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How live summaries work

In a live conversation the positions, the ledger and the time split update on their own, but a written summary is made when you press Create, for the range you choose, and it stays readable when new talk arrives. Here is what updates itself, what you create, and when a summary is worth trusting.

Updated Sep 24, 20265 min read
A group page with the summary card, its range selector and the Create button

A live summary in RoomRadar is written when you ask for it, not on a timer. On a group's page the positions, the ledger and the time split update by themselves as the group talks; the Sammanfattning card is different. You pick a range (Senaste 5 min, Senaste 15 min, Hela samtalet or Egen period), press Skapa, and get a summary of that range as it stood at that moment. New talk does not erase it. The card tells you how much has been recorded since, and you press Skapa again when you want a fresh one.

What updates itself, and what you create

The transcript streams as people speak. Behind it, the analysis keeps a running record for each group: which themes it has touched, the position it has taken on each, what it has arrived at (Vad gruppen har kommit fram till), and where its minutes went (Var tiden gick). Those cards move on their own, a little behind the transcript, and you never press anything to refresh them.

Two things are made on demand, because they are the most expensive things on the page and because a summary is a snapshot of a moment, not a document that keeps rewriting itself under you: the written Sammanfattning and the Sketchnote. Both use the same range selector.

The summary card on a group page: the title, the Create button and the range selector on one line, the meta line below
Title, Skapa and the range on one line. The meta line says which groups it was compared with and when it was created.

Creating a summary

1
Open the group
Click the group in the sidebar. Its page opens on Analys; Transkribering is the raw feed for the same group.
2
Pick a range
Senaste 5 min, Senaste 15 min, Hela samtalet, or Egen period, where you drag the handles to choose the part of the conversation the summary should cover. Changing the range empties the card; the earlier summary is kept under Tidigare sammanfattningar.
3
Press Skapa
The summary is written from the analysis record for that range, compared with the other groups in the room. The meta line reads, for example, "jämförd med 4 grupper · skapad 10:42". Early in a session, before the analysis has anything on the group, it is written straight from what the group said in that range instead, so Skapa works from the first minutes.
4
Read it, then decide when to refresh
When more has been recorded, the card says so: "Sex minuter har spelats in sedan den här skapades." The summary stays. Press Skapa again when you want the new material in.
A summary card with the line saying six minutes have been recorded since it was created
Stale, not invalid: the summary you were reading stays put and tells you how far behind it is.

Group names in the summary

When a summary mentions another group, the name is a chip in that group's colour. Click it and you land on the specific thing it refers to on the other group's page, a shared proposal or a position on the same theme, not just the top of the page. A chip only appears when there is a real record behind it; if the model wrote something no record supports, the reference is dropped rather than shown.

In a workshop with several parts

If the conversation is one part of a workshop and its block has a topic ("Vad ska samtalet handla om?" in the conversation sheet), the analysis reads that text during the conversation, and the earlier parts' outcomes are known to it in compact form. A summary of part two can therefore say that a table is repeating part one instead of building on it. The earlier parts' transcripts are never read into a summary unless you ask for a specific window.

Use the transcript to steer the room in the moment and the self-updating cards to see where each table stands. Create a written summary when you are about to act on it: before you walk over to a table, or when you close the session.
A group that stops moving on the cards has usually gone quiet or finished. "Gruppen har inte landat i något än." on the ledger is a real result, not a fault.

FAQ

Why does the summary not update by itself any more?

Because a summary is a snapshot of a moment. If it rewrote itself while you read it, you could never quote it. It stays as written, tells you how many minutes have been recorded since, and you press Skapa when you want a new one. Every summary you create is kept.

Which range should I use?

Senaste 5 min to see what a table is doing right now, Senaste 15 min before you walk over, Hela samtalet when you close. Egen period covers a specific exercise.

What does "jämförd med 4 grupper" mean?

The summary was written from this group's side against the four other groups that had material at that moment. Deselecting groups in the picker changes who it is compared with.

The card says nothing analysed in the selected time window.

"Ingenting analyserat i det valda tidsfönstret. Prova ett större intervall." The group said nothing in that range. Widen it.

Can I create a summary before the analysis has caught up?

Yes. When the analysis has nothing on the group yet, the summary is written from the group's own transcript for the range, without the comparison with other groups. Only a group that has not said anything yet gets "Gruppen har inte sagt något än. Sammanfatta när de har kommit igång."

Is the sketchnote made from the transcript?

No, from the same analysis record as the summary, for the same range, so it is already deduplicated and organised by theme. It is created on demand with its own Skapa and takes a minute or two.