Record a meeting
Start and stop meeting recordings with the detection card, the hotkey, or the menu bar, resume a stopped meeting, and manage the time cap.
Start a meeting recording in three ways: click Take notes when Epilude notices a meeting starting, press the hotkey (default ⌘⇧M), or use the menu bar icon.
Before you start
Notetaker needs the Microphone and Screen Recording permissions, plus Accessibility for meeting detection. See How Notetaker works for what each one does.
Let Epilude notice the meeting
When a call starts, Epilude shows a small floating card reading Meeting detected, with a Take notes button and a dismiss control. 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 → Notetaker if you never want the card 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 Epilude does not detect, including in-person conversations.
During the meeting
The transcript builds live, split between your side (Me) and the meeting audio (Them). Type anything you want to remember into the My notes tab; it saves as you type, and it shapes the summary written later.
While you work in other apps, a small floating control shows the recording is running. Hover it to peek at the live transcript without switching windows, and click it to jump back to the note. The menu bar icon turns red for the length of the recording.
Dictation keeps working during a meeting. Press your hotkey and dictate into any app as usual; the meeting records your microphone the whole time, so what you say while dictating also lands in the meeting transcript.
Stop, resume, or roll into the next meeting
Click Stop on the note, or stop from the menu bar. A stopped meeting can keep going: open it and click Resume to record more into the same note, for example when a call reconvenes.
For back-to-back calls, click New Note in the meetings list while a recording runs. Epilude stops and saves the current meeting, then starts a fresh one. A note with nothing in it yet (no words spoken, no typed notes, no title of yours) is discarded rather than saved.
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 → Notetaker. Ten minutes before the cap, Epilude warns you and offers Continue, which adds an hour. The cap counts 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. Some require only that you tell participants; others require every participant to agree before you start. Giving any notice and obtaining any consent the law requires is your responsibility, and Epilude does not determine what applies to a given meeting. See Getting consent to record for what to say, and the Terms of Service for what you agree to.
Troubleshooting
- The Meeting detected card never appears? Check that Accessibility permission is granted and the app is not turned off in Settings → Notetaker. 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 → Notetaker.