Do you have a jackknife that you keep out of sight?
I think I’ve found my windmill for this thread.
Videos, podcasts, conference calls, in-person meetings, handouts: they are all subject to the same limitation: after the fact, it’s not searchable. I can’t file it in a folder and then search it by keyword later. Once it’s done, I’m relying fully on my memory to either remember exactly what was said, or remember exactly which file/binder/email it’s in, and where in that file it is.
My windmill is that anything and everything that can be transcribed into digital text should be.
It’s never going to happen; it takes twice as long to type something out and make sure you have it down accurately than just leaving the listening to the audio and trusting your memory (my memory being something I trust only marginally more than some random untrustworthy person I might name), but it is a goal to strive for.
At least until computers can reliably understand and transcribe human speech, at which point, all of that other stuff should become searchable.
