The longer Gemini has been out, the cooler it gets! We’re particularly excited for today’s announcement from Google, that the “Take Notes For Me” function in Meet is now generally available to the public. Here’s the lowdown from Google:

“Take notes for me” is an AI-powered feature in Google Meet that will take notes for you, so you can focus on collaborating and getting the most out of your virtual meetings. After the Meet call ends, Gemini creates a Doc with the notes, which is attached to the calendar event where participants internal to your organization can access them. Currently, this feature is available when using Google Meet on a computer or laptop, and meetings must be conducted in spoken English.

It can be tough to both be an active part in your meeting while also trying to keep a record of it and subsequent follow-ups. This is where Gemini’s latest feature can help. When turned on, the feature will do the following:

• Automatically capture meeting notes in Google Docs and save it to the Google Drive of the meeting owner.
• Catch you up during the meeting with “summary so far” if you join late.
• Send an email with a link to the recap after the meeting. This email goes to the meeting organizer and whoever turned on the feature. 

This will help you be more present and engaged during your meetings, while still ensuring important information is captured for record-keeping and follow-up. If users also turn on meeting recordings and transcripts, those will be linked within the notes document.

Notes documents will be stored in the meeting owner’s drive folder and will follow the Meet retention policy that your organization has configured. If you are currently testing this feature in Workspace Labs and Alpha, your experience will change from respecting the Drive retention policy to respecting the Meet retention policy.

Google is using a gradual rollout for this feature (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on August 27, 2024 with expected completion on September 10, 2024. It is available for users with Gemini Enterprise, or with the AI Meetings & Messaging add on.