Recover a Meeting Recap When the Notetaker Fails
Sometimes the Groupthink bot doesn't capture a meeting — it failed to join, the transcript came back empty, or you used a different notetaker (Gemini, Granola, Otter, Fireflies) for that call. You don't lose the meeting. If you have notes or a transcript from anywhere, you can add them to the existing meeting and Groupthink will build the recap from them.
When to use this
- The Groupthink bot didn't join, or joined but captured nothing.
- You ran another notetaker on the call and have its transcript or summary.
- You took notes by hand, or have an agenda you want on the record.
The meeting still exists in Groupthink even when the bot captures nothing — there's a recap page waiting for content.
Backfill the recap
- Open the meeting from your dashboard or calendar and go to its recap page.
- On the recap header, click Log Interaction.
- Paste your transcript, summary, or notes into the form and save.
Groupthink runs the pasted content through the same pipeline as a live recording. It writes the recap summary and updates the relationship intelligence for the people on the call — so the conversation still counts toward what you know about them over time.
What you can paste
Anything text-based works:
- A transcript or summary from Gemini, Granola, Otter, Fireflies, or your conferencing tool's native transcript
- Notes you typed during or after the call
- An agenda you drafted elsewhere, so the recap reflects what you planned to cover
Groupthink doesn't need its bot in the meeting to work. The bot is one way to capture a conversation; pasted notes are another, and they feed the same relationship intelligence.
Related
If a meeting is missing and there's no recap page to add notes to, contact us at support@groupthink.com.