Any recommendations for a very small, waterproof (at least resistant) voice recorder? Something I could wear as a pendant? I just want something I can use to record the random things I think of that I'd like to follow up on but never remember longer than 2 minutes. They often come up in the shower, of course, so it would be nice to be able to have it there, or at least very close where falling into water would be a risk. My phone is water resistant but I don't want to have to carry that into the shower or everywhere I go in the house, wake it up, unlock it and open an app just to record a few words.
I just need something where I can touch a button, record 15 seconds of speech and then let it go, and later plug it into my computer to pull the files off, just five or ten messages, or even if it requires a dedicated app instead of being a filesystem I can read, that would be fine. It doesn't really need an audio jack to be able to listen to them directly, no speaker. It doesn't need huge amounts of storage and the ability to act as an MP3 player, or a month of battery life, or voice activation, or the greatest quality audio. Just the digital equivalent of scribbling a note to myself, very quickly before I can forget, and not having to take up a lot of space in a pocket. (Even the time it might take to open an app on my phone, or dry off enough to reach out of the shower to write a note on paper is sometimes longer than I can remember these things, because of the concentration of the steps to get to that point.)
There are a lot of recorders on Amazon, but none of them are water resistant that I can find, and there aren't really a large number of them that are small enough to be worn as a pendant without it being like "old lady wearing her jewelry to church" size. And a lot of them are heart-shaped which is not something I want for a utility device. They almost all are larger than they would need to be if they only met my requirements, as they have headphone jacks and batteries that can last a month or multiple months, with hundreds of hours of high-quality recording capacity. Often they're magnetic. (Many of them allude to secretly recording meetings, or outright state it.) Something the width of a large coin would be okay with me, if it's not half an inch thick to hold a huge battery. And I'm not necessarily trying to go ultra-cheap, though obviously I don't want to pay double the price for one that has exactly the same features as a cheaper one, but I would rather not pay a lot for features I don't need. I accept I may HAVE to pay for things like a headphone jack or large storage capacity, but really the smallest size and water resistance is what I really am having trouble with.
I just need something where I can touch a button, record 15 seconds of speech and then let it go, and later plug it into my computer to pull the files off, just five or ten messages, or even if it requires a dedicated app instead of being a filesystem I can read, that would be fine. It doesn't really need an audio jack to be able to listen to them directly, no speaker. It doesn't need huge amounts of storage and the ability to act as an MP3 player, or a month of battery life, or voice activation, or the greatest quality audio. Just the digital equivalent of scribbling a note to myself, very quickly before I can forget, and not having to take up a lot of space in a pocket. (Even the time it might take to open an app on my phone, or dry off enough to reach out of the shower to write a note on paper is sometimes longer than I can remember these things, because of the concentration of the steps to get to that point.)
There are a lot of recorders on Amazon, but none of them are water resistant that I can find, and there aren't really a large number of them that are small enough to be worn as a pendant without it being like "old lady wearing her jewelry to church" size. And a lot of them are heart-shaped which is not something I want for a utility device. They almost all are larger than they would need to be if they only met my requirements, as they have headphone jacks and batteries that can last a month or multiple months, with hundreds of hours of high-quality recording capacity. Often they're magnetic. (Many of them allude to secretly recording meetings, or outright state it.) Something the width of a large coin would be okay with me, if it's not half an inch thick to hold a huge battery. And I'm not necessarily trying to go ultra-cheap, though obviously I don't want to pay double the price for one that has exactly the same features as a cheaper one, but I would rather not pay a lot for features I don't need. I accept I may HAVE to pay for things like a headphone jack or large storage capacity, but really the smallest size and water resistance is what I really am having trouble with.
