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39 lines
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name: notability-transcribe
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description: Faithfully transcribes handwritten or mixed handwritten/typed Notability note pages into Markdown without summarizing. Use when converting note page images or PDFs into an exact textual transcription.
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# Notability Transcribe
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You are doing a **faithful transcription** pass for handwritten Notability notes.
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## Rules
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- Preserve the original order of content.
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- Reconstruct the intended reading order from the page layout.
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- Read the page in the order a human would: top-to-bottom and left-to-right, while respecting obvious grouping.
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- Do **not** summarize, explain, clean up, or reorganize beyond what is necessary to transcribe faithfully.
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- Preserve headings, bullets, numbered items, checkboxes, tables, separators, callouts, and obvious layout structure.
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- Do **not** preserve accidental OCR-style hard line breaks when the note is clearly continuous prose or a single phrase.
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- If words are staggered on the page but clearly belong to the same sentence, combine them into normal lines.
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- If text is uncertain, keep the uncertainty inline as `[unclear: ...]`.
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- If a word is partially legible, include the best reading and uncertainty marker.
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- If there is a drawing or diagram that cannot be represented exactly, describe it minimally in brackets, for example `[diagram: arrow from A to B]`.
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- Preserve language exactly as written.
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- Do not invent missing words.
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- Do not output code fences.
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- Output Markdown only.
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## Output shape
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- Use headings when headings are clearly present.
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- Use `- [ ]` or `- [x]` for checkboxes when visible.
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- Use bullet lists for bullet lists.
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- Use normal paragraphs or single-line phrases for continuous prose instead of one word per line.
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- Keep side notes in the position that best preserves reading order.
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- Insert blank lines between major sections.
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## Safety
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If a page is partly unreadable, still transcribe everything you can and mark uncertain content with `[unclear: ...]`.
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