Record and summarize a meeting

This guide shows you how to record a meeting and get an AI-generated writeup. Everything runs on-device — see Meetings and transcription for how it works.

Before you start

Grant Control Center microphone permission when prompted (your OS asks on first record).
On macOS, system-audio capture is driver-free — no extra setup. On Linux, make sure a PipeWire/PulseAudio session is running.

Start a recording

Open Meetings in the sidebar.
Click Record. The live recording HUD opens at /meetings/record.
Pick the mode if prompted:
- Remote — captures your mic plus the system audio (the other participants).
- In person — captures the room through your mic.

Recording starts immediately. The HUD shows a level meter, the elapsed time, and a live transcript building up on one side.

During the meeting

Take rough notes in the notes pane. They’re saved as you type and handed to the summary agent later, so jot down anything the transcript might miss.
Pause and resume with the pause control — transcription stops while paused and the timer freezes.
The transcript streams in speaker-tagged: your words as me, everyone else as them.

Stop and summarize

Click Stop.
The meeting moves to processing — diarization splits the remote channel into individual speakers, and the meeting_summary pipeline generates the writeup.
When it finishes, the meeting flips to done and opens its detail view.

You don’t have to wait on the summary — stopping returns immediately, and the meeting finishes processing in the background.

Review the writeup

The meeting detail (/meetings/:meetingId) has four tabs:

Tab	What’s there
Notes	The AI summary and enhanced notes, built from your rough notes + the transcript
Transcript	The full speaker-tagged transcript with timestamps
Action items	Extracted to-dos, each with an optional owner
Decisions	Decisions captured during the call

From here you can:

Rename speakers — change Person 1 to a real name; it applies across the transcript.
Check off action items as you complete them.
Link an action item to a ticket to hand it to an agent — see Delegate work to agents.
Re-run the summary if you want a fresh pass (for example after renaming speakers).

Record straight from a calendar event

If you’ve connected a calendar, you can skip the manual start:

Open the event from Calendar or the “meeting starting soon” notification.
Click Start recording & link.

The recording is seeded with the event’s title and linked back to it, so the notes and the calendar entry stay connected.

Meetings and transcription