Why connect your calendar?
Our goal is to make transcribing meetings effortless. Connecting your calendar allows you to view upcoming meetings in Superthread and create notes for them in 1-click. Upcoming meetings will be displayed at the top of your list of notes and in the desktop app’s menu bar (macOS) or system tray (Windows). Clicking on a upcoming meeting will automatically add the meeting attendees, title, and time to your note. You can connect a Google calendar, an Outlook calendar, or one of each. If both are connected, meetings from both appear together in your list of notes.This is your own calendar, connected to your account and only ever read, to show your upcoming meetings. Connecting a calendar to an agent is a separate thing: that one belongs to the agent and can be written to.
Connecting your Google calendar
Go to Settings > Personal > Meeting notes and click Connect Google Calendar. You can only connect one Google calendar to your Superthread account. If you have multiple calendars and would like to see their events in Superthread, its recommend you share those calendars to your primary Google account first.Connecting your Outlook calendar
Go to Settings > Personal > Meeting notes and click Connect Outlook Calendar, then sign in with your Microsoft account. Both work or school accounts and personal Microsoft accounts are supported. In the desktop app, you finish signing in to Microsoft in your web browser. Once connected, Superthread shows the account’s email address and whether it’s a Work or school account or a Personal account. The connection is read-only: only your meetings are read, and agents can’t use it to change your calendar. You can connect one Outlook account. To stop showing its meetings, click Disconnect. If the connection stops working, click Reconnect.If you sign in with a work or school account, Microsoft may show a Need admin approval screen. This means your organisation only allows apps an administrator has approved. Ask your Microsoft 365 administrator to approve Superthread, then try connecting again.
Upcoming meetings
Our goal is to make transcribing meetings effortless. Therefore we try to infer which calendar events are meetings and display them within Superthread. For example we assume a meeting must have more than one participant and have an associated meeting link for Zoom or Google meet etc. After connecting your calendar, go to Settings > Personal > Meeting notes to choose how many days ahead to show meetings, and to show/hide the following event types:- Events with only one participant
- Events without a meeting link (e.g. Zoom or Google Meet link)
- All-day events (or multiday events)
Menu bar and system tray
After connecting your calendar, the desktop app lists your upcoming meetings in the Superthread menu bar (macOS) or system tray (Windows) menu, so you can create a note for one in a click. On Windows, right-click the Superthread icon in the system tray to see them. On macOS, Superthread also shows a preview of your next meeting next to the Superthread icon in the menu bar. During a meeting it will also show the remaining time left in the current meeting. If you prefer, you can choose to hide the meeting name and the scheduled meeting time by switching them off in your Meeting notes settings.Impromptu conversations vs calendar meetings
- Calendar meetings – upcoming meetings will appear at the top of your list of notes. You can create a note by clicking on it. Superthread will also send you a reminder to start note taking just before the meeting begins.
- Impromptu conversations – if somebody asks you to jump on a ‘quick call’ in a Slack Huddle or join them for an unscheduled chat, Superthread can recognise this by noticing that an app on your computer has started using your microphone. Superthread will send you a notification to remind you to transcribe the conversation. This works in the desktop app on macOS and Windows. You can configure which apps Superthread will send you a notification for from Settings > Personal > Meeting notes