Sync & Offline
How notes sync across your devices, what works offline, and how conflicts are resolved.
Your notes live in your account, so they're on every device you sign into. Record on your desktop, read it on the train, tidy it up on your laptop.
There's nothing to turn on and no sync button. But the two halves of a note travel differently, and knowing which is which explains most of what you'll notice.
Text Syncs Live. Details Catch Up.
| How it travels | |
|---|---|
| What you type — the note's body | Live. Edits appear as they're made, including someone else's. |
| Everything around it — title, tags, folder, favorite | Synced, but refreshed when you open or reload rather than the instant it changes. |
So if you star a note on your phone and stare at your laptop's sidebar, it won't light up. Reload the page and it's there.
Rule of thumb: if a change made elsewhere hasn't shown up, reload. There's no pending queue to wait on — the app just hasn't asked yet.
Editing at the Same Time
The note body is built so simultaneous edits merge. Two people typing in one shared note see each other live, and neither overwrites the other — no save button, no "someone else is editing" warning, no lost paragraph.
That's the body only. If two devices rename the same note at the same time, the last rename wins and the other is dropped — nothing is lost from the note itself, just the title.
Offline
The best of the apps offline. Your notes list, titles, and tags are on the device, search works over them, and anything you write queues up and sends when you're back.
Two things to know: a note you've never opened doesn't have its text on the device yet, so it'll be empty offline — open the ones you'll want before you lose signal. And starting a recording needs a connection, though one already running keeps going if you lose it.
The best of the apps offline. Your notes list, titles, and tags are on the device, search works over them, and anything you write queues up and sends when you're back.
Two things to know: a note you've never opened doesn't have its text on the device yet, so it'll be empty offline — open the ones you'll want before you lose signal. And starting a recording needs a connection, though one already running keeps going if you lose it.
Needs a connection to open a note.
A note that's already open keeps working through a dropped connection — it shows Reconnecting…, holds your edits, and merges them when it's back. So a brief blip mid-meeting costs you nothing.
A recording that's already running is safe: audio goes to disk and transcribes when you're back. Starting one while offline is not — it won't finish transcribing later. See Record a note.
Needs a connection to open a note.
A note that's already open keeps working through a dropped connection — it shows Reconnecting…, holds your edits, and merges them when it's back. So a brief blip mid-meeting costs you nothing.
A recording that's already running is safe: audio goes to disk and transcribes when you're back. Starting one while offline is not — it won't finish transcribing later. See Record a note.
Needs a connection to open a note.
A note that's already open survives a brief drop — it shows Reconnecting… and merges your edits when it's back.
Recordings live only in the tab, so a browser crash or a closed tab loses one.
Heading somewhere without signal? Open the notes you'll want to read while you still have a connection — that's what puts their text on your phone.
Settings That Stay Put
A few things are deliberately per-device, because they're about this machine rather than your account:
- Auto-enhance after recording — see Enhance
- Your Ask AI model choice — see Ask AI
- Light or dark theme
Your transcription and text generation models are on your account and do follow you everywhere.