Google has quietly been turning its meeting assistant into something far more useful, and the latest update to “Take Notes for Me” in Google Meet is the clearest sign yet that the company is serious about making AI-generated meeting documentation actually work for real teams – not just impress people in demos.

The feature, which first launched back in 2024, has always had a straightforward pitch: let Gemini listen to your meeting and hand you a clean Google Doc summary once the call ends, so you can stay focused on the conversation instead of furiously scribbling notes. For a lot of users, that alone was a game-changer. But anyone who has used the feature for more than a few weeks quickly noticed the limits – the summaries could be too long, too vague, or stuffed with information that wasn’t relevant to what they needed after the meeting.

Google addressed one layer of that problem in November 2025, when it gave users control over the length of AI-generated summaries – essentially a toggle between a concise recap and a more detailed, comprehensive version. That was a good first step, but the real ask from users was something deeper: the ability to choose what the notes actually contain, not just how much of it shows up.

Now, as of April 30, 2026, Google is delivering exactly that. The new update introduces toggleable sections directly inside the in-call menu, meaning you can turn on or off four distinct content areas – Summary, Decisions, Next Steps, and Details – depending on what matters for your specific meeting. Critically, these changes only apply to your current call. They don’t rewire your default settings for future meetings, which means you can use a quick standup and a sprawling strategy session in completely different note-taking modes without having to reset anything afterward.

The most notable addition in this rollout is the new Decisions section. It’s not just a list of things people said they would do – it actively tracks the status of each outcome from the meeting, categorizing them as Aligned, Needs Further Discussion, Disagreed, or Shelved. That’s a meaningfully different kind of output. Most meeting notes, whether AI-generated or human-written, blur the line between what was discussed and what was actually decided. The new Decisions section is built specifically to cut through that ambiguity. It’s launching in English only for now, but that’s a reasonable limitation given how nuanced language around decision-making can be, and Google will likely expand language support in a future update.

Google also used this update to overhaul the Summary section itself. The company says it has been redesigned to be more concise and scannable, which suggests the previous version leaned toward verbosity. The goal, according to Google, is to reduce the need to manually reformat notes after a call – something that has been a quiet frustration for anyone who has tried to send a post-meeting recap directly from the auto-generated doc and found it too bloated to share as-is.

Worth zooming out for a second to understand where this all fits in the broader arc of what Google has been building. As of early 2026, Gemini is no longer an optional add-on for select plans – it has been integrated directly into most Google Workspace Business and Enterprise editions, including Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, and Frontline Plus. That means the majority of teams using Google Meet professionally already have access to these features without needing to pay extra for a separate AI tier. The new customizations are available to those same plans, along with Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers on the consumer side.

Another significant expansion that quietly landed just a week before this update – in late April 2026 – was the extension of “Take Notes for Me” to in-person meetings. Using the Google Meet mobile app, users can now activate the feature for impromptu face-to-face gatherings, not just video calls. Gemini compiles the summary and action items into a Google Doc stored in the initiating user’s Drive, following the same post-meeting workflow users were already familiar with. Google is also reportedly expanding Gemini’s note-taking support to meetings held on Zoom and Microsoft Teams, which would be a significant move for organizations running mixed-platform environments.

Taken together, this string of updates paints a picture of Google systematically closing the gap between what its AI meeting assistant could do and what real working teams actually need from it. The ability to toggle sections, track decision outcomes, and use the feature across different meeting formats – in-person or remote, Google Meet or otherwise – addresses feedback that has accumulated since the feature first launched. It’s the kind of iterative improvement that rarely makes headlines but tends to be exactly what turns a feature people try once into one they rely on every day.

The rollout is gradual, with full visibility expected within 15 days of April 30, 2026, across both Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains. If you have access to the feature and don’t see the new sections yet, it should appear soon – no admin action required, and no new settings to hunt down in the admin console.