audio-notes-mode

Emacs mode to play audio notes synced from somewhere else.

Commentary:

audio-notes-mode is a way to manage small audio recordings that you make in order to record thoughts.

After much struggle, I finally decided to stop trying to make speech recognition work from my phone. Instead, I decided to just record audio notes, and I wrote this package to automate the process of playing them back at the computer.

I found this to be even faster, because I don't have to wait and see if the speech recognition worked and I don't have to repeat the message 1/3 of the time.

A tasker profile (which records and uploads these notes) is also provided at the github page.

Workflow:

The idea is that you sync voice notes you record on your smartphone into a directory on your PC. But you're free to use it in other ways.

When you activate this mode, it will play the first audio note in a specific directory and wait for you to write it down. Once you're finished, just call the next note with anm/play-next which is bound to C-c C-j. When you do this, audio-notes-mode will DELETE the note which was already played and start playing the next one. Once you've gone through all of them, audio-notes-mode deactivates itself.

Instructions:

Configuration is simple. Require the package and define the following two variables:

(require 'audio-notes-mode)
(setq anm/notes-directory "~/Directory/where/your/notes/are/")
(setq anm/goto-file "~/path/to/file.org") ;File in which you'll write your notes as they are played.

Then just choose how you want to activate it.

1. If you use org-mobile-pull, you can make audio-notes-mode activate whenever you call org-mobile-pull.

   (setq anm/hook-into-org-pull t)

2. The second options is to just bind audio-notes-mode to some key and call it when you want.

   (global-set-key [f8] 'audio-notes-mode)

If you installed manually, first require the feature with: then use one of the methods above.

Customizations:

1. If you don't want notes to be deleted (maybe you want to back them up somewhere) you can edit the variable anm/delete-command. Just make sure this command does't leave them in the same folder, othervise ANM won't work.

2. You can have the current number of unread notes be displayed in the mode-line, just see the command anm/display-on-modeline.

License:

This file is NOT part of GNU Emacs.

This program is free softwareyou can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundationeither version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTYwithout even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.