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Outside the Clonmel campus of the Limerick School of Art & Design creating ideas from cut-outs directly in front of us.
Fastest RSS reader I have found after Google Reader died. RSS readers are less appreciated in the post-PC era.
Happy to share workflow ideas with Elsie Escobar during Audiomo.
Elsie raised a simple question. Say you have a eureka moment and you just want to leave a message to yourself by audio. Perhaps you see something, you hear something, you smell something, and you know it's important.
How can you do it in such a way that it comes back to you magically, perhaps in a space where you can work with eureka moments?
Here's what I do. For about the last 10 years, I've been using a very low bandwidth solution called HighQ MP3. It is an audio recording app on Android--very simple to use. On a Samsung Note, I have it in part of my side panel. So I just slip it open and it works. Everything I make in HighQ MP3 ends up in Drive Google Drive, where it shows up as a red notification on the app itself. So I know I've made something, a memo that I can work with.
Whether I work with it is part of the framework for activity. So if it doesn't fit a goal that I have, if it doesn't work around the bottlenecks that may exist in my own production pathways. And if it's not subject to any kind of a quality rubric, that audio clip is going to get deleted. Nonetheless, it shows up as a red number in Google Drive, and I work it.
This means I normally convert my audio into text, and I also shift it across by sharing the URL of the Google Drive location, into Notion, the second brain that I use.
Everything just works.
HighQ MP3 records effortlessly.
The automatic synch with Google Drive works.
Sending it to Notion is as simple as tapping a Share button and dropping the shared URL into a database in Notion that I call "audio".
But this kind of process is worth your time only if it fits a goal. So my goal is to save the thought. And to also add the thought to one of the projects I might be thinking about or actively working. And often that means I need to take the clip, push it to Otter.ai to be transcribed.
The transcript enhances the audio clip. The text ensures the spoken content becomes searchable. Once Notion has words to use, other content in Notion can link to it.
I also use a service called Ram Research and it will dynamically connect to the transcript faster than what it does in Notion but Notion is prettier. And that's why I'm using Notion as my primary second brain, including the processing of audio notes to self.
If I actually work my notifications, the red notification with a number on tell me how many things suddenly appeared on my Google Drive, how many things have suddenly appeared in my Notion. Then if I actually work those notifications, the audio notes don't become a bottleneck. If I don't clean up my red notification circles on my handset, I get behind and then it's just like the steady dropping of audio notes simply creates a big pile of digital stash.
I impose my own Quality Rubric on all this, meaning the audio notes help me produce more training notes that improve student learning at the Technological University of Shannon where I teach. And if I attach the audio note to a short podcast it'll generate something else in my email through or my feed reader through the Feedspot service that I use.