Creating & Organizing Notes

Creating a note

To create a new note, click the New Note button on your dashboard. You'll land on a draft screen where you can give your note a title and upload your source documents before submitting for transcription.

Every note starts with the title "Untitled." You can rename it at any time — just click the title field and type a new name. A descriptive title makes it easier to find your notes later, especially once your dashboard fills up.

Uploading documents

From the draft screen, you can upload one or more files to a note. Supported formats are PDF, JPEG, and PNG. You can mix file types — for example, a PDF of lecture slides alongside a photo of your handwritten notes.

Files are added in the order you upload them, and all of them contribute to a single transcribed body. See How Uploads Work for details on file size limits and how pages are counted.

What's inside a note

Once transcription is complete, a note contains three things:

• Source documents — the original files you uploaded, preserved exactly as you provided them
• Transcribed body — an editable markdown document generated from your uploads, which you work with in The Editor
• Diagrams — figures and diagrams extracted during transcription or created manually, accessible from the Diagrams tab in the editor (see Diagrams)

Finding your notes

All your notes appear in a list on your dashboard, sorted by most recently updated. Each note shows its title, the date it was last modified, and its current status (for example, whether it's still processing or ready to edit).

Archiving notes

When a note is no longer active, you can archive it. Archiving hides the note from your main dashboard list — it doesn't delete anything. Your source files, transcribed content, and diagrams are all preserved.

If you need an archived note again, you can find it in your archive and restore it to your active list at any time.