Put your phone on the table and press record. The app keeps recording with the screen locked and uploads the audio by itself. To install the apps, see Get started with Notulist.
Start a recording
- Open the Record tab.
- Check the Calendar event and the Language. With a connected calendar, the meeting that’s on now is picked for you; its invitees help Notulist recognise the speakers.
- Tap Start recording. The first time, allow Notulist to use the microphone.
- Lock the phone and put it down. The recording continues.
- When you’re done, tap Stop and then Stop and upload.
Use Pause and Resume in between. Discard recording deletes the audio.
With the screen locked
- iPhone: the timer shows on the lock screen and in the Dynamic Island, where you can pause and stop the recording.
- Android: a notification shows while you record, with Pause, Resume and Stop. If notifications are off for Notulist, those controls don’t show, but the recording continues.
A recording stops by itself after 3 hours, the maximum length of a meeting; the last five minutes are counted down.
Shortcuts on iPhone
- Control Center, Lock Screen and Action button: add the Record meeting control to start a recording without opening the app.
- Next meeting widget: shows the next meeting from your connected calendar on the Home Screen, with a Record button.
- Quick actions: touch and hold the Notulist icon for New recording or Ask.
- Spotlight: search for a meeting’s title or a participant’s name to find the meeting and open it.
The Action items widget is explained in Action items.
Calls and online meetings
During a call on the phone itself, the call has the microphone: neither iPhone nor Android lets another app record it. That goes for a phone call and for a call in Teams, WhatsApp or another app.
- To record a regular phone call, add Notulist’s number to the call instead. See Record phone calls.
- A call pauses the recording, with Paused by a call – continues when it ends. When the call is over, the recording continues by itself.
- A recording can’t start during a call: on iPhone it doesn’t start, on Android it waits until the call is over.
- To record an online meeting, such as Teams, Zoom or Google Meet, use Notulist on the computer you join it from: the Mac app, the Windows app or the browser with Microphone + computer audio.
- Is the call on your laptop, with its sound on the speakers? Then the phone can record the room, including what the others in the call say.
How uploads work
The audio is saved on your phone first and uploaded in small pieces while you record. If the connection drops, recording simply continues and the upload picks up again when you’re back online. The meeting is transcribed once all audio is uploaded.
Recordings that are still uploading appear under On this device in the Meetings tab, with their progress. If an upload failed, tap Retry. Discard throws away the audio that hasn’t been uploaded, so only use it if you don’t need the recording.
Wait for Wi-Fi
In Settings › General › Uploads, Upload over mobile data is on by default. Turn it off and recordings wait on your phone until you’re on Wi-Fi; they then show “Waiting for Wi-Fi”. An hour of audio is about 30 MB.
Signing out doesn’t lose anything either: recordings that are still uploading stay on the phone and continue after you sign in again.
Upload a file from your phone
Tap Upload file on the Record or Meetings tab, choose an audio or video file, check the Title and Language and tap Upload. The limits are in Upload an existing recording.