This pocket AI voice recorder took me back to the good old days of dictation (and shorthand)

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Comulytic Note Pro AI voice recorder4 / 5Very good

pros and cons

  • Mic pickup quality is excellent.
  • Battery life is superb.
  • The card is small, unobtrusive, and easy to use.
  • Not a fan of proprietary charging cables.
  • The app works hard to upsell users to paid tiers -- and they're not cheap.
  • I have lingering privacy concerns.

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I'm old enough to have been taught a bunch of skills that are now essentially dead. Shorthand is one of those skills that I learned and used, and has since been pushed out of my brain by "Simpsons" quotes. I look at the lines and squiggles now, and it makes absolutely no sense.

Another skill that's come and gone is dictation and transcription. I had a number of recorders over the years -- from tape to electronic -- and used them...

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