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Resources

Start with the how-tos if you are setting something up: one page per thing you might connect. Then a group on recording and consent, from what to say before you start to what the law requires where you work; free templates for writing up the meetings a working week is made of; and the longer guides, in three groups. The first is about the meetings themselves, how to run them and how a group decides in them. The second is about the week around them, where the hours go and how work gets prioritised. The third is about what survives the week, how to organise and query what you learn. Written to be useful on their own.

Docs and how-tos

One page per thing you might connect: the calendar guides cover the four ways to get your meetings marked automatically, the MCP guides cover reading your meeting history from the tools you already work in, and the agent guides cover getting each of the ten built-in agents running inside the app.

Connect a calendar

Connect one and every event on your day can become a named meeting on its own. Four ways in, and the last one exists because the first three can be refused by an employer. What an automatic span is, and what happens when the meeting doesn't match the invite, is on calendar connection.

Connect an app over MCP

Earkeep runs a small MCP server so other tools on your machine can search and read your saved meetings. It listens on loopback only, and it is read-only: nothing connected here can change a meeting. The app's own Connect apps panel gives you the same commands with your real address already filled in.

Set up an agent

The other direction: an agent running inside Earkeep, against the meeting you are looking at. You install the agent yourself and it runs on your own account, which is why there is no inference cost in the price of the app. Each of these covers installing it, signing in, and confirming Earkeep can see it. The wider argument is on agents and MCP.

Earkeep integrates with the Agent Client Protocol, not with ten separate agents, so anything else that speaks it can be added with Add custom agent in Settings → Agents, including agents that don't exist yet.

Recording, consent and the law

Earkeep announces itself to nobody, so telling the room is yours to do. One page on how to say it in a sentence and on the three ways to stop when somebody would rather you didn't, and two references on what the law actually requires where you and the people you meet are sitting.

  • Telling people you're recording: what to say before the meeting starts, why a written banner may not be enough, and how pausing, never-record meetings and purging work.
  • US recording laws, state by state: the federal baseline, why the published one-party and all-party counts disagree with each other, and a page for every state and DC.
  • European recording laws: the four layers, who the controller is, the household exemption and why it does not save you, notice scripts in five languages, and a page for all 32 countries.

Legal information, not legal advice: every entry summarises a statute without replacing it, cites its sources, and says so where the sources disagree.

Meeting templates

A free template for each of the meetings a working week is actually made of, complete and on the page with nothing to sign up for. The meeting minutes template hub has the general-purpose frame that all of them vary, what a record has to contain whatever the layout, and the meetings too small for a page of their own, from design reviews to postmortems. Each page below also covers the part a template does not solve, which is who fills it in twenty minutes after the meeting while the next one is starting. For how to run these meetings instead of how to record them, see the group after this one.

Running better meetings

Where the templates above are the blank to fill in, these are the argument: which meetings should exist, how to run the ones that should, how a group actually reaches a decision, and the interviewing craft the good ones run on.

Time management

Where the hours go and how to spend them deliberately, from the scheduling mechanics of a single day to the frameworks whole teams run on.

Knowledge management

Building a second brain: the methods that have held up, the tools that implement them, and what changes once a model can read your notes.