Daria vs NotesBot

NotesBot tunes the summary. Daria tunes the ear.

NotesBot comes at tabletop from the side: it is a Discord meeting-notes bot first, with a D&D mode and a custom focus prompt layered on top that turn it into something that writes about what your system actually cares about.

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What NotesBot is

A Discord bot that records your session and returns an AI recap shaped by two settings: a custom focus prompt that tells the AI what your game cares about, and a D&D mode that runs a five-hour session and shapes the recap for campaigns — story beats, NPCs, loot and next hooks. Every session also comes back as a full speaker-labeled, timestamped transcript and an MP3, filed in a dashboard you can search. The vendor names Pathfinder, Call of Cthulhu, Blades in the Dark, Shadowrun, Lancer, Mothership and fully homebrew systems as supported.

What we confirmed it does

  • Records a Discord voice channel
  • Writes the recap for you

This is what we could verify, not a complete list of what it does — anything missing here is something we did not check, not something it lacks. Its own site is the authority.

Facts about NotesBot checked on 2026-08-18 against its own site.

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What Daria does

  • Records a Discord voice channel
  • Each speaker on their own track
  • Records a table playing in one room
  • Accepts audio recorded elsewhere
  • Writes the recap for you
  • Builds a campaign wiki
  • Answers questions about past sessions
  • Generates artwork
  • Answers cite the session they came from
  • Connects to a virtual tabletop
  • Reachable from Claude or ChatGPT over MCP

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What it says about its own limits

  • NotesBot’s 30-minute free trial is one-time and does not renew monthly.
  • Speaker labels are less precise for hybrid tables, where the in-room voices share one Discord account.
  • Per-speaker streams are merged into a single MP3 — there are no per-speaker audio files.
  • Stored MP3 recordings are deleted after 14 days.

What NotesBot is genuinely good at

Where Daria differs

The tuning happens before the transcription, not after. A focus prompt shapes what the AI writes about words it has already misheard. Daria is told your invented names in advance: register the party with /character and add your places, gods and homebrew items to the campaign glossary, and every one of those goes to the transcriber before it hears a single word — so your world comes back spelled the way you spell it. The whole party can add terms, not just the GM.

She records tables that are not on Discord. NotesBot can cover a hybrid table if someone in the room joins voice with an open mic, and says itself that speaker labels get less precise that way. Daria takes a laptop or phone at the physical table, separates the voices in the room, and you name each one once.

The output is more than a recap and a transcript. The session comes back cut into its real scenes with a summary each, artwork of the moments that mattered, a podcast, and a running campaign synopsis — plus /ask over everything, with answers that link to the session and scene they came from.

And Daria’s campaign is queryable by your own AI assistant, through the MCP server, from Claude or ChatGPT.

Which one fits your table?

Choose NotesBot if

You want a recap, a transcript and an MP3 filed somewhere you can find them, without adopting a whole campaign platform. It is available today, it is easy to set up, and the focus prompt is a smart way to get system-appropriate notes without configuration sprawl.

Choose Daria if

Your invented names keep coming back mangled, your table sometimes plays in person, or you want to ask the campaign a question and get an answer that links to the session and scene it came from, rather than searching one transcript at a time.

Questions about NotesBot and Daria

Can I tell Daria what to focus on?

You shape her differently: registered characters and a campaign glossary steer the transcription itself, uploaded documents feed what she can answer from, and /correct fixes mistakes in a way that carries forward. There is no single free-text focus prompt like NotesBot’s.

Does Daria work for systems other than D&D?

All of them. She transcribes speech and summarizes story and never reads a rulebook — Call of Cthulhu, Blades, Shadowrun and homebrew work exactly the same way as 5e.

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