Pause & Resume

Status: Draft Author: Ryan Nel Date: 2026-05-01

Problem

A live recording runs continuously from start to stop. There is no way for a user to temporarily pause — to go "off record" for a sensitive aside, a personal conversation, or a break — without ending the entire session. Users who need a moment of privacy must choose between stopping the recording (losing the live session context) or continuing to record content they don't want captured. This is a natural expectation for any recording tool, and its absence will be felt immediately.

Appetite

2–3 weeks. Pause introduces session-split complexity: multiple audio segments, transcript gap handling, timer semantics (does pause time count toward duration?), UI state transitions, and the OPFS buffer must handle segment boundaries cleanly. The design is well-scoped but touches the full audio pipeline.

Why Now

Meeting Recording is shipping without pause/resume as a deliberate no-go — the complexity doesn't justify the cost for v1. But users will ask for this on day one. Capturing it now ensures the design accounts for it in sequencing rather than treating it as an afterthought.