A field guide to small, sharp tools.
Notes on NoisyNo and DashLog — how to actually use them, and the honest edges: what runs offline, what needs no account, and where your data ends up. Not marketing copy. The how, and its limits.
Starting with the most recent guide.
How to remove background noise from a voice memo (iPhone & Android)
Voice memos get recorded in cafes, cars, and lecture halls — the worst rooms you own. How to strip the steady noise out of an M4A or WAV memo on the phone itself, why memos come out noisier than you expect, and what a cleaner memo buys you at transcription time.
How to remove background noise from a meeting recording
Clean up a Zoom, Teams, or in-person meeting on your phone instead of uploading confidential audio to a website — a five-step walkthrough, the noise it can and can't remove, and how cleaner audio makes for better transcripts.
How to remove noise from a recording without uploading it
Clean up meeting, lecture, interview, and video audio inside your phone instead of a cloud editor — a five-step walkthrough with real screens, plus exactly where NoisyNo's processing and privacy begin and end.
How each app works and where data goes.
NoisyNo
Voice noise removal, on-device processing, and cleaning up audio with no file uploads.
DashLog
Guides on drive logging, account-free GPS logs, and local-only storage are coming to the Journal soon.