Voice Notes

You are in the middle of a task and a thought strikes — a bug to investigate later, an idea for a refactor, a reminder. Typing it out breaks your flow. With Voxclip’s voice notes script you speak the thought and it is appended as a timestamped line to a file.

How it works

1. Run the voice notes script.
2. Speak into your microphone.
3. Voxclip transcribes locally and appends a timestamped entry to your notes file.

2026-02-25 14:30  Refactor the download package to use context timeouts.
2026-02-25 15:12  Check if the silence gate threshold needs adjusting for USB mics.

No cloud. No account. Just a plain text file you own.

Quick start

sh examples/vnote.sh

By default notes are appended to ~/voice-notes.txt. Customize the file and recording duration with environment variables:

export VNOTE_FILE=~/project-notes.txt   # default: ~/voice-notes.txt
export VNOTE_DURATION=20s               # default: 15s

Next steps

See the Examples reference for all configuration options.