How Canto links recordings to meetings

When a recording starts from a calendar event — you tap a meeting under Today's meetings, or 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.

How does the calendar improve summaries?

The event's title, attendees, and description are given to the AI alongside the transcript, for summaries as well as chat 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 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.