Title Format — How Wave Names Your Recordings

Lead with the date, the people, or your calendar event name — or build your own recipe for how Wave titles every new recording.

Wave writes a title for every recording. Title Format decides what those titles look like — a short descriptive phrase, the date first so your library reads like a journal, the people who were there, or your calendar event's name. It's one setting shared by your phone, the web app, and desktop: change it anywhere and it applies to new recordings everywhere.

Where to Find It

Settings → Personalization → Title Format

A live Preview at the top shows exactly how a meeting, a phone call, and a voice memo would be titled, updating as you change things. When you're happy, hit Save Title Format.

The Five Formats

Smart Title — "Wave writes a short descriptive title. This is the default." Example: Q3 Pricing Strategy
Date First — "Lead with the day so your list reads like a journal." Example: Jul 22 · Q3 Pricing Strategy
People First — "Lead with who was in the conversation." Example: Josh & Sarah — Q3 Pricing Strategy
Calendar Name — "Use the calendar event name when there is one, otherwise a smart title." Example: Weekly Growth Sync
Build Your Own — "Pick exactly what to include in your titles."

Build Your Own

Choosing Build Your Own opens Include in the title: with four pieces you turn on or off, each showing an example of what it adds:

Date — Jul 22
Time — 10:00 AM
Who was there — Josh & Sarah
Recording type — Meeting, Phone Call…

Wave always finishes the title with a short topic, so you never end up with a title that's only metadata.

"Anything Else?" — Describe Your Style in Words

Under the formats there's an optional free-text field: Anything else? (optional) — "Tell Wave how you like your titles, in your own words." It works with any of the five formats. A few that work well:

"Keep it under 4 words."
"Start with an emoji."
"Always write titles in Spanish."

Naming a Session After a Calendar Meeting

Separate from the Title Format setting, Wave watches your connected calendar while you record. If an event is running right now, it offers that event's name as the title for the session — and uses it by default.

A calendar card appears at the top of the recording screen with the event name and a Use calendar name checkbox, already ticked. Untick it and the card switches to Wave will generate title — Wave writes its own title instead. Tap the pencil to type something of your own.

Double-booked? The card shows 2 events happening now (or however many). Tap it to expand the list, then pick the right meeting — Wave switches the title to that event's name.

The calendar name is applied once per recording, at the start. If you've already typed your own title, or you untick the box, Wave won't quietly put the event name back.

Naming a Session Yourself

A title you write always beats the one Wave would have generated, whichever format you've picked.

While recording — tap Add title on the recording screen (or the pencil on the calendar card) to open Session title: "Set a title for this recording. Leave blank to let Wave generate one automatically."
Afterwards — open the session and tap or click the title to edit it in place. On your phone you can also press and hold a session in the library and choose Edit Title.

Clear the field and leave it blank to hand naming back to Wave.

Good to Know

New recordings only. Changing your format never renames sessions you already have.
Your own titles always win. Wave never overwrites a title you typed or edited.
Missing pieces are skipped. "When a session has no people or calendar event, those parts are skipped automatically" — a solo voice memo just gets a clean topic title, with no awkward gaps.
Dates and times in titles are formatted in English (like Jul 22); the topic itself follows the language of the recording.
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