There are several advantages to working from home via Zoom: no travel time, no need for pants and now no more taking notes during meetings.

Otter transcribes Zoom and Google Meet meetings in real time, so you can back out and read it all later. Or, if you’re the pants-wearing type, you can follow along and grab those transcribed notes as they happen. Otter isn’t the only tool making it easier to work with audio and video calls, but the upside is that it works with the video conferencing apps we’re all using at home.

“Real-time transcription, closed captioning, and an AI assistant for meetings have been available in Cisco Webex for some time now,” Samuel Cordery, a collaboration technologies expert and head of customer experience at Cisco Gold Partner ITGL, told Lifewire via Twitter. He called it “extremely useful.”

With so many of us working from home, video calls have become the most effective way for our employers to waste everyone’s time. Otter is a great tool to help us get through them. It records audio, transcribes it live, in real time, and lets you search, clip, and highlight the results. There’s a new Chrome extension for recording Google Meet meetings, and there are apps for Mac, iOS, and Android.