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While Vowen is taking meeting notes, press Cmd+\ on macOS or Ctrl+\ on Windows to summon a small floating panel. It has three tabs: ask the AI a question, jot context for the summary, or read the transcript as it comes in. Press the same keys again to dismiss it, or press Escape. The panel is excluded from screen capture. It will not appear in a screen share, a recording made by another app, or in Vowen’s own meeting screenshots. You can use it in the middle of a call you are presenting in.

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Opening and closing it

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Start taking meeting notes

The panel only exists during a meeting-notes session. Outside one, the shortcut is not registered at all, so the key stays with whatever app you are using.
2

Press the shortcut

Cmd+\ on macOS, Ctrl+\ on Windows. It opens focused so you can start typing straight away, centered on whichever display you are looking at, and floats above other windows including full-screen apps. Once you have moved it, it stays where you put it.
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Dismiss it

Press the shortcut again, press Escape, or click the close button at the right of the action bar. The panel remembers where you put it and which tab you were on.
Turning the recording indicator off also turns the panel off. Vowen treats the panel as an extension of the floating indicator, not a surface of its own. If Show floating indicator while recording is unchecked in Notes settings > Recording Defaults, the panel window is never created and the shortcut is never registered. The shortcut row is greyed out to match. Turning the indicator off in the middle of a meeting closes an open panel straight away.

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The three tabs

Switch tabs by clicking, or with Cmd+1 / Cmd+2 / Cmd+3 on macOS and Ctrl+1 / Ctrl+2 / Ctrl+3 on Windows. Hold the modifier and the digit for each tab appears on its button. The number row and the numeric keypad both work, and the shortcuts are keyed to physical key position, so they work on AZERTY and other layouts where the digits need a modifier of their own.
Ask a question about the meeting so far. Each question pulls in the latest transcript, so follow-ups stay in sync as the conversation moves. Answers stream in place. See Ask AI for the full behavior, including how questions are answered when real-time transcription is off.This is the only Pro-gated tab. On a free plan it shows an upgrade card instead of the conversation.
A plain text box for context you want the summary to take into account. Anything you type is saved to this meeting and added to the AI summary prompt. It is the same field as the Notes tab on the floating indicator and the My Notes tab on the finished note, so all three show the same text.
The live transcript, grouped into readable paragraphs, following the tail unless you scroll up to read. If real-time transcription is not running, a banner explains that the tab fills in each time you ask a question, and the text appears after each catch-up.

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The action bar

The bar along the bottom of the panel holds the tabs on the left and the actions on the right.
Captures your screen and attaches it to your next question as visual context. Captured shots appear as removable chips above the composer, and the button carries a badge with how many screenshots this meeting has. If the selected AI model cannot read images, a warning chip says so. Screenshot capture is available on macOS and Windows; on Linux the button reports that it is not supported.
Flags the current moment so the summary emphasises what was just discussed. It stamps the elapsed time, and when a live transcript is running it also keeps a short excerpt of what was being said. The button carries a badge with how many moments you have marked. The marks are fed to the summarizer when the meeting ends.
Appears on the Ask tab once the conversation has messages. It erases the live conversation, which is shared with the floating indicator’s Ask AI tab.
You drag the panel by the action bar. Dragging anywhere else does nothing. The bar is the only part of the panel with no text to aim at, so dragging it can never fight with placing the caret in the composer. The cursor changes to a grab handle over it.

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Changing the shortcut

The panel shortcut is rebound from the Notes settings, not from Settings > Shortcuts.
1

Open Notes settings

Go to Notes in the sidebar and open the settings gear, then the Recording Defaults tab.
2

Find Meeting panel shortcut

It sits with the live-transcript settings. The toggle beside it enables or disables the shortcut.
3

Click the key combination to rebind it

Record a new combination in the dialog. It must include a modifier such as Ctrl, Cmd, Alt or Shift, because it is registered as a system-wide shortcut. Mouse buttons cannot be used, and Vowen will not let you pick a combination another Vowen shortcut already owns.
The row is greyed out and cannot be edited while the floating indicator is turned off, because the shortcut would never fire.

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Pro gating

Only the Ask tab is Pro. The Notes and Transcript tabs, the screenshot button and the mark-important button all work on every plan.