Make Virtual Notes With Your Cell Phone Recorder

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By Ted Bradly


You may think of your digital recorder only as a device to record cell phone, and actually that's its main function, but there's definitely more to using it than simply "recording calls". Actually you can think about your recording device to be a transportable secretary. It's a lot more convenient than writing things down, and a great deal cheaper than using an honest to goodness secretary.

You have no doubt been away from your office and wanted to take notes on something, but could not reach, or failed to have, paper and pen. Maybe you were having a telephone conversation in your car, or perhaps you were at a job site or out to lunch and just failed to have a great way to write things down. Whether you are on the telephone or not, your cell phone recorder will help you keep up with things when you don't have a technique to take notes on paper.

Cell-phones are great. They let us take our business with us, and be available to our providers, clients and project partners wherever we may be , and whenever we want to talk to somebody about what we're doing. That is a nice thing, or it is the majority of the time. Nevertheless occasionally being away from the office and trying to do business is sort of like making an attempt to hang glide without a glider. You have brilliant ideas and chats, but you can't do anything with them because you do not have a record of them. Here is where having a cell phone recorder comes in truly handy. Remember, you don't have a lightweight secretary, but you can use your telephone recorder to make up for the lack.

Whether you are talking on the phone while driving (using hands-free gear, naturally), or thinking about your project while grabbing a cup of coffee, you want a way to "take notes" that you can access later and appear sensible of. Driving and writing is a particularly bad idea, and it is also not a good way to take notes, because later you're probably going to wonder what that weird scrawl means. The idea situation will be to record voice notes wherever and whenever you are and be well placed to access them later on. Probabilities are your voice will be more comprehensible than your notes, and you can record just about anywhere, except for the picture theater. Even then, you can go out in the lobby if necessary.

You actually know that you can use your cell phone recorder to record phone calls; that's the reason why you bought it, after all. But you may not realize you can also use it as a voice recorder. Hence with one machine, you can "take notes" (record) all your telephone calls, and record notes and memorandums to yourself to help make sure you don't forget your brilliant ideas or the tasks you thought about while you were driving down the line or waiting in a queue somewhere. Of course you will be polite in public, but you'll also get more done.

You may have to consult the manual for your cell phone recorder to see precisely how to use it as a voice recorder for memorandums and such; all of them have slightly different controls. But almost every telephone recorder on the market may also be used as a voice recorder, and a lot of them have relatively instinctive control functions for that.

The most important thing to bear in mind about getting the most out of your cell phone recorder is that it is of no consequence where you are, what time it is, or what else you could be doing. If you need to record a call, a voice memo, or even a conversation with someone else, your phone recorder can handle all those tasks. Whatever you want to record and capture, your recording device can make keeping track of things simple and pain-free.




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