Notes on keeping meeting notes private
Local, open source, no bot in the call. Written by the person building it.
Use Your GitHub Copilot Subscription for Meeting Notes
Humla 0.72 adds GitHub Copilot as a provider for meeting summaries, titles and chat over your notes. You sign in with GitHub, pick a model your plan includes, and skip the API key. How it works, what gets sent where, and the parts that are still rough.
October 27, 2026Anthropic (Claude) Data Retention (2026): 30 Days on the API, Five Years If You Say Yes
What Anthropic keeps from the Claude API and from the Claude apps: the 30-day backend window, the two-year rule for flagged content, Zero Data Retention by sales request, the Covered Models exception, the 2025 consumer opt-in with five-year retention, and why there's no EU region to pick. Verified against Anthropic's own pages, October 2026.
October 20, 20266 Best tl;dv Alternatives in 2026
tl;dv records without a bot now, on Mac and Windows. What it really is, though, is a video library: every call filmed, clipped and filed for your team. Six honest alternatives for people who wanted the notes and not the tape, with every price checked in October 2026.
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