Not everything is a task. The stray thought, the meeting takeaway, the thing you must not forget — take a voice note and it’s saved as text, searchable, and out of your head.
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Thoughts don’t arrive at your desk. They arrive on the motorway, in the shower, halfway through someone else’s sentence — and they leave at the same speed unless something catches them.
A voice note is a thought captured by speaking instead of typing. Recorded audio has a catch: to find anything later, you have to listen back through it.
Voice notes kept as text don’t. The words are saved as searchable text the moment you say them, so a note from three weeks ago is one search away.
Say note, then the thought. It saves with a date, sits in your Notes, and stays searchable. Add a checklist to any note and it becomes a working document — the packing list, the site checklist, the questions for the accountant.
Saved and dated. Safe from the next distraction.
Any note grows tick-boxes when the thought turns into a job.
Ten notes on the free plan.
Half your captures aren’t tasks — they’re maybes, references, things worth keeping that don’t belong on today’s list. Notes hold them without cluttering the day. When one grows up into a real job, it’s one command from the daily list.
The best ideas I ever had arrived in the workshop with both hands full. I’d tell myself I’d write it down at smoko. Some of those ideas I still try to remember.
— Dave Rees, Founder. From boatbuilder, to business owner, to Founder.
Voice notes on iPad, phone and desktop are the same notes — one account, any browser, nothing to install.
The full chapter is in the Instruction Manual — free with any account.
Speak them straight into text, somewhere you will look again. Audio you have to replay is slow to search; text is instant.
In VoiceFirstPlanner they are text from the start: say note, then the thought, and it saves as a dated, searchable note.
Yes. It runs in any browser, on iPad, phone or desktop, with the same notes everywhere.
Ten notes on the free plan. Premium takes every limit off.
Free account. No card, no clock. Your notes sit beside your daily planner.
Start freeEvery part of Daily Planning
The VoiceFirstPlanner Instruction Manual, The VoiceFirstPlanner Voice Command Guide and The Voice First Life Planning System — Starter Workbook.
$19.98 for the Starter Workbook alone — all three free when you create your free account.
