Voice Notes to Obsidian, via iCloud, rclone, Modal, and WhisperX

I think out loud. That has always worked better for me than sitting in front of a blank page, which means I end up with a lot of Just Press Record voice memos sitting on an iPhone - a few seconds at a time, sometimes a two-hour walking monologue, rarely anything in between. They sync to iCloud, and then nothing happens to them. I have yet to voluntarily scrub through a ninety-minute audio file to find the one sentence I cared about at minute 43. ...

April 21, 2026 · 9 min