A voice notebook for the walk, the train and the queue. Dictate a thought, say what kind it is, and find it waiting at your desk — divided, attributed and ready to file into the project it belongs to.
$49.99 a year or $4.99 a month, on iPhone and Android. It includes syncing your notes to VC Writer on your desktop.
Notes is in review with Apple and Google. The moment it is on both stores the links appear here — and if you already subscribe, it runs in this browser today.
Built for the half hour when you are nowhere near the desk.
Say “Project Jinn, character, Tom” and it beeps and starts a note. Say “dictate done” and it files itself and waits for the next one. Every command is prefixed, so a note can contain the words done, idea, character and project freely.
Character, plot point, idea, theme, arc, dialogue, a scene, a chapter — the words follow the project’s own format, so a screenplay hears Scene and Beat where a textbook hears Section and Subsection.
Say a group once — “dictate group casting” — and it sticks until you change it. Six thoughts under one heading, and the desk opens on them grouped rather than in one pile.
Every note is written to the phone before it is sent, and sent one at a time as it closes. Out of range, they wait — written down, visible, and gone the moment there is a bar of signal.
Nothing is filed into your manuscript by a phone. At the desk each note is a card you drag into a folder, a character, the Outliner or the Story Sculptor — or correct on the way past.
Two tones told apart by direction, not pitch, because a walk is not a quiet room — and Read it back speaks the note exactly as it stands before you let it go.
The app on every phone you own, and the syncing that carries a note from the pavement to the project.
It is bought in the app, through the App Store or Google Play, and managed there — $49.99 a year or $4.99 a month. VC Writer itself is a separate, one-off purchase and is not affected by this: the desktop application keeps working offline, with or without a Notes subscription.
And if a subscription ever ends, nothing you have already captured is touched. Every note you have sent stays readable, and anything already filed into a project is part of the project. What stops is sending new ones.