This is the 4768th most frequent Russian word.
записали
"Записали" means "wrote down" or "recorded."
The word 'записали' here is used in the sense of 'recorded' on a device for revisiting the content later.
Мы записали лекцию, чтобы пересмотреть её позже.
We recorded the lecture to review it later.
In this sentence, 'записали' means 'registered' or 'listed', indicating the inclusion of someone in a roster.
Они записали нас в список участников конференции.
They registered us in the list of conference participants.
Here, 'записала' is used to mean 'wrote down' or 'noted', referring to the manual action of writing.