One thing occurred to me when I began using the Auto Memo Recorder app, which provides a utility I’ve long looked for, which is the seemingly simple — but for a long time inaccessible — ability to easily record voice memos while driving, all without touching one’s phone. (Just to be more specific: I also mean without using voice commands, which I still find more of a hassle than they’re worth much of the time.)
The newly released Auto Memo Recorder app works through Apple CarPlay, which, like Android Auto, puts elements of a given app — or a combination of apps — on the touchscreen of one’s car. In the first version of Auto Memo Recorder that I tried, and I believe it was the very first version of the app, the button to record audio appeared in the upper right hand corner of the car’s touchscreen. Since I live in the United States, that was about as far away from the steering wheel as it could get. Not so far as to be a hassle, but far enough to be easily improved upon.
I was already corresponding at the time with the app’s creator, and when I began writing a note about the position of the button, I noticed that his email address had a .uk suffix, meaning he likely lived in the UK, and likely, therefore, had set the button placement where it was for the same reason I wanted it on the opposite side. He promptly updated the app, which now has the “Swap CarPlay Layout” option shown here:
Check out the app at the App Store.
