Hey, thanks for the idea!
Yes, as far as I recall, Google Keep sounds like a reasonable way to go.
The only thing that bothers me is that it's Big Tech, no privacy, and yada-yada. At the end of the day, it was Google Keep from which I moved to Joplin, so who am I to go back?
Anyway, I'm abandoning this topic because I found an amazing open-source task management tool called Vikunja.
I think having a voice-to-text shortcut dispatched from my phone directly to Vikunja’s task inbox over API would be much better.
Joplin has TODO capabilities, but it's obviously not designed as a task management tool. For me, as for many others, Joplin is a documentation tool that helps maintain well-structured ideas or even less structured pieces of ideas that are intended to evolve into a bigger picture.
Definitely not well suited for some streams of thought, or even for something simple like keeping track of where I parked my car, as mentioned by previous commenters.
With Vikunja as my task management tool, I can:
- Be reminded about something I dictated to my phone (or watch xD) automatically
- Leave it for my morning task review
- Remind myself to add/adjust a thought in a given Joplin note
- Automatically format and enhance the dictated thought using AI
And when the day comes and a task evolves into a bigger idea that needs proper documentation—that’s when Joplin comes into play.
There are no official integrations between these two projects, but at least I can reference Joplin notes in Vikunja tasks via links and vice versa.
But honestly, I feel like I'm becoming evangelical about this approach and will pray until a more tightly integrated solution between Vikunja and Joplin emerges—one that will show the world the power of privacy-oriented open source.
P.S. Finally imeplemented recording voice notes on IPhone that get pushed to Vikunja task manager even if you’re offline at the moment.
here is the topic explaining how to implement similar workflow.
Really loving it.