You hang up with four things in your head. Twenty minutes later two of them are gone, the write-up isn't written, and the hour you spent doesn't exist anywhere. Every video product ends at the hangup and leaves you the rest.
A calendar entry has no after. It passes 11:30 and vanishes, taking the agenda you wrote and leaving nothing that knows the meeting happened — so the notes go in a different app, the tasks in a third, and the hour is never logged.
And half your meetings aren't calls at all. They're a church hall, a kitchen table, a phone in a car park — which every video-first product treats as not existing.
So a meeting here is a record with a before, a during and an after — and where it happened is a chip, not a category.
What you want out of it, in the same editor as everything else — and it becomes the top of the note rather than being thrown away.
One note per meeting, born with the title, attendees and date on it. No save-to-project step and no chance of losing it.
A line starting - [ ] is an action item. Promote it to a task, a ticket or an estimate line — the meeting already knows the project and the people, so it asks nothing.
It doesn't exist in your pile until the meeting is done — then it arrives already starred, because it's almost always the next thing you should do.
Thirty seconds of housekeeping while it's fresh: log the minutes, update the ticket you talked about, send the write-up, book the next one. Every line is one tick, because everything on it already knows what it is.
And closing it changes nothing. The note is saved, the meeting is complete, and the tasks are there tomorrow.
Nobody needs another video product, so Formation doesn't try to be one. One room, no lobby to manage, no account for your guest — and the meeting's logbook open beside the faces, so what was said lands where the work lives.
Nobody switches video products for better video. They switch because the hour afterward disappears.
‹ See what Formation doesthe room, the guest's door, and what it deliberately doesn't do — cloudbase.day/formation
A first name and one tap. No account, no app, no download, no notifications prompt — and they can come in muted or with the camera off. Guests are free and uncounted, forever.
Everyone in the room can add a line, each editing only their own, so there's nothing to merge. Not a chat — nobody gets a notification and nothing scrolls away.
No server-side recording, no transcript, no talk-time stats. And no call is recorded at all without every person in it being told, on the door, before they enter.
No, and it isn't trying to be. No month grid as home, no drag-to-reschedule, no availability. Your calendar is on your phone and I'm not competing with it — this is the record, not the diary.
No. If you meet in person or on the phone, don't buy it — the agenda, the notes, the action items, the time and the write-up are all standard.
Normal. Coffee with someone about nothing yet is a real meeting, and forcing a project would make you invent one. It lives on the board and nowhere else.
Not today, and not by accident. Recording changes how people speak, so if it ever exists it will be its own switch, with its own consent — announced on the door before anyone enters.
Four. The media is peer-to-peer and honest about it — this is a room for a conversation, not a webinar.
The tile that broke says what broke — no modal over the room, and the logbook untouched. Their link still works for an hour; they walk back in.
That's the test. A month later, ask what you agreed — and see whether the answer is one click or an hour in your sent mail.
This is the short version of the site, cut down to what reads well on a small screen. The full thing — every instrument explained, the pricing configurator, the whole story — lives on the desktop site. So does the app: Cloudbase is meant to be worked from a real screen, at a desk, with your hands on it.