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Founder and CEO of Cosmonote
Jordan Bonnet
Jordan Bonnet is the founder and CEO of Cosmonote, the app that turns a recorded lecture into clear notes, flashcards and quizzes to revise with.
He builds it for students first: less time copying down what the lecturer says, more time understanding and remembering it. Record the lecture hall, scan handwritten notes, ask a question across a whole semester of classes.
On this blog he shares practical ways to take notes, revise and stay organised, in class and at work.
His guides
- Reading notes: keep what a book taught you Reading notes stick around when you dictate them chapter by chapter. You build a searchable memory of your books, year after year.
- Tutorial class notes: keeping the board work without falling behind In a tutorial, you're still finishing the previous exercise while the tutor is correcting the next one on the board? Here's how to stop losing the worked solutions.
- Sales rep notes: fill your CRM between client meetings Dictate three minutes before you start the engine, and your call report lands clean inside your CRM, with no evening retyping session waiting for you.
- First draft by voice: beating the blank page while walking A voice-first draft fixes what the blank page has been costing you for years. You dictate while walking, and get a readable draft back the same evening.
- Record a meeting on Mac: Cosmonote Recorder is here Cosmonote now runs on the Mac. A deliberately tiny recorder: it captures the sound of your video call and your voice, and the notes land on your phone.
- MOOC notes: follow an online course without rewatching everything You're following a MOOC or an online course but you never open your notes again? Here's how to capture what matters from a lecture video and find it again when you need it.
- Voice shopping list: dictating your reminders in the kitchen and the car A voice shopping list lets you talk instead of typing when your hands are full. You get a clean list, and your reminders land in Apple Reminders.
- Taking notes in class with dyslexia or ADHD Note-taking wrecks you when you are dyslexic or ADHD? Here is how to let the audio do the writing and keep your attention for what actually matters.
- Digitize handwritten lecture notes without retyping them Your lectures live in notebooks and your revision happens on your phone. Here is how to bridge the two by photographing your pages, without losing an evening to retyping.
- Turn a photo into text: the method that works You photographed a page and you want the text. Here is how to get clean text out of it, handwriting included, and what to do with it afterwards.
- Preparing an oral exam or thesis defense from your own notes You have an oral in ten days and you feel you're going in circles? Here's how to train for real, from your own material, without burning your evenings.
- Transcribe a journalist interview and quote every word right You run interviews all day and spend your evenings retyping audio? Here's how to record cleanly, save hours, and quote your sources without ever misfiring.
- Content ideas for creators: capture your video and post ideas as voice memos Your best video and post ideas hit you while walking or driving. Here's how to stop losing them and turn each one into a script you can actually use.
- Studying medicine: turn every lecture into study notes you can actually revise Buried under lectures? Here's how to keep every class as text and build study notes that hold up all the way to exam day.
- Doctor appointment: remember every instruction from your visit You walk out of a doctor appointment and you've already forgotten half of what was said? Here's how to keep every instruction without taking notes.
- Voice journaling: thinking out loud every day Voice journaling is the 2026 version of the diary. You talk while walking, you get clean text in the evening, and you slowly learn to know yourself better.
- How to catch up on a missed class from an audio recording Missed a lecture? Here's how to actually catch up from a recording, without spending three hours re-listening to it.
- From discovery call to scoping document, without the friction If you're a consultant or freelancer, half your job is getting client conversations onto paper. Here's a workflow that takes the friction out.
- Transcribe and analyze your thesis interviews with AI Conducting semi-structured interviews for your master's or PhD? Here's how to get from raw audio to a coded transcript without losing a weekend.
- Top 10 AI apps to know in 2026 The 10 AI apps that actually change productivity, creation and daily work in 2026: chat, image, voice, notes, code, music, video.
- Otter alternative: why switch to Cosmonote Looking for an Otter alternative for transcription and meeting notes? Here's why Cosmonote stands out for French, mobile use, and individual users.
- Top 10 iOS apps for freelancers who want to save time The 10 iOS apps you'll find on the iPhone of well-organized freelancers: notes, calendar, invoicing, time tracking, focus.
- Connect Cosmonote to ChatGPT Access your meeting notes, transcriptions, and action items directly from ChatGPT using the Cosmonote MCP integration.
- Connect Cosmonote to Claude Access your meeting notes, transcriptions, and action items directly from Claude using the Cosmonote MCP integration.
- Top 5 iOS apps for professionals who want to save time The 5 iOS apps you'll find on the iPhone of the most organized professionals: notes, calendar, email, tasks and docs.
- Privacy or utility: do you really have to choose? Many note-taking apps force you to choose between protecting your data and actually using it. It doesn't have to be this way.
- Why speaker detection changes everything A transcript without knowing who's talking is just an unusable wall of text. Here's why Cosmonote identifies each participant.
- Use Cosmonote in ChatGPT Already using ChatGPT daily? Type @cosmonote to access all your notes directly in the conversation.
- Note-taking hosted in France: why it matters Using a note-taking app for your meetings? Learn why choosing an app with servers in France and Europe makes a real difference for your data privacy.
- Record your job interviews Recruiting and want to compare candidates objectively? Here's how to record and transcribe your job interviews.
- Take notes in professional training Attending a training session and want to keep a usable record? Here's how to capture the content without spending all your time writing.
- How to take notes in class without zoning out Spending more time writing than listening? Here's how to follow a lecture without ending up with incomprehensible notes.
- Transcribe a conference or podcast Attended an amazing conference but didn't take notes? Here's how to recover the content after the fact.
- Transcribe a YouTube video for studying How to turn a 2-hour educational video into usable notes for your revision.
- Study with AI: ask questions about your notes How to use AI to query your course notes and prepare for exams more effectively.
- Voice memo: capture your ideas wherever you are Your best ideas show up in the shower, in the car or on a walk, never in front of a keyboard. A voice memo catches them in thirty seconds, and you read them back as text.
- Import your WhatsApp voice messages as notes You receive 5-minute voice messages and don't have time to listen? Turn them into text.
- Clear your head: the voice brain dump Too many things on your mind and can't focus? Try the voice brain dump.
- How to never forget anything from a meeting You leave meetings having already forgotten half of what was said? Here's how to capture the essentials without spending all your time taking notes.
- The bot that joins your video calls for you How to automatically record your Zoom, Meet and Teams meetings without thinking about it.
- Meeting summary in 60 seconds Always putting off writing meeting notes? Here's how to send them within a minute of the meeting ending.
- In-person meetings: how to never forget anything Face-to-face meetings are often the most important. Here's how to capture them without pulling out your laptop.