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Every AI note app bolts a chat box beside your note. Phrase's agent works inside a native block editor: you ask, it rewrites the note itself, not a reply on the side. Sources read, follow-ups one tap away. It never sends on its own. Your iCloud, not ours.

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Hey Product Hunt 👋 I built Phrase because I got sick of AI handing me a read-only version of my own meetings. Here's the loop I kept getting stuck in: hop off a call, get a summary that's actually pretty good, then spend the next 20 minutes turning it into something I could use. Fix the wording. Scroll back through the recording to check what someone actually said. Copy the action items into reminders one by one. The AI did the easy 80% and dumped the annoying 20% right back on me, in a format I couldn't even edit. It felt like being handed a printout of my own notes. So that's the whole idea behind Phrase: the note shouldn't go cold the moment the summary's done. - It opens in a real, native editor, not a web wrapper, so it stays fast even on long notes, and you can rewrite it by hand. - Or you ask the note's agent to do the 20% for you: "pull the decisions into a section," "rewrite this for the team," "set reminders for the action items." It edits the note right in front of you, every change shown as a diff, one tap to undo. It never sends anything on its own. Reminders and drafts just sit there waiting for your tap. - When it claims someone agreed to a deadline, you can tap the line and hear them actually say it. The source stays attached. - And it's your library, on your own iCloud. I'm not trying to make Phrase the new home for your notes. The thing I'm honestly still torn on, and would love for you to argue with me about: where should a note agent be allowed to stop? Right now the line I drew is that it can rewrite the note freely (it's your note, undo is one tap), but anything that leaves the app, like a reminder, a calendar hold, or a draft email, needs your tap first. I've flip-flopped on this for months. Some testers tell me to just let it send the obvious stuff, the tap is annoying. Others say they'd never let AI near their calendar without asking first. Too cautious? Not cautious enough? Tell me where you'd draw it. I'll be in the comments all day. Come poke holes in it.

The in-block editing feels way more natural than the chat sidebar every other app keeps tacking on. Liked that it just rewrites the note instead of chatting at me.

Maker

 Thanks! That’s exactly what we were going for. Really glad the in-block editing feels more natural.

Love the in-note approach, way less friction than juggling chat panels. One thing I'd love: a quick way to compare the original paragraph right next to the AI rewrite so I can eyeball diffs without undoing or opening history.

Maker

 Thanks! We’re constantly refining the in-note experience, and this kind of side-by-side diff is already in progress. The goal is to make AI rewrites easier to review and accept without interrupting your flow.

A real block editor underneath the AI is what makes this a notes app and not a transcription demo.

Maker

 Exactly. We wanted Phrase to be a real place to think and write, not just somewhere your transcripts pile up. Really glad that came through.

Asking questions against old meetings is the feature I didn't know I needed. "What did we decide about pricing" should just be answerable.

Maker

 Exactly. Meeting notes are much more useful when you can actually ask them questions later instead of digging through old transcripts. Really glad this clicked for you.

This is genuinely the first AI note app that feels like it gets how I actually write. The in-line rewriting instead of a chat sidebar makes total sense. One thing I'd love: a quick way to save different rewrite "modes" I use a lot, like concise, formal, casual, so I don't have to rephrase the same prompt every time. Would save a ton of friction.

Maker
Thanks! Really glad it clicked with you. We’re actually thinking about adding saved rewrite modes like this—it would definitely make repeated edits much faster. Appreciate the suggestion! 🙌

One thing I'd love is a way to lock specific lines so the agent can only rewrite what I select. Right now if I'm working on a paragraph and ask for a tweak, sometimes it touches surrounding text I wanted to keep untouched. A simple "protect selection" toggle would fix that.

Maker
Thanks for the suggestion! We like this idea and are considering adding something like this. Really appreciate the feedback! 🙌