Cue records the call from your Mac, transcribes it while it is still running, and cleans the transcript into a write-up in the template you picked. Included on the free plan.
Cue reads today's agenda through your connected calendar and puts those meetings behind the record button, so starting one is a single press rather than a form.
Your mic is one track and the system audio is the other. That is why the You and Them labels on the transcript are a signal rather than a guess: they come from which input carried the line.
Segments are transcribed as they close, with timestamps and durations, so there are notes to read before anyone says goodbye.
Audio exclusivity is enforced in both directions, so a recording can never be half a recording.
Cue keeps the transcript, so the template is not a decision you have to get right before the call. Pick a different one and the cleanup runs again on the words you already have.
Eight templates ship with the app, from a standup that wants three lines to an interview that wants the answers kept whole. Action items and anything you promised out loud are pulled into the Promises and People screens you already use.
The recording exists to produce a transcript. Once the transcript is there, the audio is pruned.
It stays on your Mac, where you can read it, search it, and delete it, the same as everything else Cue keeps.
Transcription is billed by how long you recorded, not per request, so one long meeting costs recording time rather than a pile of actions.
There is no prompt that appears because you joined a meeting. You press record, or you start it from today's agenda.
Two tracks tell you you versus them. Working out that a particular sentence was Maya's is not something two tracks can do, so Cue does not pretend to.
Recording is on the free plan: 2 hours a month, and on-device dictation never counts against it.