Reviewing, editing, and sharing a write-up
What to do with a finished Scribe write-up — reading the document, summary, and transcript, fixing it by hand or with Scribe, putting a recording's parts back in the right order, approving meeting minutes as the official record, and sharing it as a PDF or by email.
When Scribe finishes, open the recording from your Scribe list to read and work with the write-up. Everything here is yours to change — Scribe gives you a strong first draft, and you have the final say.
Reading it
A finished write-up has a few views, switched with the tabs near the top:
- The document itself — the minutes, sermon notes, or summary.
- A short Summary (for meetings and sermons).
- The full Transcript, sitting under every recording. If Scribe labeled people "Speaker 1", use Who's who to give each one their real name — it updates the transcript and the download.
You can rename the write-up any time by clicking its title at the top and typing a new one.
Fixing it
Two ways to make changes, and you can use both:
- Edit — click Edit to change the document by hand: fix a name, adjust a decision, tidy a point. Click Save changes when you're done.
- Revise with AI — on the main document, click Revise with AI and tell Scribe what to change in plain words ("tighten the action items," "fix the spelling of Naomi," "add the vote count"). Scribe shows you a revised version to apply or discard — nothing changes until you say so. Each revision uses one AI credit. (The Summary tab is hand-edit only.)
Parts in the wrong order?
If your recording was in several parts and they were joined in the wrong order — the minutes open with the vote and end with the call to order — you can put that right, even after the audio is gone. Open the Transcript tab and click Change the order. Each part shows how it begins and how it ends, which is usually enough to tell which came first ("…let's take ten minutes." → "Okay, we're back."). Use the up and down arrows to put them in the order they happened, then click Rewrite in this order.
Scribe keeps the transcript word for word and writes the minutes (or sermon notes) and the summary again in the new order. That replaces those documents, including any edits you've made to them, and uses one AI credit. If you don't like the result, click Undo on the message that appears to put everything back as it was.
Approved minutes are the official record, so their order can't be changed as they are: use Return to draft first.
Approving minutes
Meeting minutes start as a draft. Once they're right, click Mark approved to make them the official record. Approved minutes are locked from edits so they can't drift; if you need to change something later, use Return to draft, make the change, and approve again.
Sharing it
- Export PDF — download a clean, board-ready PDF of the write-up to file or print.
- Email attendees — for meeting minutes, send the decisions and action items to the people who should have them. Tick names from your church's list, or type in a board member who isn't in Psalmly, then send.
- Download the transcript — on the Transcript tab, click Download transcript to save it as a text file. (The PDF holds the write-up itself, not the transcript.)
Deleting
If you don't need a recording anymore, Delete removes it and its write-up for good. That can't be undone, so Psalmly asks you to confirm first. (Remember the original audio was already deleted after the write-up unless you chose to keep it — see Turning a recording into a write-up.)