Hey HN! A few months ago, all I wanted was a voice memos where I could hold-to-record. Holding and releasing lets me “burst” quick chains of thoughts together. It’s especially useful when walking with friends, to capture stray references and ideas.<p>After testing the initial burst interaction, I realized I wanted to transcribe them, and relate notes together into a hierarchy. Other features came naturally, like geotagging each note and swiping during recording to change the “temperature” (importance) of a note.<p>The app is open source and written in Flutter.
I built a similar product for myself sometimes back - <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.ashishb.voicenotes" rel="nofollow">https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.ashishb.vo...</a> (Android only)
This is brilliant - simple, novel, local, open source. Love it.<p>I had a dream at the beginning of the pandemic that people who spend all day in Zoom calls might be able to spend all day hiking as well. I tried quite hard to make it work a couple of times - big USB battery in the backpack - but LTE signal was never good enough up in the hills here.
You could integrate vosk for local on-device private transcription.
<a href="https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api</a>
Thank you, I was just thinking today that I needed a tool exactly like this.<p>My go-to brain dumping tool is simple note but it's too much separation between an ephemeral thought and the process of recording it.<p>Especially clever because I think all the tools to do this have existed for basically as long as Android has existed, but this is a very good application of those tools.
Okay, this is super cool. When I started taking walks I found I was thinking through a lot of things but didn't have a way to remember all the things. So I started using the voice transcription notepad (so nice that people these days are less hostile to someone walking down the street mumbling about things :-)). In my case I was stuck taking the document and then re-editing/moving it over to Evernote manually which I didn't always want to do. This looks like it will replace my workflow with a single tool. That is super awesome.<p>One feature request would be 'activate by airpod tap' so I wouldn't even have to hold my phone, just tap my airpods to make a note.
Super clean setup on iOS! Can’t wait to try it out, the concept is lovely.<p>I use notion a TON but it’s not great for the most immediate time sensitive notes.<p>Do you think you could integrate google calendar / reminders in some way? A lot of the kind of notes I would record on this kind of app have some form of either deadline, or are only relevant after a certain date or time. For example, “check in on this thread Monday morning”. I use google calendar reminders for this right now as they stack up but it’s not a great solution.
If this would support a bluetooth PTT microphone, it would be perfect. Then I could leave the phone in my pocket and have tangible, physical buttons to record with. I don't like messing with a touchscreen when out and about.
This looks really cool. I'v been looking for something like this for a while. Is there an APK download? I don't use the google store and the github page didn't seem to have an obvious link?
Cool concept. Looking forward to trying it out.<p>I've thought about taking voice notes before, though I've imagined that as more of a private hands-free thing. I'm curious what your experience of using it in public or with others around (the walks with friends, but also family or colleagues?) is like?<p>(I sometimes go on a walk while I talk myself through a problem; I've noticed I almost always stop speaking while someone else is in earshot. I suspect I'd also be inclined to avoid taking voice notes with others around.)
I think this is exactly what I've been looking for. I like going for walks and listening to audiobooks and podcasts, and I've been using Google's recorder as a way to "highlight" my findings, but it doesn't let me add to existing recordings so I can't collate sessions together.<p>I'll be trying this on as a replacement.
If this had automagical sorting / hierarchy of my recordings based on key words, or allowed me to "shuffle" my entire collection of recordings according to a few pre-set algorithms, this would be interesting.<p>Example: I spend 5 weeks recording 200 sound bites about real estate development in PR. I do no organization. I click a button in the app marked "Organize by opportunity". It sorts my recordings into 4 folders with 2-3 nested with titles like "The Tulum project" and "Evan's group".<p>I don't particularly need transcription because I don't want to do any of the work implementing the feature I just described ...<p>As it is, it looks neat but I'll stick with iOS built-in recorder.
Awesome!!! I have had it in the back of my mind for years to do something like this. I am so glad that you have stepped up. Very, very much needed. Now I just need to figure out how best to bulk transcribe the hours and years of audio recording...
Was looking for something like this just today. Does it support hands-free operation (or while we're at it, does someone else know something that does)?<p>This is currently my main criterion. I want something that captures my thoughts while hiking <i>without seeing or touching the screen</i>. Currently dabbling with Siri shortcuts, but they're pretty buggy and lacking.<p>So if Voiceliner could either support the Shortcuts API and/or switch into a mode that's press-to-record / or start-stop, but <i>somehow works on the connected Airpods only</i>, that would be awesome.<p>Bonus points for re-reading the transcription to me and very light editing on top (like document switching).<p>Is there something like that?
Congrats on launching!<p>I've wanted exactly-this for years. I've sketched a few versions but it stayed on the back-burner for me, partly because friends/etc didn't see the appeal.<p>I'm really excited to try it out.
This sounds great to take quick but organized notes for my use case - researching and prototyping, but when the notes need to be converted into a more formal 'report' later.
Amazing! I’ve been looking for a way to put down my thoughts for a while, tried carrying a pocket notebook.. the notes app.. zen journal .. but writing is so much friction .. I used voice notes for a while but couldn’t search them for later so it was difficult.. I hope this is the one ^^
Oh this is great. Just tried it out. A couple feature wishes:<p>- Sync the audio + text somewhere (although maybe this can be done with SyncThing already?)
- Add a widget / app action to support one-tap voice notes from the home screen
Crikey - my Xmas present has just arrived!!
I have never gone from seeing something on hn and having it installed and loved so quickly!<p>Thank you, thank you, thank you.<p>And open sourcing it too - can't love you more ;)
Great app! And this comes from a guy who has _very_ few apps installed on his phone!
Would it be difficult to have it recognize a different language? (german)
Interesting. I've mostly achieved this with BlitzMail (basically, one button to an open textbox that emails to yourself.) But I might check this out as well.
Installed. Been need something like this for a while!<p>Love the initial setup wizard. Great way to teach the user, clarifying what various permissions are for.