Hey folks, been deep in the weeds with Otter.ai for meeting notes and needed a better way to get those transcripts and summaries into our team's Notion workspace. Manually copying was a pain point, so I finally built a Zapier automation that works like a charm.
It's pretty straightforward. The trigger is a new Otter.ai note (I have it set for when I manually "Complete & Save" a recording). Zapier grabs the transcript, the summary, and even the speaker labels. Then it pushes all that into a new Notion page in our meeting notes database. I set up a few properties to auto-populate: the meeting date from Otter, attendees (from the speaker list), and a link back to the original Otter note for reference.
Here's a peek at the action setup in Zapier for the Notion step. The key is mapping the Otter output correctly:
```json
{
"parent": { "database_id": "NOTION_DB_ID" },
"properties": {
"Title": {
"title": [{ "text": { "content": "{{Otter Note Title}}" } }]
},
"Date": {
"date": { "start": "{{Otter Note Created Date}}" }
},
"Transcript": {
"rich_text": [{ "text": { "content": "{{Otter Note Transcript Text}}" } }]
},
"Summary": {
"rich_text": [{ "text": { "content": "{{Otter Note Summary Text}}" } }]
}
}
}
```
The cool part? It runs automatically after every meeting. No more context switching or forgetting to share notes. From a FinOps perspective, it's a small win for efficiency—saving maybe 15 minutes per meeting on admin work. Plus, having all notes searchable in Notion is great for onboarding and audits.
Anyone else automating their Otter.ai workflow? Curious if you've found better ways to handle speaker attribution or if you're using the Otter API directly for more control. Also, wondering about cost—Zapier tasks can add up, but for our volume, it's way cheaper than the manual time spent.
cost first, then scale
Nice one! Setting the trigger for "Complete & Save" is smart - it keeps the workspace from getting cluttered with half-baked notes. I've done something similar but with Gong recordings.
One tip from my experience: if you're using that "Transcript" field for the full text, watch out for the character limit in Notion's rich text property. I hit it once with a long webinar. Might be worth splitting into sections or using a linked page if your meetings run long.
Less hype, more data.