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writing and memory
I'm reading torah tonight (unusual) and tomorrow morning (not unusual). Part of the latter package is giving a short d'var torah (torah commentary), so for the last few days I kicked some ideas around in my brain and last night I wrote a draft. (I'm still on my written-text kick rather than speaking from notes.)
This morning in the shower I made a structural change, jetisoning about a third of it. During the morning commute I composed the new part and figured out the transitions. I drive to work, so this was (obviously, I hope) a mental exercise. When I got to work I spent five minutes writing down the revisions.
For all that I seem to have the mental buffer space for this sort of exercise, and for all that I'm told this is unusual, I still sometimes marvel at my inability to remember less-complex information.
(I do sometimes think about getting a PDA so I can record things easily while not at my computer, though I note that that wouldn't have made a differnece in this particular case.)
This morning in the shower I made a structural change, jetisoning about a third of it. During the morning commute I composed the new part and figured out the transitions. I drive to work, so this was (obviously, I hope) a mental exercise. When I got to work I spent five minutes writing down the revisions.
For all that I seem to have the mental buffer space for this sort of exercise, and for all that I'm told this is unusual, I still sometimes marvel at my inability to remember less-complex information.
(I do sometimes think about getting a PDA so I can record things easily while not at my computer, though I note that that wouldn't have made a differnece in this particular case.)
state of transcription? horrid.
The problem, I suspect, is that -good- speech recognition on a device with a crappy mic and limited processing speed takes long enough (and uses enough power) to make companies wary of porting their software. Plus, frankly, not many people would be willing to pay for a $200 software package for their $200 PDA even if it worked well.