Talk for ten minutes. Find out what you actually think.
Say it out loud on a walk or in the car. Ten minutes of talking comes back as text, in your own words, so the line you keep circling is finally on the page. Nothing to fill in, nothing to keep up with.
When you talk, the real stuff comes out.
When you write, you have time to second-guess every sentence. So you tone it down, tidy it up, and leave out the part that felt like too much. The page ends up polite and a little bit fake.
When you talk, there is no time for that. The words are out before you can fix them. That is how you end up saying what you actually want, or what is actually bothering you.
Once you have said it, you can see it. That is where changing it starts.
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Wants you would not write down
The typed version is noble and vague. The spoken one names the number, the room, the summer you actually want.
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The same phrase, six weeks running
One note is a mood. The same phrase six weeks running is a pattern, and you only see it because the old notes are still there to read back.
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Staying with the feeling
Typed, a hard thing becomes an argument by line four. Spoken, you say where it sits in your chest before you explain it.
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The next step, said out loud
Partway through a ramble, the next part arrives in plain words. You did not work it out. You heard yourself say it.
Talk. Read it back. Come back tomorrow.
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Talk past the tidy version
Tap start and take as long as you need. Ten minutes is a normal note. While you talk, the screen fills with shapes, not words, so nothing is watching you.
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Read it once you stop
The note opens as text, titled from your first sentence. Fix a word the transcriber missed, or say more into the same note and it adds to the end. Copy it anywhere you keep things.
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Let them stack, then look
Notes collect by day. Once a week, read back and find the line that keeps arriving. That line is the signal.
The question at the end of the post is already on the screen.
A post that ends with a question turns it into a link. Follow the link and the question waits on your recording screen, so you answer it while the post is still fresh.
Reading about a pattern is the screenshot. Saying where it showed up this week is the work.
- 1 Where did you avoid a feeling this week?
- 2 What did you almost say today, and didn't?
- 3 What are you circling without naming?
What it does.
- Price
- Free plan: 100 minutes a month. At zero, recording still works. The audio waits on your phone and turns into text when the month resets.
- Transcription
- The recording is sent up to be turned into text, and the text comes back to your note. There is no on-device option yet.
- Your audio
- Keep a copy on your phone to hear it back, or keep only the text. One setting, your call.
- Signing in
- An email link, no password. Add it to your home screen and it opens like an app.
What people ask first.
What if I feel silly talking to myself?
Common, and it usually passes in about three notes. Do it while you are already moving, so it feels like talking, not performing. Say the boring parts on purpose. Once the note is allowed to be dull, the pressure drops.
What do I talk about in the first note?
Whatever is still running in the background. Where you avoided a feeling this week. What you almost said today and did not. What you are circling without naming. If nothing comes, describe the last hour out loud and see where it goes.
Do I have to read every note?
No. Read back once a week and look for what repeats. The note is the record. You only need a way back into it.
Does anything talk back while I talk?
No. The recording becomes text, and that is all. Nothing answers you mid-thought, so nothing steers the note while you are making it.
How long should a note be?
Ten minutes is a normal note. Two minutes counts. Stop when you notice you are repeating yourself, or keep going and see what comes after.
Ten minutes is a normal note.
Your first one can start on your next walk. The tidy version is the one you already know. Talk past it.