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# Connect Google Calendar

> Link your calendar so meeting notes arrive titled, with attendees filled in and a one-click join.

Connecting a calendar is optional — meeting recording works without it. What it
adds is context: notes that arrive already named, attendee lists that pre-fill
speaker labels, and a prompt that appears because a meeting is *scheduled*
rather than because OpenWhispr heard something.

## Connect it

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open Integrations">
    Click **Integrations** in the sidebar, then the **Calendar** section.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Connect">
    Choose **Connect Google Calendar** and sign in with the Google account whose
    calendar you want. You'll be asked to approve access in your browser.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Choose which calendars count">
    **Sync primary calendar only** ignores events from calendars other people
    have shared with you. Leave it on if colleagues' calendars would otherwise
    fill your list with meetings you're not in.
  </Step>
</Steps>

You can connect more than one account — **Add another calendar** repeats the
process. The panel shows the **Google Calendar** card with a **Connected**
badge, one row per connected account showing its email address, and the
**Sync primary calendar only** switch.

## What it changes

| Without a calendar                                    | With one connected                                                |
| ----------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Prompt appears when OpenWhispr hears sustained speech | Prompt also appears just before a scheduled meeting               |
| Notes start as **New note**                           | Notes take the event's title                                      |
| Speaker count starts at a default                     | Attendees pre-fill the expected speaker count                     |
| You join the call yourself                            | **Join & transcribe** opens the link and starts the note together |

## System audio still needs its own permission

Connecting a calendar doesn't give OpenWhispr the ability to hear the other
people on the call. That's a separate operating-system permission, and the
integration panel will say so — *"To transcribe meetings, OpenWhispr needs the
System Audio permission to capture other participants"* — with an
**Open System Settings** button.

[Capturing both sides of the call](/help/meetings/capture-both-sides) walks
through it per platform.

## Disconnecting

In the same panel, hover over the row showing the account's email address. A
small unlink icon appears at the right-hand end of that row — click it. Nothing
on the panel is labelled "Disconnect", and the icon stays invisible until you
hover, so the row looks like it has no controls at rest.

You'll then be asked to confirm, and that dialog *is* labelled **Disconnect**.
Afterwards that calendar stops producing meeting prompts and stops filling in
titles and attendees; notes you already recorded are untouched.

<Note>
  Disconnecting is the right move if you connected a work account and are
  leaving, or if you'd rather OpenWhispr didn't read a calendar at all. It
  doesn't disable meeting recording — the microphone-based prompt and the
  Meeting Mode Hotkey keep working.
</Note>

## Related

* [How meeting detection works](/help/meetings/how-meeting-detection-works)
* [Record a meeting](/help/meetings/record-a-meeting)
* [Where your data goes](/help/privacy/where-your-data-goes)

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