Privacy Policy — Plática Notes
Effective date: 2026-07-29
Plática Notes is a browser extension that records Google Meet meeting transcripts and in-meeting chat locally on your own device. This policy explains exactly what it does with data. The short version: the extension collects nothing for the developer, sends nothing over the network, and stores everything on your machine.
What the extension handles
While you are in a Google Meet call, the extension processes, on your device only:
- Transcript text — Google Meet's own live captions for the meeting.
- In-meeting chat — messages in the Meet chat, including the ones you send yourself (read locally from Meet's embedded Google Chat frame; see the technical disclosure below).
- Participant names and the meeting title — to label the transcript.
- Your settings — caption language, the private-by-default toggle, the debug toggle, and the download folder names.
Where it is stored
- A rolling history of your most recent meetings (default: the last 30) is kept in
the browser's local extension storage (
chrome.storage) on your computer. - Each meeting is written as a Markdown (
.md) file to your Downloads folder (into the subfolders you configure). Meetings you mark private go to a separate folder so you can keep them out of any cloud sync. - Your settings sync through your browser profile's own settings storage
(
chrome.storage.sync), the same way other extension preferences do.
What is NOT done
- No data is sent anywhere. The extension makes no network requests of its own — there are no servers, no analytics, no telemetry, no accounts, and no third-party services. Your transcripts never leave your device through this extension.
- No data is sold or shared. The developer has no access to your data and does not collect it.
How transcripts are captured (technical disclosure)
To label speakers, the extension reads Google Meet's own data locally inside the page: it attaches to Meet's caption/chat data channels and reads the responses of a few of Meet's own internal requests (for participant names) as they happen in your browser. This reading is entirely local — none of it is transmitted, logged remotely, or shared. It is only used to build the transcript file you asked for.
Google Meet renders the in-meeting chat inside an embedded Google Chat
(chat.google.com) frame, and a message you send yourself is not repeated back
over the meeting page. So that your own chat still appears in the transcript, a
small script runs in that frame and reads only your own outgoing message text
as you send it, then passes it to the meeting tab inside the browser. It reads
nothing else in Google Chat and, like everything else here, makes no network
request and transmits nothing off your device.
Optional diagnostic log
The extension has an optional Debug log setting that is off by default.
When you turn it on, a diagnostic .jsonl file (which contains the full
transcript) is written locally to a separate Downloads folder to help troubleshoot
capture problems. It is never uploaded. Meetings you mark private are excluded
from the debug log entirely. Keep the debug folder out of any cloud sync, and turn
the setting off when you no longer need it.
Your control
- Pause capture at any time. An in-meeting control turns recording off and back on without leaving the call. While it is off, nothing new is captured — no transcript, chat, presence markers, or notes.
- Wipe what was captured. A second in-meeting control clears everything captured in the current meeting so far. A meeting left with nothing captured writes no file at all.
- Everything is on your device: delete the
.md/.jsonlfiles from Downloads, and use the extension's history page to delete stored meetings, at any time. - Uninstalling the extension removes its stored data.
A note on consent
Recording a meeting may be subject to the consent of other participants and to the laws of your jurisdiction. You are responsible for informing participants and obtaining any consent required where you are.
Changes
Any change to this policy will be reflected by an updated effective date above.
Contact
Questions about this policy: coder0techs@icloud.com.