Never Lose a Voice Note Again

The short answer: press Ctrl+H to open History, search through all past transcriptions by date or content, click any note to view or copy text, and track your productivity with statistics showing total notes, words transcribed, and daily usage streaks.

Transcribing 20-30 voice notes daily produces valuable content that disappears unless you save it manually. Searching through Slack or email to find "that thing I dictated last Tuesday" wastes 5-10 minutes per search.

1. Press Ctrl+H (or click History in AICHE) to open the History panel.

2. View all transcriptions sorted by date (newest first) with timestamps and word counts.
3. Use the search box to find notes by content. Type keywords and History filters instantly.
4. Click any note to view full text, copy to clipboard, or delete permanently.
5. Switch to Statistics tab to see total voice notes created, words transcribed, and current usage streak.
6. History stores transcriptions locally with AES-256 encryption. Your notes never leave your device.

Heads-up: History stores everything unless you manually delete it. If you dictate sensitive information (client names, financial data, passwords), review and delete those notes after use. There's no automatic cleanup.

The pro-tip: History search works across all text, not just titles. Search for project names, people, or topics to instantly find related notes from weeks ago. Faster than searching email or Slack archives.

Using Search Effectively

History search operates on the full text of every transcription, not just timestamps or metadata. Type any keyword or phrase into the search box and results filter instantly - no waiting for indexing or server queries because everything is stored locally.

Search by topic. Looking for everything you said about a specific project? Search the project name. Every dictation mentioning it appears in chronological order, giving you a complete spoken record of your thoughts on that topic.

Search by person. Type a colleague's name to find every voice note that references them - meeting notes, action items, feedback you dictated after a conversation.

Search by date. The History panel sorts by date, so scrolling finds recent notes quickly. For older content, combine keyword search with visual scanning of timestamps.

Partial matching. Search finds partial words, so "deploy" matches "deployment," "deploying," and "deployed." This catches variations in how you spoke about the same topic across different sessions.

What Statistics Track

The Statistics tab provides a dashboard of your voice dictation patterns:

Total notes. Lifetime count of all transcriptions created through AICHE. This number only goes up - deleted notes are removed from History but the count preserves your total usage.

Words transcribed. Cumulative word count across all dictations. A useful measure of how much typing you've replaced with voice - 50,000 words transcribed represents roughly 25-30 hours of typing saved.

Current streak. Consecutive days you've used AICHE for at least one dictation. Streaks motivate consistent usage, and consistent usage builds the muscle memory that makes voice dictation feel natural.

Daily average. Words transcribed per active day, helping you understand your typical usage pattern. Most active users average 500-2,000 words per day.

History as a Personal Knowledge Base

Over weeks and months of dictation, History becomes an unexpectedly valuable archive. Ideas you captured while walking, decisions you explained to colleagues, problems you talked through - all searchable and timestamped.

Unlike chat logs or email, voice notes in History capture your unfiltered thinking. The way you describe a problem in a spontaneous voice note often contains insights that get lost when you formalize the same thought into a typed message. History preserves that raw thinking.

Meeting Follow-ups

After each meeting, dictate a 30-second summary of key decisions and action items. Over a quarter, you build a searchable archive of every meeting outcome. When someone asks "didn't we decide X in January?" you search History and have the answer in seconds.

Decision Logs

When you make a technical or business decision, dictate a quick note explaining your reasoning. Three months later, when someone questions the decision, you search History and recall exactly why you chose that path - including context you'd have forgotten.

Idea Capture

Ideas that strike during walks, commutes, or conversations are the most perishable. A 10-second voice note captures them instantly. History search lets you revisit these ideas weeks later when they become relevant to a new project.

Privacy and Storage

All History data is stored locally on your device in an AES-256 encrypted SQLite database. Your transcriptions never leave your machine, never sync to a cloud service, and are never used for AI training. This makes History safe for sensitive content like client discussions, financial planning, or personal notes.

Storage is lightweight - text consumes far less space than audio. A year of heavy usage (2,000 notes, 500,000+ words) typically uses under 50 MB of disk space.

Result: you dictate 40 meeting notes over two weeks. When your manager asks "what did the client say about timeline?" you search History for "timeline," find the relevant note in 3 seconds, and have the exact quote ready.

Do this now: press Ctrl+H, browse your transcription history, search for a keyword from a recent note, and check your statistics to see how many words you've transcribed.