Amlin never records on its own. Instead, it offers — and you decide. There are four moments where it does.
1. The pre-meeting nudge
About 90 seconds before a calendar event, a notification appears with the meeting title. It stays on screen until you act on it rather than vanishing in five seconds.
If the event has a join link, the button reads Join & transcribe — one click joins the meeting and starts capture.
Otherwise, clicking opens the note and starts capture.
Nudges are suppressed while another meeting is already being captured.
2. Auto-start at start time
If you already have a meeting's note open when its start time passes, capture begins. You opted in by opening the note; Amlin just handles the clock.
3. Unscheduled-call detection
If another app starts using your microphone and there's no calendar event, Amlin offers:
On a call? — Amlin noticed your microphone is in use — click to start a note and transcribe.
It's always an offer. Ignore it and nothing happens.
4. "Looks like the meeting ended"
If a capture is running and there's been no transcribed speech for about two minutes, Amlin offers Wrap up & summarize — one click stops capture and enhances. This is what saves you from a recording left running for hours after everyone hung up.
It's still an offer, not an action: Amlin never stops a capture on its own, because a wrong stop would cut off a live meeting.
What Amlin deliberately doesn't do
It doesn't generate a note for a call that never connected.
It doesn't stack modal "note ready" cards you have to dismiss one by one. The post-meeting notification is a single, dismissible banner.