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For example Teams and Outlook have terrible search. Documents basically go into a black hole to never be seen again. We need the same search quality we have fo

For example Teams and Outlook have terrible search. Documents basically go into a black hole to never be seen again. We need the same search quality we have for web searches.

emiliobumachar 6y ago
Good suggestions for improvement, but I don't think they fit this context. Face-to-face communications are extremely unsearchable.
- alexbanks 6y ago
  Interesting
  - emiliobumachar 6y ago
    [edit: lost context after parent edited] What I can think of is a smartphone app that's always listening and transcribing, best-effort, all it listens. This can capture in person speech and make it searchable. Also, are any of the current videoconferencing options offering machine transcribing out of the box? I know users could always hand-feed recorded video to a separate tool, but ease-of-use matters. Emulating face-to-face-ness remotely is precisely the hard problem. As pg once said, the real world is incredibly high-bandwidth.
CodeCube 6y ago
that's why you shouldn't use _either_ of those as repositories of information ... they're great for the ephemeral discussions, but once consensus is reached, you should have other ways of tracking that, whether it's: github/devops/jira issues and tickets, or some kanban board somewhere, or design documents, or a wiki. The discussion itself shouldn't be the artifact that records the decision.
- _-david-_ 6y ago
  Debian uses something called Meetbot. It seems like it would be sort of be what you are asking for. https://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot https://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot
dumbfoundded 6y ago
There are tools like automatic captions + manual tagging that can make search much better. The tools are out there, just not well adopted at this point.