# How Canto links recordings to meetings

> Recordings started from a calendar event carry its title, attendees, and agenda — feeding better summaries, an Agenda check, and series auto-filing.

Updated: 2026-08-16 · Canonical: https://usecanto.com/help/calendar/meetings-and-series/

When a recording starts from a calendar event — you tap a meeting under **Today's meetings**, or the [notetaker](https://usecanto.com/help/notetaker/what-is-the-notetaker/) records it — Canto attaches a snapshot of that event to the recording. The title is pre-filled, the meeting's context feeds the AI, and recurring meetings can file themselves into a folder automatically.

## What meeting details does a recording carry?

The recording keeps the event as it stood when the note started: title, time, attendee list, description, and the join link. On the recording you'll see the attendee count, a "recurring" marker on series meetings, and **Open meeting link** to jump back to the original Teams, Meet, or Zoom link. Because it's a snapshot, later edits to the calendar event don't rewrite past notes.

Notetaker recordings additionally use the attendee list to put real names on speakers — see [Speaker separation](https://usecanto.com/help/transcription/speaker-separation/).

## How does the calendar improve summaries?

The event's title, attendees, and description are given to the AI alongside the transcript, for [summaries](https://usecanto.com/help/ai/summaries/) as well as [chat](https://usecanto.com/help/ai/chat-with-a-recording/) and Views. That grounds the output in who was there and what the meeting was for — names spelled the way the invite spells them, discussion mapped to the stated purpose.

When the event has an agenda — a meeting description, or an agenda in your notes — the summary gains an **Agenda check** section: a point-by-point look at what was actually covered versus what was planned, so skipped items surface instead of vanishing. Recordings without an agenda don't get the section.

## What is series auto-filing?

Recurring meetings produce a stream of related notes, and Canto offers to keep them together. On the web, after you stop a recording linked to a recurring meeting (or one whose series you've recorded before), a prompt appears — **Keep these meetings together?** — offering to create a folder for the series and file every future note there automatically.

The prompt also offers **Share with attendees?** — a checklist of the meeting's attendees to share the folder with. Attendees outside your email domain start unchecked, so nothing leaves your organization by default. Decline with **Don't ask for this meeting** and Canto won't ask about that series again.

## On iOS and Android

Mobile recordings carry the same meeting details and get the same AI benefits, but the auto-filing prompt itself is web-only. Decisions made on the web follow you: once a series has a folder, notes recorded on any platform file into it automatically.

## FAQ

### Can I attach a meeting to a recording after the fact?

No. The link is made when the recording starts — from a **Today's meetings** tap or a notetaker join. A recording started from the plain record button stays unlinked, though you can still [move it into a folder](https://usecanto.com/help/organize/move-recordings/) yourself.

### Does any of this write to my calendar?

No. Canto reads event details to show today's meetings and improve notes. It never writes to your calendar.

Related articles:

- [Manage calendar accounts and toggles](https://usecanto.com/help/calendar/manage-calendars/)
- [File recurring meetings automatically](https://usecanto.com/help/organize/series-auto-filing/)
- [What's in an AI summary?](https://usecanto.com/help/ai/summaries/)
- [What is the Canto notetaker bot?](https://usecanto.com/help/notetaker/what-is-the-notetaker/)