How it works
From a voice note to what you know about someone
neoo does four things: it lets you capture a note in seconds, understands what you said, asks when it isn’t sure, and gives it back when you need it.
1. Capture, right after the conversation
Open neoo and tap to record. Talk the way you would tell a friend: who you met, what they told you, what matters. Most notes take thirty seconds to a minute. A single note can run up to five minutes, with a warning at four.
If you can’t talk, type instead. Typed notes go through exactly the same process.
No signal? Record anyway. The note is kept on your phone and uploaded when you’re back online, and you can see which notes are still waiting.
2. Understanding what you said
neoo transcribes the recording. You can speak German or English — the language is detected, not set in advance.
It then works out what the note is about. That means people, but also places and organisations, and the facts about each of them: where someone works, where they live, what they told you. Each note also gets a short summary — a headline and up to four points.
3. Asking instead of guessing
Names are where note-taking tools go wrong. You mention Anna, and you know two. A tool that silently picks one files a fact under the wrong person, and you won’t notice until it matters.
neoo only links a name to someone on its own when it is certain. When it isn’t — including near matches, like a short name against a full one — it asks: this person, a new person, or skip. Your answer is remembered, so the same name isn’t asked about again.
One person can go by several names — Kathi and Katharina, a nickname, a name the transcript got slightly wrong — and is found by any of them. Two people who share a name stay two people. If an entry turns out to be wrong, rename it, or merge two that are the same person.
4. Getting it back
Every person, place and organisation has a page with the notes that mention them and the facts gathered from those notes.
People are kept with the people around them. Family is recorded as family, and someone you only know as “Kathi’s father” gets an entry of their own, linked to Kathi. Under a person’s name, neoo shows whom you know them through: “via Sylvi”.
Every fact links back to the recording it came from. Tap it and play what you actually said.
Search looks across people, notes and facts at once, and tolerates small differences in spelling.
5. On your phone
neoo is a web app you install to your home screen from the browser, so it opens like any other app. Installing it has been verified on iPhone; it also runs in the browser on Android and on a computer. The interface is in English.
What it doesn’t do yet
- No reminders.
- No map of everyone you know — the people around a person show on their page, not yet as a picture of your whole network.
- No contact import, and no integrations with email, calendar or other tools.
- No sharing and no teams.
- It doesn’t record meetings. You talk to it afterwards — by design.
neoo is in beta. Here is what that means.
Frequently asked questions
How long should a note be?
Thirty seconds to a minute is typical. A single note can be up to five minutes long.
What if it mishears a name?
Speech recognition still gets unusual names wrong. Because every fact links to its recording, you can always hear what you actually said.
Which languages does neoo understand?
You can speak German or English, and the language is detected automatically. The app interface is in English.
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