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Momentum lets each user decide how the recorder treats their Google Calendar meetings. Two independent preferences control the behaviour so people who handle sensitive conversations can opt out without impacting teammates who still want full coverage.
  • Record private Google Calendar events – If disabled, meetings whose Google Calendar visibility is “Private” are skipped.
  • Automatically record Google Calendar events – If disabled, Momentum won’t auto-join your Google Calendar meetings at all; you’ll need to enable recording case by case (for example, via the meeting detail page).

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Requirements

  • Google Calendar integration, because both settings rely on Google’s event metadata.
  • Momentum’s native recorder must be enabled for the user; uploads from external CI systems ignore these toggles.

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Manage your preferences

  1. Open the Momentum web app and choose Settings from the profile menu in the lower-left corner.
  2. In Recording Settings, you’ll see both toggles:
    • Record private Google Calendar events – leave on to capture private events, turn off to skip them.
    • Automatically record Google Calendar events – leave on so Momentum auto-joins your events, turn off to opt in manually.
  3. Changes take effect immediately, and you can re-enable either toggle at any time.

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How Momentum evaluates events

When the recorder prepares to join, Momentum pulls the Google Calendar event and applies the toggles in this order:
  1. If Automatically record Google Calendar events is off, Momentum does not join, regardless of privacy.
    • Internally we log the skip as AUTO_RECORD_DISABLED.
  2. If auto-record is on and the event is marked Private while Record private Google Calendar events is off, Momentum skips the meeting and logs PRIVATE_MEETING.
  3. Otherwise, Momentum behaves normally and records the meeting.
Renaming an event to include the word “Private” doesn’t influence the decision—only Google’s visibility flag matters.

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Known behaviors

  • Decisions are made with the data available at join time. If visibility changes afterwards, the recorder may still join or stay based on the earlier state.
  • Preferences are per user; each attendee controls their own toggles.
  • If Google Calendar visibility can’t be determined (for example, due to an API error), Momentum defaults to joining as though both toggles were enabled.