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Hi, love the idea of transcriptions, but my meetings are two hours long. AI transcription services are currently running $20USD a month, which is more outside of the US... so this would be a very valuable feature indeed.. if as you mention, they eventually add speaker identification and longer meetings... and .. Action items!
Totally agree. I think the idea right now if for it to be useful for voice notes but transcribing meetings and university lectures would be really useful.
I've been doing daily notes for YEARS. As a (previous) consultant, I use this to track my billable hours. As an Ops Director, I continue to use them for daily meetings & the daily notes allow me to link to active projects, etc.
I have seven templates titled:
2024-MM-DD (Mon) Daily Notes
2024-MM-DD (Tue) Daily Notes
I USED to be able to copy a week's worth of templates at once to my Active folder, but when they changed the backend of EN, I lost that capability. I now have to copy each one at a time to create a new set for the week.
After I process my daily journal, I move it into the 2024 Daily Notes folder for long-term storage. I'll be curious to see how they implement this and whether it's worth adjusting my workflow.
I have NOT tried that, but I will this weekend. Great idea!
Also, when I say Templates, I actually mean notes in a folder called Templates. I use the Duplicate or Copy to... function to create a copy in my active folder (Inbox in my case). I keep forgetting EN has a Create from Template (Gallery) feature.
I likely won't use the daily note... but transcription looks interesting. I've been using Evernote's AI translation feature and it's very good (English to Spanish and back) - maybe better than Google Translate. I wonder if there will be the option to take an English recording and have it produce a transcript in Spanish. Also, for these purposes, do we really need an audio codec running at 128 kb/sec?
Thanks Vinnie. Agree, translation is very good. I've used it a couple of times and folks have said it does a good job. The audio formats right now in EN are a bit all over the place. Android records AAC, Windows plays AAC but records in WEBM... not sure about Macs and iOS. Maybe stick to something like AAC which tends to be a bit smaller that MP3s.
Hi, love the idea of transcriptions, but my meetings are two hours long. AI transcription services are currently running $20USD a month, which is more outside of the US... so this would be a very valuable feature indeed.. if as you mention, they eventually add speaker identification and longer meetings... and .. Action items!
Totally agree. I think the idea right now if for it to be useful for voice notes but transcribing meetings and university lectures would be really useful.
Jon- I didn’t know you could pin Evernote to the screen. This is one thing I loved about One Note. How do I pin it to the screen? Thank you. Susie
There's a couple of different ways. You can right click a note and pin to the top of a notebook, or use the 3 dot menu at the top left of the note.
You can also pin a note to the Evernote home screen on desktop, right click and 3 dot menu.
On Android you can add a note to your phones home screen, option in the 3 dot menu. Not sure if this works on iPhone.
A lot of folk add notes as shortcuts to kind of pin them. You can access them quickly on all apps.
I've been doing daily notes for YEARS. As a (previous) consultant, I use this to track my billable hours. As an Ops Director, I continue to use them for daily meetings & the daily notes allow me to link to active projects, etc.
I have seven templates titled:
2024-MM-DD (Mon) Daily Notes
2024-MM-DD (Tue) Daily Notes
I USED to be able to copy a week's worth of templates at once to my Active folder, but when they changed the backend of EN, I lost that capability. I now have to copy each one at a time to create a new set for the week.
After I process my daily journal, I move it into the 2024 Daily Notes folder for long-term storage. I'll be curious to see how they implement this and whether it's worth adjusting my workflow.
Thanks for the post!
have you tried exporting those seven notes as an ENX file and then dragging it into your active folder. I think it create all those notes.
I've never used daily notes before, apart from on paper so going to try next week when I'm in the office more.
I have NOT tried that, but I will this weekend. Great idea!
Also, when I say Templates, I actually mean notes in a folder called Templates. I use the Duplicate or Copy to... function to create a copy in my active folder (Inbox in my case). I keep forgetting EN has a Create from Template (Gallery) feature.
I likely won't use the daily note... but transcription looks interesting. I've been using Evernote's AI translation feature and it's very good (English to Spanish and back) - maybe better than Google Translate. I wonder if there will be the option to take an English recording and have it produce a transcript in Spanish. Also, for these purposes, do we really need an audio codec running at 128 kb/sec?
Thanks for another great article.
Vinnie
Thanks Vinnie. Agree, translation is very good. I've used it a couple of times and folks have said it does a good job. The audio formats right now in EN are a bit all over the place. Android records AAC, Windows plays AAC but records in WEBM... not sure about Macs and iOS. Maybe stick to something like AAC which tends to be a bit smaller that MP3s.