Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
It’d be useful to be able to track musical ideas within Anytype. I’m assuming once iOS is released, if I want to put a voice recording into Anytype, I’d need to use the built in iOS voice recorder and share the file into Anytype. Personally, I don’t really need the feature for Desktop, only mobile.
Describe the solution you’d like
Built in, quality voice recorder which creates and embeds high-quality audio right into the page.
Describe alternatives you’ve considered
You could use the phone’s default voice recorder app and share into Anytype, but that’s no fun. And personally, I find myself forgetting to share things, so I have a weird mismatch of what’s in Obsidian Notes (my daily driver atm) and what’s only in my voice recorder app.
Additional context
Ideally this wouldn’t use the Javascript MediaRecorder API as it produces bad quality audio. No amount of JS post-hoc audio processing can fix the poor quality audio provided to the JS environment by the browser/electron. A native extension would be helpful here. Even if Anytype did go with the JS MediaRecorder route, a native extension would still be necessary to keep the phone awake while recording long audio - if the phone falls asleep while recording, the audio is completely lost forever. Obsidian notes has had this issue here:
Has my vote as well, I even recently mentioned to the team how much I wish for a voice dictation/recorder (not to be confused with voice to text transcriber) feature. Would come in very handy for me.
I think we can leave it as a native feature for now. It wouldn’t be so complicated to develop and it’s been requested multiple times. (See the linked post)
i dont think this is an unnecessary feature, so should be native, stuffs which people need just for their workflow or which is not really necessary for the OS as a whole and will make it overkill and would judt increase bugs can be covered by plugins, but i dont think voice recorder is a supplementry feature to have, i import audio files a lot, sometimes in my study notes, sometimws in general, so its a wide use case for me and i can see it for many ppl too, native would be good!
I’m not sure how plugins are planned to work in Anytype, but they use Javascript/Electron in the Obsidian Notes app.
In Obsidian, they used a Javascript plugin to add a voice recorder on mobile, and the audio quality is terrible - not because of the quality of code they wrote, but because of technical limitations in Safari’s MediaRecorder API. The recordings are so bad that they would actually hurt your ears to listen to using headphones.
In LogSeq for iOS, they used a native module to record voice, and the quality difference is night and day! It’s basically as good as the built in iOS voice recorder app. It makes a huge difference.
Im using Anytype only on android a lot recently and im really missing this feature. Any hope that this will be made any time soon? For now i would record via signal and then export import it to anytype but its not very efficient.
Very occasional use for me with Evernote.
Plus Evernote has a widget to record an audio note, in one click
Useful when you have something to write down quickly in the car for example ;-).
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
When I work with OneNote, a feature I use everyday is being able to clip a random vocal recording into the page I’m working on.
Describe the solution you’d like
I’d love to be able to do the same on AnyType, thus not always having to record it on another software and then type /audio to search for it on my engine.
Describe alternatives you’ve considered
Feel free to suggest any. If this was already mentionned somewhere else, I’m not aware of it: you can merge this thread with another if you think it is relevant.
Thanks for making this request, glad so many desire this as a use case. Would be great if it happened natively but an expansion on top might come quicker after we open our API.
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
If I want to record a quick voice note, as of right now the only way it can be added to Anytype is by uploading the audio file.
Describe the solution you’d like
Voice Memos app (in iOS and Mac, but also any system recorder on other OSs) should automatically sync new recordings and integrate them as objects.
Ideally, Voice memos should be transcribed, too.
My personal notes for my ideal audio recordings integration are in the web page below:
Describe alternatives you’ve considered
Manually creating an object related to the track and manually typing its relations with other objects.
Congrats on the public beta release… coming off the heels of that, figured I would bump this thread. Anytype is looking great and an audio recorder would be a great addition to the app. Thanks.
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