Why my calendar title wasn’t used

When a meeting is in your calendar, Recordist uses its title and attendees for the prompt, the meeting name and the Prep Brief. If the meeting got a generic name such as “Zoom meeting · Thu 3 Sep, 14:00” instead, one of these is the cause.

Calendar access is off or not granted

Two things must both be on: Name meetings from my calendar (macOS Calendar) in Settings → Detection, and calendar permission for Recordist under System Settings → Privacy & Security → Calendars. Recordist reads events; it never writes.

The event is in a calendar Recordist cannot see

Recordist reads the calendars that appear in the macOS Calendar app. A Google or Outlook calendar that is only open in a browser tab is invisible. Add the account to macOS Calendar (System Settings → Internet Accounts) and it will show up.

The call started outside the event window

Matching uses a window around the event: from 5 minutes before the start to the scheduled end. A call that starts 10 minutes early, or runs from a different event’s slot, will not match. You can rename the meeting afterwards; the transcript is unaffected.

The meeting was in a browser without the extension

Browser calls are detected through the microphone; Recordist cannot tell which Meet tab it is. Install and pair the Chrome extension and the title comes straight from the tab.

Fixing a title after the fact

Open the meeting, click the title, and type. When nothing named the call, the record card already reads a plain name, such as “Zoom call · 10:30”, which you can type over.