Ask HN: How to Take Good Notes?

Re:Ask HN: How to Take Good Notes? by celeritascelery on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @09:55AM (#22474881)

> For instance, if I am driving and have a particular response or thought to an audio lecture, my interest in notation is not to maintain attention but rather an intense short lived desire to pause that attention and make a reference for future consideration.

How do you do that while driving? I am looking for a solution.

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Re:Ask HN: How to Take Good Notes? by mcshicks on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @10:11AM (#22475016)

I use a dedicated olympus voice recorder. I have an activity that means I have a recurring need to make voice notes on my drive back from it. The voice recorder is great because it's easy to operate by touch as opposed to a touch screen. You hear a beep when it starts so you know it's recording. Recently I have been playing with this script someone wrote to transcribe them into org mode markup files using google speech to text services.

https://github.com/bgutter/voicenotes2org

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Re:Ask HN: How to Take Good Notes? by runjake on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @10:03AM (#22474953)

I don’t have a great answer but I’ve been using Just Press Record on my iPhone and Apple Watch to record stuff while driving. The app transcribes your voice fairly well and I feed it into Bear Notes from there.

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