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# Meeting Briefs
Meeting briefs are the core of Dana. Before every meeting on your calendar, Dana automatically generates a brief that pulls together everything you should know: past interactions, relevant context, and key details about the people you're meeting.
## How briefs are generated
Dana cross-references your calendar, email, LinkedIn, and any other connected sources to surface what matters for each specific meeting. Briefs generate automatically — no manual prompting needed. You can also manually generate a brief from any meeting in Dana at any time.
Briefs pull from:
* **Email exchanges** with the attendees, timestamped with sender attribution
* **Calendar events** — past and upcoming meetings with the same attendees
* **LinkedIn profiles** of each attendee
* **Web search results** for company and topical context
* **Notes** you've added in Dana, linked to the relevant contacts
* **Dex** relationship history (if [connected](/integrations/dex))
## What you see in a brief
Every brief includes:
* **Attendee summaries** with relevant background and recent context
* **Cross-source patterns**: Dana surfaces connections across emails, calendar, LinkedIn, notes, and the web instead of isolated facts
* [**Citations**](/features/citations)\*\* on every claim\*\*: hover over any citation marker to see exactly where the insight came from, the date, and a direct link to the original source
* **Recency-ranked context**: recent and relevant interactions are prioritized so stale context doesn't crowd out what matters
## Controlling which meetings get briefs
From **Settings → Brief Settings**, you can toggle:
* **Automatically include internal meetings**: generate briefs for meetings with only internal attendees
* **Automatically include recurring meetings**: generate briefs for recurring meetings
## Customizing briefs
You can shape how Dana writes your briefs with [custom instructions](/features/custom-instructions).
Examples:
* *"Keep briefs under 200 words."*
* *"Always highlight deal stage or funding stage."*
* *"Lead with the most recent email exchange."*
* *"Use bullet points instead of paragraphs."*
Set it once and every future brief follows your rules.
## Regenerating a brief
If you've added a new note, connected a new source, or updated your custom instructions, hit **Regenerate** on any existing brief to apply the changes immediately.
## Sharing briefs with participants
You can optionally send a public brief to all meeting participants with topics, context, and optional prep, and no participant details are shared.
Control this from **Settings → Brief Settings** under **Public Briefs**:
* **Never**
* **Ask for every brief**
* **Always send**
Briefs may run slightly longer than they used to. Dana now includes more useful context per meeting. We're happy to hear your feedback so we can keep fine-tuning!