I've always kept diary notes on day to day stuff - what birds I see, whether it is a nice day, what daft thing the chickens did this time etc and have the vague plan of writing one or more of a country living book of the type I like reading. It used to be remember it and type it up indoors - if I didn't forget. Since 2020 I've been recording notes on the smart(ish) phone using voice recognition to text and managed to create a bit of a monster in terms of file backlog which I am slowly working through. It is also my ambition to finally start one of the books this year, all about various things of last year.
Recently moved onto a new Android phone, this one a Samsung Galaxy. I had a fairly poor note taker on the old phone (which was a weird model for various reasons). I was looking forward to the improvement I'd get in note taking.
Google Keep was recommended to me and it is alright in the bit on the phone with the usual caveats about the accuracy of voice recognition, but very irritating for getting the notes onto to my PC and into Open Office docs.
When you access Google Keep in the browser the notes are there, I can double click to open, do a select all, copy and paste but that doesn't include the title automatically, and there is very limited functionality on how to find the notes. They are lined up newest first and you can't even change the order in which they are laid out and make it oldest first.
I record an average of three notes a day that are probably half a page of A4 each. When you don't get around to processing them for at least several weeks because of other unavoidable stuff, and there are a lot, it gets really irritating either having to scroll down to the bottom and wait for the page to populate to do the oldest first, or having to do the newest first and keep repositioning the cursor to put the newer one above.
So moving on to what I am looking for (in an ideal world).
A basic text note taker (no voice or picture inserts or anything fancy) just text.
With voice recognition to text capacity
IDEALLY
The note file is visible on the file structure of the phone, so I can plug the phone into the PC and just copy the note from one file manager to the other.
IF NO DIRECT COPY
A file is a doddle to export from the phone to the PC (one click or at most two, NOT like the old Doro phone where it was select all, share, turn into an email, email myself, pick up the email, copy contents into document)
OR
Is on a web browser/server
AND
You can sort the files in date order increasing or decreasing, preferably you can sort by title, and also preferably there is a search function so you can find all references to say "swallows".
In an even more ideal world I'd like some privacy and security from corporates to it, but I've already looked at Mozilla and Duck Duck Go and they don't offer any useful product.
So any recommendations, places to look would be gladly received.
Recently moved onto a new Android phone, this one a Samsung Galaxy. I had a fairly poor note taker on the old phone (which was a weird model for various reasons). I was looking forward to the improvement I'd get in note taking.
Google Keep was recommended to me and it is alright in the bit on the phone with the usual caveats about the accuracy of voice recognition, but very irritating for getting the notes onto to my PC and into Open Office docs.
When you access Google Keep in the browser the notes are there, I can double click to open, do a select all, copy and paste but that doesn't include the title automatically, and there is very limited functionality on how to find the notes. They are lined up newest first and you can't even change the order in which they are laid out and make it oldest first.
I record an average of three notes a day that are probably half a page of A4 each. When you don't get around to processing them for at least several weeks because of other unavoidable stuff, and there are a lot, it gets really irritating either having to scroll down to the bottom and wait for the page to populate to do the oldest first, or having to do the newest first and keep repositioning the cursor to put the newer one above.
So moving on to what I am looking for (in an ideal world).
A basic text note taker (no voice or picture inserts or anything fancy) just text.
With voice recognition to text capacity
IDEALLY
The note file is visible on the file structure of the phone, so I can plug the phone into the PC and just copy the note from one file manager to the other.
IF NO DIRECT COPY
A file is a doddle to export from the phone to the PC (one click or at most two, NOT like the old Doro phone where it was select all, share, turn into an email, email myself, pick up the email, copy contents into document)
OR
Is on a web browser/server
AND
You can sort the files in date order increasing or decreasing, preferably you can sort by title, and also preferably there is a search function so you can find all references to say "swallows".
In an even more ideal world I'd like some privacy and security from corporates to it, but I've already looked at Mozilla and Duck Duck Go and they don't offer any useful product.
So any recommendations, places to look would be gladly received.
