https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMN0baXbVdw

If it proves challenging for you to take notes in a meeting, lecture or any other setting where important spoken information flies by too fast to be fully noted down, you can effortlessly record the surrounding audio to replace or complement your handwritten/typed ones. What’s more, you can see the notes you took during a recording session come back to life as well!

<aside> ℹ️ This feature is available only on macOS Monterey or later, and iPadOS 15 or later.

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Start/Stop/Play a recording

You can record audio as often as you like and each time you start and stop a recording, an audio clip is created.

Start a recording

• Tap the Microphone icon on the toolbar. A duration timer will appear, indicating the recording is in progress, and any notes you then take in the document will also be recorded! If you switch away from the app, audio recording still continues in the background, indicated by a flashing orange Mic icon on the device status bar.

The Microphone icon in GoodNotes

The flashing Mic icon means continuous background recording when the app is not visible.

<aside> 💡 You can tap the orange Mic icon on the status bar to switch back to GoodNotes.

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Stop a recording

• Tap the Stop Recording icon, i.e. the running timer.

  

  The Stop Recording icon

Play back a recording

• Tap the Playback icon that appears next to the Microphone icon and tap the Play icon. Any notes previously taken during the recording will be played back as well.

  

  The Playback icon. The red dot indicates there’s a new audio clip.

  <aside> ℹ️ If you’ve recorded a few times in the same document and want to jump to a specific position of the recording, tap Browse and tap an audio clip.

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Play back some notes linked to the recording

1. Circle those notes with The Lasso Tool, or simply long-press any part of them.

2. Choose Play Recording. The playback jumps to when those notes were taken.

   

   <aside> ℹ️ Only notes taken on the page where the recording started are captured. This means if you start a recording in a document, then switch to a different document to take notes, they won’t be replayed when the recording is played back.

   

   The orange Stop Recording icon on a document tab title indicates where the recording started. During this session, notes taken in any other document are not captured.

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