Calendar connects your Google Calendar to Plaud App so meetings on your schedule trigger smart reminders, auto-name your recordings, and feed meeting context into your transcripts and summaries.
What is Calendar?
Calendar is an integration in Plaud App that links your Google Calendar to your Plaud workspace. Once connected, Plaud reads your upcoming events and uses them to:
- Remind you to start a recording when a meeting begins
- Remind you to end a recording when the meeting wraps up
- Automatically name new recordings using the event title
- Suggest meeting attendees as candidate speakers when you label a transcript
- Add background context (attendees, agenda, time, location) to your summaries
Calendar binding is workspace-scoped: each Plaud workspace (Personal or Team) connects to its own Google Calendar account, and only recordings made in that workspace are matched against that Google Calendar.
Before you start
- Calendar is set up inside Plaud App on iOS or Android. Once connected, your Google Calendar events are also visible to the same workspace on Plaud Web.
- You'll be asked to sign in with your Google account and grant Plaud read access to your Google Calendar events. Plaud only reads event details — it does not create, edit, or delete events on your behalf.
- If you belong to multiple workspaces, connect Calendar separately in each workspace where you want to use it.
How to connect your Google Calendar?
- Open Plaud App and go to Explore → Integration
- Tap Connect to link your Google Calendar
New users see the Calendar setup prompt during onboarding, right after the device authorization step. If you skipped it, you can come back to Explore → Integration → Google Calendar at any time and connect from there.
How to manage your Calendar settings?
After connecting, return to Explore → Integration → Google Calendar to control how Plaud uses your events.
- Start-of-meeting reminder — On by default. Plaud sends a push notification a couple of minutes before each meeting so you can start recording on time.
- End-of-meeting reminder — Off by default. When on, Plaud reminds you to stop the recording when the meeting ends.
- Auto-name files — On by default. When a recording matches an event, Plaud renames the file to the event title.
- Back-to-back meetings — When two meetings run back-to-back, Plaud skips the end-of-meeting reminder for the earlier meeting and instead reminds you to start a new recording for the next one.
To remove the connection, return to Explore → Integration → Google Calendar and tap Disconnect. Disconnecting stops reminders and auto-naming; existing recordings and their names are not changed.
How does Plaud match a recording to a Google Calendar event?
Plaud matches recordings to events in two ways:
- Tap the reminder. When you start recording from a Calendar push notification, Plaud links the recording directly to that event.
- Time-based match. If you start recording without tapping a reminder, Plaud compares the recording's start time to your Google Calendar and matches it to the closest overlapping event in the same workspace.
Only recordings made in the workspace that owns the Calendar connection are eligible for matching — files in other workspaces are kept separate.
FAQ about Calendar
Which calendar services does Plaud support?
Plaud currently supports Google Calendar. To connect, open Explore → Integration → Google Calendar in Plaud App and sign in with your Google account.
Can I use Calendar across all my workspaces?
Yes, but you need to connect Calendar separately in each workspace. Reminders, auto-naming, and event matching only apply to recordings made in the workspace where Calendar is connected.
Will Plaud change my Google Calendar events?
No. Plaud only reads event details (title, time, attendees, location, agenda) so it can power reminders, auto-naming, and summary context. Plaud never creates, edits, or deletes events on your Google Calendar.
How do I disconnect my Google Calendar?
Go to Explore → Integration → Google Calendar in Plaud App and tap Disconnect. You can reconnect the same or a different Google account at any time.
Why didn't my recording get the meeting name?
Auto-naming only runs when the recording is made in the workspace that owns the Calendar connection and falls within an event's time window. If the event isn't on the connected Google Calendar, or the recording was made in a different workspace, Plaud won't rename the file.