Microsoft InstaNote

One thing about having an operating system created by Microsoft is that there never seems to be a shortage of note-taking apps. Despite the plethora of options already available to Windows Phone owners, chances are you’ll likely still want to take a look at this new o ering from Microsoft’s edgy DIY innovation centre: Microsoft Garage. Yes, on top of note-taking, InstaNote also has an audio recording feature, although this app’s audio capture method is a little di erent to most. Instead of the usual start-and-stop recording, this app has a button that will capture the last 30 seconds of audio and run it through Bing, where all that audio will be transcribed into a succinct set of notes. The idea of having the most important chunks of a lecture, meeting or interview transcribed for you sounds like a dream come true, but admittedly, InstaNote is a little tricky to use at rst and it doesn’t always awlessly transcribe notes. That said, in the worst-case scenario, you still have all the audio snippets of the most important info.