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Momentum can skip recording meetings that Google Calendar marks as Private when individual users opt out of recording those meetings. The behavior is governed by each user’s preference, allowing people who manage sensitive conversations to opt out without affecting teammates who still want full coverage.

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Requirements

  • Google Calendar integration—privacy detection relies on the visibility field in Google events.
  • Momentum’s native recorder must be enabled for the user. The preference does not affect uploads from other CI systems.

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Manage your preference

  1. Open the Momentum web app and use the profile menu in the lower-left corner to choose Settings.
  2. In Recording Settings, find Record private Google Calendar events.
  3. Toggle off to skip recording your private Google Calendar meetings. Leave it on to continue recording private events by default.
User settings showing the Record private Google Calendar events toggle The preference takes effect immediately. You can re-enable the toggle at any time to resume recording private events.

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How Momentum evaluates private events

  • When the recorder prepares to join a meeting, Momentum checks the Google Calendar event. If the event is marked Private and your Record private Google Calendar events toggle is off, the recorder does not join.
  • Momentum records the skip reason internally as PRIVATE_MEETING and flags the meeting as isPrivate.
  • If the toggle is on, or the event is not marked Private, Momentum behaves as usual and records the meeting.
Renaming the event to include the word “Private” does not change the decision—Momentum looks only at the Google Calendar visibility flags.

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Known behaviors

  • Privacy is evaluated using the information available when Momentum joins the call. If the event’s privacy changes after the join decision, the recorder may still enter or stay in the meeting based on that earlier state.
  • The preference is per user. Other attendees need to adjust their own setting if they do not want their private meetings recorded.
  • When Google Calendar visibility cannot be determined (for example, because of a transient API error), Momentum records the meeting using the default behavior for that user.