Record a meeting

Recording happens in the Jinn desktop app, and it starts switched off. Nothing on your machine listens until you turn it on, and on macOS the system asks for the microphone and for screen and system-audio recording separately before Jinn can hear anything. Recorded the meeting somewhere else already? You don’t need the app for that — upload the file from the browser instead. Once it’s on, recording is one small bar that floats over whatever you’re doing.

Set up recording once

Three things, and none of them come back: the app, the toggle, and what Jinn should do when a meeting starts.

Get the desktop app

The desktop app is what captures audio — a browser can’t. Download it, or use the link in the sidebar under Desktop. The download page offers the build for your computer, and says so if this release doesn’t have one yet. The app records on macOS and Linux, using the system’s own audio capture: your microphone, and whatever plays through your speakers — the other people on the call. Everything else — reading transcripts and write-ups, setting up agents — works in a browser on any machine.

Turn meeting notes on

You do this once. Open Settings → Meetings and turn on Enable meeting notes — until you do, Jinn has no recording bar and no meeting features at all. Afterwards it stays on, and every meeting from then on is a click. On macOS, grant the two permissions the system asks for. Both live under Privacy & Security in the settings, and both show whether they’ve been granted yet:

• Microphone — so Jinn can hear you.
• Screen & System audio recording — so Jinn can hear everyone else. This is how a meeting gets recorded without a bot joining the call: the audio comes from your machine, not from the meeting service.

Click Open System Settings when Jinn offers, and it takes you to the right place. If you’ve granted a permission and Jinn still shows it as missing, restart the app — there’s a Restart App button next to Permission issues for exactly this. On Linux there’s nothing to grant. Recording is there whenever your desktop’s sound system, PulseAudio or PipeWire, is running — every mainstream Linux desktop ships one of them.

Choose what happens when a meeting starts

Under Meeting recording, When meeting starts decides how much Jinn does on its own:

• Do nothing — you start every recording by hand.
• Show a recording prompt — Jinn notices a meeting and asks.
• Auto start recording — Jinn starts recording without asking.

Auto-start is convenient and worth thinking about before you choose it, because it applies to every meeting, including the ones you’d rather not have a transcript of. The prompt is the middle ground and the one most teams settle on.

Run a recording

Start, say where the recording belongs, stop. This is every meeting from then on.

Record

Click Start. The bar shrinks to a timer and two level meters, one for your microphone and one for system audio, so a glance tells you both sides of the call are being heard. Click the bar to open the full panel, and Collapse to put it away again. The panel is where you set the recording up, and you can do it at any point before you stop:

• Select project — pick the project this recording belongs to; start typing to search. Clear it and the recording goes to your inbox for you to file afterwards; see filing it later
• Meeting name — becomes the recording’s title. Leave it empty and Jinn names the recording after the app and the time
• Note and Action items — write down what you don’t want to wait for the transcript to find. Press Enter to add an action item, and tick it when it’s done. Both are on the recording’s Notes tab afterwards, exactly as you typed them
• Microphone and System audio — each with its own mute and its own choice of device, so you can record the room without recording yourself or the other way round

Pause and Resume hold the recording without ending it.

Stop

Stop & Generate ends the recording and hands it over: Jinn saves the audio, creates the recording and opens it. The bar shows Processing… while it does. If the meeting wasn’t worth keeping, open the arrow next to it and choose Stop without saving. The audio, the note and the action items are discarded, and this can’t be undone. Jinn sends the audio to the server in pieces while you talk, so most of the meeting is already saved by the time you click Stop & Generate. If the app or your computer shuts down mid-meeting, what you recorded up to then isn’t lost: the next time the app starts, it finishes saving the meeting by itself, with (continued) after its title.

Quit the app mid-meeting

Jinn won’t let a meeting end by accident. Quit the app while it’s recording — or, on Linux, close its window — and it asks first: A meeting is recording.

• Stop and save — ends the recording, saves it, and quits.
• Keep recording — closes every window and goes on recording from the menu bar on macOS, or the tray on Linux. Click Stop there when the meeting ends, and the app quits once the recording is saved. Open Jinn brings the window back.
• Cancel — changes nothing. The recording carries on and the app stays open.

On macOS, closing the window doesn’t quit the app, so it doesn’t ask.

Keep the bar out of your screen share

If you share your screen during meetings, two settings under Screen sharing stop Jinn appearing in what everyone else sees:

• Hide recording bar when sharing — the bar stays out of screen shares and recordings. It turns grey while hidden, so you can still tell it’s recording.
• Hide main window when sharing — the same for the main Jinn window.

Both are off unless you turn them on. The panel has the same switch for the bar, Hide from screen sharing, for when you decide mid-meeting.

Where the recording goes

Straight to the project you picked, or to your inbox if you didn’t. Either way Jinn starts transcribing immediately — you don’t have to wait around, and the recording’s page fills in by itself as each part finishes.

When the recording bar reports a problem

The bar tells you when a recording can’t go on, and what to do about it:

• Recording didn’t start — nothing was captured. Click Start again.
• Recording stopped — the server didn’t accept it — Jinn couldn’t keep recording this meeting. Click Start for a new recording to carry on.
• This meeting was deleted — someone deleted the meeting in Jinn while you were recording it, so the recording stopped.
• You can’t file this meeting in that project — you don’t have the access to put a meeting there. Pick another project under Select project.

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