Meetings

Every meeting on your calendar can hold more than a time and a title: notes while it happens, files you want next to it, and a recording you can jump around in afterward.

What counts as a meeting

Any event with a video-call link or other people invited has a meeting page — a personal block with no one else on it doesn't. Open the event in the Calendar app and choose Open meeting.

An event Pepper added to your calendar from an email has one too, even with no one else on it.

When it came from your email

When Pepper puts an event on your calendar from an email (from Planning, say), the event's notes in Google Calendar say so in one line — Added by Pepper on Thu, Nov 5 at 3:12 PM — for full context see a link — and the link opens that event's meeting page here.
Everything Pepper took from the email is on the page, beside your notes: who sent it and the subject, a short summary of what the meeting is about, the sentence that asked for it, the links and attachment names from the email under Sources, and the whole email thread, read from Gmail when you open the page (links in it are clickable). Open in Gmail opens the thread in the account the email came in on. The event's panel in the Calendar app shows the same summary. Pepper reads the first few PDFs and images attached to the email and puts a short summary under each one's name (other files show just their name); the files themselves aren't kept, only the summary. Only you see it: the email isn't written into the event, so nobody else on the calendar can read it.

Finding an old meeting

List opens on today; scroll up for earlier weeks. A past event that has a note or a recording carries a Notes or Recording chip; open it and choose Open meeting to read the note or play the recording.

Notes

A plain-text note next to each meeting, saved as you type — there's no button to press. Come back later and it's exactly as you left it. Clear a note out entirely and Pepper just forgets it rather than keeping an empty one around.

Materials

Attach files to a meeting — an agenda, a deck, anything you'll want next to it later. They sit alongside the notes and you can remove one when it's no longer useful.

Recording

Record the meeting's audio right from its page, with pause and resume if you need to stop partway through. While it's running, tap Bookmark to mark the moment something worth finding again just happened — after it's saved, tap that bookmark to jump the player straight to it. Tap Bookmark when nothing is recording and it's saved without a moment to jump to, since there's no recording for it to point into.

Delete a recording and its bookmarks go with it.

Good to know

• Nothing here is transcribed, and no summary is written of the meeting itself — it's notes, files and audio, kept exactly as you left them. (The summary on a meeting that came from email is of the email, written when Pepper found it.)
• A meeting's notes and files are yours, the same as anything else you save — see Your data.

Things to try

• Bookmark the decision. Record the meeting from its page, and when the decision finally gets made, tap Bookmark. Afterward, tap the bookmark and the player jumps straight to that moment — no scrubbing through an hour of audio.
• Find last month's call. Scroll up in List, and the meetings you took notes on or recorded are marked with a chip.
• Keep the deck with the meeting. Attach the agenda and the deck to the meeting itself, so they're there when it starts and still next to your notes when you look back next month.
• Notes that save themselves. Type notes on the meeting's page while it happens. There's no save button; close it, come back, and they're exactly as you left them.