There are times when I'd prefer to talk out ideas for my blog, rather than having to sit at a keyboard. Somehow, trying to compose, spell check, watch my grammar, and all the rest of it doesn't play well with my being creative.
I've found that it's just less stressful if I can verbalize my thoughts - and it's certainly faster! It turns out I have an old version of Dragon Naturally Speaking on my computer, and that I can use it to take my spoken ideas and put them in a Word document, into Notepad, or even directly into my WordPress editor.
What's more, that capability is built into Windows 7, and probably into other versions of Windows as well. Those with Macs may be able to use Dictation to pull off the same trick. Go to the Apple menu, System Preferences, then from the View menu, choose Dictation & Speech to view Dictation preferences. Windows speech recognition works with English, French, Spanish, German, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese, according to http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/set-speech-recognition#1TC=windows-7
I would have included some video or screenshots from Sandi's Mac, but she's working on a project, so I eased off. You get the idea though - Macs can make the magic happen too!
Take a few minutes out of your busy schedule to see if your computer can take notes for you, and save yourself the hassle and headache of typing out everything!
Dennis