# Home

> Every Clip and Memo in one list on every device, where you find, edit and share recordings and see what dictating saved you.

Every recording you make, on any device, lands on Home. You don't
need to know which device recorded something to find it.

## Home [#home]

Home lists your recordings by day, newest first. Each row shows whether it's
a Clip or a Memo, the device that recorded it and the time. A Clip's row
leads with what you said; a Memo's with its title and the start of its
summary. If a workflow ran on a recording, its row says which, and a failed
one comes first.

Use the filter to show **All**, **Clips** or **Memos**, and to narrow by date
(**Today**, **Past 7 days**, **Past 30 days**) or by device. To find words
you said, see [Search](/home#search).

<Screenshot src="/images/home/home" width={1600} height={1000} alt="Home in the web app: All, Clips and Memos filters, a 3 drafts pill, and recordings grouped under Today, Yesterday and earlier days. Memos show a title and the start of their summary; Clips show what was said." caption="Home in the web app, with Memos and Clips grouped by day." />

## Open a recording [#open-a-recording]

- A **Clip** opens on its text.
- A **Memo** opens on its title and summary, then its transcript.

<Screenshot src="/images/home/recording" width={1600} height={1000} alt="A Memo titled Launch checklist with the design team, open on its Summary, with a Transcript tab, Regenerate and Edit, suggested questions and an Ask about this memo box." caption="A Memo opens on its summary. Switch to Transcript for every word." />

A recording's page also shows where it was recorded, if you allowed
location, and its part of your [chat](/chat) with Italic.

## Edit, copy and share [#edit-copy-and-share]

- **Edit**: change a Clip's text, or a Memo's title, summary or transcript, in
  place on its page. Tap the title or a Clip's text, or **Edit** on a summary
  or transcript. Your changes save as you type.
- **Regenerate**: ask Italic to write a Memo's title or summary again.
- **Copy**: the copy button on a row copies a Clip's text. On iPhone, swipe
  a row to the right to copy it.
- **Send or share**: open a recording in ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Grok or
  Cursor, or share it with another app. On the web, the Share menu can also
  download a recording as Markdown, or a Memo's transcript as a text file.
- **Change its kind**: a Memo can become a Clip, but a Clip can't become a
  Memo. On iPhone, choose **Convert to Clip** from a Memo's menu. On the web,
  choose **Move to Clips** from the **⋯** menu on a Memo's page. Its text
  stays. Italic asks first, because it deletes the Memo's audio everywhere
  it's kept, including its copy in Files, and that can't be undone.

## Audio [#audio]

Only a recording's text syncs. A Clip keeps only its text: its audio is
deleted once the text is saved. A Memo's audio stays where it was recorded. On
iPhone, a Memo's page has an Audio card where you can play it, **Export
audio** or **Delete audio**. Deleting the audio removes all of the Memo's
audio from Italic on that iPhone and keeps its text on all your devices. A Memo recorded in the browser or on a Mac can be played there, with the same
**Export audio** and **Delete audio**. For how long each one keeps audio, see
[iPhone](/apps/iphone) and [Record](/recording).

## Delete a recording [#delete-a-recording]

On iPhone, swipe a row to the left and tap **Delete**, or choose **Delete
Clip** or **Delete Memo** on its page. On the web, choose **Delete clip** or
**Delete memo** from a row's **⋯** menu. Deleting removes the recording from your account on every
device, and it can't be undone.

## Home on every device [#home-on-every-device]

Home follows your account to the Italic app on iPhone, the web app
and Italic for Mac. A recording, an edit or a deletion on one shows on the
others.

- **iPhone**: syncs when you open Italic, about every minute while it's
  open, and when you pull down on Home. Profile → Personalization → Cloud
  Sync has **Sync now** and the **Sync to your account** switch that turns
  syncing on or off (on by default). With it off, your recordings and chats
  stay on that iPhone until you turn it back on.
- **Web**: shows changes as they arrive.
- **Mac**: the menu bar lists your 20 newest recordings, and they stay
  readable on your Mac when you're offline.

If you edit the same recording on two devices while one is offline, your
iPhone keeps both versions and asks you to choose. Look for **Review
Unsynced Changes** in Profile → Personalization → Cloud Sync; the Profile tab
also lists it under Needs attention.

On the web and in the Mac window, an edit or delete you make while Italic
can't be reached is saved in that browser or on that Mac, and syncs when you're
back online, including after you reload or close the page. Home says what's
waiting. If the recording changed elsewhere in the meantime, **Review changes**
shows both versions and asks you to choose. A deleted recording's audio stays
until your account has taken the delete. Signing out warns you first, because
it removes changes that haven't synced.

You can also read your recordings in [ChatGPT, Claude and other
assistants](/apps/ai-assistants).

## Search [#search]

Search looks through your recordings' titles, summaries and transcripts. It
allows for small typos, so you can find a recording in seconds without
remembering exactly what you said.

### Search Home [#search-home]

- **iPhone**: tap the search button (**Search**) at the top right of Home.
- **Web**: choose **Search** in the sidebar, or press **⌘K** (Ctrl+K on
  Windows and Linux).
- **Mac**: the Italic window has the web's search, including **⌘K**. While
  your Mac is offline, the window still searches the recordings saved on it.

The same search gives the same recordings on your iPhone and on the web.

### How results are ordered [#how-results-are-ordered]

Results come best match first:

1. Recordings whose title matches.
2. Recordings that contain your words as a phrase.
3. Recordings that contain each of your words.

Below them, **Close matches** lists recordings that match with a typo or
inside a longer word.

### What search finds [#what-search-finds]

- **Typos**: "calender" finds "calendar".
- **Words inside words**: "board" finds "keyboard", under Close matches.
- **Spacing**: "roadtrip" finds "road trip".

Search won't stretch a short word into a different one: "car" doesn't find
"calendar".

### Search with filters [#search-with-filters]

Search keeps the filter you chose on Home, such as Memos only, a date range
or one device, and has its own filter button to change them. Filters narrow
your recordings; the chat, tasks and settings are still searched. If nothing
matches, **Search all recordings** clears them. On the web, if the filter hides
results on Home, Italic says how many recordings match outside it and offers to
show them all.

### Search from an assistant [#search-from-an-assistant]

ChatGPT, Claude and other assistants connected to Italic search the same
way. Ask "What did I say about the Lisbon trip?" See
[AI assistants](/apps/ai-assistants).

## Stats [#stats]

Stats shows how your dictation adds up: the time you saved by speaking
instead of typing, your words, your speed and how many days in a row you've
recorded.

### Open Stats [#open-stats]

- **iPhone**: the Profile tab shows this week's words and time saved under
  your name. Tap your name to open your Profile, which has the full Stats.
  The line shows once something has been counted, and Stats needs you to be
  signed in with Cloud Sync on.
- **Web**: choose your name in the sidebar to open **Profile** (on a phone,
  use the account menu). Stats is on that page.
- **Mac**: once you've dictated today, the menu bar shows a line such as
  "Today: 1,240 words · 23 min saved". Click it to open Stats on your Profile
  in the window.

Every app shows the same numbers for the same range.

### What each number means [#what-each-number-means]

Choose **Today**, **This week**, **This month** or **All time**.

- **Time saved**: how long typing your words would have taken, at 40 words a
  minute, minus the time to say them, at 150 words a minute. If Italic
  measured you speaking faster than that, it uses your speed. Pauses and
  silence in a recording never count against you.
- **Words**: what you dictated in the range.
- **Words per minute**: your speaking speed, from your recent recordings of
  up to about seven minutes. It reads "—" until Italic has timed 30 seconds
  of your speech.
- **Current streak**: days in a row with a recording, up to today. Until you
  record today, it counts up to yesterday. Under **All time**, Stats also
  shows your **Longest streak**.
- **Activity**: a calendar of the past year. Each square is a day, darker
  the more you dictated.
- **Where it comes from**: your words and time saved by type (Clips and
  Memos) and by device, under each device's name. Words from a device Italic
  can't name count in the totals and are noted under the list.

### What counts [#what-counts]

- Every Clip and Memo you record counts once, when its transcript first has
  words. Editing it, transcribing it again or cleaning it up later doesn't
  change its count.
- A recording you delete still counts.
- Text an assistant or another app saves to Italic doesn't count, and
  neither do meetings imported from Granola.

### Share your stats [#share-your-stats]

Choose **Share** on your Profile (**Share Stats** on iPhone) to make an image
of your stats. Sharing needs a username for your public profile link, and
Italic asks you to choose one if you don't have one yet. On the web, it uses
your browser's share sheet where it has one, and otherwise downloads the
image.

### Privacy [#privacy]

Stats keep counts and times, never your words. If you choose a username,
your name, photo and aggregate stats are public at
app.italic.com/@username; your email and recordings stay private. Clear your
username to remove your public page. Deleting your account deletes your stats.