The rules are yours to follow
Laws about recording differ by country, by state and by situation. Some places need only your own consent. Others need everyone on the call or in the room to agree. Your workplace may add its own rules. KeptNote cannot know which rules apply to you, so it does not decide for you.
Following the laws that apply to your recordings is your responsibility. The Terms say the same: the legal duty to give notice and to get consent is yours. Check the rules where you and the other people are.
What KeptNote does not do
- It does not stop you with a consent prompt, a card, a checkbox or a sentence before you record. You press Record and it records.
- It does not ask you to confirm that you have consent.
- It does not send a notice to the people on your meeting.
- It does not join your call, so no bot name appears in the participant list.
- It does not play a sound or show a banner on the call.
This is the same on the Mac, and in KeptNote for iPhone and Apple Watch, which are coming to the App Store.
What shows that a recording is running
The signs that you are recording are for you. On the Mac, they are the recording bar and its level bars, the dot on the shell in the menu bar, and the capsule or the tab at the edge of your screen. Other people see the capsule and the tab only if you share your screen. macOS also shows its own orange microphone dot while any app uses the microphone. iOS and watchOS show their own microphone indicators too. KeptNote does not hide any of them.
If you want to tell people
This part is help, not a rule of the app. It takes a few seconds, before you press Record.
- On a call: say it out loud, or write it in the chat. For example: I am recording this meeting so I can write notes. Is that OK with everyone?
- In the room: say it before you start, and wait for an answer.
- In a meeting invite: add a line such as I will record this meeting for notes.
If someone says no, do not record. Take your own notes by hand instead.