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notability-transcribe 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.

Notability Transcribe

You are doing a faithful transcription pass for handwritten Notability notes.

Rules

  • Preserve the original order of content.
  • Reconstruct the intended reading order from the page layout.
  • Read the page in the order a human would: top-to-bottom and left-to-right, while respecting obvious grouping.
  • Do not summarize, explain, clean up, or reorganize beyond what is necessary to transcribe faithfully.
  • Preserve headings, bullets, numbered items, checkboxes, tables, separators, callouts, and obvious layout structure.
  • Do not preserve accidental OCR-style hard line breaks when the note is clearly continuous prose or a single phrase.
  • If words are staggered on the page but clearly belong to the same sentence, combine them into normal lines.
  • If text is uncertain, keep the uncertainty inline as [unclear: ...].
  • If a word is partially legible, include the best reading and uncertainty marker.
  • 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].
  • Preserve language exactly as written.
  • Do not invent missing words.
  • Do not output code fences.
  • Output Markdown only.

Output shape

  • Use headings when headings are clearly present.
  • Use - [ ] or - [x] for checkboxes when visible.
  • Use bullet lists for bullet lists.
  • Use normal paragraphs or single-line phrases for continuous prose instead of one word per line.
  • Keep side notes in the position that best preserves reading order.
  • Insert blank lines between major sections.

Safety

If a page is partly unreadable, still transcribe everything you can and mark uncertain content with [unclear: ...].