A Chrome extension that reminds you to record a meeting as you join
A note taker only helps if it is running before the useful part happens, and by the time you realise a call is worth recording, the decision has usually already been made. Nobody forgets to take notes. They forget to start. The OpenNoteTaker browser extension exists for that one gap: it notices a meeting opening in a tab and asks, in the corner, while the call is starting.
It is a reminder and nothing more. It is entirely optional — everything works without it, you just press the record button yourself — and it is the only part of OpenNoteTaker you install rather than open. This page is what it does, what it is able to see, and where it stops.
What the reminder looks like
On a Google Meet call it is a small card in the top-right corner of the tab. It reads: “You are in a Google Meet meeting. Record and transcribe it in OpenNoteTaker? Nothing is uploaded, and no bot joins the call.” With it are two buttons, Record this meeting and Not now, and a link reading Never ask on meet.google.com.
It asks once, quietly, as the call opens. It is not a notification you have to dismiss. A screenshot of the prompt on a real call is in the extension section of the home page.
Which meetings it recognises
| Platform | More on recording it |
|---|---|
| Google Meet | How to record a Google Meet call in your browser |
| Zoom | Recording a Zoom meeting as a participant |
| Microsoft Teams | Recording and transcribing a Microsoft Teams meeting in the browser |
| VooV / 腾讯会议 | — |
What it notices is a meeting opening in a browser tab. OpenNoteTaker records a meeting that runs in a browser tab; if the call is in a desktop app, join it from the web client instead.
What happens when you say yes
- The extension hands the tab to the application and stops there. It never starts a recording. There is no calendar and no auto-join.
- You land on the consent screen, every time. Every recording opens on one, with words you can read out. It cannot be skipped or remembered, because consent is something you get from people rather than a setting.
- The application does the recording, in your tab. The tab and your microphone are captured together, so both sides of the call are on the recording, and Whisper transcribes it in the same tab. No bot joins the call and no audio is uploaded.
Turning it off for one site
If a site is one you never want to be asked on, “Never ask on this site” is one click, and it is remembered.
What the extension can and cannot see
- It contacts nothing. There is no network code in it at all, and it has no server to report to.
- It does not read what is said or written in the meeting — only the tab’s address, its title, and whether a leave-call button is on the page.
- It never sees audio. Its declared permissions are tabs and storage only, with no microphone permission at all. It is a meeting detector, not a recorder.
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It can be checked. The whole thing is a handful of small files:
read
its source, where
grep -r fetchcomes back empty.
Installing it
It is one click from either store, and it updates itself from there: the Chrome Web Store or Edge Add-ons. Noticing the Meet, Zoom, Teams or VooV call you joined is free, like recording and transcription.
What it cannot do
- Chrome and Edge only. Firefox and Safari have no build yet.
- It does not record for you. It asks, and the consent screen still comes first.
- It cannot tell you whether you may record. That depends on where everyone in the call is, and OpenNoteTaker cannot answer it for you.
Record a meeting · Questions before you start · Where the audio goes
Every capability and limit above is one this site states about itself — the extension section, the pricing table and the questions on the home page, and the extension paragraph on the privacy page — and was checked against them on 11 October 2026.