Notetaker
How to stop Attention joining your meetings
Attention, a sales-call recorder, normally sends a notetaker into the call under its user's name — but it can also record from their computer with nothing in the call at all.
Read on 10 November 2026
How it got into your call
- Somebody in the call uses Attention with their calendar linked. Its notetaker joins Zoom, Google Meet and Teams meetings they have accepted, depending on who is invited and on their company's rules.
- It joins under the name and picture its user chose, or one the company set for everybody — so it may not say Attention.
- If its user has switched on desktop recording, no notetaker joins: the Attention app records the meeting window and microphone from their own computer instead.
If it is yours: stop it joining
- For one meeting: on Attention's Home page its user unticks Join on the event. That changes that event only.
- To change which meetings it joins, its user edits Join external calls when under Call Settings; internal meetings have their own switch.
- A company can add a domain to Blocked domains in its organisation settings, so the notetaker stops joining automatically when anybody from that domain is invited. A user can still send it in by hand.
Get it out of a call that is running
- If it is in the list of people, the host can remove it like any guest.
- Its user can also remove it from Attention: Home → Ongoing Calls → Remove bot from call. The notetaker then leaves.
- If it is recording from somebody's computer, there is nothing on screen to remove. Ask at the start whether anybody is recording, and ask them to stop if you do not agree to it.
What it keeps
Recordings go to its user's Attention workspace, where they are transcribed and matched to deals in the company's CRM.
In Attention's own words
Which meetings it joins
Attention“It joins events that have a Zoom, Google Meet or Microsoft Teams link and that you have accepted in your calendar.”
docs.attention.com/core-features/auto-join-rules
Keeping it out of one meeting
Attention“Check Join to send Attention to that meeting, or uncheck it to keep Attention out.”
docs.attention.com/core-features/get-attention-into-calls
Removing it from Attention
Attention“The notetaker leaves the meeting.”
docs.attention.com/core-features/get-attention-into-calls
Its name
Attention“By default, each user’s notetaker joins calls with the name and picture set in their personal settings”
docs.attention.com/workspace-setup/organization-settings
Blocking a company's domain
Attention“The notetaker doesn’t join a call automatically when anyone from a blocked domain is invited.”
docs.attention.com/workspace-setup/organization-settings
No bot at all
Attention“The Attention Desktop App is an alternative: it records meetings directly from your computer”
docs.attention.com/core-features/desktop-app
Desktop recording replaces the bot
Attention“the notetaker bot no longer joins your calls automatically”
docs.attention.com/core-features/desktop-app
Read on 10 November 2026 from Attention's own help pages. Something changed? Tell us.
A meeting with nothing to remove
On Meetful the notes are written by the meeting itself, from each person's own microphone, so no extra guest joins. Anybody can leave themselves out of the notes and stay in the call.
Other notetakers
Vitally Meeting RecorderVitally's recorder joins customer calls for account managers who use Vitally. It stays at least fifteen minutes once it starts, even in an empty call — and only the host can remove it mid-call.JumpJump is a notetaker built for financial advisers. If your adviser uses it, a Jump notetaker joins your video meeting from their calendar, and only they can take it out or pause it.BrightHireBrightHire records job interviews for the company hiring. As the candidate you can opt out before the interview, or say at any point that you would rather not be recorded — and stopping it erases the whole recording.Ashby AI NotetakerAshby, a recruiting system, can send an AI Notetaker into job interviews. Whether you are asked first depends on the hiring company's consent policy — and the interviewer can remove it, or stop the recording from Ashby, at any time.Greenhouse NotetakerGreenhouse, the hiring system, only sends its notetaker into an interview if the candidate has agreed to be recorded — and if you take that back, Greenhouse removes it from the interview by itself.Dover AI NotetakerDover's notetaker records job interviews for the hiring company. It joins as “Dover Notetaker” and needs the host to let it in — except on an open Google Meet, where it walks straight in.
Try Meetful
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