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What it does

Temporary meetings let you capture and work with a conversation in real time without saving it to your account or Earmark’s servers. Live transcription, tasks, and artifacts work while the meeting is open. When you close it, the transcript, tasks, and artifacts are gone. This is a mode you turn on per meeting, or require across your whole workspace.

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Why teams use it

  • Sensitive conversations: personnel discussions, early-stage strategy, or topics where a lasting record isn’t appropriate
  • Brainstorming and exploration: free-flowing sessions where you want live help but don’t need history
  • Quick syncs: short check-ins that don’t warrant a place in your meeting history
  • Compliance requirements: teams that can’t keep meeting content on a third-party service

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Start a temporary meeting

1

Open a new meeting

Click New meeting, or use Quick Capture from the toolbar.
2

Turn on temporary mode

Use the temporary meeting toggle in the meeting header before you start capture. The header shows Temporary meeting while it’s on. Once capture starts, the mode is locked for that meeting.
3

Work as usual, then save what you need

Generate artifacts and copy anything you want to keep before you close the meeting. Earmark warns you before you leave a temporary meeting, because everything in it will be lost.

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What’s different in a temporary meeting

On desktop, local transcript files can still save a copy of a temporary meeting to your own device, if you’ve turned that on. Nothing is stored on Earmark’s servers.

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Require temporary mode for a workspace

Workspace admins can make every new meeting temporary. Turn on Require temporary mode under Temporary meetings in Settings > Workspace. When it’s on:
  • Every new meeting in the workspace is temporary
  • Members can’t switch it off for individual meetings
  • Meetings saved before you turned it on aren’t affected
Conversations that benefit from live help but shouldn’t become part of your team’s history: early-stage explorations, sensitive HR discussions, one-off brainstorms, or any session where everyone agrees upfront that nothing should be kept.
If action items or decisions need to be revisited later, copy the artifact somewhere safe before you close the meeting. Once it’s closed, there’s no way to get it back.