Meeting Notes in Slack and Teams: AI Huddle Notes vs Agendas and Recap
Somebody always gets stuck taking notes. Slack and Teams both try to retire that job, in different directions. Slack huddles can delegate notes to AI and file the result in the huddle thread. Teams builds notes into the meeting itself: an agenda people edit together before and during the call, a recap after, and a Copilot route that generates notes on demand. Here is what each help page documents.
Miles Crawford
The quick version
In a Slack huddle, click AI notes: Off in the top left corner, then Start AI notes & transcription, then Start notes; after the huddle, notes with people, topics and action items appear as a canvas in the huddle thread. In Teams, add an agenda from the calendar event's Details before the meeting, open Notes in the meeting controls during it, and find the saved notes afterward in the calendar event or the meeting recap; from the meeting chat, Copilot's Generate meeting notes prompt drafts them for you.
Slack: hand the notes to AI
Slack's AI huddle notes use your real-time conversation and the messages in the huddle thread to capture key takeaways and action items in a canvas. By default, someone in the huddle turns them on: from the huddle, click AI notes: Off in the top left corner, click Start AI notes & transcription, then Start notes; on mobile, tap Start AI Notes, then Start Notes, and a banner confirms they are on. Everyone in the huddle is notified when notes are started, stopped or canceled.
Slack: where the notes land
After the huddle, the notes, including a list of people in the huddle, topics discussed and action items, are shared in a canvas in the huddle thread. Anyone in the channel or DM where the huddle took place can view the notes, and they can be shared just like any canvas. Transcripts are embedded in the notes canvas, but Slack notes they will not show up in search results.
Slack: controls and limits
Anyone in a huddle can stop, resume or cancel AI notes at any time to control what gets transcribed: click AI notes: On, then Stop AI notes to pause or Resume AI notes & transcription to restart, and Delete AI notes & transcription to turn them off completely. Any member can also set a channel to start AI notes automatically for every huddle: open the channel, click the channel name, then Settings, and next to Always start AI notes click Edit and check the box; owners and admins can restrict access to that option. Two hard limits from Slack: the feature is for all members but not guests, is available on paid plans, and it is not possible to use AI notes in huddles with external people or guests.
Teams: notes built into the meeting
Teams meeting notes are a shared document for the agenda, notes and tasks that others can see and edit directly in Teams, and once added they can also be shared and edited in Office.com as a Loop document. Before the meeting, go to your Teams calendar, create or open the event, and in Details select Add an agenda; participants get the invitation with the notes attached, and Microsoft notes that changes to a series apply to all future meetings in it. During the meeting, select Notes (or More actions, then Notes) in the meeting controls to open the Meeting notes pane, where you can @mention someone to tag them in an agenda or task item and pop the pane into a new window. Afterward, notes are saved automatically: open the past meeting from your calendar and expand the details, or use View event, then View recap, then Notes. One boundary from Microsoft: external attendees won't be able to access or edit meeting notes.
Teams: let Copilot draft them
Microsoft's second route is generated notes. From the meeting chat, select Copilot, then More prompts, then Generate meeting notes; Copilot produces notes with key topics and action items, which you can copy and paste into an email to send to stakeholders. Microsoft adds the standard caution to verify the results, because AI-generated content could be incorrect.
Which one for what?
Our read: for ad-hoc calls, Slack's AI notes are the least work: one click in the huddle, and the canvas lands in the thread where the team already is. The paid-plan and no-guests limits are the catch, and they are firm. For scheduled meetings, Teams' notes earn their structure: an agenda people edit before the call, live tagging during it, and a recap home afterward, with the Copilot generate route when nobody wrote anything down. If your meetings include external guests, note that both tools wall them off from notes entirely.
What to be careful about
- Slack AI notes need a paid plan and exclude guests entirely, per Slack.
- No AI notes with external people. Slack says they cannot be used in huddles with externals or guests.
- Slack transcripts hide from search. They are embedded in the notes canvas but not searchable.
- Teams blocks external attendees from accessing or editing meeting notes.
- Series edits cascade. Changing a meeting series' notes applies to all future meetings in it, per Microsoft.
- Verify generated notes. Microsoft cautions that Copilot's output could be incorrect.
Sources
Checked October 26, 2026. Features, steps and limits follow each product's own help articles. The guidance on when each shines is ours.