A tool I'm building to help create a powerful audio recorder for Obsidian and other personal knowledge-ready tools. - One of the things that I want to play around with is a better UI for creating and selecting notes. So it'd be like, probably a plus button on the bottom and pops up a slider with a button to add a new note and then a list of the most recent notes and then you can search through as well. - It's pretty cool that we have AudioPen as a comparison. I think there's a lot, a lot that I can just emulate how they do things. - I think, in hindsight, I might have kind of gone the wrong way. Maybe I'm being too harsh on myself, but I think I built the product before I looked at the alternatives. And I think it's a good idea to sit back and have a look at some of the alternatives. I think, literally, download every plugin for Obsidian, and read every article about how to do voice recordings in Obsidian, and write a blog post about it. I kind of do it in a similar way to what I was doing with the face blindness thing. - I think, in general, the way that I want to show this off to the world is much more of like a, I have a problem, I'm trying to solve this problem, here are all the things that I can find to help me solve the problem, and share that with the world, get discussions going. I think, kind of, don't just abandon Reflect either, like, talk about the issues that I'm having with Reflect, talk about the things that I like about Reflect, and build, like, a discussion in the community around what's good and what's bad. # Resoures - [AudioPen](URL: https://audiopen.ai/) - *"Go from fuzzy thought to clear text. *Fast.*"* # Competitors/Similar Products - [Voicenotes | AI Note-Taker that’s truly intelligent](https://voicenotes.com/) - [Cleft Notes - Turn Voice Memos Into Shared Notes](https://www.cleftnotes.com/) - [Dictation to Text – Letterly on the App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dictation-to-text-letterly/id6464049772) # Next Steps - There are two approaches I can take - build something for Obsidian first, or for Reflect first. Right now I'm actually leaning towards Reflect! Obsidian has a big community, but I think they will be open source first and foremost and Reflect users may be more comfortable with a closed-source, paid app ## Building for Reflect users - What would a Reflect-focused app look like? - First and foremost, it needs Reflect API integration! ## Building for Obsidian users - Need to create and distribute the Obsidian plugin - Need to create the server. This would likely be an open source package that could be installed locally, or users could sign up for an online account for a small annual fee - What does V1 look like? - Install the plugin - Launching the plugin for the first time opens a popup that introduces you to Voicebox, shows you how to record using the app - The first time you open, you are given an auto-generated UUID that allows you to upload files to the server for processing with a limit; there is warning informing you of your files limit every time you upload - The plugin has a built-in voice recorder feature to make it super easy to record directly from Obsidian - There is also a dedicated app for Android and iPhone; to start with, a web app but that would quickly be replaced with dedicated apps - Users can sign up for a $9.99/yr, $19.99 lifetime plan to start with - Launch as closed-source with generous free plan, but make it open-source if this doesn't work out - Switch to a custom server that is running on DO, can take incoming requests as long as needed - Tasks - Plugin - Should have the ability to record files and send them to the server - Web app - Should store files locally until they have been processed by the server - Server - Should run Whisper locally - Switch to DO - Remove ~60 second timeout - Remove audio playback functionality and segments - Let's start with the server....