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# Notes Overview
> Turn every hiring conversation into structured, decision-ready notes
Interviews are where the information that decides a hire actually gets said — and where most of it gets lost. Notes are typed one-handed mid-conversation, written up hours later from memory, or never written up at all. By the time a debrief happens, the team is comparing recollections rather than evidence.
Metaview joins your interviews, screens, intakes, and debriefs, captures what was said, and writes the notes for you — structured the way your team already works.
Elyse shows you how to use Notes.
## What this changes
No more splitting attention between the candidate and a notes doc. Ask better follow-ups, and let the write-up happen on its own.
Every line in your notes links back to the moment in the transcript it came from, so a debrief can check the evidence instead of debating memories.
A [template](/notes/templates) fixes the structure of the write-up, not the conversation — consistent notes without anyone interviewing from a script.
Because notes arrive within minutes and in a consistent shape, the work that usually stalls after an interview moves immediately: a screen summary reaches the hiring manager the same hour, a scorecard gets filled while the call is fresh, and a debrief starts from a shared written record.
## Built for hiring conversations
Plenty of tools will transcribe a meeting. Metaview is built specifically around hiring and talent conversations, and the features are where that shows:
* **Templates that match your process.** Build a template from your scorecard, your intake questions, or your debrief framework, and Metaview fills it in from the conversation — in whatever order the conversation actually happened. See [Templates](/notes/templates).
* **It knows who the candidate is.** Metaview distinguishes interviewers from candidates, which is what makes question-and-answer notes, [TLDRs](/notes/tldr), and candidate-facing pronoun and identifier controls possible. See [Participants](/notes/participants).
* **Phone calls, not just video.** High-volume screens often happen over the phone. Metaview captures those too. See [Phone calls](/notes/capturing-calls/phone-calls).
* **Evidence you can forward, not just summarize.** Cut a thirty-second [snippet](/notes/snippets) of a candidate's answer and send it to the hiring manager, so they judge fit from the answer itself rather than from your write-up of it.
* **It writes back to your ATS.** Notes and scorecards go to the candidate's record, so your system of record stays the system of record. See [Share and export](/notes/share-and-export).
* **Hiring-specific guardrails.** Notes describe what was said rather than judging the person, and privacy controls are built around candidate data. See [AI best practices](/notes/best-practices).
None of that makes it interview-only. Because you control the template, plenty of teams also point Metaview at role intakes, hiring manager syncs, reference checks, and meetings well outside recruiting — see [Can I use the Notetaker for anything other than interviews?](/notes/capturing-calls/scheduling-faqs#customization-options)
## The lifecycle of a captured call
Have it join automatically from your calendar or ATS, invite it manually per call, drop it into a call already underway, dial through it for phone screens, or upload a recording after the fact.
See [Capturing calls](/notes/capturing-calls/overview).
Metaview appears as a clearly named participant that the host admits and can remove at any time. Anyone on the call can see it is there.
See [During the call](/notes/during-calls/overview).
Metaview transcribes the conversation and writes your notes from it, usually within about five minutes of the call ending. Notes are fully editable, and every section links back to the transcript.
See [Working with your notes](/notes/working-with-notes).
Send notes to your ATS, share the conversation with colleagues or externally, group calls into collections, or pull a snippet or one-paragraph summary out for a hiring manager.
See [Share and export](/notes/share-and-export).
## Where to go next
Every way to get Metaview onto a call — automatic scheduling, manual invites, phone setup, and uploads.
What participants see, how hosts admit or remove the notetaker, and per-platform detail for Meet, Zoom, Teams, and Webex.
The notes page itself: transcript, recording, templates, editing, formatting, translation, and version history.
The default template library, and how to build custom templates from your own scorecards and frameworks.
Clip the moment that matters and share it — with a hiring manager, an interview panel, or someone outside your workspace.
A one-paragraph summary of a call, built from the topics you care about, ready to paste into an email.
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