Guides

Getting it out of your head.

Short, practical pages on saying things instead of typing them. Every method here works with whatever you already have.

• How to do a brain dump by voice

  A brain dump is everything in your head, put somewhere outside it. Saying it is faster than typing it, and you stop filtering sooner.

• Voice memo to text: what actually happens

  Turning a voice memo into text is a solved problem. Turning it into something you can find again in March is not the same problem.

• Thinking out loud, and why saying it works

  Some people know what they think only once they have heard themselves say it. That is not a bad habit. It is a way of thinking, and it has one weakness.

• A second brain you can talk to

  A second brain is a place outside your head that remembers for you. Most of them fail at the same step, and it is not the one people spend their weekends on.

• Keeping a voice journal without typing

  Most journals are abandoned by February. The ones that survive are the ones that cost almost nothing to keep, and talking costs less than writing.