Meetings

This guide walks you through connecting your meeting tools to Obvious so your recordings, summaries, and action items show up in your workspace.

What you get

Once connected, Obvious can join your meetings and generate:

• Summaries — Key topics covered, decisions made, and open questions.
• Action items — What needs to happen next, with suggested owners.
• Full transcripts — Searchable, with citations linking action items back to specific moments in the conversation.

Browse all of this from the meetings sidebar, or bring it into a project for the agent to work with.

Connect your calendar

Obvious pulls meetings from your calendar. Start by connecting one.

1. Open Settings → Connectors.
2. Find your calendar provider — Google Calendar or Outlook — and click Connect.
3. Follow the authorization flow to grant access.

Once connected, your upcoming and recent meetings appear in the meetings sidebar.

Connect Granola (optional)

If your team uses Granola for meeting notes, you can connect that too.

1. Open Settings → Connectors.
2. Find Granola and click Connect.
3. Authorize the connection.

With Granola connected, the agent can search your meeting notes, retrieve transcripts, and surface action items directly in your workspace.

Record a meeting

To record an upcoming meeting, open the meetings sidebar and mark the event for recording. Obvious sends a bot to the call that captures the audio and generates a summary when the meeting ends.

Note: Recording is only available for meetings that have a conference link (Zoom, Google Meet, Teams, etc.). If a meeting doesn't have one, you can paste a link manually from the event's detail view.

Browse your meetings

Click the meetings icon in the sidebar to open the meetings panel. You'll see a timeline of events grouped by date. Each meeting card shows the meeting's current state:

• Upcoming — Scheduled but not yet started or recorded.
• Ongoing — Happening now, or currently recording.
• Processing — Recording complete; summary is being generated.
• Summarized — Summary ready to review.
• Enriched — Summary generated and action items have been further analyzed.
• Failed — Something went wrong with the recording or processing.

Click any meeting to open its details. Two tabs organize the content: Actions (action items with owners and citations) and Transcript (full searchable text).

Bring meeting content into a project

From any meeting's detail view, you can start a new project with that meeting's context already loaded. The agent knows what was discussed and can help you follow through on action items.

You can also ask the agent in any existing project to pull in meeting content:

Find my meeting notes from this morning's standup

The agent searches your connected meetings and brings the relevant content into your workspace.

Ask the agent

The agent can work with your meetings directly. Try:

Summarize the key decisions from last week's planning meeting

Which action items from Tuesday's standup are still open?

Create a project from the action items in my 2pm meeting

Next steps

• Connectors & Service Connections — How to connect and manage third-party services in Obvious.
• Key Concepts — Understand how projects, threads, and the agent work together.