AI Meeting Notes

Record a lecture or meeting directly in your browser, or upload existing audio files. Scholarly automatically transcribes the audio, generates a summary and action items, and gives you an AI chat grounded in the transcript. It works equally well for a two-hour lecture and a team meeting — students get study-ready notes, and professionals get a clean record of what was decided and what needs doing.

Live Recording

Start a recording from the Create menu, the home page, or the sidebar.

• Audio is captured in your browser. No external software needed.
• Chunked uploads -- Audio uploads in small pieces continuously, so nothing is lost if your connection drops or your browser crashes.
• Pause and resume -- Pause the recording at any time and pick it back up when ready.
• Max length -- Recordings can be up to 3 hours long.
• Silent-mic warning -- If no sound is coming through your microphone while recording, a warning appears within seconds so you can check that the right mic is selected and unmuted before you lose a session to silence.
• Click Stop when you are done. Processing begins automatically.

Upload Audio

If you already have a recording, upload it instead.

• Supported formats: MP3, M4A, WAV, WebM, OGG.
• Upload from the Upload modal, the home page, or the flashcard creator.
• Each upload creates a dedicated recording page with the same transcription and AI features as a live recording.

Transcription and Processing

After recording or uploading, Scholarly processes the audio automatically:

• Timestamped transcript -- Every segment has a time marker. Click any segment to seek the audio player to that exact moment.
• AI-generated summary -- A concise overview of the recording content.
• Tasks -- Action items pulled from the recording, so decisions and follow-ups from a meeting (or assignments mentioned in a lecture) don't get lost.
• Auto-generated title -- A descriptive title based on the content.

Recording Page

The recording page is your hub for reviewing and studying.

Audio Player

• Playback speed control from 0.5x to 3x.
• Seek, skip forward, and skip back controls.
• Keyboard shortcuts for hands-free navigation.
• Topic markers displayed on the progress bar so you can jump to key moments.

Tabs

• Summary -- AI-generated overview of the recording.
• Transcript -- Full timestamped transcript. Click any segment to seek.
• Tasks -- Action items extracted from the recording, each with a timestamp so you can jump back to the moment it came up.
• Flashcards -- Create and study flashcards from the recording without leaving the page.

Other Actions

• Rename -- Click the title to rename the recording.
• Download -- Download the original audio file (available in the three-dot menu).

AI Chat

Every completed recording has a dedicated chat panel.

• Ask questions and the AI searches your transcript to find relevant context before answering.
• Conversation suggestions are generated based on the recording content, so you can start studying immediately.

Flashcards from Audio

You can create flashcards directly from recordings:

• Open the flashcard creator from a completed recording.
• The flashcard creator also accepts audio file uploads directly.
• Completed recordings appear in the Library tab of the flashcard creator, so you can generate cards from any past recording.

Sharing

Share any recording with a link. Recipients can:

• Listen to the audio.
• Read the full transcript.
• View the summary and tasks.
• Leave comments and reactions.

Limits

Recordings draw from your shared AI creation allowance. On Free, that means lifetime free credits shared across flashcard decks, deck-wide AI edits, podcasts, video lectures, AI Slides, Deep Research, and recordings; they do not reset. Paid plans lift the cap entirely. See Plans and Limits for the full breakdown.