Record a meeting
Start, pause, and stop meeting recordings with the detection widget, the hotkey, or the menu bar, and manage the recording time cap.
In closed beta
Meeting Notes is in closed beta and not yet available to everyone. This article describes how it works.
Start a meeting recording in three ways: click Record when Epilude notices a meeting starting, press the hotkey (default ⌘⇧M), or use the menu bar icon.
Before you start
Meeting Notes needs the Microphone and Screen Recording permissions, plus Accessibility for meeting detection. See How Meeting Notes works for what each one does.
Let Epilude notice the meeting
When a call starts, Epilude shows a small floating widget with Record and Dismiss buttons. Detection covers Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet (in Chrome, Safari, or Arc), Slack huddles, Webex, FaceTime, Discord, Skype, and WhatsApp.
Turn detection off for individual apps in Settings → Meeting Notes if you never want the widget for a particular app.
Start a recording yourself
Press ⌘⇧M at any time, or start and stop from the menu bar icon. The hotkey can be changed in your hotkey settings. Starting manually covers anything the widget does not detect, including in-person conversations.
During the meeting
The transcript builds live, split between your side (You) and the meeting audio (Them). Type anything you want to remember into the Your Notes field; it saves with the meeting. You can pause and resume at any time, and the menu bar icon shows a red dot while a recording runs.
The recording time cap
Recordings stop automatically after 4 hours by default. Change the cap to 2, 4, or 8 hours, or turn it off, in Settings → Meeting Notes. Ten minutes before the cap, Epilude warns you and offers Continue, which adds an hour. Pausing does not extend the cap; it counts time from the start of the recording.
If the app quits mid-meeting
The recording survives. If Epilude quits or your Mac restarts during a meeting, the meeting is recovered on the next launch with "(Recovered)" in its title, and a banner offers to generate the summary from what was captured.
Recording consent
Recording laws differ by country and region. Tell participants you are recording the meeting.
Troubleshooting
- The widget never appears? Check that Accessibility permission is granted and the app is not turned off in Settings → Meeting Notes. For apps outside the detection list, start recordings with ⌘⇧M.
- Other participants are missing from the transcript? Grant the Screen Recording permission. It is how Epilude captures the meeting audio your Mac plays.
- The recording stopped on its own? It reached the time cap. Raise or disable the cap in Settings → Meeting Notes.