[randallsquared]

He only types up small portions of (apparently) long interviews, for quotes. In this case, the combination of shorthand and the camera and software is like a jump-to-where-I-mean feature for audio recordings, which sounds amazing, frankly, for this use case.

[muaddirac]

It does sound really cool. I just don't get why the shorthand part is important. Why not jot "grandma" and "poodle" and then tap the pen there for when the interviewee starts talking about his grandma and his poodle.

[doorhammer]

I was thinking about this. The pen sounded like a great way to create a fluid index of there conversation in a really simple outline form. No if it's setup to work like that at all

I'd actually really like something similar with a computer while I type and record.

[eru]

Voice recognition software might be good enough to create the index.

[doorhammer]

Yeah. I think I like the bullet-point associations because I can provide a more abstracted index word and associate it with a point in the conversation, versus having to do a text-search, if that makes sense.

It wouldn't be hard to throw something together, either. Really I just need it to pull a timestamp from the recorded audio after every word I type and associate some meta data and the timestamp with that word location.

Might be a fun after-work project. I'm sure there are already solutions like that out there, though