What counts as a connected week
Sonar keeps a registry of the sources that can feed your week, and the calendar and Slack are both on it. Connecting either one satisfies the "Connect your week" step in the sidebar's Getting started card, and every surface that asks whether the founder has connected their week reads the same list. No transcript source is required. Meet transcripts are a second switch on the calendar's Google connection that you can leave off.
What a week from those two sources yields
The calendar read covers the meetings with people on your primary calendar from the last seven days, up to sixty, and produces two things in one pass: up to three moments from meetings whose title and description already carry a story, and two or three questions for you, asked on Home under "From Sonar", each naming a real event and day. A calendar knows a meeting happened and never what came of it, so the questions are where the calendar earns its place: a line back becomes a moment with an outcome in it.
The Slack read covers only the conversations you picked at connect time, public channels, private channels you are in, group messages and direct messages, for the last seven days, up to eighty messages each plus the replies in their threads. It returns two to four moments a week, and Slack is the richer of the two sources because decisions, wins and arguments happen in the text itself, with no question needed.
Between them, a normal week gives Sonar four to seven moments and two or three answered questions, each moment a title, an angle and one line of detail, with the meeting or channel it came from as provenance for your eyes. Your content pillars add up to five trend moments a week from the niche radar without any source at all.
What you see each morning
Moments lead the day's ideas on Home, each with a draft one tap away. And every morning three posts are ready, already written in your voice from your freshest moments, the stories you have told Sonar, developments in your niche and the pillars you chose, so a quiet week still leaves three waiting. Keep one and it lands in your drafts, for you to finish and schedule; skip one and a fresh post takes its place the next morning. The ones you leave carry over.
The first calendar read runs the moment you land back from Google's consent screen; the first Slack read runs when you finish picking conversations. After that both run about once a week, and the Sync all button in Connections runs them now.
What you give up without a transcript
Two things, and both are honest to name. First, the outcome of a meeting reaches Sonar only through your answers, so a week where you skip the questions is a week the calendar contributes little. Second, your spoken voice. The calendar can never teach how you talk, because it carries none of your words. Slack can: with "Learn voice from your sources" switched on in Settings under Voice, the messages you wrote in the picked conversations, and only yours, by author name, are distilled weekly into notes about your register. Off by default, and your published posts remain the anchor either way.
When you want the meetings themselves, Meet transcripts are one more read-only switch on the Google connection you already made, and Zoom is one page away.