Lectures & Interviews
Record long-form sessions like lectures, interviews, and research calls, and turn them into reviewable notes.
Some sessions are too long and too dense to take notes on properly. An hour of lecture, a research interview you need to quote accurately, a training session where looking down means missing something.
Record it, listen properly, and read it back afterwards.
Getting a Good Recording
Long sessions live and die on the microphone.
Any device works — a phone on the desk is genuinely fine, and often better than a laptop, because you can put it closer to whoever's talking.
Get it near the speaker. A phone six feet from a lecturer beats a laptop twenty feet back, every time. This matters more than any setting.
Use the desktop app on a Mac and you capture the speaker as system audio — a much cleaner signal than your microphone picking them up off your speakers.
See System audio.
While It Runs
Don't transcribe. That's handled.
Type the things the recording won't contain: "this is on the exam", "good quote", "didn't follow this bit", "come back to the third assumption". Your notes are the index; the transcript is the archive.
For a long session, this is what turns two hours of audio into something you can actually use.
A Long Session in Pieces
You don't have to run one recording for two hours. Stop at the break and start again after — both attach to the same note.
That's often better: you can fold each part in separately and end up with a note that's sectioned the way the session was. See Record a note.
Recording survives more than you'd expect — a crash, a flat battery, a dropped connection. The audio is written to disk as it's captured and transcribed when things recover. See Record a note.
Afterwards
Enhance turns the session into structure: key points grouped by theme, and open questions where they exist.
For a long recording, Refine earns its keep. Accept nothing on the first pass — try "organize by topic", or "more detail on the middle section", and run it again.
The transcript stays alongside, so when you need the exact wording of a quote, it's there. Copy transcript gets you the whole thing.
Interviews
Interviews have a specific need: getting quotes right.
Record on a Mac with the desktop app for a remote interview and the transcript separates you from them — your microphone is you, their audio is them. That's what makes a transcript quotable rather than a wall of undifferentiated text. See Transcripts.
In person, everyone comes through one microphone, so everything is labeled the same way. Enhance still works out who said what from the content, but for verbatim quotes you'll be reading the transcript yourself.
Recording someone for research or publication is a consent question long before it's a technical one. Prismical announces nothing — that part is yours.
Building Something Out of a Term
One lecture is a note. Twelve is a body of knowledge, and that's where this pays off.
Tag them by course or subject, then use Ask AI with that tag as context — "what did we cover on regularization?" — and you're asking the whole term rather than hunting through weeks of notes.