An alarm clock app that plays last night's voice recording

#ThingsIwantToExist: An app that lets me easily record myself talking and have that be my alarmclock sound the next day.

Malcolm Ocean 🏴‍☠️ @Malcolm_Ocean · Aug 31, 2019

@aaronzlewis @futureme I've experimented with a very short-timescale "talk out loud to your future self" thing in a different context: before bed, record a 2min voice memo & set as alarm for the next morning. I'd love to have an app that streamlines this too!

Aug 31, 2019

Issues with using separate voice-recorder & alarm clock apps: • too many steps to set it • end up with a bunch of random little files • needs amplifying (often talking quietly because housemates sleeping, but alarm needs to be loud) • forget to record, get yesterday's instead

So the solution would: • be basically one step: record (alarm timing settings are separate) • keep track of files by date • amplify audio to ensure it's loud enough to wake you & be understood • allow setting a default track for if you don't record • remind you each eve

Ideal further options: • play a song/bell before/after the voice part • record for friend/partner instead • if you don't set, it would use text-to-speech to tell you the date & time & stuff-on-your-calendar & complice.co intentions-for-the-day

Oooh, and extending the friend feature further you could also connect it with a podcasty concept and allow people to broadcast a daily wake-up track. eg "Hi Nerdfighters, it's Saturday August 31. Some of you are probably heading back to school very soon. What are you most..."

I legit think that a savvy person with adequate code/design skills could make a business out of this. 🤑 I'll be your first customer! (Unless it's iOS-only or iOS-first)

Realized that I didn't actually give my WHY in this thread. Why do I want this? I've often found each day to be a climb from disoriented into oriented into excited into stoked, and then somehow I wake up disoriented again every time. I want to be able to create more continuity.

Like I'm laying in bed thinking "oh man there's all these things I'm excited to do, but I have to sleep." and then when I wake up I'm like "ugh I don't feel like doing anything" and the idea was that if I woke up to the sound of night-before me being stoked... it'd jumpstart me.

As implied above, I tested this a little bit using a voice memos app and manually setting the track as an alarm, but as I said, it was a bit too inconvenient and inaudible. But it seemed promising and so I'd love to have a better system.