Manual Notes
How notes work
Where your dictations, meetings and uploads are kept, and how to organize, search and export them.
Everything Neato Echo transcribes is saved as a note: dictations, meeting
recordings, uploaded audio, and anything you type yourself. Notes live in a
local database on your PC (%APPDATA%\neato-echo). Nothing syncs anywhere.
Start here
Organize with folders
Folders, and the ones Neato Echo makes for you.
Search your notes
Find a note by its words or by what it was about.
Export your notes
Save one note as Markdown, or mirror every note to a folder on disk.
Where notes come from
| Source | Notes |
|---|---|
| Dictation | Saved automatically as you dictate |
| Meetings | The recording, its transcript and summary. See How meetings work |
| Uploads | Audio and video files, or a URL to fetch |
| The editor | Anything you write yourself |
Importing audio
The Upload view turns existing recordings into notes. Drag in files (MP3, WAV, M4A, WebM, OGG, FLAC, AAC), or paste a YouTube or direct media URL to fetch and transcribe it. You can queue several at once and keep working while they process.
Uploads are transcribed by the local Parakeet model by default, with no file size limit. If you've added a cloud provider key and chosen it for uploads, that provider's own limits apply.
Uploads can be transcribed with speaker detection too, using the same on-device models the meeting recorder uses. See speaker labels.
Working with a note
Each note has an editor, AI actions that clean up or summarize what's there, and its own chat panel for asking questions about that note's content. The chat agent searches across all of them at once.
Still need help?
Write to [email protected] with your Windows version, your Neato Echo version (Settings → System), and what you were doing. A person reads every message.