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iOS 18 Rumor: Notes App to Offer New Voice Memos and Math Features
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With every major improvement, waiting only 12 months between each update, I am very happy Apple is slowly catching up to where many notes app were 10-15 years ago. A good day to be an Apple user.
I wish I could disable notes underlining a sequence of numbers with spaces as a phone number.
I hope for the possibility of add/subtract numbers in a table in Notes.
A simpler/smaller version of Excel.
A simpler/smaller version of Excel.
Google's Pixel phones comes with a Recorder app that does this and the transcription is quite impressive. When I had a Pixel I used it a few times for meetings and the transcription was about 99% accurate. It even breaks down different speakers so if you are recording a meeting or something it would separate each speaker. So yes it would be awesome if Apple added accurate transcribing of voice recordings.
Yawn. Used to scour these forums with excitement reading about cool new features Apple was working on. Nowdays it's just the same boring miniscule things 99% of population will not ever bother to use.
Same, but I really hope transcription improves. Some of the third-party apps I've tried have models that absolutely blow iOS-native transcription away. My ideal would be to open Notes, make a recording, and have a high quality transcript right there.
It would be interesting if this was an example of voice recognition AI recording notes to a revised calculator process that could handle word problems turned into math.
If the level of trust in your organization/team is such that you find it necessary to record and transcribe meetings, then it has a level of toxicity that is harmful to your health and wellbeing. Get out now.
If you are recording and transcribing meetings to provide gotchas to use against your colleagues, then you are part of the problem.
Using transcription to record your own thoughts is fine, but I cannot think of a benign, team building/trust building reason to record and transcribe a meeting.
If you are recording and transcribing meetings to provide gotchas to use against your colleagues, then you are part of the problem.
Using transcription to record your own thoughts is fine, but I cannot think of a benign, team building/trust building reason to record and transcribe a meeting.
Eh, how about the most logical use case of not having to take notes in the meeting, to provide a better summary afterwards?
Others said this already in the thread, but for me the use case of adding voice memos (have never felt the need of doing any, when would I listen back to them?) to Notes would not be anything I would ever use – unless it comes with a transcript function. Then I think I would be all over it. Fingers crossed.
This would be interesting and they can pretend it's using AI features. The podcast app does this so maybe they can easily port it over to the Voice Memos. Easier to search through transcribed voice memos.
I switch between using Bear and Notes. More recently decided to stick with Notes as it's free, but I adore how well designed Bear is. Typography is nicer and I like using Markdown to make them portable if I want to export.
I don’t trust Apple to redesign any app right now. Look at the mess they made of System Preferences. Are they going to add a sidebar?
Also kinda funny they’re redesigning the calculator for Mac but there still isn’t a calculator for iOS. They should make one with a floating window style like the keyboard
Also kinda funny they’re redesigning the calculator for Mac but there still isn’t a calculator for iOS. They should make one with a floating window style like the keyboard
Notes is my main notes taking app (and probably my most used app across all my devices), but I hear you on Bear and I hear you on markdown. Would love to see proper support for markdown added to Notes.
Bear seems fantastic, but am really trying to stay away from subscriptions. If there was a one time purchase offer with Bear, I would like to try it out properly.
IOS always had a calculator, even a scientific mode, it's iPadOS that doesn't come with calculator app. I would suggest pCalc Lite (free) if don't have a good one yet on your iPad.
Most don't know about Spotlight being used as a calculator also via scripting, and its along that thought that I think this iOS 18 article and mention of Mac 15 calculator is based on.
see
Your iPad Has a Hidden Built-in Calculator You're Not Using — Here's How to Unlock It
There is no iPad version of Apple's Calculator app, so you won't find it on your Home Screen, in your App Library, or as a shortcut in the Control Center. But that doesn't mean your iPad doesn't have an official calculator.
ipados.gadgethacks.com
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Yes both Sunday and Monday this week were a lot worse news wise, hardly anything those two days recently.
iOS 18 to introduce new Notes app features including recordings and calculations
Exclusive: One of Apple's most inconspicuously popular apps, Notes, is bound to become even more powerful when the company unveils its next generation operating systems in June, AppleInsider has learned.
appleinsider.com
It will be like Calca:
Calca
Calca is a powerful symbolic calculator that gives you instant answers as you type. It solves equations and simplifies complex expressions - it's a computer algebra system in your pocket! It's also a rich Markdown text editor so that you can explain your ideas alongside your calculations...
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