Church notes reimagined

Record the sermon. Keep your own words separate.

Two things happen while someone preaches: what is said, and what it does to you. Reed records the first and stays out of the second.

It keeps recording while you look something up

Jump to Read for the passage that was just quoted, or open the note you wrote on it three years ago. The session keeps running behind you — you come back to the same recording, still going, and your note where you left it.

When you stop, a draft arrives

Reed writes it from the recording’s transcript. The note you were keeping alongside it is not part of what gets sent for that draft; it stays under Notes, in your words, whether or not you ever use the draft at all.

You finish it in your own voice

The draft is something to argue with, not a record of what you heard. You cut the half that missed, keep the two lines that didn’t, and write down what it actually asked of you. What ends up in your library is written by you.

One Sunday saves as one note, in three parts.

Notes

What you wrote in the room, exactly as you wrote it.

Summary

The draft, once you have taken it over.

Transcript

What was said, kept so you can check one against the other.

Read in the pew. Write at your desk.

Record Sunday’s sermon from the pew. On Monday it is open at your desk — the chapter on one side, your write-up on the other.

iPhone

Capture in the moment.

Record the sermon from the pew while you write your own notes; the transcript runs alongside them, never through them.

iPad

A workspace, not a bigger phone.

An icon rail down the side, and panes that open beside the page: the chapter, your notes and the assistant, next to each other.

Mac

A real desk, not a phone app on a big screen.

The chapter open beside the note you’re writing, chapter stepping, and ⌘⇧F across everything you have written.

Web

Nothing to install.

Sign in from any browser and the same library is waiting — the quickest way to see how you want to study.

Every screen on this page shows Reed with a sample library.

Type the reference. It anchors itself.

Write the way you actually write — mid-thought, mid-sentence. The reference you type turns into real Scripture on the page, and the note is filed to that verse for good.

1. 1

   You type it

   The reference goes in the middle of your own sentence, in your own words. No picker, no menu, no leaving the line you were on.

2. 2

   It resolves

   Reed recognises the reference and pulls your translation’s text in underneath, so you can see the verse you just leaned on without opening anything else.

3. 3

   It stays anchored

   The note is filed to that verse. Open 1 Samuel 3 next year and it is lit in the margin, whether or not you remember writing it.

Reed on the Mac. Sample note; Scripture is the ESV.

The verse shows you what you already wrote.

You never go looking. The mark is already in the margin where you left it, with the date still on it.