How I Went From Hating Voice Notes To Total Convert

Talk It Out: 3 Effective Ways to Capture Ideas with Your Voice

Capturing ideas might be one of the most important practices we can develop as humans.

And not just because storing our thoughts in an external system helps us remember & organise.

But because getting things out of our head helps us see & think more clearly, make sense of our thoughts & create wonderful things from our ideas.

Traditionally I have captured my thoughts & ideas digitally by writing them down. I’m in front of a digital device 99% of the time & I can type pretty fast.

But recently I’ve been using voice to capture my thoughts.

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And I’m a convert. No. I’d go so far as to say I’m not an evangelist for voice notes & capture.

In the past voice capture always felt awkward, clunky & inefficient.

Plus I always say myself as not really a ‘talker’ kind of thinker.

But two things made me change my mind on voice capture:

1. Transcription got REALLY good. To the point that I never actually listen to myself back, I just use the transcription (this also means retrieving voice notes is much faster).