[supersrdjan]

The most seamless capture-from-anywhere workflow I struck upon is to have a shortcut on my phone's home screen. When tapped, it takes my dictation, transcribes it, and saves it to an inbox.org file with an org-syntax timestamp, synced to my main computer.

Basically the notes have the same format that org-mode uses to save notes placed in the logbook. But you can also make them as individual TODO headings or whatever. It's all plain text anyway.

I try to empty the inbox.org every morning, I typically have 20-30 entries to go through. Some things matter and are revised and refiled appropriately. The rest gets dumped into a chronological log file for just in case.

edit: btw, it would be cool if I also made a version that would append the content of the phone's clipboard to the transcription, so that I can also catch links and/or bits of text. Or maybe even multimedia, thought I am not sure how I would accomplish that.

[anotherpaulg]

I’ve relied heavily on seamless capture for a couple of decades, ala Getting Things Done.

My solution is a twilio text number that automatically inserts any texts it receives into the top of my todo.md file. Previously todo.org, until about a year ago.

iOS has ubiquitous support to quickly share to SMS from any/everywhere. It’s easy to send a text to this contact from a Home Screen shortcut, but also also from the share sheet in most every app.

[louistsi]

I'd be very curious to know more about the shortcut you describe. This workflow would work incredibly well for me. I already have my notes synced via syncthing, and capture with Orgzly Revived, but auto-transcribed captures would be a gamechanger.

[supersrdjan]

It’s an iphone shortcut. Here it is: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/a8a0076cc03f4e699d8ca34bd3d...

I keep the inbox.org on dropbox, that keeps it synced.

The shortcut is called “longdictate” because previously I had a version that didnt require me to press stop after finishing my thought. Instead it was set to stop recording when I stopped talking. But it misfired too frequently, cutting me off, so I added the button.

I imagine there must be something similar to iphone shortcuts on Android?

[FredPret]

Awesome - are you on an Android?

I tried to do something similar on my iPhone, but couldn't get a reliable (or any) way to get an rsync script running.

I ended up with pen and paper though, which is best for me all things considered.

[dunb]

This isn't rsync, but you can integrate a-Shell[0] with iOS Shortcuts. You would need to make the syncing happen in the script instead of in the background though. I use a Python script to create aliases for my email this way, so I don't have to turn on wildcard addressing to my inbox.

[0] https://github.com/holzschu/a-shell

[supersrdjan]

Iphone, yes. I keep the file on dropbox so that is what keeps it synced.

Shortcut: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/a8a0076cc03f4e699d8ca34bd3d...