OK. No problem. We still have something that "do the job" and easy to use.
Thanks a lot.
Just one thing : is it possible to have a button on the main toolbar in order to start the record and a mouse menu (right click) for that too ?
I'm going to test on Kubuntu...
Is it possible to have [space bar] [R] like way of starting the record and then [space bar] to end the record ? The workflow would be more easy...
I tested your plugin under Kubuntu 22.04 with Plasma and KDE and under JOPLIN 3.3.4
It works well. I had one freezing one time but probably not linked to your plugin. So I continue to test and I will try on a more recent version of Kubuntu.
Can you confirme that's it's not possible to find your plugin here:
I finally found out how to publish to the joplin plugin repos, joplin-folder-mapping/GENERATOR_DOC.md at master · yimisunrise/joplin-folder-mapping · GitHub this doesn't seem to be mentioned anywhere in the official docs
Anyway I followed those steps, so in theory the plugin should appear in that menu in a few hours
For the other features you asked, I'll see what I can do
The plugin does indeed appear now in the plugins menu.
I pushed version 1.5.0 which have short cuts in the toolbar and context menu,
for the keyboard shortcuts, the joplin api doesnt seem to like shortctus other then ctrl/alt + key, so i kept it the same, ctrl+alt+r to start, enter to stop, I think its not that bad, I don't think users will be spamming this anyway, so a more comfortable shortcut is not really needed here.
Someone needs to double-check if Backup plugin actually preserves these types of recordings.
Recently it was a big bummer for me to see that it doesn't preserve all file formats - specifically had problems with Excalidraw plugin that does something like JSON.
If somebody wants to use this plugin as thought-recording tool - I personally find other approach significantly better.
I have this open-source tool installed called Whispering that I easily integrated with OpenAI voice-recognition model.
So I just do this:
Otherwise I think it's really great plugin, especially for those who care about melody content of the recording.
For now I tested export-import into .jex format (from Windows to Kubuntu) and it works fine (.mp3, .wav, .weba)
Thank you for this original protocol of use of Whispering and ChatGPT. It's a "dictation" !?
For me "dictation" and "audio records" are really two different things. I use dictations since 1996 and to be honest I'm still need audio recording for other uses. I need both !
Glad Backup plugin is working.
Yep, I got you, audio recordings have it's own use cases and this plugin is excellent for this.
I just wanted to guide the viewers of this topic to a different kind of approach if their use case is dictation instead of the audio recordings.
I tried to update the plugin from 1.4 to 1.5 using the update button
Is it the portable version or the plugin ?
Because it's a portable version of Joplin I need to "shutdown" myself every joplin process.
Fin de tâche = end of process
Nothing change (even restarting windows) =>
Before (1.1 => 1.2 => 1.3 => 1.4) I was doing the same protocol with one diffence : the installation of the plugin was manually with "open from file". And it worked.
I don't use windows but I don't think this is a plugin issue, updating is handled by the app itself, for a workaround I imagine removing the plugin then installing should work
[ Breaking news : now with Joplin 3.3.5 (new version !!!) ]
Your plugin, the 1.5 : WOW !!!
The micro in the toolbar:
The micro with right click:
And above all... we can record from the RTE editor in viewer mode... So great and more simple... The new audio file is automatically added at the begining of the note (we don't need to go back to the RTE editing mode in order to be able to activate the recording).
GREAT JOB !!!
To be fixed :
Little bug again : the [ENTER] doesn't work to stop the record
Not perfect behaviour when switching between markdown and RTE editor
I do a record
I do a second record
I switch to RTE : it doesn't look nice: the 2 records are on the same line
I return to markdown and I do a third record
Another possible function to add.
When we start reading an audio file it doesn't stop until the end (except if we click again in his play button). It happen even if we start another audio file. This situation allows us to ear numerous audio files at the same time (audio mix). Sometime it's interesting, sometime it isn't. It depends of our workflow at one moment.
It would be cool to have a checkbox option in order to choose wich behaviour we wants : To start reading a new audio file mute all others or mute nothing.
Same idea when we go from a note to another... Sometime we appreciate that the sound continue to be ear and sometime not.
Weird I can't reproduce these issues on linux
This might be out of scope for this plugin, it may also need actual joplin support natively or via apis
In fact for me it's the same thing under Linux (Kubuntu) and Windows (11). I did the test again today....
the [ENTER] key doesn't work to stop the record
if I record from viewer and the switch to the RTE editor all the records are in line
I touch nothing and do many records : every record is under the previous
if I start some records on the viewer (5 for example), go to RTE editor and go back to viewer : the order of records restart from the begining for example (sometimes the behaviour is eratic.
