Conference Notes

v1.12.0
Tap the circle on a talk to mark it as one you're attending — anything that overlaps its time slot in another room greys out, so you can mix and match across rooms for talks that don't clash.

Choose what to export

Applies to the report, Word and photo exports below — the JSON backup always includes everything regardless, since it's your one complete safety copy.

 

Back up your notes

The JSON backup is the only complete copy of your notes and photos — it always includes every note, regardless of any selection above. Export it regularly; nothing is stored anywhere but this device.

Share your plan

Just the talks you've marked as attending — day, time, room, title and speaker — as a plain-text list you can send to a colleague or paste anywhere. Not affected by the selection above.

Export for reading / printing

Produces a single HTML report of your selected notes. Open it and use your browser's Print → Save as PDF to get a PDF copy.

Export for Word

Titles, speakers and typed notes only — photos aren't included in this format. Use the report or photo export above for images.

Export photos

All photos attached to your selected notes, named by session and time.

Storage

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Clear everything

Deletes every note and photo from this device. This cannot be undone — back up first.

About Conference Notes

A free, offline notes companion for conference talks. Everything you type and every photo you take stays on this device — there is no account, no server, no analytics, and nothing is ever sent anywhere.

Built by Kyran Staunton. Proprietary software — you may use this app freely, but may not reproduce, redistribute, or claim ownership of it or its source.

Appearance

Dark mode
Easier on the eyes in a dark room, and lighter on battery

Conference schedule

Using the built-in 12ASM schedule.

Works best on programs with a clear "Time AM/PM — Time AM/PM, Room" line per session and a "Time AM/PM Speaker Name" line per talk — this covers most conference-platform exports (ASN Events, Eventsforce and similar). Titles/speakers you can always fix by hand afterwards; it doesn't pick up speaker organisations since most programs don't list them in the schedule text. Fetching a PDF by link only works when the site hosting it allows other sites to read it (not all do) — if it fails, download the PDF first and use "Import a program" above instead.

Pre-load a program for everyone (for organisers)

Skip the import step for every attendee entirely: host the schedule as one JSON file, then put ?program=(link to that file) on the end of this app's own address, and share that as a QR code on the printed program or a link in the event app. Anyone who opens it gets that exact schedule immediately, nothing to tap.

Where to host the file matters. The reliable way is uploading it into the same site this app is deployed on (e.g. a /events/ folder next to this app's own files) and linking to it there — same-site files always work. Hosting it on a different website only works if that site explicitly allows other sites to read its files (called CORS), which many hosts don't do by default and isn't something adjustable from here — tested and confirmed working same-site, unreliable cross-site.

To generate that file from a schedule you've already imported here, tap below.

Install this app

Android (Chrome): tap Install in the top bar, or Chrome's menu → "Install app".

iPhone/iPad: open this page in Safari (not Chrome), tap Share, then "Add to Home Screen".

Reading text from a photo

The first time you tap "Scan text" on a photo, the app downloads a small offline text-reading engine (about 5 MB) so it can work without sending your photo anywhere. After that first download it works completely offline.

Guide & disclaimer

Open the full user guide

This app is provided as-is with no warranty. You are responsible for backing up your own notes.

Custom note
 
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