# Brifo blog

- [The best AI meeting notes apps for Mac in 2026](/blog/best-ai-meeting-notes-mac-2026): Honest, hands-on comparison of the leading AI meeting note apps for macOS. Brifo, Granola, Otter.ai, Fireflies, Fathom, tl;dv, and more. Clear tradeoffs, recommendations by use case.
- [Why meeting notes without a bot is the future](/blog/meeting-notes-without-bot): The 'send a bot into the meeting' model is structurally broken for sensitive contexts. Why local audio capture is the architecture that wins.
- [How AI action item extraction actually works (and where it fails)](/blog/ai-action-items-extraction): Under the hood of AI action item extraction. What works, what fails, and what to look for in tools that promise to file Jira and Linear tickets from your meetings.