Prepare files and exports

Know what each artifact represents

Use the optional AI summary and Markdown copy

The summary is the editable synthesis, not the verbatim record. Review and approve it before choosing Add summary to Google Doc. Choose Download summary for a portable Markdown file.

• Use the Google Doc for a continuing private learning log, class record, or session deliverable.
• Use Markdown when you need a local copy or want to move the reviewed text into another system.
• Keep the transcript available when readers need to verify what was actually said.

Download or publish the transcript

1. Open the file-preparation workflow after capture review. An optional AI summary is not required to understand or download the transcript.

2. Stay on the Review step.

3. Under the transcript source, choose Download TXT for the timestamped local file.

4. Use the transcript publication action to create its separate private Google Doc. After creation, choose Open Drive transcript to inspect it.

Review retained browser images

If Keep key screenshots was enabled, the Review step lists each saved image with its page title, time, and source. Automatic change detection operates locally; a visual description exists only when an optional AI operation requested one.

1. Inspect every image for unrelated tabs, personal information, student information, private messages, or other material that should not be shared.

2. Leave an image selected to include it in the PDF, or exclude it while keeping the local source available.

3. Choose Download image to save an original JPEG you need separately.

4. Choose Delete local image to remove a frame from the browser. Deletion invalidates any previously prepared PDF so the PDF cannot silently retain the deleted selection.

Prepare the Capture Report PDF

1. Leave at least one appropriate retained image selected.

2. Choose Prepare capture report. Preparation runs in the background so the extension remains usable.

3. When preparation completes, choose Download PDF and open it locally.

4. Choose Open Drive PDF to inspect the private Drive copy in the StudyStride Capture Reports folder.

5. Confirm image order, time ranges, and matched verbatim transcript before sharing. The report deliberately contains no AI image summary. Regenerate after changing image selections.

The PDF is especially useful when browser context and spoken reasoning belong together: code reviews, source critiques, workflow documentation, oral assignments, demonstrations, and training reviews.

Review and prepare audio

When audio retention was enabled, StudyStride exposes the direct microphone input and processed transcription input separately. When it was off, StudyStride deletes temporary audio after transcription and no audio controls appear.

• Download microphone input saves the direct captured stream.
• Download transcription input saves the processed transcription stream.
• Open Drive backup opens the private original-audio backup when available.
• Download WAV for Gemini Notebook prepares a compatible 16 kHz mono source file.
• Delete local copy removes retained audio from Chrome after confirmation; it does not delete an existing Drive backup.

Understand copies, sharing, and deletion

• StudyStride does not automatically make Google files public.
• Google Docs, audio backups, and PDFs remain in your Google account until you delete them there.
• Deleting a local image or audio file does not delete an already-created Drive copy.
• Deleting a StudyStride session does not delete Google exports.
• Before sharing, inspect every file and set the appropriate Google sharing permissions yourself.