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Turn a Zoom Recording into Meeting Notes with Slides

Meeting recorders capture what was said. They lose what was shown. Here is how to keep both.

LensNote Team1 min read

Every meeting recorder gives you a transcript and an AI summary. Useful — until someone asks about the numbers on the slide the presenter shared, and your notes contain a paragraph that vaguely gestures at them.

The transcript-only blind spot: screen shares are where decisions actually live. Roadmaps, dashboards, designs, spreadsheets — none of it survives into text-based notes.

The visual-notes workflow

  1. Download the recording from Zoom, Meet, or Teams (or record locally with the LensNote macOS app).
  2. Import it into LensNote. The pipeline detects every distinct shared screen — slide decks, dashboards, documents — and captures each one as an image, deduplicated and OCR'd.
  3. Get aligned notes: each captured screen sits on the timeline next to what was said about it. The summary lists decisions and action items; the visuals prove the context.
  4. Share a link or a PDF with the whole team — including the people who skipped the meeting. They get the deck AND the discussion.

When this matters most

  • Quarterly reviews where the deck is the meeting
  • Client calls where you cannot ask them to resend materials
  • Design and demo reviews — the screen IS the content
  • Trainings you will need to reference months later

Recordings on the free plan keep their notes forever; original video files are retained for 14 days. Pro keeps originals in 100 GB of storage.

Process your first meeting free.