Why basic manual notes still beat automated AI meeting summaries

The sheer volume of AI note-taking tools launching lately is overwhelming, and most of them pitch the exact same feature list.

I spent a month letting an automated bot record my calls to see if it would replace my notepad. The result? A massive archive of long transcripts that I literally never look at again.

Writing quick bullet points manually forces me to actually process the information in real-time, whereas automated summaries just create digital noise I have to filter later.

Has an AI notetaker genuinely improved your daily routine, or do you still prefer plain text notes for keeping track of important stuff?