Getting started

How to create your first summary.

Pick a source, wait a moment, start reading. The AI writes the note for you.

HThe Hazelnote teamUpdated November 3, 20263 min read

Contents

Start a summary Which sources you can use While it's being written Read, Listen, Ask Common questions

In short

Notes the AI writes for you are called summaries in Hazelnote.
You start with New summary and pick a source, such as a PDF or a recording.
It's usually ready in under a minute, and you can keep working in the meantime.

Hazelnote has three areas: Summaries, Notebooks and Learn. Your first note is made under Summaries, where the AI writes it from your material. If you'd rather write by hand with a pen or your finger, use Notebooks.

Start a summary

Open SummariesGo to Summaries and tap New summary.
Pick a sourceFor example, choose Document for a PDF, Photos for pictures of the board, or Live recording for a lecture.
Create itYour source shows up under What goes in?. Choose a length and tap Create summary.

For the length you can choose Short for the essentials at a glance, Medium for every key point with short explanations, or Detailed with examples and connections. A live recording opens the recording screen instead. More on that in Record a lecture or meeting.

Which sources you can use

Live recording: a lecture, meeting or conversation
Audio file: an existing recording, such as MP3, M4A or WAV
Document: a PDF, a scan or a text file
Photos: from the camera, or up to 10 pictures from your library
Web link: an article or a web page
Text: pasted in or typed yourself
From a notebook: your own handwritten notes

What to keep in mind with files, photos and links is covered in Upload a PDF, link or photo.

While it's being written

Under Your summary is being written you can see what the AI is doing. It usually takes less than a minute, a few minutes for long recordings. Tap Continue in the background to go back and keep working. When it's done, tap View summary.

The AI writes in the language of your material. An English handout gives you an English summary, a German one a German summary.

Read, Listen, Ask

Every summary has three tabs:

Read: “In short” at the top, then the sections with key terms and examples.
Listen: the summary as a conversation, short version or quiz to listen to. This is part of Pro.
Ask: ask questions about this summary. Answers come only from it. With Pro you can also talk to the tutor here.

The short version of an AI summary in three points — “In short” sits at the top of every summary.

Get started togetherRight after you subscribe, Hazelnote asks What would you like to do first? Pick something there and the app walks you through your first summary step by step.

Common questions

Every new account gets it. It gives you a quick tour of where everything is. You can keep it or delete it.

Yes. Under What goes in?, tap Add a source. The AI connects everything into one summary.

Tap the summary in the list to see why. Where another try can help, tap Try again to start it once more.

Each summary uses your AI allowance, and Pro has more of it than Essential. To see how much is left, tap your avatar in the top right and look under AI allowance in Profile & settings.