Gemini’s “Take notes for me” and Dailies can both sit in a Google Meet call, and they leave with different things. Gemini leaves with a Google Doc: a summary, the decisions, the action items, with a recap emailed to the organiser. Dailies leaves with video: it records the call in Chrome and delivers captioned vertical shorts cut from its best passages. If you want the minutes of a Meet call, Gemini is built into the place where the call happens. If you want something to post, you need the picture, and that is what Dailies keeps.
Checked against Gemini in Google Meet’s own site on October 1, 2026.
Dailies
For people who want the best passages of their Meet, Teams or Zoom calls as captioned vertical shorts, ready to download and post.
Gemini in Google Meet
For people whose calls are on Google Meet, with an eligible Google plan, who want notes and action items in Google Docs, every participant being told by Meet itself.
| Feature | Dailies | Gemini in Google Meet |
|---|---|---|
| Records Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Zoom calls itself | YesIn Chrome, on the call you were going to hold anyway | PartlyGoogle Meet only; Gemini writes the notes, and the video comes from Meet’s recording, a separate feature |
| Records without a bot joining the call | YesFrom your browser | YesBuilt into Meet, which tells every participant that notes are being taken |
| Records your webcam on a track of its own | YesYour camera and microphone, apart from the call’s picture | Not statedMeet’s recording includes the active speaker and anything presented |
| Picks the passages worth posting by itself | YesUp to eight per call | Not statedWe found no clip or highlight feature on the Meet pages we read |
| Makes vertical 9:16 shorts, reframed on whoever speaks | Yes | Not stated |
| Burns in animated captions | YesFifteen styles | Not stated |
| Cuts silences, filler words and false starts | Yes | Not stated |
| Blurs or replaces the room behind you | Yes | Not stated |
| Blurs your guests and disguises their voice | YesOne switch | Not stated |
| Handles calls in French | YesFrench and English, mixed included | YesFrench among eight listed languages; the feature supports one language at a time |
| Writes meeting notes, summaries and action items | NoDailies makes shorts, not minutes | YesA Google Doc with a summary, decisions and action items; a recap is emailed to the organiser |
| Works on any video file you upload | NoOnly the calls it records | Not stated |
| Posts or schedules to social networks for you | NoYou download each short in Full HD and post it yourself | Not stated |
Gemini in Google Meet is the AI note-taking built into Meet, under the name “Take notes for me”. It works on meetings held in Google Meet and, since August 2026, on in-person meetings started from Meet’s home screen. It writes a Google Doc with quick notes (a short summary and action items) and full notes (summary, decisions, action items, details), gives latecomers a “summary so far”, emails a recap to the organiser and saves the notes in the organiser’s Google Drive. Meet tells all participants that notes are being taken and shows a pencil icon on every screen; an admin setting, off by default, can require them to agree first. The feature needs an eligible Google Workspace edition or Google AI plan. It lists eight languages, French among them, and supports one at a time. It produces notes, not a recording: recording is a separate Meet feature, which captures the active speaker and anything presented and saves the video to the organiser’s Drive.
“Take notes for me” produces a Google Doc. Recording is a separate Meet feature, and on the pages we read we found no clip or highlight feature attached to it. Dailies records the call tab, your microphone and your webcam, the webcam on a track of its own, then picks up to eight passages and delivers each as a vertical short, reframed on whoever speaks and captioned.
Gemini’s note-taking is part of Google Meet: it works on meetings held there, or in person from Meet’s home screen. A call on Microsoft Teams or Zoom is outside its scope. Dailies records in Chrome, so the same extension covers Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Zoom’s web client, whichever your client’s invitation uses.
Google’s help page lists eight languages for the feature, French included, and states that it supports one language at a time. Dailies handles calls in French, in English and in both mixed, for the calls where people move from one to the other.
Minutes. A summary, the decisions taken, the action items and a summary so far for whoever joins late, all filed in Google Docs and Drive. It also covers meetings held in person. Dailies writes no meeting notes, no summary and no action items, and records only the calls you hold in Chrome.
We found no such feature on the pages we read. “Take notes for me” produces notes in a Google Doc, not a recording, and Google’s help page on Meet recordings describes no clip or highlight feature. Dailies records the call itself and cuts captioned vertical shorts from it.
No: it is a feature of Google Meet. It works on meetings held in Meet and, since August 2026, on in-person meetings started from Meet’s home screen. Dailies records Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Zoom calls held in Chrome, but it makes shorts, not notes.
Yes. French is one of the eight languages Google’s help page lists, and that page exists in French. It also says the feature supports one language at a time. Dailies handles calls in French, in English and in both mixed.
No. Dailies writes no meeting notes, summaries or action items: it records the call and makes shorts from it. The minutes of a meeting and content to post are two different jobs.
Add Dailies to Chrome, record the call you were going to have anyway, and watch its shorts a few minutes after you hang up.
Add to ChromeWhat this page says of Gemini in Google Meet comes from the pages below, published by its maker and read on October 1, 2026. Where its site says nothing, the table says “not stated” rather than “no”. Products change: write to hello@berenger.dev if something here is out of date. Gemini in Google Meet is a trademark of its owner, which has no link with Dailies.