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Bananote for researchers

From interviews and papers to organized notes

Transcribe interviews, summarize papers, and capture seminars and conference talks. Bananote turns every source into structured notes, and never trains AI models on your data.

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From raw source to structured notes in three steps

1

Capture any source

Record interviews, seminars, and conference talks live, or upload audio, video, PDFs, and pasted text. YouTube links to recorded talks work too.

2

Structure it consistently

Bananote transcribes and organizes each source into clean notes. Custom templates keep literature notes, interview summaries, and field notes in one consistent format.

3

Organize and retrieve

Folders keep each project or study separate, and search finds any note instantly, so the quote or finding you half-remember is seconds away, not buried in a recording.

Why researchers use Bananote

Interviews transcribed, not just recorded

Record interviews and focus groups live, or upload existing recordings. Bananote transcribes in 100+ languages and structures the conversation into readable notes, so analysis starts sooner.

Papers become structured literature notes

Upload PDFs or paste text and get organized summaries. With custom templates you can standardize what you capture from every paper: methods, findings, limitations, your structure.

Talks and seminars, captured

Conference talks, guest lectures, lab meetings, recorded webinars: record them live or paste a YouTube link, and they join the same searchable library as everything else.

Your data never trains AI models

Bananote is privacy-first by design. Notes are private by default and never used for model training, and nothing is shared unless you explicitly choose to. That matters when your notes contain participant data.

Multilingual sources, one workflow

Transcription in 100+ languages plus translation of note content means interviews and sources in different languages all land in notes you can actually read and compare.

Questions researchers ask

Can Bananote transcribe research interviews?
Yes. Record interviews and focus groups live in Bananote, or upload existing audio and video files. Bananote transcribes them in 100+ languages and structures them into clean, readable notes.
Can Bananote summarize academic papers and PDFs?
Yes. Upload a PDF or paste text and Bananote turns it into structured notes. With custom templates you can standardize literature notes across every paper you read.
Is interview data used to train AI models?
No. Bananote is privacy-first: your notes are private by default and never used to train AI models. Nothing is shared unless you explicitly choose to share it.
Does Bananote handle sources in other languages?
Bananote transcribes in 100+ languages and can translate note content into any language, so multilingual interviews and foreign-language sources fit into one workflow.
How do I keep a large research project organized?
Organize notes into folders per project, study, or theme, mark key sources as favorites, and find any note instantly with search. On iPhone and iPad, notes also appear in Spotlight.
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Try it on your next interview

Record a session, upload a paper, and see your sources become structured, searchable notes.