Calendar

The Coming up panel on Home is JotMe's calendar. Connect Google Calendar once and your next events are listed there, each one able to start a note-taking or live translation session that already knows what the meeting or event is and who is in it.

Coming up

19Aug
WedPartner sync9:30 PM – 10:30 PMStart note-takingEnglish transcription

LanguageChoose transcription and translation languages

Translation & transcription qualityAdjust speed, context, and quality

Voice-to-voice translationConfigure translated speech and audio routing

Share live translationCreate a link or share in JotMe Chat

Connecting Google Calendar#

Home shows Link your calendar until a calendar is connected. Choosing it opens Google's authorization in your browser; the panel waits, showing Waiting for Google…, and fills in as soon as you approve.

Once connected, the panel is labelled with the account it is reading: Google Calendar · you@company.com, so you can tell which of several Google accounts is feeding it.

Disconnect is on the panel itself. JotMe asks for confirmation ("Disconnect Google Calendar from JotMe?") before dropping the connection.

Reading the day#

The panel lists today's events with their times, and pages backwards and forwards through Previous events and Next events so you can look at yesterday or tomorrow without leaving Home. A refresh control re-reads the calendar on demand.

When there is nothing scheduled, it says No events today and confirms the connection is healthy rather than leaving you wondering: "Your calendar is connected and up to date."

Events with no title are listed as Untitled event rather than a blank row.

Start note-taking or live translation#

The first upcoming event today has a split start button. It reflects the live-session setup currently saved for that event:

• Start note-taking shows the spoken language that JotMe will transcribe.
• Start live translation shows the spoken and translated languages, such as English → Japanese.

Click the main part of the button to start immediately with the mode shown. Use its chevron to choose Start note-taking or Start live translation instead. JotMe uses the selected languages and quality mode when the session begins; live translation opens on the transcript, while note-taking opens on Notes.

For the complete controls and session flow, see Note-taking or Live translation.

You can also click the calendar event itself. This opens that meeting or event's Notes workspace without starting the recording, which is useful for preparing an agenda or questions. In either path, the event carries this context into the session:

• the event title, which becomes the session and recording title
• the start time, so the notes are filed against the right slot
• the attendees: names and email addresses, with your own entry marked, so speaker labels and meeting notes can use real names
• the calendar event id, which is what ties everything below to this specific meeting

Notes you type before the meeting or event starts are kept as a draft against that event, so preparing an agenda in the morning and choosing Start note-taking in the afternoon keeps what you wrote.

Configure the event before starting#

Choose the gear beside an event to open its live-session settings:

• Language: choose the transcription language and, when needed, the translation language.
• Translation & transcription quality: adjust speed, context, and quality.
• Voice-to-voice translation: configure translated speech and the audio routing used to play or send it.
• Share with a URL: reserve the attendee link or post its invitation in JotMe Chat.

Choosing one opens that event's workspace directly on the relevant settings panel. Once a session is running, the start control changes to Session live and the gear stays unavailable until the current session ends.

Inviting people before the meeting or event starts#

A live translation link can be reserved for a calendar event before anyone joins, so you can put it in the calendar invitation or send it directly. The link and join code stay attached to that event, and the same pair returns whenever you reopen it. Guests can open the invitation early; it becomes live when you start the session.

For browser links, QR codes, desktop codes, participant voice, and Subtitle Camera, start with Share live translation. For link preparation, expiry, and the JotMe Chat invitation card, see Share with a URL.

Each calendar event remembers its own settings#

JotMe stores live-session settings against the specific calendar event ID. Reopen that same event on the same computer and its saved choices return; a different event keeps its own setup.

What is remembered per event:

• spoken language, translation language, and translation mode
• translation quality, automatic quality adjustment, and real-time memory
• microphone, meeting audio capture device, and AI audio output device
• audio capture mode and the audio buses used for capture and playback
• speech-to-speech mode and routing, including whether your translated voice is sent to the online meeting or event

What stays global, because it is about the window rather than the event: pin, text size, background opacity, and theme.

What the calendar does not do#

• It reads Google Calendar only: other calendar providers are not connected.
• It reads events; it does not create or edit them.
• Nothing starts recording on its own. Start from the event on Home, from its workspace, or choose Start note-taking or Start live translation from the calendar reminder notification. Join meeting & open JotMe only opens the call and JotMe; it does not start recording.