What the extension does
When you're in a Google Meet call with captions turned on, Live Notes for Google Meet reads the caption text Google Meet is already displaying on your screen and assembles it into a running, speaker-labeled transcript. You can view that transcript from the toolbar popup at any time, and copy or download it as a plain text file whenever you choose.
The extension can also turn captions on automatically when you join a call, purely as a convenience — it's the same "Turn on captions" control you'd click yourself.
Optionally, if you fill in the "Send to WhatsApp" section in Settings, the extension will automatically send a short summary and the full transcript to a WhatsApp number when you leave a call. This is off by default and does nothing until you configure it — see "What it sends" below for exactly how this works.
What it reads, and from where
The extension's content script runs only on meet.google.com pages. It reads the text of Google Meet's own caption region — the same text already visible on your screen to you and, per Meet's captioning feature, to accessibility tools. It does not read chat messages, shared documents, video, audio, or any other part of the page.
Because Google Meet only exposes captions through the page itself, not through any API, reading the displayed caption text is the only way an extension like this can build a transcript.
What it stores, and where
Everything the extension keeps lives in chrome.storage.local — storage that belongs to your browser profile on your device. Specifically:
- The transcript for each meeting, so you don't lose it if you accidentally reload the tab.
- Settings: the name you'd like used in place of Meet's generic "You" label, and — only if you choose to fill it in — a destination WhatsApp number for the optional sending feature below.
None of this is synced to any account we control, because we don't run any server this extension talks to. If your Chrome profile has sync enabled, Chrome's own sync feature may sync extension storage the same way it syncs bookmarks — that's a Chrome setting you control, not something this extension initiates.
What it sends, and to whom
By default: nothing, to no one. With the WhatsApp section in Settings left blank, this extension makes zero network requests. The only way transcript text leaves your browser is if you personally click Copy or Download.
If you turn on "Send to WhatsApp" in Settings: when you leave a Meet call, the extension sends the transcript text and the WhatsApp number you configured to a single backend the developer operates (at shipworkflow.com). That backend generates a short summary and relays both the summary and the full transcript (as a text file) to that WhatsApp number. This extension never holds or transmits any API keys of its own — the backend is the only thing that talks to the summarization service and to WhatsApp, using credentials that live only on that server. Using this feature means the backend necessarily receives and processes the transcript content in order to deliver it. This entire feature is off until you fill in a "to" number yourself; nothing is sent before that, and clearing that field stops all future sending immediately.
Why each permission is requested
| Permission | What it's for |
|---|---|
| storage | Saving the transcript and your name setting locally, as described above. |
| activeTab | Letting the toolbar popup tell which Meet call is currently open, so it shows that call's transcript. |
| meet.google.com | The one site the content script is allowed to run on. It cannot read or affect any other page you visit. |
| shipworkflow.com | Only contacted if you enable the WhatsApp feature, to generate the summary and relay it (and the transcript) to WhatsApp. This is the only external host this extension can reach. |
Your controls
- Clear in the popup erases a meeting's stored transcript immediately.
- Clearing the "to" number in Settings turns off WhatsApp sending immediately.
- Uninstalling the extension removes all of its stored data along with it — Chrome does this automatically for every extension's local storage.
- The extension only activates on
meet.google.com. It does nothing on any other site.
Changes to this policy
If what the extension does ever changes in a way that affects this policy, this page will be updated and the "Last updated" date above will change accordingly.