Short answer: Ka-do turns a meeting recording or transcript into a ready-to-use task list. Drop the file in and it extracts the concrete action items (not a summary) as tasks linked back to the meeting they came from, each one attributed to whoever committed to it, ready to schedule into your week.
By Steve Drew, founder of ka-do
You've just come out of a meeting. Maybe three, back to back. Somewhere in the last hour are the things you're now on the hook for: what you agreed to, who's waiting on you, the deadline that moved, the follow-up you promised before the call wandered onto something else.
The actions are in there. You know they are. The problem is they're buried in forty minutes of talk, and the job of digging them out and turning them into something you'll actually do falls to you, later, when you've got time you don't have.
So half of it gets typed up. The other half gets remembered until it doesn't.
The work between the meeting and the task list
There's a step nobody accounts for.
The meeting ends. The recording or the transcript exists. But between that and a usable list of what you need to do, there's a chunk of work: listening back, or re-reading, picking out the actions, separating what matters from the chat, writing each one down somewhere you'll see it again. It's not hard work, exactly. It's just more work, landing at the end of a day already full of meetings, and it's the bit that quietly doesn't happen when you're busy.
That's where things slip. Not because you're disorganised — because the gap between "the meeting happened" and "the actions are captured somewhere I trust" is real, and you're the one expected to close it by hand.
What ka-do does with it
Drop the recording onto the meeting. Or paste the transcript. Ka-do reads it and hands back the actions: as tasks, ready to go, each one linked back to the meeting it came from.
Not a summary you then have to act on. Not a wall of text to re-read. The actual things you need to do, pulled out and turned into tasks you can drop straight into your week.
And it stays grounded in what was actually said. It's not inventing a plan or guessing at steps nobody mentioned. It's surfacing the actions that were genuinely there in the meeting, so you can trust the list without second-guessing it. The recording stays attached, so if something looks off, the source is one tap away. And when you need to check something the record itself didn't settle, you can ask the meeting a direct question and get a provable answer. That same connection is what lets you read across every meeting you've already had, not just the latest one.
You review what comes back: delete what isn't yours, keep what is, break one task into a few if it needs it. Then it's done. The work you used to do by hand, between meetings, just isn't there anymore. And that recovery, debris and reconstruction load is bigger than it looks: worth totting up what meetings actually cost you.
Linked to the meeting, not floating free
Every task ka-do pulls from a meeting stays connected to that meeting.
That matters more than it sounds. Three weeks later, when you're looking at a task and can't quite remember the context (what was the deadline conditional on, who actually asked for this, what was the bit they said in passing), the meeting is right there, attached. You're not reconstructing it from memory. The task carries its origin with it.
It's the difference between a to-do list and a record of where your work actually came from. It also means the original is never more than a tap away when a task alone isn't enough context.
What it catches, and what it doesn't
A few questions come up often enough to answer directly.
Multiple people talking? Fine. Where the transcript carries who said what, ka-do reads it that way: an action gets attributed to whoever actually committed to it, not lumped into one generic list. That's the difference between "next steps" and a task with your name on it.
Decisions, not just actions? The extraction here is deliberately narrow: it pulls out what someone needs to do, not a running log of everything that was decided. For the decisions themselves, and for anything you need to check back on later, that's what the meeting's own record is for: you can ask it a direct question and get an answer grounded in what was actually said, not a guess.
Live meeting, or after the fact? After the fact. Ka-do isn't a bot that joins your call: it works from the recording or transcript once the meeting's over, whether that's a file you upload, a transcript you paste, or an export from wherever you already capture meetings.
What if the meeting didn't produce any actions? Then you get an empty list, and that's the correct answer. It's not inventing work to justify itself — it's telling you honestly which meetings actually generated something and which ones were just a discussion.
Where this lives
Turning meetings into tasks is part of Schedule: ka-do's planning side, where your real available hours, your calendar, and your meetings come together to show you what you can actually fit. It's a Pro feature, because it's doing real work for you: reading the meeting, finding the actions, connecting them to your week.
If you're the kind of person whose day is mostly meetings and whose task list is mostly generated by those meetings, that's exactly who it's for.
The thing it replaces
The competitor here isn't another app. It also isn't a scribe or a summariser doing half the job. It's the manual process: you, at the end of the day, typing meeting notes into a to-do list, or pasting a transcript into something and picking through it, or trusting your memory and hoping.
That process works right up until the day it doesn't, and then you're the person who dropped the action in front of a client because it fell between the gaps. Ka-do takes that step off your plate, so the meeting ending and the actions being captured become the same moment instead of two jobs with a gap in between.
The meeting happened. The list is ready. You didn't have to do the bit in the middle.
Video walkthrough: coming soon.
A short recording of a real meeting turning into a task list, start to finish. Check back soon.
Ka-do's meeting features are part of Schedule, included with Pro. Start free, and upgrade when you're ready to let your meetings turn themselves into your plan.