Talk to your meeting notes: ask your history anything, with every response cited
By The Assistly team ·
Every meeting you take with Assistly leaves something behind: the full transcript with every speaker tracked, the questions that came up, the recap and action items. After a few weeks, that history is the most accurate record of your work life that exists — and until now, getting anything back out of it meant scrolling.
Not anymore. Your history now has an ask box. Type a question in plain language — "what did Sarah say about the Q3 budget?", "what are my open action items?", "what did we agree on pricing with Acme?" — and the response streams back, built from your actual sessions, with citations.
Every response comes with receipts
This isn't a search box that hands you ten transcripts to read. Ask a question and you get one clear, consolidated reply — and every claim in it carries a citation chip ("Sales call with Acme · Jul 14"). Click the chip and the session opens at the exact line where it was said. You're spared the scrolling, and the citation lets you verify the source in one click.
Because everything is drawn from your history and nowhere else, it's honest about its limits. Ask about something that never came up and you'll get "I don't see anything about that in your session history" — not a confident guess. If people said different things in different meetings, the newer statement wins, the way it does in real life.
It's also conversation-aware in the ways that matter:
- It knows who said what. Speaker tracking during the call means you can ask who committed to something, not just whether someone did.
- It weighs recency. "What's the latest on the migration?" leans toward last week's call over last quarter's.
- It handles follow-ups. In the desktop History panel, the exchange continues as a chat — ask "and what did I promise in return?" without restating context.
Where to find it
- Desktop: open the History panel — the ask box is pinned at the bottom. Press Enter and a sheet opens with the response, its sources, and room for follow-ups. Suggested prompts get you started: open action items, commitments you've made, what happened last week.
- Web: the same ask box sits at the top of your Sessions page at app.tryassistly.com — the same results and citations, from any browser.
Why talking to your notes beats searching them
Keyword search asks you to remember the words; a question only asks you to remember the thing. You rarely recall whether the client said "budget", "spend", or "the number" — you just remember money was discussed. Plain language bridges that gap: the ask box matches meaning, not spelling, so the question you'd ask a colleague is the question you type.
That changes what your meeting history is for:
- Prep in minutes, not archaeology. Before a follow-up call: "what did we discuss with Acme last time, and what did I commit to?" — and walk in current.
- Never lose a decision. Weeks later, when memories diverge, one question surfaces what was actually said — with the citation that settles it.
- Close every loop. "What are my open action items from this week?" turns a pile of recaps into a to-do list.
- Interview season, compounded. Across a dozen interviews, ask what you've told each company, which questions keep coming up, and what you promised to follow up on.
The pattern matters beyond convenience: notes you can interrogate are notes you actually use. A record nobody rereads is dead weight — a record you can question becomes memory.
Your history stays yours
Ask-your-history runs on the sessions in your account and nothing else — one person's history never informs another's results. And you stay in control of the record itself: delete a session and it's gone from your history and from every future response. The overlay remains excluded from screen capture at the OS level, like everything else in Assistly.
Try it on your own meetings
The best demo is your own history. Try Assistly free, take a few calls, then open History and ask what happened. Pair it with Google Calendar so sessions start with real attendee names, and with MCP integrations to bring your docs and tickets into the same conversation.
As always, use live assistance within the rules of the meeting, call, or interview you're in, and mind recording-consent laws where participants are.