Issue #401 (You Should Never Be Angry At Work) 10/19/26
TroveBrief: A Botless AI Meeting Assistant
TroveBrief starts where most AI meeting assistants stop – at the summary. It's a complete workspace for Windows that that records Zoom, Teams, and Google Meet calls, and it's mute-aware, so nothing spoken while muted reaches a transcript. Features include:
- When a meeting ends, actions land on the necessary list, including subtasks, recurring tasks, and deadlines
- Project management for your whole team in one space with Kanban, folders, and notes
- A note editor with rich text features that connects to your tasks
- A calendar agent that integrates with GCal and Outlook that lets you type a request for events in plain English
- TroveBrief captures your Zoom, Teams or Google Meet call locally (with no bot joining) and you get a topic-by-topic summary with action items and follow-ups
Is TroveBrief right for your team? It is if:
- You're an individual or small team up to 30
- Your work revolves around recurring meetings and calendar commitments
- You work on Windows with Google Calendar or Outlook
- You join eight or more remote calls a week on Zoom, Teams, or Go
TroveBrief is currently offering a limited time Early Bird Lifetime Deal that's valid until November 6, 2026.
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Is manual note-taking less important now due to the prevalence of AI? It's definitely not something that's as crucial as it used to be. However, if your job still requires excellent manual note-taking – maybe due to the industry you're in or some other factor related to your type of work – you'll want to check out Gohar Khan's video how to take notes like the top 1% of students.
The video is more than a year old, so it was published just as AI was starting to take off. Things have definitely changed a lot since then, but you might still find some of the suggestions useful.
He covers topics like active notes, transcribing, obsessing over form, failing to contextualize, and more. Those subjects are found in the chapters for the video, which is only about 14 minutes long.
Now on to this week's hand-picked productivity links!
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Tricloud — An open source, Windows desktop cloud storage app that combines everyday file storage, sharing, backup, and offline access with an experimental mode that lets participating PCs contribute selected unused disk space.
Authier — An open source password manager that lets you keep passwords and 2FA codes in one encrypted vault, then choose whether a device you already trust must approve each new browser before it can synchronize.
TroveBrief — A botless AI meeting assistant for individuals and small teams that turns talk into real work, featuring task and project management, rich text notes, a calendar agent, and AI meeting summaries with no bot on the call. sponsor
Luten — An iOS app that lets you generate sounds for sleep and focus by typing how you feel into a prompt or by selecting one of the pre-built prompts (sleep, focus, stress, etc).
TrackTime — A time-tracking app that automatically logs your calls, emails, SMS, and travel, allowing you to capture every billable minute with second-by-second precision in real-time.
AI Emaily — An AI-powered plugin for Gmail, Outlook and more, that automatically organizes every connected inbox, filters noise, spam, social, update, and more, while highlighting important conversations, and drafting replies in your voice.
SkySend — An open source platform that provides end-to-end encrypted file and note sharing you can host yourself, where everything is encrypted in your browser, and the key travels in the link, with no accounts, and no tracking.
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21 Productivity Hacks I’ve Picked Up Over the Years — Tips from Rahul Chowdhury, a software engineer, who has been actively involved in the productivity space for over 16 years.
I Am Often Wrong — Boris Cherny, a software engineer at Anthropic, shares a six-step list that covers how he approaches every problem, which is a good way to learn new information and recognize where errors have been made.
You Should Never Be Angry At Work — This is probably good advice for just about any situation but the message here is to avoid contributing to a toxic work environment that alienates your team, among other effects.
AI Trading Bot with Full Source Code — Imagine an AI assistant that monitors 70+ crypto markets every 5 minutes, identifies high-momentum setups, enters positions automatically, manages layered take-profits, and sends you Telegram alerts for every action. sponsor
Brain Network Rhythms Reveal Why Some People are Better at Keeping Their Focus — "A new study ... reveals that individuals with better attention control naturally coordinate activity across major brain networks more effectively, both while resting and when cognitive demands rise."
AI;DR (AI; Didn’t Read) — If you have colleagues that post a wall of text from Claude or other AI into a Slack thread, and haven't read the text themselves, you'll appreciate this take.
No AI Fridays — From the CEO of htmx, some encouragement for companies to consider doing things old school where nobody uses AI, to help with engagement, cognitive debt, and improve critical thinking.
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