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title: "Voice capture best practices for Signal Recorder SR-7"
source: https://signalrecorder.app/docs/best-practices
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# Voice capture best practices for Signal Recorder SR-7

## Record first, process later

The most effective way to use Signal Recorder SR-7 is to keep capture and processing apart. Record freely, without worrying about structure, titles or where it belongs. SR-7 transcribes and summarizes after the fact, and you come back later with fresh eyes.

## Use projects for context

Group related recordings into projects. A project might be a client, a research topic, a journal or a creative brief. Projects give your library structure without making you file anything in the moment: recordings land in the Inbox, and you drag them into projects whenever it makes sense.

## Star what matters

Star the recordings you want to come back to. Favorites cut across projects and give you one place for your most important captures.

## Let the titles do the filing

With Apple Intelligence switched on, SR-7 writes a title and a one-sentence summary for every recording, which turns a list of recordings into something you can skim. Instead of naming recordings yourself, let SR-7 title them and rename only the ones where it missed.

## Markdown files for your notes, on the Mac

On the Mac, switch on the markdown library in Settings, under Library, and every recording becomes a markdown file with YAML front matter, the title, the summary and the transcript. The files work with Obsidian, Logseq or any markdown-based system, so your recordings become part of the rest of your notes. SR-7 manages the folder, so edit recordings in SR-7 and keep your own files outside it.

## Hardware recorders

If you use a dedicated recorder like the teenage engineering TP-7, make SR-7 the place its recordings end up. Record on hardware for the feel of it, then import into SR-7 for transcription, search and organization. The [hardware import guide](https://signalrecorder.app/docs/importing-from-hardware) has the steps.