evil mastermind who makes doing nothing look so good?” (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ When you […]
Elle Morrill
Introducing Groupthink Video Conferencing
Introducing the Groupthink Video Conferencing platform, a comprehensive solution designed to transform how you conduct your meetings. We invite you to switch from legacy platforms like Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams to our integrated, full-featured video conferencing solution and get all the benefits of transcription and AI-powered meeting summaries for FREE. Full-Featured Native Video […]
Elle Morrill
Understanding Decisions and Next Steps Faster: The New Groupthink Meeting Recap Experience
Live meetings are vital for collaborative decision-making and task assignment, but their effectiveness depends on whether anyone follows up. This is why we updated our meeting recap experience, designed to get the insights you and your stakeholders need effortlessly. What’s New The latest release transforms the way you interact with meeting recaps in the Groupthink […]
Kaitlin Pike
Now Live: Groupthink for Android Devices
Meeting management is now pocket-sized: Groupthink is available today for Android. (Info on our iOS app here). Get automatic agendas and notes from all of your Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams meetings in just a few swipes. Download for Android now. Download for iOS now. Never Miss a Beat Can’t attend? Don’t fret. The […]
Kaitlin Pike
Groupthink Release Roundup — December 2023
Welcome to the December Release Roundup, our summary of the most important updates Groupthink has shipped. Love what you’re seeing? Need to give feedback on what we’re shipping? Reach out to us at support@groupthink.com. Groupthink on iOS Meeting management on the go! We shipped Groupthink for iOS this month. Get automatic agendas and notes from […]
Kaitlin Pike
Meeting Management On-the-Go: Introducing Groupthink on Mobile
The power to stop meeting madness rests in your pocket: Groupthink is available today for iOS and is coming soon for Android. Get automatic agendas and notes from all of your Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams meetings in just a few swipes. Download for iOS now. Stay Connected, Stay Updated Never miss a beat […]
Kaitlin Pike
Mindfulness in Meetings: How to Be More Present with a Chaotic Calendar
In the U.S., over 55 million meetings are held weekly, yet many of them are unproductive or unnecessary, causing more stress and reactive behavior from employees. This blog post explores how integrating mindfulness into meetings can improve your team’s health and productivity, and how Groupthink’s features make this transformation possible. Introducing Mindfulness in Meetings Dysfunctional […]
Kaitlin Pike
Introducing Groupthink’s Slack Integration: Get Meeting Digests Effortlessly
Staying up-to-date on your team’s meetings and decisions is crucial, but attending every single one isn’t always possible. That’s where Groupthink’s latest and greatest steps in. We’re excited to unveil our new Slack Integration, designed to ensure you never miss a beat, even when you can’t be there in person. This new integration is an […]
Kaitlin Pike
Groupthink Ships Microsoft Outlook Integration
Groupthink can now save even more of your calendars from meeting madness: Our Microsoft Outlook integration is live. Together with our Google Calendar integration, Groupthink supports just about everyone scheduling meetings using a calendar. If you use Office 365 or its equivalent for students and enterprise, you can now connect to Groupthink and get instantly […]
Kaitlin Pike
The AI-Driven Manager: 9 Ways AI Can Help Manage Your Team, Your Business, and Yourself
AI won’t replace managers, but managers who use AI will replace managers who don’t. That’s the bottom line no matter what industry you’re in, say executives like IBM SVP Rob Thomas and Harvard Business School professors like Karim Lakhani. In fact, 70% of executives surveyed by Gartner say their companies are exploring investment in generative […]
Kaitlin Pike
10 Ways Your Meetings Can Improve Simply by Setting an Objective
Clearly explain the purpose of a meeting by setting an explicit objective on each Agenda. An Agenda is a powerful tool to make Meetings more valuable, but a blank Agenda doesn’t help anyone before the meeting starts. A clear objective at the top of the Agenda ensures that attendees know what the host wants to […]
Jonathan Kressaty
Introducing Groupthink Agendas
Today we’re excited to announce that Groupthink Agendas are live in production! When you sign up, you can immediately: From mid-January to mid-March we were building in public through the pivot from Firstparty to Groupthink, and 10 weeks ago we previewed the Meeting Agendas feature. From mid-March through May we went dark to focus on […]
Jonathan Kressaty
Groupthink News Weekly Recap – March 20, 2023
Groupthink is the place for your entire team to chat with a GPT-powered AI that reads the internet to provide personalized responses. Invite your friends and family, collaborate on projects, and make use of Groups and Threads to organize conversations. Sign in to Groupthink Welcome new (and returning) users! For those who may be seeing […]
Jonathan Kressaty
Groupthink Now Uses GPT-4
Groupthink is the place for your entire team to chat with a GPT-powered AI that reads the internet to provide personalized responses. Invite your friends and family, collaborate on projects, and make use of Groups and Threads to organize conversations. Sign in to Groupthink Welcome new (and returning) users! For those who may be seeing […]
Jonathan Kressaty
Some Opportunities to Lend a Hand
Groupthink is the place for your entire team to chat with a GPT-powered AI that reads the internet to provide personalized responses. Invite your friends and family, collaborate on projects, and make use of Groups and Threads to organize conversations. Sign in to Groupthink Welcome new (and returning) users! For those who may be seeing […]
Jonathan Kressaty
Thoughts on GPT-4
Groupthink is the place for your entire team to chat with a GPT-powered AI that reads the internet to provide personalized responses. Invite your friends and family, collaborate on projects, and make use of Groups and Threads to organize conversations. Sign in to Groupthink Welcome new (and returning) users! For those who may be seeing […]
Jonathan Kressaty
Groupthink News Weekly Update – March 13, 2023
Groupthink is the place for your entire team to chat with a GPT-powered AI that reads the internet to provide personalized responses. Invite your friends and family, collaborate on projects, and make use of Groups and Threads to organize conversations. Sign in to Groupthink Welcome new (and returning) users! For those who may be seeing […]
Jonathan Kressaty
Feature Preview: Meeting Agendas
Groupthink is the place for your entire team to chat with a GPT-powered AI that reads the internet to provide personalized responses. Invite your friends and family, collaborate on projects, and make use of Groups and Threads to organize conversations. Sign in to Groupthink Welcome new (and returning) users! For those who may be seeing […]
Jonathan Kressaty
What’s Next at Groupthink
Groupthink is the place for your entire team to chat with a GPT-powered AI that reads the internet to provide personalized responses. Invite your friends and family, collaborate on projects, and make use of Groups and Threads to organize conversations. Sign in to Groupthink Welcome new (and returning) users! For those who may be seeing […]
Jonathan Kressaty
We Want to Improve Your Meetings
Groupthink is the place for your entire team to chat with a GPT-powered AI that reads the internet to provide personalized responses. Invite your friends and family, collaborate on projects, and make use of Groups and Threads to organize conversations. Sign in to Groupthink Welcome new (and returning) users! For those who may be seeing […]
Jonathan Kressaty
Improved Chat Responses, Avatars, and Usernames
Groupthink is the place to chat with VI, a GPT-powered AI that reads the internet and connects to your email, browser history, and Slack history to provide personalized responses. Invite your friends and family, collaborate on projects, and make use of Groups and Threads to organize conversations. Sign in to Groupthink Welcome new (and returning) […]
Jonathan Kressaty
Weekly Update – Groupthink News – March 6, 2023
Groupthink is the place to chat with a GPT-powered AI that reads the internet and connects to your email, browser history, and Slack history to provide personalized responses. Invite your friends and family, collaborate on projects, and make use of Groups and Threads to organize conversations. Sign in to Groupthink Welcome new (and returning) users! […]
Jonathan Kressaty
Implementing new OpenAI Features
Groupthink is the place to chat with VI, a GPT-powered AI that reads the internet and connects to your email, browser history, and Slack history to provide personalized responses. Invite your friends and family, collaborate on projects, and make use of Groups and Threads to organize conversations. Sign in to Groupthink Welcome new (and returning) […]
Jonathan Kressaty
Groupthink Skills
Groupthink is the place to chat with VI, a GPT-powered AI that reads the internet and connects to your email, browser history, and Slack history to provide personalized responses. Invite your friends and family, collaborate on projects, and make use of Groups and Threads to organize conversations. Sign in to Groupthink Welcome new (and returning) […]
Jonathan Kressaty
“Memory” and UI Quality Improvements
Groupthink is the place to chat with VI, a GPT-powered AI that reads the internet and connects to your email, browser history, and Slack history to provide personalized responses. Invite your friends and family, collaborate on projects, and make use of Groups and Threads to organize conversations. Sign in to Groupthink Welcome new (and returning) […]
Jonathan Kressaty
Weekly Update – Feb 27, 2023
Groupthink is the place to chat with a GPT-powered AI that reads the internet and connects to your email, browser history, and Slack history to provide personalized responses. Invite your friends and family, collaborate on projects, and make use of Groups and Threads to organize conversations. Sign in to Groupthink Welcome new (and returning) users! […]
Jonathan Kressaty
Improving the Invitation Experience
Groupthink is the place to chat with VI, a GPT-powered AI that reads the internet and connects to your email, browser history, and Slack history to provide personalized responses. Invite your friends and family, collaborate on projects, and make use of Groups and Threads to organize conversations. Sign in to Groupthink Welcome new (and returning) […]
Jonathan Kressaty
Groupthink Can Prioritize Web Content
Groupthink is the place to chat with VI, a GPT-powered AI that reads the internet and connects to your email, browser history, and Slack history to provide personalized responses. Invite your friends and family, collaborate on projects, and make use of Groups and Threads to organize conversations. Sign in to Groupthink Welcome new (and returning) […]
Jonathan Kressaty
Remember What’s Important
Groupthink Can Remember What’s Important Tomorrow we’re shipping a rough first version of a new feature that lets you instruct Groupthink to “remember” web pages that are important to you. This is the first implementation of Groupthink’s ability to “read” long-form text. We think it’s important that an AI working with a team has the […]
Jonathan Kressaty
Have You Tried Our Google Analytics Integration?
Groupthink is the place to chat with VI, a GPT-powered AI that reads the internet and connects to your email, browser history, and Slack history to provide personalized responses. Invite your friends and family, collaborate on projects, and make use of Groups and Threads to organize conversations. Sign in to Groupthink Welcome new (and returning) […]
Jonathan Kressaty
Weekly Update – Feb 20, 2023
This is Our First Weekly Update We’ve heard from many of you that you enjoy our updates, but daily emails can be a bit much. Moving forward, we’ll send a weekly update on Mondays covering everything we discussed from the past week. This list is separate from the daily list, and if you’d like to […]
Jonathan Kressaty
Finding Great Articles About AI is Really Hard
Groupthink is the place to chat with VI, a GPT-powered AI that reads the internet and connects to your email, browser history, and Slack history to provide personalized responses. Invite your friends and family, collaborate on projects, and make use of Groups and Threads to organize conversations. Sign in to Groupthink Welcome new (and returning) […]
Jonathan Kressaty
Threads are now Marked Read/Unread
Groupthink is the place to chat with VI, a GPT-powered AI that reads the internet and connects to your email, browser history, and Slack history to provide personalized responses. Invite your friends and family, collaborate on projects, and make use of Groups and Threads to organize conversations. Sign in to Groupthink Welcome new (and returning) […]
Jonathan Kressaty
Ask Google Analytics Questions in Chat
Groupthink is the place to chat with VI, a GPT-powered AI that reads the internet and connects to your email, browser history, and Slack history to provide personalized responses. Invite your friends and family, collaborate on projects, and make use of Groups and Threads to organize conversations. Sign in to Groupthink Welcome new (and returning) […]
Jonathan Kressaty
We’ve Moved Email to Groupthink.com
Groupthink is the place to chat with VI, a GPT-powered AI that reads the internet and connects to your email, browser history, and Slack history to provide personalized responses. Invite your friends and family, collaborate on projects, and make use of Groups and Threads to organize conversations. Sign in to Groupthink Welcome new (and returning) […]
Jonathan Kressaty
VI Queries Google Analytics
Groupthink is the place to chat with VI, a GPT-powered AI that reads the internet and connects to your email, browser history, and Slack history to provide personalized responses. Invite your friends and family, collaborate on projects, and make use of Groups and Threads to organize conversations. Sign in to Groupthink Welcome new (and returning) […]
Jonathan Kressaty
Photocopiers and Paraphrase Hallucinations
Groupthink is the place to chat with VI, a GPT-powered AI that reads the internet and connects to your email, browser history, and Slack history to provide personalized responses. Invite your friends and family, collaborate on projects, and make use of Groups and Threads to organize conversations. Sign in to Groupthink Welcome new (and returning) […]
Jonathan Kressaty
Google Analytics Is Coming Soon
Groupthink is the place to chat with VI, a GPT-powered AI that reads the internet and connects to your email, browser history, and Slack history to provide personalized responses. Invite your friends and family, collaborate on projects, and make use of Groups and Threads to organize conversations. Sign in to Groupthink Welcome new (and returning) […]
Jonathan Kressaty
Bug Fixes & Google Analytics
Groupthink is the place to chat with VI, a GPT-powered AI that reads the internet and connects to your email, browser history, and Slack history to provide personalized responses. Invite your friends and family, collaborate on projects, and make use of Groups and Threads to organize conversations. Sign in to Groupthink Welcome new (and returning) […]
Jonathan Kressaty
VI Auto-Replies in 1:1 Chats
Welcome new (and returning) users of VI and Groupthink! For those who may be seeing this email for the first time, we are the founders of Groupthink (formerly VI) and we send this daily email with our progress. Sign in to Groupthink Groupthink is the place to chat with VI, a GPT-powered AI that reads […]
Jonathan Kressaty
app.meetvi.lol now redirects to Groupthink.ai
Welcome new (and returning) users of VI and Groupthink! For those who may be seeing this email for the first time, we are the founders of Groupthink (formerly VI) and we send this daily email with our progress. The first one was sent January 11th, and things are changing quickly in generative AI space. We […]
Jonathan Kressaty
Groupthink Adds New Team Members
Welcome new (and returning) users! For those who are seeing this for the first time, we send a daily email with updates on our progress and this is the 17th update. You can reply directly to this message to discuss ways VI can improve with the founders, and we hope you do! Groupthink is where […]
Jonathan Kressaty
MeetVI is Now Groupthink
Welcome new (and returning) users! For those who are seeing this for the first time, we send a daily email with updates on our progress and this is the 16th update. You can reply directly to this message to discuss ways VI can improve with the founders, and we hope you do! The time has […]
Jonathan Kressaty
Coming Soon: Group Chat with VI
Welcome new (and returning) users! For those who are seeing this for the first time, we send a daily email with updates on our progress and this is the 15th update. You can reply directly to this message to discuss ways VI can improve with the founders, and we hope you do! Login to VI […]
Jonathan Kressaty
Small Upcoming Improvements
Welcome new (and returning) users! For those who are seeing this for the first time, we send a daily email with updates on our progress and this is the 14th update. You can reply directly to this message to discuss ways VI can improve with the founders, and we hope you do! Login to VI […]
Jonathan Kressaty
VI Knows the News
Welcome new (and returning) users! For those who are seeing this for the first time, we send a daily email with updates on our progress and this is the 13th update. You can reply directly to this message to discuss ways VI can improve with the founders, and we hope you do! Login to VI […]
Jonathan Kressaty
Improved Research Responses
Welcome new (and returning) users! For those who are seeing this for the first time, we send a daily email with updates on our progress and this is the 12th update. You can reply directly to this message to discuss ways VI can improve with the founders, and we hope you do! Login to VI […]
Jonathan Kressaty
VI Has Some Secrets
Welcome new (and returning) users! For those who are seeing this for the first time, we send a daily email with updates on our progress and this is the 11th update. You can reply directly to this message to discuss ways VI can improve with the founders, and we hope you do! Login to VI […]
Jonathan Kressaty
Quick FAQs on VI Outages
Welcome new (and returning) users! For those who are seeing this for the first time, we send a daily email with updates on our progress and this is the 10th update. You can reply directly to this message to discuss ways VI can improve with the founders, and we hope you do! Login to VI […]
Jonathan Kressaty
When You Give VI Feedback
Welcome new (and returning) users! We are officially past 200 users after 12 days For those who are seeing this for the first time, we send a daily email with updates on our progress and this is the 9th update. You can reply directly to this message to discuss ways VI can improve with the […]
Jonathan Kressaty
Improving VI with Cool Internal Tools
Welcome new (and returning) users! For those who are seeing this for the first time, we send a daily email with updates on our progress and this is the 8th update. You can reply directly to this message to discuss ways VI can improve with the founders, and we hope you do! Login to VI […]
Jonathan Kressaty
Slack Integration Now Available
Welcome new (and returning) users! For those who are seeing this for the first time, we send a daily email with updates on our progress and this is the 7th update. You can reply directly to this message and discuss ways VI can improve, and we hope you do! If you’re not using Threading, you’re […]
Jonathan Kressaty
VI Learns from Your Browser
Welcome new (and returning) users! For those who are seeing this for the first time, we send a daily email with updates on our progress and this is the 6th day. You can reply directly to this message and discuss ways VI can improve, and we hope you do! If you’d like to chat with […]
Jonathan Kressaty
VI Learns From Email
Welcome new users! We’ve nearly doubled our users in the past 48 hours, and you’re getting this email about VI improvements so you can get the most out of what we’re building and we can keep ourselves accountable for shipping every day. Have feedback? We would love to talk to you. Setup a time to […]
Jonathan Kressaty
VI News – Jan 17 2023
Hello VI users, it’s so awesome to be back with you after the long weekend. If you’re seeing this email for the first time, welcome. If you’ve been with us for a few days longer, welcome back. This is a daily email we send to keep you updated and keep ourselves accountable for making VI […]
Jonathan Kressaty
VI News – Jan 13 2022
Hello again – today we’re coming to you from a real email platform. Do us a favor – (privately) share VI with 2 of your friends or colleagues. We’d really appreciate it if you could share the signup link below with a couple other people. We’re trying to control how many signups we get while […]
Jonathan Kressaty
VI News – Jan 12 2022
Hello VI users! Welcome and thank you for warmly welcoming us into your DMs. VI is 4 days old today, and you are still among our first 100 users. This is our second daily email, where we’re sharing the journey to build a GPT-3 powered chatbot that utilizes the context that comes from your interactions. […]
Jonathan Kressaty
Welcome to VI!
Hi there, We’re reaching out because you recently signed up to try VI https://app.meetvi.lol/ THANK YOU! Seriously, this project is 3 days old and we’re just following where our creativity takes us. We’re going to write to you daily about our progress to keep ourselves accountable, and you can write back to these emails (this […]