Meeting Detector

Automatically detect online meetings (Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams) and prompt you to start recording or create meeting notes.

Features

• Auto-detect meetings — Monitors for Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams (new and classic) in the background
• One-click actions — Start recording, create a meeting note, or both from a single popup, with a title you can edit
• Record the other side too — Record with the core Audio Recorder (your microphone) or with the System Recording plugin (system audio + microphone, so the other participants are recorded even with headphones)
• Meeting notes from templates — Generate notes with {{title}}, {{date}}, {{time}}, {{app}} variables
• Meeting end detection — Optionally auto-stop recording or show a notification when a meeting ends
• Noticed in the background — A system notification is shown when Obsidian is not in front
• Local only — No network access. Detection runs pgrep and osascript on your Mac

How It Works

The plugin periodically checks for running meeting applications:

When a meeting is detected, a modal appears with a Title field (used for the note and the recording file names) and options to:

• Start Recording — Starts the recorder chosen in the settings
• Create Meeting Note — Creates a note from your template
• Record & Create Note — Creates the note first, then starts recording (System Recording links the recording into that note)
• Dismiss — Close the modal (won't show again for this meeting)

A meeting counts as ended only after the app has been missing for 3 checks in a row (15 seconds at the default interval). A check that fails or times out (for example osascript taking too long) is treated as "unknown" and never ends a meeting, so a recording is not stopped in the middle of a call.

Settings

File name format

• Date tokens: YYYY MM DD HH mm ss (also YY MMM MMMM Do ddd dddd hh), formatted with Obsidian's moment. A run of letters is treated as a date only when it is made entirely of tokens, so words like Meeting stay as they are
• {{title}}: the title from the popup
• Text in [brackets] is kept as is
• Characters that are not allowed in file names or links (\ / : * ? " < > | # ^ [ ]) are removed. If a note with the same name exists, 1, 2, … is added

Template Variables

Use these in your template file:

Recording with System Recording

With Record with: System recording plugin, Meeting Detector uses the API of System Recording 1.1.0+ (app.plugins.plugins["system-recording"].api, apiVersion 1) and passes the title and the meeting note, so the recording file is named after the meeting and linked into its note. With System Recording 1.0.x (no API) it runs its "Start recording" / "Stop recording" commands instead. If System Recording is not enabled, the core audio recorder is used and a notice says so.

Requirements

• macOS (uses pgrep and osascript for detection)
• Obsidian v1.4.0+
• Audio Recorder core plugin, or the System Recording plugin (optional, for recording)

Installation

From Community Plugins

1. Open Obsidian Settings
2. Go to Community Plugins and disable Safe Mode
3. Click Browse and search for "Meeting Detector"
4. Click Install, then Enable

Manual Installation

1. Download main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css from the latest release
2. Create a folder meeting-detector in your vault's .obsidian/plugins/ directory
3. Copy the downloaded files into that folder
4. Restart Obsidian and enable the plugin in Settings > Community Plugins

Development

git clone https://github.com/yut0takagi/obsidian-meeting-detector.git
cd obsidian-meeting-detector
npm install
npm run dev
npm test        # unit tests (vitest)

License

MIT