LimoNote tutorials

Short, step-by-step guides for the things people do most. Every one links to the full manual, where the rest is.

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Guides

Record

Record a meeting or a lecture

  1. Press + New and choose Audio/Video.
  2. Under Save recording to, keep This device, or choose Cloud to upload it while you record.
  3. Press Record and allow the microphone. The waveform, the time and the size show; Pause when you need to. It can go on for hours — keep LimoNote open.
  4. Press Stop. A recording of up to 60 minutes is transcribed in its own language and summarized; a longer one is saved to play, without a transcript.
  5. The Note tab has the summary with the player above it; CC has the transcript as timed lines — tap a line to play from there.

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Screen

Capture a meeting in another tab

  1. In a desktop browser, press + New and choose Screen Record.
  2. Press Start Recording, pick the tab, window or screen, and include its audio when the browser offers it.
  3. Press Stop (or stop sharing in the browser) when the meeting ends.
  4. Only the sound is kept: it becomes an audio note with a transcript and a summary.

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Files

Transcribe a recording or a video file

  1. + New → Audio/Video.
  2. Drop the file on the upload box, or click it to choose one — audio files and MP4, MOV, MPEG, MKV or WebM videos.
  3. With Auto-summarize after upload ticked, it starts at once. A video is turned into sound in your browser first.
  4. The file is kept in your cloud storage and plays with the note.

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YouTube

Turn a YouTube video into notes

  1. + New → YouTube.
  2. Paste the link (watch, Shorts, live and youtu.be links all work) and press Summarize — or press Paste to fill the box and start in one go.
  3. The note takes the video’s title; the video plays above it and CC lists its captions with their times.
  4. A video with captions in several languages gets CC Language. A video without captions can’t become a note.

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Pictures

Get the text out of a picture or a PDF

  1. + New → Image/PDF.
  2. Choose a photo of a page, a slide or a whiteboard — or a PDF: it is read page by page on your device, up to 30 pages, scans included.
  3. Pick Extract text from image for the text as written, or Summarize text from image for a summary.
  4. The file is kept with the note; a picture shows on its Media tab.

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Web

Summarise a web page

  1. + New → Web.
  2. Enter the page address in Website URL and press Summarize.
  3. The page’s text is kept on the Source tab, and View Original Content opens the page.

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Translate

Translate a note or its captions

  1. Open the note and press Translate (or Translate Note in the ⋮ menu).
  2. Pick one of 57 languages and press Apply & Translate.
  3. Name the translation: it is saved as a new note, and the original stays as it was.
  4. For captions, use Translate on the CC tab, check the lines, then Accept.

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Captions

Export caption files

  1. Open a recording, song or YouTube note and go to the CC tab.
  2. Press Export (or Export CC in the ⋮ menu).
  3. Name the file and choose SRT, LRC or ASS, then Export. Exporting is free.

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Share

Share a note or make a PDF

  1. ⋮ → Share Note shows the link; Copy it or send it straight to WhatsApp, Telegram, X, Facebook, LinkedIn or email.
  2. Anyone with the link can read the note — with its recording, video or picture — without an account.
  3. Generate PDF makes an A4 PDF of the note. Sharing and PDFs are free.
  4. To keep a note private, tick Disable sharing in the save dialog.

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Video

Make a video from a note

  1. ⋮ → Make a video (or Note Options in the list).
  2. Choose the shape — landscape, portrait or square — and whether to add captions from the transcript.
  3. Press Make the video: a recording becomes a soundwave video with its title and captions, a written note becomes slides.
  4. The project opens in LimoStudio, ready to edit and export.

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Who it’s for

Teams and professionals

  • Record and transcribe meetings and calls
  • Summaries to share with people who weren’t there
  • Translate notes for international colleagues
  • Get the text out of slides, whiteboards and documents

Students and researchers

  • Transcribe lecture recordings
  • Turn YouTube lectures and talks into notes
  • Summarise articles and web pages
  • Ask a note’s chat to explain or quiz you

Creators

  • Caption files for your videos (SRT, LRC, ASS)
  • Transcribe interviews and podcast episodes
  • Translate captions for other audiences
  • Turn a recording into a captioned video in LimoStudio

Tips

  • Tags make folders. A slash in a tag nests it: Work/Clients shows up as Clients inside Work in the Folders view.
  • Play from the list. Press ▶ on a recording in the notes list to listen while you keep browsing; open the note and it carries on where you were.
  • Search the captions. On the CC tab, Search CC… highlights every line with your words; tap a line to jump there.
  • Ask the note. The Chat tab answers questions about the note it belongs to.
  • Free things stay free. Writing and editing notes, tags, search, PDF and caption export and sharing never cost credits.

Everything else — the editor, AI edits, storage, offline use and your account — is in the LimoNote manual.