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Connect a recurring meeting to your Workspace

Link a recurring calendar meeting to your Workspace so In Parallel can capture signals and update your plan automatically.

Written by Topi Järvinen

Connect a recurring meeting to your Workspace

Connect a recurring meeting so the Transcriber can join, capture execution signals, and keep your Workspace's Living Execution Plan current after every session.


Before you start

  • You need an In Parallel account with your calendar connected. Meetings from your calendar appear automatically in the Meetings section of your Personal Dashboard.

  • You need at least one Workspace set up. See Create a Workspace.


Connect a meeting to Workspaces

Connecting a meeting links it to one or more Workspaces so In Parallel knows which plans to update after each session. A meeting can belong to multiple Workspaces — useful when a recurring meeting covers topics relevant to more than one team or project. Connecting also creates a Routine — In Parallel's structure for tracking context across every occurrence of this recurring meeting. Each session is a Routine Cycle, and context compounds across cycles: the pre-read for each meeting draws on what happened in previous ones.

1. Open the meeting

Go to Meetings in your Personal Dashboard or in your Workspace. Click the meeting you want to connect.

2. Open the properties sidebar

The properties sidebar appears on the right side of the meeting page. It shows the meeting's date/time, people, source Routine, Publish to, and capture actions.

Meeting properties sidebar showing date, participants, and Publish to

3. Add a Workspace via Publish to

In the properties sidebar, click Publish to. Search for and select the Workspace you want this meeting connected to. Click Save. The meeting now appears in that Workspace's Meetings section and will be included in the Workspace's Active routines.

Publish to modal with Growth Projects selected

To connect the meeting to additional Workspaces, click the + button next to the Workspace name in the sidebar and select another Workspace.

Properties sidebar showing Publish to: Growth Projects

Note: Adding a Workspace via Publish to automatically creates an approve changelog rule for the entire recurring series. Removing a Workspace deletes the rule and unlinks future meetings only — past meetings retain their connection.


Enable or disable the Transcriber

The Recorder joining toggle controls whether the Transcriber joins the meeting. When it's ON, the Transcriber joins automatically and captures execution signals — decisions, actions, risks, and ownership changes — that feed into each connected Workspace's Living Execution Plan. The toggle is available on the meeting card in the Meetings list and in the properties sidebar on the meeting page.

1. Open the Meetings section for your Workspace

In the left nav, select your Workspace and click Meetings. Upcoming meetings appear as cards below the Active routines section.

Workspace Meetings section showing active routines and upcoming meeting cards

2. Toggle Recorder joining

The Recorder joining toggle appears on each upcoming meeting card. Switch it ON to enable the Transcriber for that session, or OFF to disable it.

Upcoming meeting card with Recorder joining toggle ON — Transcriber will join automatically

Upcoming meeting card with Recorder joining toggle OFF — Transcriber will not join

Note: Make sure meeting participants know the Transcriber will be joining. Use the Meeting summary as the shared output — not the raw transcript.


Configure the meeting routine (optional)

Each connected meeting has a routine that controls how In Parallel prepares for and processes the session. Open the meeting and click View routine in the properties sidebar, then click Edit routine.

From the routine settings you can:

  • Set the routine type (Daily Standup, Weekly 1:1, Workshop, Ops Weekly, Weekly Project Status)

  • Configure the Before meeting activation time — how far in advance In Parallel prepares the pre-read

  • Edit the Agenda template that gets shared with participants before each session


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