Wallpaper

I Built This Because Meetings Move Fast

The problem isn't attention — it's that being present in a meeting and capturing it accurately at the same time are genuinely competing tasks. The moment you shift focus to write something down, you've already missed the next thing said.

I noticed this in myself: the meetings where I was most engaged were often the ones where my notes were the worst. Not because I wasn't paying attention — because I was paying too much attention to split it toward a notepad.

Wallpaper runs in the background during meetings. It transcribes in real time, then uses the Claude API to surface enhanced notes, action items, and decisions. A Kanban board sits alongside the AI panel so tasks captured in the moment can move immediately into a workflow — without me ever having to look away from the conversation.

Most People in Meetings Are Doing Three Things at Once

Listening, thinking, and trying to write. That split attention means something always slips. You either lose the context because you were writing, or you lose the note because you were listening.

Existing tools either required too much setup, captured too much without helping you make sense of it, or produced summaries so generic they weren't actionable. What I needed was something lightweight that ran in the background, stayed out of the way, and only stepped in after the meeting to help me organize what I'd heard.

Empty state and login — the tool should feel calm before a meeting starts.

75/25 — Work First, AI Second

The layout is a deliberate split: 75% Kanban board, 25% AI panel. The Kanban is the primary surface — it's where work lives and moves. The AI panel is a tool you pull from, not something that dominates the experience.

During a meeting, the transcript tab runs silently. You can glance at it to verify it's capturing, but you don't need to manage it. After — or at any point mid-meeting — you can trigger note enhancement. Claude takes the raw transcript and returns structured notes: key points, decisions made, action items with owners where it can infer them.

The Kanban board sits in the same view so tasks can move the moment they're identified. No context switching, no copying between apps — the capture and the workflow are in the same place.

Three Tabs. One Source of Truth.

The AI panel has three tabs: Transcript, Notes, and Actions. The transcript is the raw feed. Notes is where Claude's enhancement lands — structured, readable, and specific to what was actually discussed. Actions isolates task-specific output so you don't have to hunt through notes to find what you need to do.

Enhanced notes and extracted actions — two views from the same source.

I Designed It. Claude Powers It.

This project uses the Claude API as its core intelligence layer. Transparency matters here — especially for a tool built around trust and accuracy.

Building this deepened how I think about AI in product design. The most useful AI isn't the most visible — it's the kind that fits into an existing behavior so naturally that you stop noticing it's there.

I Use It Every Day. That's the Metric.

Wallpaper is something I use every day. Not that it's impressive to show, but that it's actually useful to have. It's made my meetings less stressful and my follow-through more consistent.

Post-meeting recaps dropped from 20+ minutes to under 5. Tasks no longer slip between the meeting and the to-do list. The tool runs without interrupting the meeting — no setup, no bots, no friction. And using it daily taught me more about designing for ambient, background AI than any brief could have.