Re: Disemvowelment Mode?

["Paul W. Rankin" <hello@paulwrankin.com>]

On Tue, May 14 2019, Grant Rettke wrote:

> The issue I'm trying to manage here my mental stamina. I call that my 
> mental budget. For example if I'm going to dictate a 2h lecture then I 
> have a budget of 100 Euros

> My goal is to minimize spending of my mental budget.

I used to work as a journalist, needing to transcribe interviews, and 
now I still need to transcribe TV postproduction scripts. Everyone is 
different, but I found that the mental stamina is taxed not by the speed 
of the recording/typing but by the sense that you don't control the 
flow, i.e. when you're listening and typing simultaneously, you have a 
constant requirement to "keep up" with the recording.

I found it much easier to separate these tasks. So you listen to a 
sentence or two, pause, type what you heard, repeat. This way you retain 
a sense of control of your flow; each task is much easier because you 
focus on listening, then focus on typing accurately.

You'll likely even find you get through a recording much faster because 
you can speed up the playback to ~200% and still have an accurate 
listening comprehension of what is being said.

I don't think spending your time creating what will likely be a complex 
elisp program is going to be in your best interests.

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