Gemini now takes notes in your in-person meetings on Google Meet

How many times have you left an in-person project meeting, a kickoff, a status update, or just a quick alignment with the team, and no one wrote down the decisions, agreements and next steps? This happens all the time in organizations. Taking notes really does pull focus away from the meeting and creates extra work.

Now Gemini solves this: it can listen to and automatically record in-person meetings, without needing to open a video call.

How it works

The feature already existed for online meetings, and now it also works live, face to face. You just need Google Meet on your computer or phone:

1. Open Google Meet (web or app)
2. Tap Take notes
3. Select Start taking notes
4. Pause and resume whenever you want, using the corresponding buttons
5. At the end, click the red X to stop
6. Give the notes a title and click Save

Within a few minutes, the summary arrives by email and is automatically saved to your Google Drive, with the transcript, key points and action items already organized.

Why this matters if you lead projects

In-person project meetings usually have a quiet problem: either someone gives up actually participating to become the "official note-taker," or nobody writes anything down and the decisions get lost. With Gemini, that work disappears, saving your time and solving a pain point that's incredibly common in organizations.

It works well in any face-to-face project meeting: steering committees, status meetings, alignments with a client or vendor, kickoffs. Just remember to turn it on before you start.

Worth trying right now

In your next in-person project meeting, try the feature before deciding whether it becomes routine. The gain is direct: less time writing minutes, more time actually discussing what matters. If it works well in your context, it's worth comparing, did it bring the same result to your meetings?

Cheers! Leandro Vieira