Asking questions about your meetings

Daisy gives you two ways to ask. The Search view answers natural-language questions by reading across all of your meetings and synthesizing an answer. If instead you want to ask about a single meeting — including while you're still recording — use Ask about this meeting, described below.

Ask a question

1. Open the Search view.
2. Type a question and end it with a question mark, for example what did we decide about project X?
3. Press Enter, or click Ask.

When your query ends with ?, Daisy switches into question mode and the Ask button appears. The first question may take a little longer while Daisy indexes any new transcripts; later questions are faster.

Read the answer and sources

Daisy returns a written answer followed by a Sources list. Each source is a citation that links back to the meeting it came from, with a timestamp where available and a short excerpt. Click any source to open that meeting.

Ask follow-ups

You can keep asking. Type a new question (ending with ?) and ask again to refine or build on the previous answer.

Ask about this meeting

When you want to ask about just one meeting, use Ask about this meeting. This is separate from Search: it looks only at the single meeting in front of you, not your whole history.

While you're recording

During a recording, Ask about this meeting appears as a collapsible panel. Open it and ask a question, and Daisy answers from the transcript captured so far — so it can see whatever has been said since your last question. Use it to catch up on a point you missed or check what's been agreed without stopping the recording.

After the meeting

Once a meeting is finished, it keeps a persistent Chat tab. Open it and ask anything about that meeting. Your first question automatically includes the meeting's full transcript as context, so you can dive straight in. Keep asking follow-ups in the same chat.

Which AI answers

Ask about this meeting uses the same AI provider you've chosen for your summaries — a local model, your own API key, or Daisy Cloud. You can pick whichever fits how you want your data handled.

Where the chat is stored

The chat is saved alongside the meeting on your own disk. You can delete it at any time, and deleting the chat does not affect the recording, transcript, or summary.

Asking across all your meetings

Ask about this meeting only ever looks at one meeting. When your question spans several meetings — or you're not sure which meeting holds the answer — use the Search view's question mode instead, described above. See also "Searching your meetings."

Good to know

• The reading and retrieval happen on your machine. Only the final synthesis step is sent to your chosen language model, which can be a local model if you prefer nothing to leave your computer.
• Removing the trailing ? returns the box to ordinary keyword search.
• Answers are generated from your meetings, so review the cited sources before relying on an answer.