Re: text and audio notes

[Aurimas Černius <aurisc4 gmail com>]

Hi,

> My name is Oleksij Rempel and i'm linux kernel developer. I use gnote 
> and really like it. So thank you for your work!
>
> I was working on gnome-sound-recorder: updating to gstreamer-1.0, doing 
> some more cleaning and refactoring work and integrating methadata. Now i 
> come to the stage where i think it should be integrated with some 
> management software...
>
> After some discussion on #gnote with Luc Pionchon, we found that 
> workflow will decide what to do. So here is my:
> mostly i use gnote and recorder for lectures:
> - start recorder and gnote
> - do some notices/anotations, add a timestamp to the text with ctrl+d
> - if lecture is finished stop recording.
> - if needed, do some transcription. Annotations will usually help to 
> find correct place.
>
> Since my version of recorder will create file name based on timestamp 
> and even add ogg tag with exact time. It is relatively easy to find 
> correct place.
> After discussion on irc we got idea to change time representation on 
> recorder. So it should be not stream time: start 00:00:00 - end 
> 01:30:22; but exact time: start 10:20:30 - end 11:10:20. In this this 
> case it will be easy to sync with gnotes annotations.
>
> For now, we did some changes in ogg specification to represent exact 
> DATETIME in ogg - which is needed for voice/note recordings. I also 
> added it to gstreamer-1.0. Probably even more updates will be needed.
>
> It will be good if recorder will be integrated to gnote. Your comments 
> and ideas are welcome.


It comes to what specifically is required for integration. As I
understand, you want to track sound recordings in Gnote notes?
I image the need to have note(s) in Gnote with links to recorded sound
files. It can be done via Gnote D-Bus API, that is sound recorded just
can feed the data to Gnote and this would not require any changes in
Gnote at all.
Your described scenario more looks like a need to start/stop recorder
when in Gnote note and something like a link to recorded file is put
into a note, when done. This can be done by creating Gnote plugin.

I see no reason, why not. We just need to clarify, what we actually want
to achieve.

-- 
Aurimas