Okay, so can someone a little less paleolithic than me please give some tech recommendations for keeping an audio diary?
Can't have everything in life, but ideally I wanna be able to:
>Record with a minimum of daily setup/preparation- initial set-up is fine, daily duties would erode my willpower too much
>Store entries indefinitely while taking up a minimum of data space/physical space
>Preferably store in a way that can't be erased, copied, or edited as easily as files on data sticks or external hard drives can
I've never heard of an audio diary. But if you're looking for a way to record your voice, I would recommend looking up Audacity online. It's the recording program I use to do audio with. It's free, it's easy to use, it's free. It will not record in MP3 format without a patch, but the patch is free, too, and takes about thirty seconds to download and install, easy peasy.
If you're using a laptop, it probably has a built in mike, so no worries there.
MP3's don't take up that much space. But you can always get a Dropbox account. For the smallest storage (2 gigs) it's free, accessible from anywhere in the world. If I understand correctly, it is a cloud server set up, which means it's not going to crash anytime soon, and is as safe from hacking as a normal person could reasonably expect.
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