FollowAlong is a new AI companion that sits in on the meeting with you and quietly does the remembering. It's the release I've been most excited to ship.
FollowAlong: a companion that sits with you in the meeting
Picture it. Someone across the table mentions a supplier you met once, the better part of two years ago. Before you've even placed the name, the note you made back then is sitting in front of you. That's FollowAlong.
Switch it on and, as people talk, iXnote brings the relevant pieces of your graph to the surface, right when they matter. The thing you'd half-forgotten you knew is suddenly there to act on. Open it, tweak it, link it to the meeting with a tap, and your record of the meeting builds itself while you stay in the conversation.
And if the talk turns to something you haven't captured yet, iXnote drafts a short note for you on the spot, written privately on your device. Glance at it, accept it, and it's yours. No retyping, no catching up afterwards.
This is a proper in-meeting companion, not a post-meeting summary tool. I believe the help has to land while you're in the room and can use it, not an hour later when the meeting's done and the moment has gone.
Where it works
On Mac, FollowAlong listens two ways: the microphone, for the room in front of you, and any audio playing through Chrome. The Chrome side is the one I'm most excited about. A conference call, a podcast, a YouTube tutorial, a lecture you're catching up on. For students and researchers especially, that means iXnote can keep up with how you learn, in person or online.
On iPhone and iPad, FollowAlong uses the microphone only, due to OS restrictions. Chrome audio is a Mac feature for now.
A proper Mac app
iXnote finally feels like a real Mac app, not the old 'Designed for iPad' build running in a box. It's quick, it's at home on the desktop, and everything sits where you'd expect it: native windows and menus, a real menu bar, right-click that works, and 'Save to iXnote' from almost any app. Long-time users will just find it a nicer place to think. And it's one graph, live across iPhone, iPad and Mac, so whatever you pick up, it's all there.
Transcripts, as a useful side effect (Pro)
FollowAlong produces a conversational transcript as it goes. For Pro users, I've made those exportable: pull a day's transcript out and feed it into the rest of your productivity setup. Drop it into your favorite frontier LLM to summarize a meeting, or hand it the whole day and have it write you a daily journal.
Faster, lighter, and more solid
Sync has had real work done to it, and changes should show up across your devices faster than before. There's a solid round of bug fixing across the app too, so the whole thing should feel steadier and more reliable wherever you use it. I've also spent time on memory and power, so in everyday use this version should be lighter on your battery than the last.
One honest heads-up. FollowAlong leans on live transcription and on-device AI, and that genuinely takes power. It's doing real work in real time. So keep an eye on the battery if you're running a long session unplugged.
That's 2.1
This is the release I've wanted to build for a long time: iXnote not just as a place to keep your thinking, but as something that sits with you while you work and quietly keeps up. Give FollowAlong a go in your next meeting, and tell me how it does, and what you'd want it to do next.