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AI lesson notes and credits

By Trio Team · Updated

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Structure notes uses AI to turn your rough lesson notes into a clean note, sorted into your template sections. You check the result and decide what the family sees. To write, finish and share a note, see Writing lesson notes.

What Structure notes does

  1. On the lesson page, choose Magic Notes in the Lesson notes box.
  2. Type or dictate your rough notes. Short phrases and shorthand are fine.
  3. Choose Structure notes.

Trio sorts the text into the sections of your note template. It writes the Visible sections in plain words for the family, and the private sections for you. Read each section and change what you want before you finish. You can choose Structure notes again after you add more text.

Your rough notes stay private. The family sees only the visible sections, and only after you share the note.

Structure notes needs at least 10 words. With fewer, Trio shows "Add a few more details, then structure your notes." and uses no credit.

What Trio sends to the AI

For each run, Trio sends the AI provider:

  • your rough notes
  • the student's name, the lesson instrument and the student's skill level
  • the student's last three notes: only the visible sections of a note with sections, and the whole text of an older note that has no sections
  • the section names, AI instructions and hints of your template

AI credits

Each successful run of Structure notes uses one AI credit. A run that fails uses none. Credits come from your studio's shared AI credit pool. Ask Trio and the other AI features use the same pool. Each plan includes:

  • Free - 25 AI credits a month (up to 5 a day)
  • Pro - 500 AI credits a month (up to 50 a day)
  • Max - 5,000 AI credits a month (up to 250 a day)

When the studio reaches the daily or monthly limit, Trio shows a limit message and the note stays a draft. Your rough notes stay in the box. Write in Template instead, or try again when the limit resets. See Trio plans and pricing.

Note templates

A template sets the sections of a note. Owners and admins manage templates in Studio Settings on the Lesson Note Templates tab. For each section, set:

  • a section name
  • an AI Instruction that tells the AI what belongs in the section
  • a Teacher Hint, shown to teachers when they write
  • Private (teacher only), to keep the section private by default

One template can be the default. With no template, Trio uses a built-in default.