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Living Notes

Account-level notes that keep updating after every linked meeting — how they work and how to create them.

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A Living Note is a note attached to an account that keeps growing over time. Where a snapshot note captures a single meeting, a Living Note reflects the whole relationship — and updates itself whenever a meeting linked to that account ends.

How Living Notes work

  1. You create a Living Note on an account from a Living note template.
  2. MagicScreen fills it in using the meetings already linked to that account.
  3. Each time a new meeting linked to that account ends, the Living Note updates with what's new — no manual editing required.

Good uses for Living Notes:

  • An account overview that always reflects the latest state.
  • An implementation or onboarding tracker that grows as the project progresses.
  • A running list of open items, risks, or decisions across all your calls with a customer.

Create a Living Note

  1. First create a template with the Living note option turned on. See Creating Note Templates.
  2. Open the account in the Accounts tab.
  3. In the account's Notes, add a note and pick your Living Note template.
  4. MagicScreen backfills the note from meetings already linked to that account, then keeps it updated going forward.

💡 Each Living Note belongs to a single account. To track several accounts, create a Living Note on each.

Feeding a Living Note

A Living Note updates from the meetings linked to its account. So the key habit is linking meetings to the right account — you can do this during a call with the Account button, or from the meeting afterward. See During a live meeting.

Seeing what contributed

Each Living Note shows a Contributing meetings count and list, so you can see exactly which calls fed into it. Expand it to review the meetings behind the current content.