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What I really could use today, is software at my computer that records my whole workday in front of it, and allows me to go just to the points where I was makin

What I really could use today, is software at my computer that records my whole workday in front of it, and allows me to go just to the points where I was making sound later on, and easily extract worthy material. I explan: I often spontaneously start reciting some poetry or prose come from god knows where in my subconscious, in the form and meaning of a speech, a pitch, a story or even a song. Sometimes it's just a beat or a melody. These often turn out to be incredibly creative and surprise me, but by the time I setup something to try and record it, surely as winter comes every year the creativity has fled the building, and I can't record anything worthwhile. My creativity is like a lovely squirrel who stops playing with the acorn once he notices he's being watched. I have looked into surveillance software now and then after such an episode, but really, this should be easier. This should be an always on Evernote audio note with soundwave analysis strapped on. I wonder what artists and even writers use in their studios and studies, for surely those who don't have such a setup are missing out on a lot of their greatest, most spontaneous material if they're anything as eccentric as myself.

gagege 14y ago
You wouldn't even have to keep recordings of the whole day. I learned a neat trick from watching the making of the show "Planet Earth". To record some of the amazing unexpected events, they would have a camera running constantly that keeps about 10 seconds of HD video in memory at a time, then deletes it. When they see something cool happen, like a shark jumping out of the water, they just hit a button. That button tells the camera to not delete video that is more than 10 seconds old. That way they didn't fill up their hard drives and they got the unexpected stuff. What you could do is have a sound analyzer listen for speech and it would be like pressing that button, you'd get whatever happened 10 seconds or whatever, before you started spontaneously jabbering. :)
- goldfeld 14y ago
  This is sound advice, pardon the pun. Still I wonder if I should ramp up the TiVoish recorder to about an hour or so, because often these are so spontaneous in fact, almost subconsciously uttered, that it might take me more than 10 seconds to even realize I'm doing something weird, let alone to figure out I'm on to something.
- lurkinggrue 14y ago
  Given storage sizes these days you could have that buffer be a full on hour than you can grab from.

gagege 14y ago

You wouldn't even have to keep recordings of the whole day. I learned a neat trick from watching the making of the show "Planet Earth". To record some of the amazing unexpected events, they would have a camera running constantly that keeps about 10 seconds of HD video in memory at a time, then deletes it. When they see something cool happen, like a shark jumping out of the water, they just hit a button. That button tells the camera to not delete video that is more than 10 seconds old. That way they didn't fill up their hard drives and they got the unexpected stuff. What you could do is have a sound analyzer listen for speech and it would be like pressing that button, you'd get whatever happened 10 seconds or whatever, before you started spontaneously jabbering. :)

goldfeld 14y ago
This is sound advice, pardon the pun. Still I wonder if I should ramp up the TiVoish recorder to about an hour or so, because often these are so spontaneous in fact, almost subconsciously uttered, that it might take me more than 10 seconds to even realize I'm doing something weird, let alone to figure out I'm on to something.
lurkinggrue 14y ago
Given storage sizes these days you could have that buffer be a full on hour than you can grab from.