Voice to Text for Evernote
Evernote is where your ideas, research, and meeting notes live. But typing detailed notes while ideas flow breaks your thinking. Blurt lets you hold a button, speak your thoughts, and release. Your text appears instantly in any Evernote note, web clipper annotation, or project document. No copying, no pasting, no workflow interruption. Just talk and capture.
The Typing Problem
Notes become incomplete because typing can't keep up with thinking
You're in the middle of a breakthrough idea. Connections are forming fast. But your fingers can't type as quickly as your mind works. By the time you finish typing one thought, two more have slipped away. Your notes capture fragments of what could have been complete, connected thinking.
Web clipper annotations stay empty because typing feels tedious
You save dozens of articles with Evernote's web clipper. Each one has insights worth annotating. But adding your own commentary means switching from reading to typing. The context switch kills your reading flow. Most clipped articles sit there with zero annotations, their value never extracted.
Research notes become shallow transcripts instead of deep analysis
You're researching a complex topic, jumping between sources. Insights hit fast. But typing detailed analysis of each source takes so long that you default to copying quotes and bullet points. Your research database is full of what you found but missing why it matters and how pieces connect.
Meeting notes require a second meeting with yourself
During meetings, you're either participating or note-taking. Doing both means neither gets your full attention. You end up with cryptic shorthand that needs translation afterward. The post-meeting note cleanup takes almost as long as the meeting itself.
Project planning documents stall at the outline stage
You start a project note with clear intentions. The structure is obvious in your head. But typing out detailed plans, contingencies, and rationale takes forever. Your Evernote notebooks are full of project skeletons that never got fleshed out because typing was too slow to capture what you knew.
How It Works
Blurt works everywhere in Evernote: notes, web clipper annotations, notebooks, and templates. Anywhere you can type, you can talk.
Click into any Evernote text field
Put your cursor in a note, annotation field, or any text area within Evernote.
Hold your hotkey and talk
Press your chosen key, speak naturally. Blurt adds punctuation automatically.
Release and continue capturing
Your text appears at the cursor. Move to the next thought, next note, next insight.
Real Scenarios
Annotating web clippings while you read
You just clipped an important article to Evernote. While reading, an insight hits you about how this connects to your project. Without leaving the article, hold the button and speak your annotation: 'This pricing strategy mirrors what we discussed for Q2. Compare with the competitor analysis in my strategy notebook. Key difference is their focus on enterprise first.' Your annotation captures the context while it's fresh, without breaking your reading flow.
Capturing meeting notes without missing the conversation
You're in a product planning meeting. The PM just outlined three priorities and assigned owners. Instead of frantically typing, you listen fully. During a natural pause, hold the button and quietly dictate: 'Priority one is mobile app launch by March. Sarah owns. Priority two is API v2, James owns with two engineers. Priority three is customer dashboard, pending headcount.' Complete notes in seconds, back to listening.
Building detailed research notes in real-time
You're researching competitors for a strategy document. As you read through their pricing page, insights form. Hold the button: 'Competitor X uses usage-based pricing with a generous free tier, similar to our proposal. Their enterprise tier starts at five hundred per month, significantly higher than our target. This validates our mid-market positioning.' Rich analysis captured without losing your place in the research.
Expanding project plans from outline to execution-ready
Your project note has bullet points but needs flesh. You know exactly what each bullet means. Hold the button on each and explain it like you're briefing a team member: 'Phase one involves migrating the existing user database to the new schema. This requires coordination with the data team, estimated two weeks. Risk is downtime during migration, mitigation is scheduling for low-traffic weekend.' Your skeleton becomes a real plan.
Daily journaling without the friction
You want to maintain a daily journal in Evernote but typing feels like homework. Open today's note, hold the button, and talk through your day: 'Had the quarterly review with leadership. Reception was positive, especially around the new product metrics. Need to follow up with finance on budget questions. Feeling good about the direction but concerned about the timeline.' Journaling becomes conversation, not chore.
Creating detailed note templates for recurring processes
You're building a template for client onboarding notes. Instead of typing out detailed instructions for each section, hold the button and explain: 'In this section, capture the client's primary business objectives. Ask about their current pain points and what success looks like in six months. Document any compliance or security requirements here.' Templates become comprehensive because creating them is fast.
Quick capture of ideas before they disappear
An idea hits you while working on something else. Opening Evernote, creating a note, and typing it out risks losing the thought. Instead, you have your quick capture note open. Hold the button: 'Blog post idea about the intersection of AI and personal productivity. Angle is that AI tools should reduce cognitive load, not add features. Examples from my own workflow.' Idea captured in ten seconds, back to your original task.
Evernote has built-in voice recording. Here's how Blurt differs.
| Blurt | Evernote Voice Notes | |
|---|---|---|
| Output format | Instant text, ready to edit and search | Audio file that requires playback |
| Searchability | Text is immediately searchable | Audio must be replayed to find content |
| Editing | Edit text immediately after capture | Cannot edit audio recordings |
| Integration | Text flows naturally into existing notes | Audio attachments separate from text |
| Speed | Hold, talk, release. Text appears instantly | Record, stop, then manually transcribe if needed |
| Pricing | $10/month or $99/year (separate from Evernote) | Included in Evernote subscription |
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