Ideas
Record voice memos, organize rough song ideas, and turn them into songs without losing capture provenance.
Ideas are quick audio captures for melodies, hooks, voice memos, lyric fragments, beat sketches, and production notes that are not ready to be full songs yet. They give you a low-friction place to record first and organize later.
Quick answer
Use Ideas when you need to save a rough recording quickly. You can play it back, tag it, star it, pin it, trim the playable range, add markers, and later copy it into a song as a demo recording file.
How Ideas Fit Into Songkeeper
| Item | Use It For | What Happens Next |
|---|---|---|
| Idea | Fast capture before the song exists | Keep it in the ideas list for review |
| Demo recording file | A copied idea attached to a recording version | Work with it in the song's file browser |
| Song | The composition and its metadata, lyrics, writers, and versions | Continue production with recording versions |
What You Can Do With Ideas
- Record from the web app with a live waveform.
- Add tags, notes, markers, favorite status, and pin status.
- Filter by search text, starred ideas, pinned ideas, linked status, and tags.
- Add one idea or a selected group of ideas to an existing song and recording version.
- Create a new song from one idea or from multiple selected ideas.
Idea Docs
- Adding to SongsCopy ideas into existing songs or create new songs from ideas while preserving the source idea and provenance metadata.
- OrganizingUse tags, starred ideas, pins, trim points, markers, notes, filters, and bulk actions to organize rough song ideas.
- RecordingRecord ideas in Songkeeper on web or iOS, save waveform audio, and understand capture timestamp and file hash provenance.