Open a PDF or Word file

Select any passage as you read to keep it as a clip, then build your notes and save them.

Open several at once and switch between them, or share a file to DocNotes from any other app.

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How DocNotes works
1 · Open what you are reading
The folder icon at the top opens a PDF or Word file. You can open several and switch between them by tapping the name at the top.
Finding something in a long document
Tap Find in the page bar and type. DocNotes searches every page, tells you how many matches there are, and jumps between them. On a keyboard, Ctrl+F opens it and Enter moves to the next match.
2 · Keep the passages that matter
A small tab floats over the document while you read. Select a passage and it opens into Save as clip and Add to notes. Drag its handle to move it out of your way - it stays where you put it. Clips remember which page they came from.
Taking notes from a class
Listen, in the Notes tab, writes down what is said while a class runs, with the time beside each stretch. Tap Mark whenever something matters so you can find it again. Before each class you choose whether recognition stays on the phone or may use your phone's connection for better accuracy. It is a written record, not a summary — summarising would need an internet connection, and DocNotes has none; Send out to be summarised, in the menu, hands the notes to an AI app you pick with the instructions already written. Read it through afterwards: speech services mishear names and doses. Keep DocNotes on screen while it runs.
3 · Build your notes
Write in the Notes tab and tap any clip to drop it in. Keep separate notebooks for separate subjects by tapping the notebook name.
4 · Save, and come back to it
Save asks for a format, a name and a folder. Choose .md if you want to reopen the notes here later and keep adding; .docx if you are sending them to someone.
Reading and writing at once
On a phone, the split button in the page bar puts the document above and your notes below. Drag the bar between them to give either more room.
Turning notes into slides
Save as .pptx for a PowerPoint deck. A divider line starts a new slide and the line after it becomes its title; each figure gets a slide of its own with its caption.
Back up now and then
⋯ → Back up everything writes every notebook, clip and figure into one file. Storage on a device can be cleared without warning, and that file is what brings it all back.
Everything stays on this device
Nothing you open or write is sent anywhere. Notes are kept here as you type, and saved files go only where you put them.
Contents
Reading comfort
Text size

Applies to Word documents and your notes. PDF pages keep their own layout — use the zoom buttons for those.

Page tint

Takes the glare off a white page during a long session.

Save notes
Notes from a class

DocNotes can listen while someone is speaking and write down what it hears, straight into this notebook. Two ways to do it — pick one.

Recognition

What happens to the sound. DocNotes has no permission to use the internet and cannot send anything anywhere. Writing down what is said is done by the speech service built into your phone, which runs separately from DocNotes. DocNotes asks it to work offline, and on a phone with a downloaded language pack it does — but if yours has none, that service may use the internet itself. Android settings, under Voice input, is where language packs are downloaded. Recording the sound only never involves it at all.

What you get. A written record of what was said, with the time beside each stretch — not a tidied-up summary. Summarising would need an internet connection, so DocNotes does not do it. Tap Mark during the class to flag anything worth coming back to.

Speech services mishear names, drug doses and anything technical. Read it through before you rely on it.

Send out to be summarised

DocNotes has no internet permission, so it cannot summarise anything itself and never will. What it can do is hand these notes to an app you already trust, with the instructions already written. Whatever you send leaves your phone through that app, at the moment you choose, and not before.

The instructions ask for structured study notes, tell it the text came from speech recognition, and ask it to flag anything that looks like a misheard drug name or dose rather than guess. Read what comes back before you use it.

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