Will Regenerating Your AI Meeting Notes Erase Your Edits?

It depends on where you made the edit

An AI summary is an output. Regenerating it means running the model again on the inputs: the transcript, the speaker names, sometimes your own typed notes and a template. Anything you typed into the output itself is not one of those inputs, so the next version has no reason to keep it.

That makes the useful question narrower than whether a tool lets you edit the notes. Every tool lets you edit something. The question is whether your edit lives in what the AI reads next time, or in what it is about to replace.

Otter answers it in writing

Otter's help page on regenerating the summary has the clearest answer in the category. You can edit and add action items by hand, and you can edit the outline by hand, and the same page says regenerating the summary will update both. The short gist at the top cannot be edited by hand at all; the page tells you to edit the transcript and regenerate instead.

There is no way back either. Otter says previous summary versions are not saved, so once you regenerate, the earlier one is gone. Regeneration is also manual: editing the transcript or tagging a speaker does not refresh the summary until you click Regenerate summary, one conversation at a time. Custom templates follow the same rule, and Otter's page on regenerating insights says reapplying a template replaces what was generated before and recommends saving anything important first.

Put together, the safe order in Otter is to fix the transcript and speaker names first, regenerate, and only then hand edit the action items, knowing any later regenerate will undo that last step.

Fireflies and Granola point you at the inputs

Fireflies' guide to summaries lists several ways to get a new one: switch the summary template, add or remove sections, use Refine Summary to condense, expand or rewrite it in the customer's voice, or regenerate after editing the transcript. Each one rewrites the summary and leaves the transcript as it was. The guide does not describe typing changes into the summary text, which tells you where Fireflies expects a correction to go.

Granola lets you edit its enhanced notes directly, or go back to your own raw notes, edit those and enhance again. Its docs say edits to your own notes are taken into account when you regenerate. They do not say what happens to changes made directly in the enhanced notes when you regenerate or pick a different template, so treat that as unknown until you have tried it.

Why a lost edit costs more than it looks

Edits made after a call are rarely cosmetic. The line someone bothers to fix is usually the one that matters: the owner who was wrong, the number that was misheard, the "we agreed to ship Friday" that was really "we agreed to decide by Friday". A regenerate that drops that fix puts the error back, in the same tidy formatting, and now it carries the credibility of a note somebody already checked.

The trigger is rarely someone pressing Regenerate on purpose. It is a template change, a request to make the notes shorter, or a new team default applied a week later by a person who never saw the correction.

A five minute test before you commit

Take one real meeting. In the generated notes, change an owner, fix a number and delete a line that was wrong. Then make one correction in the inputs instead, such as renaming a speaker or fixing a word in the transcript. Regenerate, then separately switch the template.

Now check four things. Which of your four edits survived? Did the tool warn you before it replaced anything? Can you get the previous version back? And when you ask the tool's chat about that meeting, does it answer from the corrected version or the old one?

If the answer is that nothing survived, there was no warning and there is no undo, your team needs one rule: never correct the summary, correct the inputs, or copy the summary somewhere safe before anyone touches it again.

What Driffle does, limits included

You cannot type over Driffle's AI summary today. That is a real gap, and it also means corrections go into places the summary is built from or sits beside. Your own notes for a meeting are stored separately and are given to the model when it writes or rewrites the summary, so a correction written there is in front of it next time. Speaker names can be renamed from the transcript. Commitments pulled from the call are kept as separate items from the summary text, and you can change an owner or a due date, or mark one "Looks right".

Driffle treats regenerating an edited note as destructive. If you have just edited a note, Regenerate or applying a template first opens a confirmation saying your edits will be replaced and that this cannot be undone. If you pause a recording, resume and stop again, Driffle offers to regenerate the notes instead of quietly redoing them.

What it does not have: there is no version history to roll back to, and you cannot edit the transcript text itself. Driffle runs on Macs with Apple Silicon as a direct download, captures your calls with no bot in the meeting, and does its transcription and AI work in the cloud. To run the five minute test on it, download Driffle for Mac at driffle.ai/download.