Recording on the web without a connection

Open Noteary once while you’re online and your browser keeps what it needs to open the app and the record screen later. Offline, a banner says so, and you can still record. While you record, the audio is written to your device as it goes. When you stop, the recording is queued and uploads by itself once you’re back online.

An offline recording has no live transcript — the transcript and summary appear after it uploads and finishes processing, like any other recording.

It means the recording is safe in your browser’s storage on this device but hasn’t reached Noteary yet. Don’t clear your browser’s site data until it has uploaded. Depending on your browser you’ll see either “it’ll finish uploading once you’re back online” or “reopen Noteary once you’re back online to finish uploading it”.

• Chrome, Edge and other Chromium browsers can finish the upload in the background when your connection returns. If you’ve installed Noteary as an app, they can also check back periodically, even when it isn’t open.
• Safari and Firefox don’t offer that, so open Noteary again while you’re online and the upload goes through.

An hour of speech takes roughly 15 MB, and the recording is kept twice on your device until it uploads. If your device drops under about 150 MB of free space while you record, Noteary warns you so you can free up room before saving fails.

Because audio is saved as you go, an interrupted recording isn’t lost. Next time you open the record screen you’ll see Recover your interrupted recording. Choose to recover it and it will appear in your library shortly, or discard it if you don’t need it (discarding deletes the local copy for good).

• Open Noteary online at least once on that browser first.
• Recording stays offline from start to finish — it doesn’t switch to live mode if your connection comes back mid-recording.
• A browser without recording support, or with site data blocked (such as a private window), can’t keep an offline recording safe.