# Daily review and meeting prep > NoteOwl's Review shows what needs you today, and Calendar gives each meeting on your Mac's calendar a prep page: attendees, your notes and open commitments. Source: https://www.noteowl.ai/docs/memory/review-and-meeting-prep · Last updated 2026-09-28 · Checked against NoteOwl 1.0.0 NoteOwl's **Review** shows what needs you today: a short brief, the commitments that are overdue, due today or due soon, and today's events. The **Calendar** screen reads the calendars on your Mac and gives every meeting in the next two weeks a prep page with its attendees, your notes and the open commitments involving those people. Review and Calendar are part of NoteOwl Pro, which you can try free for 7 days: see [start the 7-day NoteOwl Pro trial](https://www.noteowl.ai/docs/pro/free-trial). Both are in the sidebar, under **Memory**. ![NoteOwl's Review screen: the date and a greeting, a brief reading 2 things are due today and 5 captures in the last day with a Copy button, cards for Captures 5 in the last day, Commitments 25 open and tracked and Overdue 0 all clear, a Needs attention list of commitments marked TODAY or SOON with the meeting each came from, and Today reading Nothing scheduled today with an Add button](https://www.noteowl.ai/product/05-review.webp) ## What's in the daily review? What needs you today, from NoteOwl's memory and your calendar: a short brief, three numbers, the commitments that need attention, and today's events. NoteOwl puts it together on your Mac, and refreshes it when the day changes. | Part of Review | What it shows | | ------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | **The brief** | A few lines under the greeting: what's overdue, what's due today, today's events and what you captured in the last day, such as **2 things are due today.** Click a line to open what it's about. **Copy** puts the brief on the clipboard | | **Captures** | How many things you captured in the last day, such as meetings, imported recordings and dictations. Click it for the list | | **Commitments** | How many commitments are open. Click it to open the **Commitments** board | | **Overdue** | How many are past their due date, or **all clear**. Click it to see the overdue ones | | **Needs attention** | Commitments that are overdue, due today or due within three days, marked **OVERDUE**, **TODAY** or **SOON**, most urgent first. Click the circle to resolve one, or **From** and a conversation's name to open where it was said | | **Today** | Today's events from your calendar, and events you added in NoteOwl. Click one to open its prep page. **+ Add** adds an event in NoteOwl | ![NoteOwl's Review cards: Captures 1 in the last day, Commitments 18 open and tracked, Overdue 0 all clear; under Needs attention, Nothing needs attention — you're on top of it; under Today, Nothing scheduled today, with + Add](https://www.noteowl.ai/product/p2-review-today.webp) When nothing is urgent, **Needs attention** says **Nothing needs attention — you're on top of it.** If your calendar isn't connected, **Today** says **Calendar isn't connected, so only your own items show here.** Click **Connect in Calendar** to connect it. To read everything again, click the refresh button at the right end of the row with **Copy**. ## Connect your calendar **Calendar** reads the calendars already set up on your Mac, such as iCloud, Google and Exchange, and never changes them. Click **Calendar** in the sidebar, then **Connect** under **Connect your calendar**, and allow full access when macOS asks. Your events for the next two weeks appear under **Upcoming**, grouped by day. NoteOwl asks macOS for access only when you click **Connect**, or **Grant** beside **Calendar** in **Settings → General**. If the prompt doesn't appear, see [the Calendar or Contacts prompt doesn't appear](https://www.noteowl.ai/docs/troubleshooting/calendar-or-contacts-prompt). ## Which calendars does NoteOwl read? All the calendars set up on your Mac, until you choose: iCloud, Google, Exchange, CalDAV, subscribed and local calendars, from macOS Calendar and **Internet Accounts**. NoteOwl reads the next 14 days, and reads them again whenever your calendar changes. To choose, click the filter button beside **Upcoming**. The **Calendars** panel lists each calendar under its account and says **NoteOwl reads these to prepare you for meetings. It never changes them.** Turn off the calendars NoteOwl shouldn't read, then click **Done**. * **A calendar added later** isn't read until you say so, once you've made a choice. Calendar shows **New calendar found**, with **Include** and **Not now**. * **A missing work calendar** needs adding to macOS first. In the panel, open **Can't see a work calendar?** and click **Open Internet Accounts**. NoteOwl has no sign-in of its own. * **Cancelled events and invitations you declined** aren't listed. An invitation you answered Maybe is marked **MAYBE**, and a repeating event shows a repeat icon. If you turn every calendar off, Calendar says **No calendars selected**. Click **Choose calendars** to pick some. ## What's on a meeting's prep page? When the meeting is, who's coming, your own notes and what NoteOwl's memory holds about those people. Click an event under **Upcoming** and its prep page opens beside the list. ![NoteOwl's Calendar screen: an Upcoming list of six meetings, with Ferncastle pilot check-in marked PREP, and its prep page (Tomorrow · 10:00 AM · 30 min) with the Copy, Ask and Focus buttons, Start Scribe, the attendees Maya Rao and Priya Shah, the saved note 01 Ask Daniel for the Android numbers above an empty Type to add a note… row, and five items under From your memory, each with the meeting it came from](https://www.noteowl.ai/product/p2-meeting-prep.webp) | Part of the prep page | What it shows | | ------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | **The header** | The day, time, length and calendar, such as **Tomorrow · 10:00 AM · 30 min · On My Mac · Work**, then the meeting's title | | **Copy**, **Ask** and **Focus** | The three buttons under the title. Copy puts the whole prep page on the clipboard. Ask writes what you describe from it on your Mac, such as a one-page report, without changing anything. Focus shows it all in one view | | **Join** | Opens the meeting link, when the invite has one | | **Start Scribe** | Starts recording the meeting, with your prep | | **Attendees** | Everyone on the invite, by name | | **Your notes** | Your own points for the meeting, marked **EDITABLE** | | **From your memory** | Up to five open commitments involving the attendees, each with the conversation it came from, marked **AUTO** | At the foot of the page, NoteOwl says: **When the meeting starts, your notes and this context merge into the live Scribe summary automatically.** To rename a meeting, click the pencil beside its title. The new name is NoteOwl's only: your calendar keeps its own. You can also right-click a meeting in **Upcoming** for **Rename in NoteOwl**, **Copy** and, when there's a link, **Join meeting**. ## Prepare for a meeting 1. Click **Calendar** in the sidebar. 2. Under **Upcoming**, click the meeting. 3. Under **Your notes**, click **Type to add a note…**, type a point you want to raise and press Return. The note is saved and numbered, such as **01**. Add as many as you like. 4. Read **From your memory**. To check an item, click the name under it, such as **Quarterly Update And Growth Strategy ↗**, and NoteOwl opens that conversation where it was said. 5. When the meeting begins, click **Start Scribe**. Only Return saves a note: if you click away first, what you typed isn't kept. Your notes belong to that one meeting, so each occurrence of a repeating meeting has its own. A meeting with notes is marked **PREP** in **Upcoming**. Click **×** beside a note to remove it. Once you have notes, the buttons below them copy them, ask NoteOwl to rewrite them on your Mac, or open them to edit. ## How does NoteOwl choose what's in From your memory? From your commitments. NoteOwl shows the open ones in which someone on the invite owes something or is owed something, matched by name, newest first, up to five. Commitments you've marked done aren't shown. Each item names the meeting, recording or note it came from; click it to open that conversation at the passage. A commitment you added yourself says **Added by you**. An event with no attendees, such as one you added in NoteOwl, has nothing here. NoteOwl looks again each time it reads your calendar, such as when you open **Calendar**. The commitments themselves are on the **Commitments** board: see [track what you owe and what you're owed](https://www.noteowl.ai/docs/memory/commitments). For everything about one person, see [People profiles for everyone you meet](https://www.noteowl.ai/docs/memory/people). ## What happens when you click Start Scribe? NoteOwl starts recording, names the meeting after the event and opens **Meeting Scribe**. The attendees, your notes and the memory items are saved with the meeting, as background for its summary and action items. The transcript stays the record of what was said. * **Names on action items.** The attendees help NoteOwl put the right name on who owes what. * **The prep stays with the meeting.** If you rewrite the summary later with **Summarize as**, NoteOwl uses the same prep, even if the event has changed or been deleted. * **One meeting at a time.** If another meeting is recording, the button reads **Another meeting is running** and takes you to it. While an earlier meeting is still being processed, it reads **Processing…**. If NoteOwl can't start the meeting, it says why and stays on the prep page. For recording itself, see [record a meeting on your Mac](https://www.noteowl.ai/docs/meetings/record-a-meeting). ## Get a reminder before a meeting 1. On the **Calendar** screen, click the filter button beside **Upcoming**. 2. Under **Remind me before a meeting**, choose **At start**, **5 min**, **10 min** or **15 min**. It starts at **Off**. 3. If macOS asks, allow notifications from NoteOwl. 4. Click **Done**. The reminder is a Mac notification with the meeting's title, when it starts, such as **Starts in 10 minutes.**, and up to three attendees. **Open in NoteOwl** opens the prep page, and **Start Scribe** starts recording. As the panel says: **A reminder opens the event in NoteOwl. It never starts recording on its own.** All-day events get no reminder unless you turn on **Include all-day events**. Events you added in NoteOwl get reminders too. If notifications are off for NoteOwl, the panel says **Notifications are turned off for NoteOwl in System Settings, so reminders can’t be shown.** Turn them on in **System Settings → Notifications**. ## Add an event in NoteOwl For a meeting that isn't on your calendar: 1. Click **+** beside **Upcoming** on the **Calendar** screen, or **+ Add** under **Today** in **Review**. 2. In **New Event**, type a **Title**. **Month**, **Day** and **Time** start at today and now; change them if you need to, such as **JUL**, **14** and **2:00 PM**. 3. Click **Add Event**. The event is listed as a **NoteOwl event**, with its own prep page for your notes and **Start Scribe**. It has no attendees, so **From your memory** stays empty. It stays in NoteOwl and is never added to your Mac's calendar. To delete it, right-click it and choose **Delete**, or click the bin on its prep page, then click **Delete** again. That removes the event and the notes you wrote for it. Nothing on your real calendar is touched. ## Is my calendar sent anywhere? No. NoteOwl reads your calendar on your Mac through macOS and never sends it anywhere, and it never adds, changes or deletes an event. Your prep notes, your calendar choices and the prep saved with each meeting stay in NoteOwl's files on your Mac. **Export all data** includes them, and **Delete all data** removes them: see [export a note, or all of your data](https://www.noteowl.ai/docs/data/export) and [what NoteOwl sends over the network](https://www.noteowl.ai/docs/data/network-use). ## Common questions ### Does NoteOwl change my calendar? No. NoteOwl only reads the calendars set up on your Mac. It never adds, changes or deletes an event. Renaming a meeting in NoteOwl changes only the name NoteOwl shows, and events you add in NoteOwl stay in NoteOwl. ### Why is From your memory empty for a meeting? Because nothing open involves the people invited. NoteOwl shows commitments that are still open and name an attendee as the person who owes them or is owed them. An event with no attendees, such as one you added in NoteOwl, has nothing there. ### Does a meeting reminder start recording? No. A reminder is a Mac notification that opens the meeting's prep page in NoteOwl. Recording starts only when you click Start Scribe, on the prep page or on the notification. ### Why doesn't Review show today's meetings? Review lists today's calendar events only when your calendar is connected. Until then it shows only events you added in NoteOwl, or says Calendar isn't connected, so only your own items show here. Click Connect in Calendar, then Connect, and allow access when macOS asks. ## Related - [Track what you owe and what you're owed](https://www.noteowl.ai/docs/memory/commitments): NoteOwl's Commitments board lists every promise from your meetings and notes, in two columns, I owe and Owed to me, with the most urgent first. - [People profiles for everyone you meet](https://www.noteowl.ai/docs/memory/people): NoteOwl's People screen keeps a profile for everyone in your conversations, with their details, a relationship summary, your private notes and a timeline. - [Record a meeting on your Mac](https://www.noteowl.ai/docs/meetings/record-a-meeting): Record any call on your Mac with NoteOwl and no bot. Press ⌥Space or Start Meeting; the transcript, summary and action items are written when you stop. - [Calendar or Contacts prompt doesn't appear](https://www.noteowl.ai/docs/troubleshooting/calendar-or-contacts-prompt): macOS asks about Calendar or Contacts only when you click Connect or Grant in NoteOwl. If you said no before, turn access on in System Settings instead. Learn more: [Meeting prep, on the NoteOwl Features page](https://www.noteowl.ai/features/meeting-prep)