Otter now lets you search across your actual work tools, not just meeting notes

Otter has been sitting on a goldmine of meeting data for years, but until now, that data lived in a silo. You could search your transcripts, sure, but you couldn’t ask it about an email thread or a Jira ticket without jumping apps.

That changes today.

Otter is rolling out a feature that lets you connect your Gmail, Google Drive, Notion, Jira, and Salesforce accounts and search across all of them in one place. The meeting data you already have? Still there. Now it’s just sitting alongside your documents, tickets, and emails.

The company says Microsoft Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, and Slack integrations are “coming soon.” No timeline on that, but it’s the obvious next step, given how many enterprises live inside Microsoft’s ecosystem.

This is one of those features that sounds simple on paper but is genuinely useful in practice. If you’ve ever tried to track down a decision that was made partly in a meeting, partly in an email, and partly in a Notion doc, you know the pain. Otter is essentially building a unified search layer over the tools you already use.

The real question is how well the search actually works. Otter has decent NLP from its transcript indexing, but cross-app search introduces a lot of complexity. Different data formats, different permissions, different update frequencies. If it’s fast and accurate, this could be a serious productivity win. If it’s slow or misses results, it’ll just be another search bar people ignore.

I’ve seen this approach tried before. Mem.ai tried something similar with its unified workspace, and Notion’s Q&A feature is heading in the same direction. But Otter has an advantage: it’s already the default meeting note-taker for a lot of teams. Adding search across other tools is a natural expansion rather than a pivot.

Pricing and availability details are still light. The feature is rolling out now, presumably to paid tiers first. If Otter charges extra for this, it had better work flawlessly. If it’s included, it’s a nice value-add.

I’ll be testing this over the next week. If you’ve tried it, let me know how the search quality holds up.