Zoom is improving its video chat platform with their latest feature, "Notes," which allows users to create, share, and edit text documents in real-time during a video call, eliminating the need to switch screens to use other third party content management tools like Microsoft Word. You can set up and collaborate on Notes before, during, and/or after a meeting with extensive formatting options such as fonts, styles, bullets, colors, images, links, and more, and all content will be auto-saved.
The Notes dashboard also offers various capabilities including sorting, filtering, sharing, starring for later reference, and direct editing or deleting. Zoom Notes will be provided to all users free of charge and is slated to roll out in the near future.
Zoom is actively seeking to remain relevant as one of the most comprehensive alternatives to giants like Google Workspace or Microsoft 365. They offer solutions not only for video meetings or online webinars but also for team chat (an alternative to Slack or Teams), email, calendars, digital whiteboard, and a variety of other team collaboration tools within Zoom One, alongside their focus on integrating AI-powered features into many of these tools, such as Meeting Summaries or Chat Compose, which we reported on some time ago and recommend checking out.
About Zoom Notes on Product Hunt
“Notes for real time collaboration”
Zoom Notes launched on Product Hunt on September 3rd, 2023 and earned 175 upvotes and 5 comments, placing #5 on the daily leaderboard. Zoom Notes allows users to collaborate before, during, and after meetings to help drive productivity and alignment.
On the analytics side, Zoom Notes competes within Meetings — topics that collectively have 6.4k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Zoom Notes performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Zoom Notes?
Zoom Notes was hunted by Ankit Sharma. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
Ankit Sharma