You’re either someone who takes voice memos, or you aren’t, I think. Either you’ve found a need for recording your thoughts this way, or you’ve stuck to pen and paper or to typing into a device. You might have guessed that I’m personally pro-voice-memo. I can’t always hold a pen for any length of time because of issues I have with my hands, and so moving my mouth and speaking is less of a strain. Also, notes on bits of junkmail envelopes and old receipts get lost, or if you manage to keep them, then you have to hang onto all that way-too-crinkly paper just going crinkle crinkle crinkle! Eww! When you tuck it into your notebook, it makes it expand all weird and then nothing is fresh anymore. The venerable voice memo, on the other hand, exists within very little physical space. They also pose a significantly lower danger to your person if you’re driving or walking somewhere. Because, yes, you can pull out a whole notebook, put it onto the car’s steering wheel, shift up your knee under the wheel to help steer, and uncap a pen you found in your console with your teeth — but should you? Significantly less trouble! A voice memo is a highly personal thing. These are recordings we likely only intended to re-listen to ourselves, but now they are here, for your enjoyment, too. Thank you for being an A+ member, for listening. I hope you’ll share some of your most out there voice memos in the comments if you want!
Xoxo,
Nicole
P.S. Whenever I get out my tiny Sony voice memo recorder, or start leaving one in my phone, my girlfriend, if she spots me, always shouts “Diane!”
