Manual Notes
Search your notes
Find a note by the words in it or by what it was about, including transcripts of past meetings.
Search covers everything you've saved — dictations, meeting transcripts, uploads and notes you typed yourself.
Searching
Use the search box above your notes list, or Search notes in the sidebar, and type. Results narrow as you go; when nothing matches you'll get "No notes found for …" rather than an empty screen.
Two ways of matching
Neato Echo searches in two ways at once, which is why a search sometimes finds the right note even when your words aren't in it:
| Kind | Finds |
|---|---|
| Keyword search | Notes containing the words you typed |
| Meaning-based search | Notes about the same thing, even in different words — searching "budget disagreement" can surface a note that says "we couldn't agree on the numbers" |
Both run on your own PC. Meaning-based search works from an index Neato Echo builds locally as notes are saved.
Searching a meeting
Meeting transcripts are searchable like any other note, so a name or a phrase from a call three weeks ago is a search away. If you named the speakers, their names are part of the text and searchable too — see speaker labels.
Asking rather than searching
When you're not looking for a note but for an answer, the chat agent searches your notes for you and answers from what it finds — useful for questions like "what did we decide about pricing?" that span several notes. Each note also has its own chat panel, scoped to just that note.
See the chat agent.
If a note doesn't turn up
- Try a phrase from the middle of it rather than the title. Titles are often auto-generated and may not say what you remember.
- Check it was saved at all. Search only covers what's in your notes — see what we store.
- If a dictation went missing rather than a note, there's a specific recovery path — see recover a lost dictation.
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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.