3 Easy Ways to Record Your Google Meet with SeaMeet

Google Meet is an indispensable tool for modern collaboration, but juggling active participation with diligent note-taking is a challenge every professional faces. You want to stay engaged in the discussion, but you also can’t afford to miss critical details, decisions, or action items. While Google Meet offers a native recording function, it comes with significant limitations. Access is often restricted to specific paid Google Workspace plans, requires you to be the meeting host or have special permissions, and depends on having enough storage in your Google Drive.1

This is where SeaMeet steps in. SeaMeet is more than just a recording tool; it’s your AI Meeting Copilot, designed to capture and unlock the value in every conversation. It not only records your meetings but also provides real-time transcription, intelligent summaries, and a clear list of action items, transforming your calls into searchable, shareable knowledge.5 Whether you’re joining a meeting late, managing back-to-back calls, or collaborating with teams across different time zones, SeaMeet ensures you never miss a beat.7

This guide will walk you through three simple, powerful methods to record any Google Meet call with SeaMeet, giving you the freedom to choose the workflow that best fits your needs.

1. The Instant Method: Using the SeaMeet Chrome Extension

This method is the most flexible and immediate option, perfect for recording any meeting on the fly. It’s the ideal solution for spontaneous calls, ad-hoc troubleshooting sessions, or any meeting you realize needs to be documented after it has already started. This approach reflects a “user-first” philosophy, integrating directly into your browser to provide powerful functionality right at your point of need.

Step-by-Step Guide

1. Install the Extension: The first step is a one-time setup. Navigate to the Chrome Web Store and install the SeaMeet: Take ChatGPT Meeting Note Real-Time extension.5 It’s a quick installation that works seamlessly with Google Chrome, Brave, and Edge browsers.9 SeaMeet is committed to your data privacy and adheres to stringent international security standards, so you can use it with confidence.7
2. Join Your Google Meet: Once the extension is installed, simply join your Google Meet call as you normally would. There are no extra steps; the extension works automatically in the background.
3. Activate SeaMeet Recording: When you enter the meeting, the SeaMeet Copilot panel will appear within your Google Meet interface. With a single click, you can activate the recording and begin generating a real-time transcript of the conversation. You are now free to focus completely on the discussion, knowing every word is being captured.

Further Learning

For a visual walkthrough of this process, check out our YouTube tutorial: Invite via Chrome Extension | SeaMeet.8

2. The Planner’s Method: Inviting SeaMeet via Google Calendar

For those who prefer to plan ahead, this “set it and forget it” method is perfect. By simply inviting the SeaMeet bot to your scheduled meeting, you ensure it’s automatically recorded and transcribed without any manual intervention during the call. This approach is ideal for recurring team syncs, formal client presentations, or any important meeting you can’t afford to forget to record. It effectively institutionalizes the act of documentation, embedding it directly into your scheduling workflow.

Step-by-Step Guide

1. Create or Edit Your Google Calendar Event: Open your Google Calendar and either create a new event or select an existing one that you wish to record.10
2. Invite the SeaMeet Bot: In the “Add guests” field where you would normally invite your colleagues, type in the following email address: meet@seasalt.ai.11 Add the bot to the event just as you would any other participant.
3. Save and Send: After adding the bot, click “Save” to update your event and send out the invitations. When the scheduled time arrives and the meeting begins, the SeaMeet bot will automatically join the call and start its work. You don’t need to do anything else—even if you’re running late, SeaMeet will be there to capture everything from the very beginning.

This automated approach is powerful because it shifts the cognitive load of remembering to record from you to the system itself. By making documentation a default part of the scheduling process, teams can create a standardized, reliable system of record for all their important conversations.

3. The Commander’s Method: Clicking ‘Start Recording’ from Your Workspace

This method offers a centralized “mission control” for all your meeting activities. Your SeaMeet Workspace is a powerful dashboard that syncs with your calendar and displays all your upcoming meetings in one place. It’s the perfect approach for team leads, project managers, and anyone who wants a high-level overview and direct control over their meeting documentation strategy. This turns SeaMeet from a simple tool into a comprehensive platform for managing your organization’s conversational intelligence.

Step-by-Step Guide

1. Log in to Your SeaMeet Workspace: Navigate to the SeaMeet website and log in to your account. For the most seamless experience, you can sign up and log in using your existing Google Workspace account.11
2. Navigate to Your Meeting List: Inside your workspace, you will find a list of all your upcoming meetings, automatically populated from your connected calendar.11 This gives you a complete overview of your schedule at a glance.
3. Click ‘Start Recording’: Browse your meeting list to find the session you want to record. Next to the meeting details, you will see an option to begin the recording process. A single click from this dashboard will dispatch the SeaMeet bot to your meeting to begin capturing the audio and transcript. This workflow is confirmed by the existence of our tutorial on this very topic.7

Further Learning

To see this method in action, please refer to our YouTube tutorial: Start Recording from Meeting List | SeaMeet.7

Which Method is Right for You?

With three great options, you can choose the one that best fits your workflow. To help you decide, here is a quick comparison of the methods based on common use cases and user types.

Feature	1. Chrome Extension	2. Google Calendar Invite	3. SeaMeet Workspace
Best For	Spontaneous, unscheduled, or last-minute meetings	Pre-scheduled, recurring, or formal meetings	Managing multiple meetings; team oversight
Setup Location	Inside the Google Meet call	Inside Google Calendar	Inside the SeaMeet web platform
Required Action	Click a button during the meeting	Add meet@seasalt.ai as a guest before the meeting	Click a button in the dashboard before the meeting
Level of Automation	Manual (user-initiated)	Fully Automated (system-initiated)	Manual (user-initiated from a central hub)
User Persona	The Agile Improviser	The Systematic Planner	The Strategic Commander

Beyond the Recording: Unlock Your Meeting’s Full Potential

Recording your meeting is just the beginning. The true power of SeaMeet lies in what happens after the call ends. Unlike a simple video file that requires you to re-watch the entire session, SeaMeet transforms your unstructured conversation into structured, actionable intelligence.

Here’s what you get with every recorded meeting:

• High-Quality Audio Recording: Access a full audio playback of your meeting. Subscribers to our Individual and Team plans can also download the audio file for offline access or archival purposes.5
• Real-Time Transcription: Receive a highly accurate, speaker-differentiated transcript that you can read and search, making it easy to find key information in seconds.5
• Intelligent AI Summaries: SeaMeet’s advanced AI analyzes the transcript to generate a concise summary, highlighting the most important points. Catch up on a one-hour meeting in just a few minutes.5
• Action Items and Topics: The AI automatically identifies and extracts key topics and actionable tasks discussed during the meeting, ensuring clear accountability and easy follow-up.5

All these valuable assets are organized in your centralized SeaMeet workspace, creating a searchable knowledge base of your team’s conversations.5 From there, you can seamlessly share notes via email or export them to Google Docs for collaborative editing. Crucially, SeaMeet is designed so that you own your data, with easy options to export everything to your own Google Drive.11

Your Meetings, Supercharged

SeaMeet provides a flexible and powerful solution for any professional workflow. Whether you choose the instant convenience of the Chrome Extension, the automated reliability of a Calendar invite, or the centralized control of the Workspace, you can capture every important conversation with ease.

But remember, you’re getting much more than a recording. You’re getting a complete, intelligent breakdown of your meeting that saves you time, enhances collaboration, and boosts productivity.

Ready to take control of your meetings?

• (https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/seameet-take-chatgpt-meet/gkkhkniggakfgioeeclbllpihmipkcmn) and record your very next call.
• (https://meet.seasalt.ai/) to explore your personal workspace and unlock the full power of AI meeting intelligence.

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