https://onavoice.ai/blog Ideas from the team building Ona: why meeting memory compounds, how consent-first recording works, and what grounded, cited answers change about your week. en https://onavoice.ai/blog/the-brief-changed-and-nobody-wrote-it-down https://onavoice.ai/blog/the-brief-changed-and-nobody-wrote-it-down A brief is never amended. It erodes, one reasonable sentence at a time, until the work is being judged against a document that only exists in the client's head. Tue, 03 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://onavoice.ai/blog/the-recap-tax https://onavoice.ai/blog/the-recap-tax Re-explaining is charged in ten-minute pieces off the top of other meetings, and it is charged to whoever holds the most context. What it costs a team, and what changes when the question has somewhere else to go. Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://onavoice.ai/blog/the-conversation-you-cannot-hold-in-your-head https://onavoice.ai/blog/the-conversation-you-cannot-hold-in-your-head Listening, replying and remembering are three jobs, and only two of them are the conversation. What it costs to be your own recording device, and what changes when you stop. Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://onavoice.ai/blog/how-to-evaluate-an-ai-note-taker https://onavoice.ai/blog/how-to-evaluate-an-ai-note-taker Questions worth putting to anyone selling one of these, a test you can mark in a week, and our own answers to four of them. A buyer's guide written by one of the sellers. Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://onavoice.ai/blog/wearable-recorders-vs-meeting-bots https://onavoice.ai/blog/wearable-recorders-vs-meeting-bots Two ways a client conversation gets captured, and the conversations each of them cannot reach. A comparison of categories, including the one Ona is in and what that costs. Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://onavoice.ai/blog/your-meeting-memory-in-every-ai-tool https://onavoice.ai/blog/your-meeting-memory-in-every-ai-tool Ona MCP lets another AI tool read what you have recorded. What a connected tool can see, what leaves your account when it asks, and what revoking does and does not undo. Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://onavoice.ai/blog/the-brief-that-arrives-before-you-need-it https://onavoice.ai/blog/the-brief-that-arrives-before-you-need-it A Routine is a question you have decided to stop asking. How to design a standing brief with a reader, a moment and a decision — and how to tell when one has stopped earning its place. Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://onavoice.ai/blog/asking-to-record-without-making-it-weird https://onavoice.ai/blog/asking-to-record-without-making-it-weird Whether to record is an ethical question. Whether the asking is bearable is a question of delivery, and it is the one nobody covers. A playbook for the five seconds themselves. Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://onavoice.ai/blog/one-on-ones-that-follow-through https://onavoice.ai/blog/one-on-ones-that-follow-through The one-on-one is the meeting managers hold most often and the one that leaves the least behind. A playbook for the carry-over between conversations, which is where it fails. Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://onavoice.ai/blog/the-week-you-stop-carrying-in-your-head https://onavoice.ai/blog/the-week-you-stop-carrying-in-your-head A quote at the door, a reference number read out in a car park, a date from a ten-minute conversation. A playbook for the household admin that only ever existed as speech. Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://onavoice.ai/blog/from-lecture-to-revision-notes https://onavoice.ai/blog/from-lecture-to-revision-notes Typing everything gets you a worse copy of the slides. A playbook for turning a lecture you had permission to record into questions you can actually revise from. Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://onavoice.ai/blog/client-feedback-that-survives-the-brief https://onavoice.ai/blog/client-feedback-that-survives-the-brief Feedback decays between the review call and the file. A playbook for separating direction from preference, writing the change list, and getting a yes before you open the work. Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://onavoice.ai/blog/session-notes-without-the-evening-admin https://onavoice.ai/blog/session-notes-without-the-evening-admin Six sets of notes written at nine at night are six sets of notes written badly. A playbook for practitioners who want the writing finished before they leave. Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://onavoice.ai/blog/why-did-we-build-it-this-way https://onavoice.ai/blog/why-did-we-build-it-this-way Every team re-argues decisions it already settled, because the reasoning was spoken and never written. A playbook for making a decision answerable a year later. Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://onavoice.ai/blog/board-prep-from-six-weeks-of-meetings https://onavoice.ai/blog/board-prep-from-six-weeks-of-meetings Most board prep is retrieval, not writing, and it is done from memory. A playbook for building the pack from the record so the follow-up question does not catch you. Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://onavoice.ai/blog/notes-that-file-themselves https://onavoice.ai/blog/notes-that-file-themselves A decision that lives only in a meeting note is a decision nobody will find. How to get action items into the tracker and reasoning into the doc without a filing session. Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://onavoice.ai/blog/how-ona-drafts-an-email-that-sounds-like-you https://onavoice.ai/blog/how-ona-drafts-an-email-that-sounds-like-you Most AI drafts read like AI drafts. A look at why starting from what you actually said on the call produces something you can send without rewriting it. Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://onavoice.ai/blog/follow-up-email-before-you-leave-the-call https://onavoice.ai/blog/follow-up-email-before-you-leave-the-call The recap you write at 9pm can be a five-minute job in the car park instead. A playbook for sending the follow-up while the call is still warm. Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://onavoice.ai/blog/memory-that-compounds https://onavoice.ai/blog/memory-that-compounds Most of your week is spent repeating things you already said. The case for treating meetings as memory that compounds, not notes that expire. Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://onavoice.ai/blog/consent-first-recording https://onavoice.ai/blog/consent-first-recording A recorder in the room changes the room. How we design Ona so that recording stays a deliberate, visible act that everyone in the conversation can trust. Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://onavoice.ai/blog/from-notes-to-answers https://onavoice.ai/blog/from-notes-to-answers An answer you cannot check is just a confident guess. A plain-English tour of how Ask Ona finds, grounds, and cites the meetings behind every answer. Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT