Genio Notes

Genio Notes, which many people still know as Glean, records a lecture or meeting while you add short notes against the timeline. Afterwards you work through the recording using your own notes as the map.

The idea is that you stop trying to listen, understand and write simultaneously. You capture in the room and you think about it later, which is a much easier job for anyone whose working memory or processing speed is under pressure.

• Start the recording before anything begins. The first two minutes are usually where the structure of the session is announced, and they are the ones people miss.
• Type fragments, not sentences. A word or two against the timeline is enough to find the moment again. Trying to write properly during the session defeats the purpose.
• Do the review the same day. Working through the recording while you still remember the room takes a fraction of the time it takes a week later.
• Build the notes from the transcript. Editing a transcript into your own summary is faster than writing from scratch, and it keeps the wording accurate.
• Export to Word when you are done. A finished set of notes belongs somewhere you control and can read with your normal tools.

• The recording is unusable. Placement beats everything. A device at the front of a lecture theatre records the lecturer, one in your bag records your coat.
• Transcription mangles the subject terms. Adding the vocabulary in advance is the fix, and it pays for itself over a term.
• You never go back to the recordings. This is the real failure mode, not the technology. A fixed slot for review is what makes the tool work.
• You are not sure you are allowed to record. Most institutions permit it as a reasonable adjustment, but check the policy and tell people it is happening. It is a short conversation that avoids a long one.

Students with dyslexia, ADHD or memory difficulties, and employees in meeting heavy roles who need an accurate record without writing during the conversation.