If you're writing it down in a note, it's probably important. The thing is, getting the important stuff is often too hard. Your notes should already know about your meetings and events. And, if you're taking notes in a meeting, you're probably leaving with action steps. Meetings shouldn’t end in scattered notes and forgotten follow-ups. Contextly turns what you capture into what you do—right on your Mac.
Contextly connects your notes to your calendar so every thought lives in context. Record a meeting (or drop in an audio file), and Contextly transcribes it on device, summarizes the conversation, and generates clear action steps you can actually use.
Then, send those action steps to your preferred task manager as to-dos with the click of a button. Connect Things 3, Reminders, Omnifocus, or Todoist, and turn your meeting notes into action without juggling multiple apps.
Instead of revisiting notes later, you leave every meeting with decisions, tasks, and momentum.
What you can do with Contextly:
Capture notes in context
Link notes to calendar events automatically so you always know when, where, and why something was written.
Record and transcribe meetings
Use built-in recording or import audio. Transcription runs on your Mac for speed and privacy.
Summarize instantly
Get clean, readable summaries that highlight what matters—no manual cleanup required.
Turn conversations into action
Contextly generates actionable next steps from your notes. Review, edit, and send them where you work.
Sync with your task manager
Send tasks to Things, OmniFocus, Todoist, or Apple Reminders.
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Clean interface. Intuitive to use. Appreciate the appearance/color options and ability to hide the calendar. Grateful that iCloud sync is baked in. Decently buggy on my iPad, but it’s a brand new app. Solid on my iPhone. Even available on AVP, which I appreciate!!! ❤️🩵💛 I love the easy pdf export on the Mac, the ability to have a note take up the full window and get rid of all the other visual noise, and the ability to customize font size. A one week free trail of the pro capabilities might be useful, but $5/mo is pretty reasonable, so I’ll give it a go for a month and if I like it, I’ll do the annual subscription.
Meeting Notes
Levi Di
I really like this. It’s simple, uncluttered. 2 things I think would convince me to spring for the pro plan. 1. A lot of my tasks throughout the day are trigged by emails. It would be nice to incorporate emails somehow for reference. 2. I’m in a ton of meetings, but they’re all on Zoom. This doesn’t integrate with audio properly to transcribe those correctly. I’m using Notion but it’s overkill. I’d love to use this.
I am liking it, for the most part
Tigzola
Ok, I’m giving this a solid try, mostly for having a calendar and notes in one app. Thank you for having a dark mode!Jason, I’m sure you will correct me if I’m wrong, but when you are in the calendar, aren’t the left and right arrows supposed to move back and forth between the months. It would also be great to have a long press action to change month and year. It would also be cool if it could realize that I’m landing and leaving from a city, to indicate that I’m away during the duration of the trip. Ok, I’m changing this rating from 4 to 5 stars because you made the app!Chris
Love the simplicity!
Ultra Man 7
I am in meetings for about 50% of job, so the ability to take notes associated directly with my calendar entry is huge. One suggestion, is to have RTF tools available for those who don’t know Markdown. I know it, but it’s not like muscle memory to me, so having another option for formatting would be nice.
Developer Response
Thanks for using Contextly! So the app does have rich text formatting options in addition to Markdown. Both the Mac and iPhone have the option if you select the formatting button (Aa).
Big update with bug fixes and a few new features.
New: numbered lists. Start a list with "1." and Return continues it — numbering stays correct even when you insert or remove items. On Mac and iPhone.
New: your notebooks, your order — everywhere. Notebook order now syncs across devices, with drag-to-reorder on both platforms.
Formatting stays put. Notes no longer change size or style on their own when you open them or edit them on another device. Pasting from a web page or chat now matches your note's font instead of arriving tiny.
Your edits are safer. Fixed several cases where edits made offline, checkbox taps from iPhone, deleted attachments, and notebook renames could be reverted or lost when syncing — and a false "edited on another device" warning that could appear while you were simply typing.
Recurring meetings fixed. Tapping a repeating event now finds the note for that day's meeting — not one from a previous week.
Simpler writing on iPhone. Tap a note and start writing — no more Edit and Save buttons. Everything saves automatically. Today has a New Note button, and switching notebooks is one tap.
Mac quality of life. Create notes with one click, capture from anywhere with a configurable keyboard shortcut (Settings → Editor), drag notebooks from anywhere on the row, and a fix for a crash when undoing after switching notes.
Version 1.0.10
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