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Quick Notes (no bot)

Quick Notes captures a meeting without sending anything into it: ScribX listens to your microphone, or to the audio of a browser tab you share, and transcribes, translates and summarizes it like any other capture. No bot, no participant list entry, and no meeting link.

When to use it​

  • An in-person meeting — put the room on speaker, or set the phone on the table
  • A webinar or call playing in another tab
  • Something impromptu you never scheduled
  • A meeting where you'd rather nothing visible join

Start a note​

Open Quick Notes from the sidebar of the web app — or the middle ● button in Compact mode on a phone.

The Quick Notes setup screen with audio source, languages and summary format1234
  1. 1Open Quick Notes from the sidebar
  2. 2Audio source — Microphone, or Share tab audio
  3. 3Set the languages spoken in the meeting
  4. 4Pick the summary format for the write-up
Quick Notes setup — mic or tab audio, languages, summary format, then Start transcribing.
  1. Choose the source — Microphone for a room, or Share tab audio for a call or video playing in another tab. (With tab audio, Chrome asks which tab to share when you press start.)
  2. Set the languages spoken — English, Vietnamese, Japanese or Korean, up to two. Pick two and the note is bilingual: each language transcribed, and translated into the other.
  3. Choose the summary format — a built-in format, one of your templates, or Auto (match by content).
  4. Attach context if the meeting has names or jargon worth getting right.
  5. Confirm the consent check and click Start transcribing.

The options worth knowing​

  • Record audio — off by default: only the transcript and summary are kept, and no media file is stored against your quota. Turn it on if you want the audio back later.
  • Separate speakers — on for a room with several people, off for a solo note. You can also tell ScribX how many people are there, which makes the split more accurate.
  • Pause when I switch tabs — off by default, so recording continues while you work elsewhere.
  • Microphone — pick the input, if the device has more than one.

While it's running​

The live screen shows the transcript and Checkpoints as they arrive, with Pause, Focus (hide everything but the text) and Share. A connection chip reads Live, Reconnecting or Stalled, so a dropped connection can't hide behind a running timer.

On a phone, the same capture has a Notes / Conversation toggle — Conversation turns it into a two-language, face-to-face translator. See Compact mode.

End and find your note​

Click Stop & summarize and confirm End & summarize. The transcript and write-up appear in your library within seconds. If the note wasn't worth keeping, End without saving discards it.

tip

For in-person sessions, a glossary of names and terms makes a real difference to accuracy — room audio is always harder to transcribe than a headset.

Limits and cost​

Quick Notes has its own allowance, separate from bot meetings: 10 notes a cycle on Free, 100 on Pro and Team, and a per-note length cap (30 minutes on Free, 60 on Pro and Team) at which the note auto-stops and saves. A note costs 0.5 credits a minute — half a bot meeting. See Plans & billing.

What's next?​