Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by baby_wipe 2227 days ago
I've built a podcast app that lets you take notes at specific time stamps.

What I've personally found is it's way too cumbersome to pull the phone out of your pocket, unlock it, press the "Add Note" button (assuming the Now Playing screen is already showing, otherwise another click for that), type in your notes, and click save...and probably rewind 15 seconds because you lost track of the conversation.

But now that I write this out I realize a Siri shortcut could be apt here.

2 comments

This is one of the benefits of listening to a text-to-speech article over a podcast. You just need to pull up the article's original text and highlight it in that app (if you're using something like Pocket). Still annoying that you need to get your phone out but less so than typing up a note.
Or tap the phone to pause and capture a response (I'm not a fan of VUIs).

Happy to get involved if you take the above route