Say it. Chief captures it.
A Live Session is Chief listening to a meeting in real time and turning the conversation into work you can pick up afterward. Chief captures the transcript and builds Live Notes with an Overview, topics, Decisions, and To-dos, then keeps the record searchable in your Project. This tab is for the Live Sessions app: capturing meetings, working with transcripts, and collaborating on the documents and canvases created during a session. Use the Web App tab when you want to organize projects, search your knowledge, or work with the results after capture. Each Live Session lives alongside your Projects, Library, and Concepts, so your meeting becomes searchable knowledge instead of a fading memory or another set of notes to rewrite.One concrete example
You join a 30-minute planning call. You start a Live Session at the beginning. Chief listens, labels each speaker, and follows the conversation. By the time the call ends, the Live Session page already shows:- An Overview of what the meeting covered.
- A list of Decisions the group reached.
- A list of To-dos and other topic points.
- A full Transcript you can scroll, with timecodes and speaker labels.
- Quick actions and Ask about this… prompts you can hand straight to Chief.
How it works
Capture happens through the Chief Live Sessions App on Mac or Windows, which listens to your microphone and your computer’s audio. The transcript and everything Chief extracts from it then appear in your Chief web account under Live Sessions.What you can do with a Live Session
- Read the transcript with speaker labels you can name and timecodes.
- Add screenshots and images at the point where they matter in the transcript.
- Create documents and canvases, edit them with your Project, comment, and add their contents to the transcript.
- Share selected screen context so references to an app, page, or window make sense later.
- Review Live Notes, then use Auto-apply Tags to filter Decisions, To-dos, and the topics your Project tracks.
- Share the session so guests can follow it live and view the recap without a Chief account.
- Start a task from any suggested action or send the finished session to an AI agent.
- Rename the session, or Delete it once it has finished recording.
FAQ
Do I need the desktop app to use Live Sessions?
Do I need the desktop app to use Live Sessions?
Yes. Capture runs through the Chief desktop app on Mac or Windows. The web app is where you read and work with the results.
A meeting I recorded shows no transcript — what happened?
A meeting I recorded shows no transcript — what happened?
If a Live Session shows “No transcript yet,” Chief may not have captured any audio — usually because the desktop app did not have microphone or system-audio access, or the call ended before audio reached Chief. Check the app’s audio permissions and try a new session.
Where do Live Sessions appear?
Where do Live Sessions appear?
Open Live Sessions from the left navigation to see the transcript and Live Notes. Documents and canvases are created and edited under Workspace in the desktop app.