Sidecite
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Features

What it does, and who it is for.

Sidecite is one app doing five jobs. Which of them matters most depends entirely on how you spend your day.

Students

Sit in the lecture and listen to it, instead of racing to write it down and taking in none of it.

  • Record a lecture and get every word of it back
  • Notes on the material, written and organised as it listens
  • Flashcards built from the lectures you actually sat through
  • Rehearse a presentation and see sources appear for your claims
  • Search every class you have ever recorded, in a second

People who work online

Calls back to back all day, and nothing written down afterwards because there was never a gap in which to write it.

  • Every meeting summarised and named, without lifting a finger
  • Evidence on screen while you are making the point
  • An answer ready when someone puts you on the spot
  • The follow-up email drafted before you have left the call
  • "What did we agree in March?" answered from your own record

Anybody with a computer

Most of what a computer asks of you is not interesting. Some of it can simply be handed over.

  • Ask about whatever is on your screen, without describing it
  • Hand over the typing, the clicking and the form filling
  • Write the thing, save the thing, close the thing
  • An assistant that is already open, rather than another tab
  • Works with no account and no connection at all

01

It writes down every word.

Start a meeting, a lecture or a call and Sidecite listens to both your microphone and the audio coming out of your speakers. Speech becomes text on your own processor, and every finished sentence is on your disk the moment it exists.

Students: stop transcribing, start listening.

So the second mechanism is temperature driven,

which is why the two events happened in successive

summers rather than a decade apart.

Saved

02

It finds the source while you are still talking.

Say something citable and Sidecite goes looking. What comes back is judged before you see it, so a page that merely echoes your wording is thrown away and what remains is the sentence that actually supports the claim.

Presenting or pitching: the number, on screen, in time.

You said "the reef is made up of thousands of separate reefs"

Great Barrier Reef WEB

composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over 2,300 kilometres.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Barrier_Reef
Coral bleaching WEB

corals expel the symbiotic algae living in their tissues, causing the coral to turn completely white.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coral_bleaching

03

Ask Sidecite anything.

A small orange dot sits above whatever you are doing. Click it and it unfolds into a chat that can see your screen and remembers every meeting you have recorded. It answers as it thinks, so the words start arriving immediately.

Everyone: it is already open. No new tab, no pasting.

You
What did we agree the deadline was?
The 14th. You moved it back a week on Tuesday's call so the survey data could land first.

04

You get the meeting back afterwards.

Notes are written and reorganised while it listens, so the headings at the end are the right headings rather than the order things happened to come up. When you stop, there is a summary and a name of its own waiting.

Working online: six calls, six write-ups, no evening.

SUMMARY

Reef funding review

Monitoring line item moves to Q3

Ellen confirms the per-site figure by Friday

Survey vendor still needs a sign-off

Deadline moved to the 14th

05

And it can do the work itself.

Give it permission and Sidecite takes the keyboard: typing, clicking, opening apps, filling in forms, writing an email you have only to send. One step at a time, looking at the screen again after each one, with every step written down as it goes.

Everyone: Escape stops it. This one is off until you ask.

"Write up the essay, save it, and email it to Alex."

  • Opened Notepad from the taskbar
  • Typed 2,275 characters
  • Saved as essay.txt
  • Closed Notepad
  • Opened a draft, addressed and titled

And the rest

The parts you only notice once.

Smaller things, each of which exists because it was missing.

Search everything

Every word of every meeting you have ever recorded, ranked by relevance with the matching line shown. The index is on your machine, so it is instant and works offline.

Study flashcards

Pick the lectures you want and Sidecite builds a card set from them. Star the ones that keep catching you out, drill only those, or send the set to Quizlet.

Slash commands

Type a slash in the assistant for instant search, recent transcripts and summaries. These run on your machine, so they are free, offline and work signed out.

It asks when stuck

Faced with something it cannot work out, it stops and asks a plain question rather than guessing. Answer in the chat box and it picks up from that step.

Reads a whole page

Including the parts scrolled out of view, so "summarise this" works on something longer than one screenful.

Export

Any transcript out to Word, PDF, Markdown, plain text, or the clipboard.

Move to a new machine

Everything out to one file and back in on the other side. Nothing is uploaded to make it work; you sign in again and carry on.

It updates itself

New versions arrive quietly and apply when you next restart. You are told, not interrupted.

Works signed out

No account, no subscription, no connection: recording, saving, searching and exporting all still work.

Light, dark, high contrast

Interface scaling from 90 to 150 percent, keyboard shortcuts throughout, and a microphone picker for the headset you actually use.

Survives a bad connection

Swap headphones mid-call or unplug something and it recovers and carries on. Nothing said in a meeting is lost to a crash.

Stays on your machine

Transcription runs on your own processor and your transcripts live on your disk. One switch turns the network off for a meeting entirely.

See it beside your own work.

Free to install. Transcription and everything saved on your machine work straight away, signed out.

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