• The Home tab is the first page shown when you start Audio Notetaker.

You can choose whether to show the Home Tab on start-up from Settings → General.

 

The Home Tab is split into 3 parts;

 

1. On the right there is the Help pane, where you can access useful resources, read our guides or get in touch.
2. Next we have the news feed - You'll need to be on-line to get updates to what's going on at Sonocent. The News Pane is minimised by default; you can expand the news feed using the button at the bottom of the pane, or in Settings.
3. On the left we have the 'control' pane; there are various options down the left hand side each giving access to various Audio Notetaker features:

 

New Project

• Blank Project - A new project with the recording device set to Microphone (the standard way to begin).
• Learn - This opens the new Learn Tab with links to videos to help get you started.
• Import Audio - You'll be asked to find your audio file on your computer and that will be imported in to a new project.
• Import Slides - You'll be asked to find your slides or PDF file on your computer and that will be imported in to a new project. 
  

Open Project

• Open a Project - You'll be able to find you Audio Notetaker project file in a standard Finder window.
• View all Projects - This opens the All Projects file manager tab showing all Audio Notetaker project files on your computer.
• Recent Projects - This lists the last 10 projects opened in Audio Notetaker.

Transfer:

Transfer from Sonocent Recorder  - transfer you recordings from our Sonocent Recorder app. 

Learn

The Learn Tab gives you access to various resources to help you get the most out of Audio Notetaker:
 

• Go to the Skills Portal on our website to work through our interactive tutorials
• Start our short guided tour of the user interface
• Why it works? - If you're on-line access our videos
• Or take a look through our extensive KnowledgeBase

 

GUIDED TOUR

This short tour takes you through the key elements of Audio Notetaker. Click to start the free tour and you'll see a series of pop-out messages taking you through the user interface.

Click Next (or press Enter) to move through the tour.


 

Settings

 

• Themes - Choose from several in-built colour themes for your Project tab or create your own.
• Chunk Sizes - Change the height and width of the audio chunks.
• Audio Files - Configure which audio file formats get converted and the conversion quality
• History - View and edit the tag information you have used.
• General - Change Audio Notetaker settings.