These smart collaboration apps ease the hassle of taking notes, creating action items, and getting started on follow-ups.

Granola listens to meetings and creates bulleted summaries with action items and due dates. Plus, it can look across your meeting summaries to generate a to-do list for your week. Have a question about what happened at a meeting? Just ask the app’s chatbot.

Zoom’s My Notes tool can take notes during a meeting and create an action plan that everyone can review—complete with a checklist of who’s doing what.

The AI transcription app Otter connects directly to your email app to draft a message with details from your meeting. Otter AI Chat answers your questions about what happened on a call and what the next steps are.

In the productivity app Superlist, tasks and notes live side by side. Record a meeting with the app to see a summary and easily assign responsibilities to teammates.

Apple Design Award finalist Capy translates meetings in real time into over a dozen languages, including Spanish, Simplified Chinese, and German. Don’t need translation? It’s also great at transcribing.

Share ideas with a Goodnotes whiteboard. Up to 50 users can join a canvas and comment when you create a shareable link in the export menu. Helpful templates for your daily stand-up or SWOT analysis can kick-start your collaboration.

Sometimes you want to type notes. Other times you want to make an audio recording. Noted lets you do both simultaneously—and integrates the two for you. And if you use time tags while recording, you can instantly jump to key moments in the transcript.

Skip the calendar-invite hassle by turning a group chat in Microsoft Teams or Slack into a quick call.