How to get your sides into Memorlined.

Every project starts the same way: open the Sides tab, start a new project, and choose how the sides come in. There are five roads, and the right one depends on how the sides reached you. This page is the instruction set for each road; if you want the wider view of what the import can do, that lives in scan your sides into the app.

Import Images or PDF: the casting attachment

This is the road for the file casting sent you, and for photos already sitting in your photo library.

Do one thing before you open the app: save the PDF from the email to your phone. Once it is saved, choose Import Images or PDF, pick the file, and the app lifts the text. If a scene partner texted you a photo of the sides, save those images to your photo library and bring them in the same way.

This is how most audition sides arrive, so this is the road most projects start on.

Scan Pages: the printed page in your hand

For the physical page: the printout in your bag, the pages taped to the rehearsal room wall, the script your scene partner will want back. Choose Scan Pages, point the camera at the sheet, and capture each page.

Two habits make the difference. Flatten the page, and find some light. A flat, well-lit page scans clean almost every time; a crumpled page shot at an angle in a dim hallway makes work for you later. The 10 seconds of setup save the cleanup.

Type Lines: the emailed text, or anything short

For sides that arrived as words rather than a file. If a coach or a director sent the dialogue in the body of an email or a message, copy it and choose Type Lines to paste it in. A paste loses nothing, so when the sides are already digital text this is the most faithful road there is.

Typing is also right for the 2-line pickup or the short scene that would take longer to photograph than to type out.

Speak Lines: no typing at all

For when your hands are full of paper or typing is not your speed. Choose Speak Lines and record the sides by voice, one line at a time: say a line, it lands as text, move to the next.

It is slower than a paste for a long scene. Its natural home is the monologue you can read aloud faster than you could ever type it.

No sides yet: the curated library

Some weeks nothing arrives and class is still Tuesday. The app carries a curated library of original scenes; pick one and skip the import entirely. You are working with material today instead of waiting on someone else's inbox.

After import: give the scene a 30-second check

Whichever road you took, the app reads the text and detects the characters in the scene. Before you rehearse a word, look it over:

1. Check the characters. The app lists who it found speaking. If a name came through wrong or a character is missing, you can rename, add, or delete characters right there.
2. Read the text once. If a scan misread a word or a paste carried something strange along, fix it by hand. Correcting 3 words beats retyping 2 pages, and the lines you rehearse should be the lines on the page.
3. Name the project. The title is tap-to-edit. "Scene 14 callback" will find itself in your Sides tab a lot faster than an auto-generated name will.

None of this takes long, and it is worth doing now. Every drill and every run downstream trusts that the text is right.

Then cast your readers and go

The sides are in. Now the scene needs someone across from you: cast a reader for each character, then pick the rehearsal mode that matches where you are with the lines, from first read to full runs.

And if the audition is tomorrow and the sides just landed, the piece on same-day sides covers how to spend the hours you actually have.