Gemini will now work with Google Meet to take notes—so you don’t have to
It’ll help you save time and focus better during your meetings.
Given that attendees only retain 10% of a meeting’s session, note-taking is key to providing a future reference point. But it can be quite counterproductive if that’s all you’re doing all meeting long. Not to mention time-consuming.
For Workspace users, at least, this will no longer be an issue. Google alerted users in a detailed blog post on Thursday about an AI-powered feature, “Take notes for me,” which will help them, “drop the pen and lean into the conversation instead of taking notes."
They also shared that Gemini, the company’s AI model, will be responsible for this functionality.
Now, "Take notes for me" isn't Google's first rodeo in this arena. Last year, they dropped Duet AI in Meet, which could already handle note-taking, meeting-joining, and video clip capturing. But by bringing Gemini into the mix with "Take notes for me," Google's already offering users a simpler alternative to Duet AI. Talk about being your own toughest competitor.
While the feature is set to roll out gradually to Workspace’s 3 billion users per data from Market Splash—starting August 13th and should be complete by August 21st—Workspace Lab admins can now choose if they want to let their users in on the action by hopping into Apps > Google Workspace > Google Meet > Gemini
They can also edit these AI-generated notes, save them on their Drive, share them or delete them. But keep in mind that this feature is only available to English-based users with Gemini Education Premium, Gemini Enterprise, or AI meetings or Messaging add-ons.
Users will know when ”Take notes for me“ is active in Google Meet once they see a starred pencil icon at the top of the screen. Upon clicking the icon, they’ll see the AI-generated notes so far.
I believe “Take notes for me,” is a useful tool but at $10/month per user, it's playing a higher ballpark than other note-taking tools like Fireflies, which offers similar transcription and AI note-taking features. Will “Take notes for me” do better than Duet AI which amassed over a million users in its first year? Only time will tell.
Emmanuel Oyedeji
