MeetingBar

MeetingBar makes it fairly difficult to miss meetings, or get lost in the myriad meeting tools around today.

My configuration is as follows.

General

✅ Launch after login

Appearance

Events

Show events for today
All day events: show
Other events: show
Events without guests: show
Past events: show as inactive
Pending events: show
Declined events: show with strikethrough

Status bar

Icon Calendar
Title event title
shorten to 55 characters
Time: show
❌ Show only events starting within 60 minutes

✅ Shorten event title to 50 character
Time format: 24-hour
Show event:
- ✅ end time
- ✅ icon
- ✅ details as submenu

Services

Open all meeting links in Default Browser
Open Google Meet links in Google Chrome
- To have these open in the Google Meet PWA:
  - Install the PWA:
    - Open Google Chrome.
    - Browse to Google Meet.
    - In the URL bar, click Install.
  - Install the SpeedyMeet extension:
    - Clone the repo somewhere with gh repo clone rexfm/SpeedyMeet.
    - In Chrome, navigate to chrome://extensions.
    - Enable Developer mode.
    - Click Load unpacked, browse to the location you cloned SpeedyMeet to, then click Select.
  - Configure the PWA to start at login time:
    - Open System Preferences and navigate to Users & Groups, then Login Items.
    - Click +, then browse to ~/Applications/Chrome Apps.localized, choose Google Meet.app, then click Add.
    - Check the Hide box next to Google Meet to keep it out of the way.
Open Zoom links in Zoom app
Open Teams links in Teams app
Open Jitsi links in Default web browser
Create meetings via Google Meet
Use web browser Default Browser

Calendars

Calendars provider

MacOS Calendar app

Advanced

✅ Automatic join next event meeting 1 minute before

Backlinks

macOS installation (public)

Calendars provider