Braintoss

Great app but the dictation transcription is horrendous! If you’re using iOS you’re better off selecting note then using the the keyboard mic for dictation & transcription instead of the in-app dictation & transcription unless you just want to record your voice (and don’t care what the transcription says cuz believe me, it won’t even be close to what you dictated). But for my purposes I just want the text I don’t really need to send myself the audio. Don’t get me wrong though. I love the app and I use it all the time to dump my brain like David Allen recommends for GTD. I trust it to send my reminders directly to Evernote for sorting later so I can get stuff off my mind. Just don’t rely on the app’s translation technology cuz you’ll be quite disappointed!

The simplicity and functionality of this app is easily 5 stars and top of the store. This app fills the need that so many of us mistakenly grab far more complicated apps, but usually come back to braintoss for sheer simplicity and not having to manage yet another inbox. My one complaint is that the user experience on new devices is poor. I love that they have Apple Watch integration but the apps UI is still using low res iPhone5 assets. Since there is no high res assets the app looks and feels kludgy on new phones. The keyboard is even differently sized and looking in this app which really throws me off when typing on the blurry letterboxed interface running on my iPhone Xs I find it locks up a lot while I am typing longer notes enough to need to wait for it to catch up a sentence or two to make sure I’ve not gone off the rails and am typing something I won’t be able to decipher later.

Without a doubt, this is one of the most useful apps that I’ve purchased. It completely streamlines the process of sending myself notes and reminders, sparing me the tedious process of opening an email, putting in my email address, sometimes attaching a photo, and then sending—a process that has sometimes killed the creative thought I was trying to record. Also being able to send a webpage to myself with just a few quick taps instead of the above process is just awesome!

The one inbox I can always count on myself checking is my email inbox. So dumping my ideas there for proper sorting later has helped my productivity greatly! I downloaded as per the recommendation of David Allen. One suggestion, though. Please create a sidebar widget or third party integration with Siri! That would make it perfect!

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I’ve used this app in my GTD workflow for years. With the latest iPhone upgrades and a new iPhone XS, the app gets stuck on the in the voice recording screen. Swiping up to get out of it does nothing. A big strength of this app was its ease of entry and ease of exit to make collection quick and painless. That’s no longer the case. So, I’m off to find another “record and send” app. I hope there is one as good as Braintoss used to be.