Since the dawn of time, mankind has been recording ideas. It started with paintings on cave walls and has continually grown in importance for about the last million years. If your reading this blog, you're probably connected to the creative biz so, you know the value of hanging on to ideas. You also know that they notoriously come at odd times and can be quickly forgotten. Luckily, modern tech has offered up many new versions of the cave wall so your random thoughts in the dentist's waiting room are never lost to the sounds of screams (from patient to insurance company) and the allure of out of date magazines.
One such device is likely mixing it up with your pocket lint right now. Aside from being a mighty communicator filled with cool apps, music and other goodies your phone may have a built in voice recorder. Most of us are so caught up with the apps that steer model helicopters that we often forget about the built in stuff. When it comes to creating and remembering your cool ideas, the voice recorder can be your best app. It’s always with you, in the car, on the street or at your nightstand – ready to record and playback in an instant.
If you’ve got a standard, run-of-the-mill cell phone and it’s not from the 90’s your voice recorder will probably be found in Tools on your Main Menu. Recording will be pretty self explanatory and indicated by a small microphone icon at the top of the screen. If you’ve got an iPhone, there’s an app call Voice Memos http://www.apple.com/iphone/iphone-3gs/voice-memos.html that let’s you record yourself in mono (or stereo with a mic sold separately).
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