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Wednesday, 06 January 2010 |
I was recently chatting with someone and we got to talking about different audio players and MP3 devices. Both of us commented on how much we used our players for listening to podcasts and audio books. There’s something seriously missing from the mainstream players we discussed. When you’re listening to a long podcast or an audiobook, there are times when something is mentioned that you’d like to make a mental note of and come back to it later. The problem with mental notes is we forget them before we can write them down.
If audio players had the functionality of an audio highlighting tool, you could quickly tag a position in the playback and come back to it later for review. The simple execution would be to be able to press a button on the device to bookmark and highlight an area. The more useful feature might be a voice-enabled option that would let you say something like “highlight 30 seconds”. The device would then mark a 30 second block at that point.
Later when you’re able, you can then return to this highlighted portions and make notes. When the device is connected to the management software, being able to see a list of your bookmarks and then add your own notes to those tags, that would be super useful don’t you think?
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