Otter now lets you search across your work apps — not just meeting notes

Otter has always been a solid meeting note-taker, but let’s be honest — the real value in those notes is buried once you close the tab. You’d remember a decision was made but couldn’t find it without scrolling through transcripts. That’s changing.

The company just rolled out a feature that connects your Gmail, Google Drive, Notion, Jira, and Salesforce accounts directly to Otter’s search. Now you can query across all those tools alongside your meeting data. No more jumping between apps to find that one email thread or the Jira ticket someone mentioned three weeks ago.

This is the kind of integration I’ve wanted for a while. Most AI note-takers keep your data in a walled garden. You can search your own meetings, but the context from your other tools is invisible. Otter is trying to bridge that gap. It’s not a new idea — there are enterprise search tools that do this — but tying it directly to your meeting notes makes it more practical for day-to-day work.

Microsoft users aren’t left out either. Otter says Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, and Slack integrations are coming soon. That’s a big deal because many teams live inside Microsoft’s ecosystem. If Otter can index your Teams chats and SharePoint documents alongside meeting transcripts, it becomes a much more useful knowledge base.

The real test will be how well the search actually works. Connecting accounts is one thing; surfacing the right result from a pile of emails, docs, and meeting notes is another. I’ve seen too many “unified search” features that return noise instead of signal. But if Otter gets the ranking right, this could save people a lot of context-switching.

I also wonder about privacy. Giving a third-party tool access to your Gmail, Drive, and Salesforce is a big ask. Otter will need to be transparent about how it handles data and who can see what. Enterprise teams especially will want granular controls.

Still, this is a smart move. Meeting notes are only useful if you can find them and connect them to the rest of your work. By pulling in data from the tools people actually use, Otter is positioning itself less as a note-taker and more as a work memory layer. That’s a more interesting product.

Microsoft and Slack integrations can’t come soon enough. Once those are live, this feature will feel essential rather than just nice to have.