• Using Audio Memos on my mobile phone and emacs-audio-notes-mode works brilliant to capture TOODs and refile them in emacs orgmode.

After trying out multiple iOS apps (MobileOrg, Drafts, Rem) to capture TODOs on the road and sync them with emacs orgmode I finally found a solution using Audio Memos.

Audio Memo is an App that runs on Android, iOS and watchOS. I'm using it on iOS and watchOS and it works very good.

Instead of typing my TODOs I now speak them into my Apple Watch. This has multiple advantages:

• It's much faster
• You can use it on the bike
• You can use it to capture your dreams (in case you wear your Apple Watch at night ;) )

You need:

• Audio Memos - The Voice Recorder (iOS) (android app)
• A self-hosted WebDAV Account (Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, Evernote or FTP should work, too.)
• audio-notes-mode

I have the following in my ~/.emacs.d/init.el

(use-package audio-notes-mode
:config (setq anm/notes-directory "~/share/audio-memos")
        (setq anm/goto-file "~/org/audio-notes.org")
)

• Tap the Audio Memo icon on your iPhone or Apple Watch
  • (Recording starts automatically)
• speak
• press pause
• press save

• you are done!

• (when using the Apple Watch you must launch the iOS app to start the sync (starting the app is enough, sync will start automatically))
• in emacs do M-x audio-notes-mode to listen to your memos

DISCLAIMER: I AM NOT PAID OR COMPENSATED IN ANY FORM TO PROMOTE THE MENTIONED APPS.

If you have comments, questions or opinions please drop me a line at 2017-08-18–capture-todos-with-ios-and-orgmode AT zngguvnf dot org. Please tell me whether it's ok to publish your comment here or not.