Otter adds cross-app search for your meeting data and work tools

Otter — the AI note-taking app that transcribes and summarizes your meetings — is adding a feature that feels overdue but welcome: cross-app search.

Starting today, you can connect your Gmail, Google Drive, Notion, Jira, and Salesforce accounts to Otter and query all that data alongside your existing meeting transcripts. So instead of digging through five different apps to find a decision someone mentioned in an email or a task buried in a Jira ticket, you can just ask Otter.

The company says Microsoft integrations — Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, and Slack — are on the way. No timeline yet, but it’s a smart move given how many enterprises live inside the Microsoft ecosystem.

I’ve been using Otter for a while now, and this is the kind of feature that makes it feel less like a standalone transcription tool and more like a work memory layer. The meeting summaries are fine, but what I really want is to connect the dots between what was said in a call, what was written in a doc, and what ended up in a ticket. This gets closer to that.

That said, the real test will be how well the search actually works across these sources. Otter’s meeting search is decent, but mixing in email and CRM data is a different beast. If it surfaces relevant results without too much noise, this could be genuinely useful. If it’s just a glorified keyword search across silos, it’s less interesting.

For now, it’s a solid step. I just hope they don’t stop here — the next logical move would be letting you trigger actions from search results, like creating a task or drafting a reply. Otherwise, it’s still just a better search bar.