docs: align README with Char 1.1 (AI daily notes)#5076
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Reframe README around Char 1.1 positioning: AI daily notes, not AI meeting notetaker. Meeting capture is a feature, not the product. - New lede: captures meetings + emails + screen activity, extracts action items, delegates to AI agents or team - Add Capture -> Extract -> Delegate three pillars - Add new sections: Daily Note, Email Triage, Screen Activity, Task Delegation (placeholders for Char 1.1 visuals) - Keep existing sections (realtime transcript, summaries, local, BYO LLM, templates, AI chat, integrations) with minor tightening - TODO comments mark where Char 1.1 screenshots/diagrams go
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Add a callout near the top so anyone landing on the repo looking for just a local meeting notetaker gets routed to fastrepl/unsigned-char instead of being confused by Char's daily-notes framing.
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- Daily note with action items surfacing (Daily Note section) - Task delegation to AI agents and teammates (Task Delegation section) - Team operating layer (new 'Where This Is Going' closing section) Images live at .github/readme/ so they stay out of the app bundle.
Reframe README around the three things Char actually does: 1. Daily notes as memory — the canvas for everything, with an agent reading as you write. Unfinished items roll over, completed ones drop off. 2. Context capture — meetings (no bots), screen activity (a11y API + VLMs), emails. Redirect pure-notetaker users to Unsigned Char here. 3. Proactive delegation — every action item has a deploy button. Agent already has the context from your daily note. Collapse secondary features (transcript, summaries, local, BYO LLM, templates, AI chat, integrations) under a 'More' section so the three killer features stay center stage.
… link - Drop 'Truly Local' standalone section (no longer the headline) - Merge 'Realtime Transcript' + 'From Memos to Summaries' into the meetings bullet under Context Capture - Move Note Templates into the meetings bullet (they're a meetings feature) - Rename 'Bring Your Own LLM' -> 'Bring Your Own AI' and extend to cover both ASR and LLM providers - Update Integrations: list Apple/Google/Outlook Calendar + Contacts as shipped, add todos/knowledge bases (Notion, Obsidian)/CRMs/ messengers as coming soon - Clarify computer activity uses macOS accessibility API - Link to https://johnjeong.com/essays/future-of-char at the end - Keep AI chat as its own section with TODO for better visual
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Aligns the README with Char 1.1 positioning — AI daily notes, not AI meeting notetaker. Meeting capture is a feature, not the product.
What changed
Capture → Extract → DelegateVisuals
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<!-- TODO: ... -->comments — will fill in once Char 1.1 screenshots/diagrams are ready:Existing screenshots (realtime transcript, summary GIF, no-wifi, BYO LLM, AI chat, integrations) are kept since the flows haven't changed materially.
Why
Current README still reads as "Char is a meeting notetaker." That's Granola's category. Char 1.1 owns AI daily notes — the daily note is the operating surface, meetings are one of the inputs.
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Low risk: documentation-only rewrite that doesn’t affect runtime behavior, data handling, or APIs.
Overview
Updates
README.mdcopy and structure to reposition Char as AI daily notes (capture/extract/delegate) rather than primarily a meeting notetaker.Adds a new “Three Pillars” section and rewrites Highlights to emphasize
Daily Note,Email Triage,Screen Activity, andTask Delegation, while keeping existing sections (e.g., transcript, offline/local, BYO LLM) with minor wording/alt-text tweaks and TODO placeholders for upcoming Char 1.1 visuals.Reviewed by Cursor Bugbot for commit 72b3b30. Bugbot is set up for automated code reviews on this repo. Configure here.