Lectures
Record the explanation as a voice memo and Mindly transcribes it, so you can listen properly in the moment and read it back later.
Study App
Capture lectures, slides, PDFs, and your own notes with one shortcut. Mindly transcribes the audio, reads the documents, summarizes the long parts, and tags everything by course and topic, so a whole semester becomes one searchable library by the time exams arrive.
How it works
When to use it
Record the explanation as a voice memo and Mindly transcribes it, so you can listen properly in the moment and read it back later.
Drop in the paper or chapter and get a summary plus tags, so dense readings are scannable and findable at revision time.
Photograph the slide or the whiteboard and Mindly reads the text inside, turning images into searchable notes.
Search the whole semester in plain language, follow connections between concepts, and revise from synthesis instead of raw pages.
Why it works
The worst trade in a lecture is choosing between listening and writing. Mindly lets you capture fast in whatever form fits the moment, a voice memo, a photo, a quick line, so you can stay present and let the cleanup happen after. The point of notes is to free your attention, not to consume it while the lecturer keeps talking.
A study library is full of things that are not typed text: recorded explanations, photos of slides, scanned readings. Mindly transcribes audio and reads the words inside images, so the material you could not type still becomes searchable notes instead of dead weight buried in a camera roll.
When your lecture audio, slides, readings, and notes live in different apps, revision means assembling them from scratch. Mindly keeps a whole course in one place, connected by topic, so the material accumulates against itself through the term and is ready as a single library the moment you need it.
Your notes and recordings live in a folder on your Mac, not in a service that owns your coursework. AI processing runs over encrypted channels and content is not retained on Mindly servers after the request, so your studying stays private and remains yours after the term, the degree, and the app.
Why it matters
Most study apps are a place to type notes. The trouble is that studying is not only typing. It is capturing many kinds of material under time pressure and finding the right piece weeks later. Mindly is built for both ends of that, not just the part where you sit and write.
Common questions
You can capture a voice memo of an explanation or a recap and Mindly transcribes it into searchable text, then summarizes and tags it by course. The transcript sits in the same library as your readings and notes, so it connects to the rest of the material on the same topic.
Yes. Mindly reads the text inside images, so a photo of a slide or the whiteboard becomes searchable notes. You can capture fast in the lecture by photographing what is on screen and rely on Mindly to turn it into text afterward.
Yes. Mindly tags every item by course and topic automatically and connects related ones, so the structure forms on its own. You capture lectures, readings, and notes, and a coherent course library appears without you maintaining any folders.
By revision week your whole semester is one searchable library. You can search any concept in plain language, get summaries instead of raw pages, and follow connections between related ideas, so revising is reviewing what you built rather than reconstructing it under pressure.
Yes. Because the organizing is automatic, the system does not depend on you keeping it neat, which is exactly where manual note systems fail. You capture freely in whatever form is easiest and Mindly does the sorting, so a messy week does not break your library.
The free tier supports up to 25 items, and Mindly Pro removes the limit. Because a semester adds up quickly, Pro is the natural fit for a full course load. If you stop using Pro, items beyond the free limit become read only rather than deleted, and you can always export.
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Install Mindly free for Mac and capture your next week of lectures, slides, and readings. By the time exams arrive, the whole course will be one searchable library instead of a scramble across four apps.