Built-in note-taker

How to turn off Google Meet "Take notes for me"

Google's note-taker is built into Meet. Everybody is told when it is on, and a pencil shows on the screen while it writes.

Part of Google's own app Read on 9 November 2026

How it got into your call

Turn it off

  1. On the calendar event open Video call options → Meeting records and untick Take notes with Gemini.
  2. If the meeting has Host Management on, only hosts and co-hosts can start or stop the notes, so the host is the one to ask.
  3. A company's Google Workspace admin decides whether people in the company can use it at all.

Stop it in a call that is running

  1. Press Take notes for me at the top right and stop it. People from the organiser's company can do this at any time unless host controls keep it to hosts.
  2. A guest from outside the company cannot stop it. Ask the host.

What it keeps

The notes are a document in the organiser's Google Drive, in a folder called Google Meet, and it is attached to the calendar event. Who is emailed a copy is the organiser's choice.

In Google's own words

The button in the call
Google“Take notes for me”support.google.com/meet/answer/14754931
The button that starts it
Google“Start taking notes”support.google.com/meet/answer/14754931
The tick on the calendar event
Google“Take notes with Gemini”support.google.com/meet/answer/14754931

Read on 9 November 2026 from Google'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.

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Other notetakers

FellowFellow's Note Taker records the meetings its user has switched auto-record on for, and it leaves when anybody types a short command in the chat.AvomaAvoma's notetaker joins under the name Avoma Assistant, and it is gone within seconds once its owner stops the recording.MeetGeekMeetGeek joins under its owner's name followed by “MeetGeek Notetaker”, so the list of people usually tells you whose it is.GongGong records sales calls for the company that uses it. It joins as “Gong recorder”, and stopping it does not delete what it already has.Zoom AI in Google Meet and Teams callsZoom's AI can be sent into Google Meet and Microsoft Teams calls as a participant, to write a transcript and a summary for a Zoom user.Microsoft Teams CopilotCopilot in a Teams meeting is not a guest. The organiser chooses whether it runs, and switching it off also switches off recording and transcription.

The whole list →

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Meetings that take their own notes

Free video meetings in the browser: every line of the transcript under the name of who said it, and the summary and action items when you hang up. Nothing to install — guests just open the link.

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