u/CloneWerks

I'm going mad trying to penetrate the "sales-speak" in my search.

I used to use a tape-based microrecorder. If you needed to record something you pushed the record button and it started recording...immediately. I used it for all kinds of engineering notes and comments and even more when I started doing inspections.

I'm back in that kind of field so I bought a digital voice recorder and.... it has to boot back up every freaking time I go to use it. The record button is almost like an afterthought, indistinct from the other buttons, small, and placed among other buttons.

Is there ANYTHING out there that is "keychain sized" that will just start recording without menus or boot up/wake up time? It would be an amazing bonus if it actually did transcription but that can really wait until I go back to a PC at the end of the inspection so it's not vital.

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u/CloneWerks — 17 days ago