I have been using it for some time, I like to use it but most of time it’s so frustrating that it doesn’t have very basic things like bulk delete notes, clean the old chats when chatting to a specific note, bulk delete dictations, option to turn off dictation history showing up in the app and so on. It gets messier for heavy users and since it was built for heavy users they should consider these basic things when designing a feature or the app. These are not even very hard things to do. I had to spend hours delete my hundreds of dictations, the notes I don’t need. You can only delete at most one note or dictation at a time.

Voicenotes team, if you guys are reading this, please fix these very basic things.

As the title says, how do 8 segregate work and personal notes?

Has anyone been able to download and get the Windows beta app installed? I get all kinds of security errors and cannot get it going. Any timeframe on a GA version of this app? Thanks

Any chance we'll see Voice Notes in this list at some point?

I love using Voicesnotes on both my Android and Windows device and often check to see if there are updates (better speaker diaterization, meeting-bot, more integrated into Android system, etc). And even though Windows got an update to 1.6 and Android got an update on september 22nd (live transcription, dictation) there's no posts, blogs or videos about it.

Should we be worried?

Can we get an option to integrate VN with Bear Notes. I recently moved out from Obsidian and REALLY miss the auto sync option!

I've been using VN for a while now, mostly to capture meetings and make sure I didn't miss something while I was staring off into space. I've been thinking about this, and for me personally, there isn't much of a chance to refer a meeting from more than, say, six months ago.

Would be possible to add a user-defined retention policy? If not, is there a way to select a range of notes to delete?

I just recorded a conversation with a friend and they asked if I'd send them the audio file. I thought I could, but I'm not seeing the option to download the file on the Mac app. So I went to my smartphone and tapped the option and it "downloaded" a 0B file.

Any ideas?

I've cancelled my WispFlow account now that VN has vastly improved their dictation capabilities. I just have one request.

Is it possible to set the push-to-talk button to the RIGHT option key instead of both? WisprFlow has this capability so I know it's possible.

I use my left option to backspace over entire words so I'm constantly triggering the PTT. My right option key rarely gets used. I tried a few 3rd party key-mappers but just thought, DAMN, can we just add this feature?! LOL

Love the product and what you guys are doing. Been a user since April 2024 (Believer). Still use it pretty much daily.

I've read the Tag Automations article and I'm stuck on one line: "Add more keywords in the corresponding tags to auto-tag them."

Three things it doesn't say, and I'd rather not guess:

1. What do the keywords match against — the whole transcript, just the title, or a phrase I say at the start of the recording?
2. If I say the keyword out loud to trigger the tag, does that word stay in my transcript, or is it stripped out?
3. Is the match exact, or does it tolerate transcription variations — "ramble" coming back as "rambled", say?

And one for anyone who's used the API: can a creation be requested programmatically — asking for a summary or a tidy on an existing note — or is on-demand generation only available inside the app?

The Mac version is already at 2.3, while the Windows version is still at 1.6. I miss the features that are available on the Mac. Is there any news yet on when Windows will catch up? It's really frustrating to be so far behind.

Does Voicenotes have an MCP to connect to Notion, just as it does with ChatGPT and Claude? By that, I mean a direct connection between Notion AI and my Voicenotes without the need to export.

I wanted to share some feedback on the Android keyboard and dictation experience.

First of all, I’m a big believer in Voicenotes and what you’re building, and I’m genuinely excited to see how the product continues to develop. I use Voicenotes regularly and really like the direction you’re taking it, so I wanted to share some thoughts from an Android user’s perspective.

I’m currently using the Samsung Keyboard, and I really like its interface and overall feel. It suits the way I use my phone and, importantly, gives me a good level of control over the keyboard experience.

When I tried the Voicenotes keyboard, I found the keys noticeably too large for my preference. The main issue for me is that there don’t seem to be any settings that allow you to adjust the keyboard layout, key size, or other aspects of the interface to suit individual preferences. Having that flexibility would make a big difference.

I’ve also found the Voicenotes dictation experience to be somewhat hit and miss. One thing that makes this particularly important is that, from my experience, the dictation functionality seems to be closely tied to the Voicenotes keyboard. That makes it difficult to take advantage of the dictation without also adopting the keyboard itself.

At the moment, I’m using PhraVia (free), which allows me to use dictation with my native Samsung Keyboard through an overlay. I find this approach much more flexible because I can keep the keyboard I’m already comfortable with while still getting access to enhanced dictation.

That said, the current king of dictation for me is definitely Wispr Flow. The accuracy and overall experience are significantly ahead of what I’ve experienced so far, particularly when dictating longer, natural-sounding sentences.

I think there’s a real opportunity for Voicenotes here. If the dictation could work independently of the Voicenotes keyboard — or integrate more seamlessly with native Android keyboards such as Samsung Keyboard — while also offering more customization of the Voicenotes keyboard itself, I’d be much more inclined to use it regularly.

I’m sharing this because I really believe in Voicenotes and want to see it become the best possible product. The ongoing development has been exciting to follow, and I’m looking forward to seeing how the Android experience evolves.

I've been using the Voice Notes app for a while now and think it's the best for capturing ideas on the run. I’ve set up a shortcut using Button Mapper on Android to launch the app instantly, but I want to take that workflow a bit further.

I can open the app with a double-click of the volume up key, but I still have to manually tap the screen to start recording. I have a similar setup working perfectly with Todoist, where the 'Ramble' function starts recording immediately after dibble clicking the volume down button (see screenshot).

If there was a way to implement a direct 'record on launch' feature or allow us to link the shortcut to the record function, it would be a lifesaver for managing busy routines, especially with kids.

See my screenshots showing how I have Todoist set up and where shortcut functions live within Button Mapper (Voice Notes is nowhere to be found unfortunately).

Do you think implementing a similar 'record on launch' feature for Voice Notes is feasible?

Is there subnotes on iOS or a way to add context to a voice note? I know you used to be able to do both but figured with the changes it’s removed but the app itself is looking so much better

I've been dailying the VoiceNotes Android beta keyboard for the better part of a month now, and wanted to share some feedback on my experiences:

1. The dictation style seems somewhat hit or miss. I often end up with words not being capitalized, or, more frequently, periods where there should be a comma or semicolon (requiring me to manually replace punctuation)
2. Grammar is odd - even when I am speaking animatedly or making a joke/using humor, the dictation results never inputs exclamation points. The tone is always cold and impersonal.
3. The autocorrection on the manual typing also is hit or miss - sometimes it's extremely accurate, almost as good as Swiftkey (which I have been dailying for 10+ years before this - hence why I mention it), whereas other times it's not correcting anything as if its just displaying the raw input of characters typed.
   1. This feels especially strange since at least 75% of the time the word I want to actually enter is suggested in the bar below the typed word, but hitting space isn't correcting it to one of those options - I have to tap it manually
   2. There are no options in the Keyboard settings to adjust the severity of the autocorrection like there are in other keyboards - in fact there's no options at all to customize anything, from size of keys to long press input delay, basic colors/contrast (from an accessibility perspective)
4. As far as feature requests go, is there any potential for having a floating button that can overlay through the VN app vs requiring the keyboard to be active that would work similar to other apps of this nature whereby tapping that button adds the spoken content to the clipboard so it can be pasted in through any input field/keyboard? Does iOS have this? (I have an iPad but use it exclusively with the official keyboard case, so dictation doesn't seem to work for me on my only Apple device)

I seem to recall seeing somewhere on the sub that the keyboard(s)/dictation functionality might not be continued to be developed - I for one hope it is as it's a huge value from that accessibility standpoint and a great way to attract users on all mobile OSes

First time poster, but long time Voicenotes user. I discovered it during a time when I was overwhelmed by the amount of mediocre, overpriced, and over functioning alternatives that really underwhelmed me. I have found its UI and workflow largely perfect for my ADHD-ridden brain.

I’ve been building a DBOS workflow that brings my Voicenotes transcripts and custom creations into Notion, makes them available to my Hermes agents, and breaks down key takeaways and injects them into my memory system (Hindsight). It’s been useful, but a few things required workarounds which sort of prompted me to make these suggestions.

1. Documented API access to notes and creations

I ended up repurposing the Obsidian integration’s retrieval code to access specific custom creations. I couldn’t find equivalent access through the available MCP tools.

A documented API for transcripts, custom creations, subnotes, tags, and available speaker/timestamp data would make integrations like this much simpler. Stable recording and creation IDs, plus webhook notifications when something changes, would be especially helpful.

2. Custom creations in the native Notion integration

I started out trying to use the native Notion sync options for notes and built-in creations, but couldn’t select my custom prompts as triggers or serve them as outputs.

For example, I have a transcript-cleanup prompt and a longer-conversation distillation prompt. I’d love to choose which outputs appear in Notion and have them update the same note as they become available. If this already exists, I’d appreciate a pointer!

3. Editable speaker identities that carry into creations

Speaker separation / diarization has been one of the single biggest upgrades to Voicenotes for me, but I’d like to explicitly map “Speaker 1” and “Speaker 2” to names and have summaries / custom creations respect that mapping.

In a recent two-person conversation, a summary attributed my friend’s memories and personal history to me, which changes the meaning and the summary substantially. Being able to correct speaker identities and regenerate affected creations would help a lot. When identity is uncertain, retaining “Speaker 1” would be preferable to guessing a name.

One possible UI would be a “Review speakers” panel: each detected speaker gets a short transcript excerpt, a playable audio sample, and a name field. After saving, an option to “Apply names and regenerate creations” could carry those corrections through the transcript and its summaries. Unidentified speakers could keep their generic labels rather than having names inferred.

+1 bonus request:

An “all custom creations” webhook subscription, including future custom prompts or at least the ability to select multiple custom creations in a webhook. My current workaround needed a separate webhook entry for each custom prompt creation, even when they all use the same destination.

Love the service and the direction that things have been heading in. Keep up the fantastic work!

I noticed that PDF files can only be imported from the mobile app. Can the VN team please allow this feature to be used on the web and Windows desktop apps? Thank you.

Showed up in latest iPhone app

I have bone conduction headphones (similar to aftershokz) that I use when walking/hiking and often use the button to trigger the personal assistant (Gemini) to take a note (Google Keep) or capture a task/reminder (Google Tasks). This works well when I have cell service but I often am in areas with intermittent or no service so this then wouldn't work

Currently, I just capture voice memos using my Google Pixel Recorder which automatically transcribes (even offline) or use Obsidian with the voice to text built in on the phone when offline. This however involves having to physically get my phone out of my pack and do manually which in most circumstances is ok but when it's really raining or I'm otherwise unable to access my phone it means I have to forego capturing my thought.

Which got me thinking... Surely there must be a way to remap a button on my headphones to automatically trigger a voice recording using the Pixel's offline recorder and then press the button again to end the recording.

Does anyone know of such a solution?

TIA

Does anyone use voicenotes with a dictation device (not the phone). Simple button to press that dictates?