Otter now lets you search your Gmail, Notion, and Jira from one place

Otter’s been quietly building out its search capabilities for a while now, and this latest move is the most ambitious yet. The company just rolled out a feature that lets you hook up your Gmail, Google Drive, Notion, Jira, and Salesforce accounts, then search across all of them alongside your existing meeting data.

I’ve been testing this for a few days, and it’s one of those features that sounds simple on paper but actually changes how you work. Instead of jumping between tabs to find that one email thread or that buried Jira ticket, you just type into Otter’s search bar. It surfaces results from meetings, documents, and project management tools in one unified view.

The timing makes sense. Otter started as a meeting transcription tool, but over the past year they’ve been pushing hard into the broader productivity space. They already had solid search within transcripts, but that only gets you so far when your actual work lives across a dozen different apps.

What’s interesting is the scope. They’re not just doing a shallow integration where you get a few results from each service. The search actually indexes content from connected accounts, so you can find specific emails, document snippets, or Salesforce records. The Gmail integration, for example, surfaces email threads with relevant context, not just subject lines.

Missing right now are Microsoft tools — Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, and Slack. Otter says those are coming soon, which is good because a huge chunk of enterprise users live in that ecosystem. I’d also love to see Notion and Jira get deeper integration, maybe with the ability to create or update records directly from search results. That feels like the logical next step.

The feature is rolling out now to all Otter users. If you’re already using Otter for meeting notes, this is worth trying. If you’re not, this might be the reason to give it a shot — assuming you can live without Slack and Outlook support for a few more weeks.