Meeting notes

Memento can take the notes while you have the meeting. Record it — or send a notetaker bot into the call — and a little later the meeting is in your library as a proper page: what was discussed, what was decided, and who committed to what, with the full transcript and the original audio kept as evidence.

Recording a meeting

Open Capture → Record a meeting (or go straight to /app/record), give it a title, and press record. Your microphone is captured in every browser — that alone covers in-person meetings and your side of any call.

For an online meeting running in another tab (Meet, Zoom, Teams in the browser), use Record mic + meeting tab audio in Chrome or Edge: pick the meeting's tab in the share dialog and tick “Also share tab audio”. Memento mixes both sides of the conversation into one recording. Firefox, Safari, and phones can't share tab audio — there you get a clean mic-only recording instead.

You can pause and resume; the elapsed timer keeps counting only while recording.
The recording is continuously saved in your browser while you record — if the tab crashes or closes, the next visit to the record screen offers it back under “Unsaved recordings”.
If the upload fails (offline at the end of a call), the recording stays recoverable in the browser and is downloaded as a file too — nothing is lost.

Sending a notetaker

When the notetaker is available, the record screen also offers “…or send a notetaker”: paste the meeting link (Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, or Zoom) and a bot named Memento notetaker joins the call as a visible participant — someone may need to admit it from the waiting room. No tab-sharing, no open Memento tab needed; when the meeting ends, the notes arrive on their own. You can dismiss the bot early — whatever it heard up to that point is filed.

What happens after

The moment the recording lands, it shows up in your Inbox as “Analysing…”. In the background Memento transcribes the audio, then reads the transcript the way it reads any capture and files a meeting page: a short summary, the decisions made, attendees and projects as links, and every commitment as a checkable action item with its due date. If something is ambiguous — which project was that? — it asks you a quick question in the inbox first.

Those action items aren't stranded on the meeting page: the same lines show up in the Planner, pooled with everything else you owe anyone across every space. See Planner.

If you meet in a language other than English, set the space's language under Settings → Language first. Told what to expect, transcription stops guessing — and guessing is where it goes wrong, most often by hearing Danish as Norwegian or Swedish. Leave it unset and Memento detects the language per recording, which is what you want for a space you use in several languages.

Nothing is thrown away: the full transcript stays as a read-only source page, every claim on the meeting page cites it, and the original audio can be downloaded from the source at any time. If transcription ever fails, the recording is safe — re-uploading the same file simply retries it.

Privacy

Transcription runs on Memento's own servers — your audio is never sent to a third-party transcription service. The original recording stays in your library as a source you can download or delete at any time. Recording a conversation may require the consent of the people in it — the rules vary by place, and that part is on you.

Limits worth knowing

Notes arrive a few minutes after the meeting — there are no live captions (yet).
Recordings made with mic + meeting tab audio label who said what as “You” and “Others” — your side and theirs are kept apart. Mic-only recordings and notetaker captures carry timestamps without names.
A recording is capped at 256 MB on upload. Memento records at a voice-tuned bitrate, so that is roughly ten hours in one sitting — an all-day workshop is comfortably inside it. If an upload does fail, the recording is kept in your browser and also downloaded to your device, so you can retry it from the record screen.