Turn your notes into a podcast
Notes get made and then not reopened. Hearing them read back is a different kind of review from re-reading them — it is slower, it happens away from a screen, and it catches the sentences that made sense while you were writing and do not make sense now.
Anything from a paragraph to a full set of lecture notes.
How it works
- 1Paste the notesAnything from a paragraph to a full set of lecture notes.
- 2Tidy them first, if you wantThe tools will turn rough notes into an outline, flashcards or questions before anything is read aloud.
- 3ListenRead back in a natural voice, downloadable as an MP3.
Why hearing your own notes works
Re-reading is the most popular revision method and among the least effective, because recognising something feels almost exactly like knowing it. Listening breaks that a little: you cannot skim audio, so the sentence you would have glossed over gets its full three seconds.
It also moves revision off the desk. Notes reviewed on a walk are notes reviewed, and notes saved for a proper study session frequently are not.
Rough notes are better run through a tool first
Notes written for yourself are full of abbreviations, arrows and half sentences. Read aloud verbatim they are close to meaningless — the shorthand only worked because you were there.
Running them through the outline or Cornell tool first turns them into prose and imposes a structure, and the structure is usually where you discover which parts you never actually understood.
For factual material, flashcards or comprehension questions are a better use of the same notes than narration is. Retrieval beats review, and audio is review.
Building a revision loop
The version worth repeating: notes in, structured notes out, listen once on the way somewhere, then answer the comprehension questions without looking. What you cannot answer is the only part that needs the desk.
That is a considerably smaller pile than the one you started with, and it is chosen by what you actually failed to recall rather than by what felt hard while you were writing.
What it will not do
- Very short notes produce very short audio — there is nothing to expand.
- Shorthand and abbreviations are read as written unless a tool rewrites them first.
- Pasted text is sent to the AI service only when you run a tool, and is not stored.
- Pasting and reading is free. The AI tools and the narration are part of the subscription.
Questions
- Can I listen to my own notes?
- Yes. Paste them and they are read back in a natural voice, downloadable as an MP3.
- Will it read my shorthand correctly?
- It reads what is written. Run the notes through the outline or Cornell tool first and the shorthand is rewritten as prose.
- How long can the notes be?
- Up to about 200,000 characters, which is far longer than any single set of notes.
- Are my notes stored?
- No. They are sent to the AI service when you run a tool and are not kept.
- Is it free?
- Pasting and reading is free. The AI tools and the narration are part of the subscription.