TINYVOXUSERGUIDE

WELCOME TO THE TINYVOX AUDIO MESSENGER APP!

SPREAD THE WORD ;)

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS1) features: the various parts of TINYVOX

2) basics: what can you do with TINYVOX?

3) catch ideas! why audio is the answer

4) tips and tricks

5) built for students

6) what do you think?

1) FEATURES

Things you'll see in TINYVOX

To record anything, just hit the big red RECORD button on the main taping screen.

Press PAUSE to pause, and STOP for options.

THE MAIN TAPING SCREEN

old-school tape deck, looks fantastic, lets you tape without needing to log in

PAUSE BUTTON

Conveniently suspend taping to catch your breath, do something else, or edit out boring parts in real time.

TYPE TEXT BUTTON

While you're taping you can type up your own notes, which will get posted wherever you share the tape.

THE TAPE LABEL

The tape label is a Twitter prompt. Send messages by including a @username in the tape label.

POST TO YOUTUBE WITH A PICTURE

Either select from your Camera Roll or take a new picture (iOS only)

MICROPHONE BUTTON IN KEYBOARD (4S ONLY)

touch to speak into the Type text or tape label fields and have Siri convert your voice to text

LEVEL METER:

Use the Edutige mic if your audio source is too quiet; avoid clipping

THESTOP MENU

Touch STOP to play or share a tape just made; keep taping more; delete immediately; go to Tapes; start new tape fast

FRONT SCREEN SHARING ICONS (IOS ONLY):

Instant sharing user flow makes it fast to start a new tape!

TIMER

Shows how long your current tape is. For best results, make a new tape if you're past ten minutes.

EMAIL TOOLS:

• Email to Self: Enter your email ONCE, and TINYVOX will remember where to send you MP3s. 100% private - the best audio journal ever.

• Email a Friend: your recipients get an MP3, you get a return receipt with their email & the MP3 too! (meet people)

• Email a Contact: save your friends in your Contacts so you can message them fast. Tip: save your Evernote email to your Contacts.

POST TO TWITTER:

use any account, @-messages, DMs. Twitter voicemail! enter any @username in the tape label.

PLAY/SHARE SCREEN:

post simultaneously to Facebook News Feed, Twitter, Tumblr, Soundcloud.

Returns a URL that you can copy anywhere!

TRIM TAPE TOOL (P/S SCREEN):

Cut your tape down to the core essential part before posting.

Duplicate a tape easily with Make a New Tape tool

(iOS only)

ENTER TINYVOX URL'S ANYWHERE IN FACEBOOK

Comments, Messages, Pages, Groups and Chat - cute tape icon appears to entice your friends to listen!

TIP: GOT A YOUTUBE ACCOUNT?

Set it up to automatically post to Facebook in your YouTube Settings (on their website). Then when you post to YouTube in Public mode, your Facebook friends can play your voice+pic video INLINE without leaving Facebook.com.

TAPES SCREEN

a list of your tapes in chronological order.

SEARCH

find tapes that contain a given text string - searches the Type text of all tapes too - great for finding old ideas

FAVORITES (STARRED)

to keep track of important tapes, or tapes you need to listen to or type up again later

SWIPE TO DELETE

if you swipe a tape right in the Tapes screen,

a Delete button pops up if you want to delete it

STREAM

Listen to tapes being posted to Twitter from all over the world in real time!

TURN YOUR TWITTER INTO A RADIO STATION.

Interview anyone and post to your Twitter in seconds.

An amazing way to entertain your followers.

Why be limited to 140 characters?

There is SO MUCH TO SAY and Twitter is a good place to EXPRESS YOURSELF – try tinyvox twitter!

 

TINYVOX LANDING PAGE SHARING OPTIONS

listeners can share to Pinterest, Facebook, G+, Twitter, Facebook; Facebook Comments are on the page too

Mobile users get an optimized landing page with fewer links.

Your audio could be shared widely so be cautious about what you choose to post to tinyvox.

 

REVIEWING YOUR TAPES LATER

email to self often

type up on another screen or in the Type text field in the Play/Share screen

listen anytime!

 

 

KEEP AN AUDIO JOURNAL

Audio memories and idea logs can yield all kinds of fun and profit in the future.

Send messages to your future self.

SETTINGS

audio quality,

email-as-MP3,

default twitter for the Play/Share screen

ERASE TOOL

You can erase a tape off of our server instantly if you didn’t mean to post it.

 

This link can be found in the Help section.

2. BASICSThis app lets you tape, email & broadcast ideas easily, creating "tapes", which are audio messages.

 

 

TWITTER VOICEMAIL

Enter their @username in the TAPE LABEL and tweet it.

All audio posted to the TINYVOX server is deleted after 7 days to save disk space and protect privacy

All MP3s sent from TINYVOX as email attachments are 100% private and permanent.

When you send an email of a tape to someone, you'll get a copy of the tape too as a Return Receipt.

All emails sent from TINYVOX feature a date and time stamp and a return address so your recipients can reply to you directly.

 

To get a URL fast, tweet it from the Main Screen and hit Cancel when you see the Twitter prompt. Or hit Share without picking an icon from the Play/Share screen.

You can tape up to 20 minutes and easily share - longer tape, longer upload time. You knew that.

• To skip the Stop Menu, touch the

SHARE button to go

directly to Play/Share.

 

• On the Play/Share screen, you aren't done until you hit the big blue Share! button at the bottom. This starts the upload dialog box before returning the URL.

• Any tape on our server is only semi-private. Your recipients can share them and Google sees them.

For total privacy, use MP3 attachment.

You can tape up to 20 minutes with no problem uploading. Longer tapes may choke when being uploaded, so Make a New Tape from the Stop Menu after every ten minutes for best results.

TINYVOX works by sending your audio up to our server, and then posting it out to social networks or email. If public, you get a URL – anyone who clicks on it anywhere can hear. Use good judgement when sharing.

 

TYPE THE URL ANYWHERE TO MAKE THE WEB TALK.

The landing page audio autoplays: the instant anyone clicks your TINYVOX URL, they'll hear you instantly!

From the Landing Page you can embed the tape in Basecamp or Wordpress, share the tape further, and add comments.

Try the Facebook Like and Send buttons on the Landing page! Amazing.

 

For faster uploads, try switching to standard quality audio in the Settings

The iPhone 4S microphone is amazing and features miraculous compression even at loud events.

 

3) CATCH IDEAS!

TINYVOX is the fastest app for catching ideas.

 

TINYVOX puts audio first for taking notes, because it's convenient to just hit RECORD and type along with the speaker.

 

You can review audio while doing other things, unlike video or deciphering scribbled notes you took during class or the meeting.

 

Walk around your apartment thinking out loud. You'll be amazed with what you'll think up - unleash your second brain.

If you're at a meeting or class or concert, why hold up your phone to make a video when all you need is the audio?

Taping is more accurate than typing or scribbling. Why forget anything ever again?

 

Keep TINYVOX atop your home screen to catch spontaneous moments for priceless sharing and later recollection.

Casual video is rarely easy to make, as you've got to hold your phone up the whole time; it also makes you have to pose for the camera

Audio is focused on your idea, and your audience doesn't have to stare at you for no reason, which is a lot less stressful

If you have a cool conversation that you want to share with someone else, open TINYVOX and touch the red RECORD button.

USE THE PAUSE BUTTON

take a break,

keep tapes densely packed with ideas.

Avoid dead time –

trap only the core of the idea for easy review.

Make personal motivation tapes and listen to them for a quick energy boost, anytime.

 

USE THE TYPE TEXT BUTTON

you can type while you tape! perfect for class, you can type your own notes along with the speaker. Adding text notes makes your listeners’ experience superior.

 

The Grateful Dead made taping a big deal in the music fan community

Brainstorm out loud, then pause;

then type up what you just brainstormed,

and then copy-paste that idea into your to do list.

To post audio of your tape with tinyvox PERMANENTLY, post to YouTube or Soundcloud.

4) TIPS AND TRICKS

Just take an audio snapshot of something.

Or talk out your idea.

If you want to do something great, you need to brainstorm past your original seed idea.

Anyone can have an idea, but if you make brainstorming the first task in any project you'll find yourself:

1) getting started faster – no more procrastination!

2) coming up with more and better tactics

3) becoming super-motivated because you're coaching yourself in your own voice

USE TINYVOX:

• as soon as you get an idea, to brainstorm it

• whenever you get an assignment

• whenever you have to write something long or important

• like a free therapist, a best friend who will always listen to you no matter what

• to thank the writer of a blog article or book that inspires you

• when you're reading a book to make your own audiobook for later• when you're re-reading a book you've highlighted - just read the highlights!

USE TINYVOX:• to delight and surprise your friends on other continents

• to learn a foreign language and get more confident at public speaking

• when you're at a conference and want to tape a genius so you can tweet their idea

USE TINYVOX:

• to be able to speak directly when debating online on a message board

• to turn your twitter into a radio station

• to record DJ banter for your CD mixes for friends

• if your kid starts singing a cute song, so you can send it to her uncle

SOME IDEAS FOR TAPING PROJECTS

Enter anyone's twitter username in the tape label, then tweet it. They'll get an email letting them know to hear your message.

• Type up your tapes regularly. You'll generate original text that you can deploy anywhere. You can even write a book.

• Ask a friend if they'd like to be interviewed about their project or restaurant for YouTube

• Polish the typing of your tapes to a diamond finish, then win essay contests and accolades from the New York Times Review of Books.

Add your Evernote email address to your Contacts app,

so you can quickly send tapes to your Evernote with the Email to Contact feature in TINYVOX. Good for later review.

Don't forget they charge for upload bandwidth though.

 

UPLOAD IN THE BACKGROUND

if a long tape is taking a while to upload, you can switch to another app; your tape will upload in the background.

SEND DIRECT MESSAGES IN TWITTER

label your tape

"d username listen to this!" and Tweet it

(only works if they follow you)

MULTITRACK – NOT EASY, BUT VERY AWESOME.

Tape one track,

email it to yourself,

play it on your speakers

while taping a second track.

 

You’ll have to experiment to make it work, but if you get it to work, it rules to have a simple studio onyour iphone

Use the Send button on the Landing Page to send the tape to a Facebook friend as a private Message – a great way to

share moments and say “Happy Birthday!” in your own voice

Install both TinyVox and TinyVox Pro to send from two different emails, two Tumblrs etc. and switch when one is uploading so you don’t miss anything while uploading.

When any tape nears 19 minutes get ready to make a new tape -

(stop -> make a new tape).

Upload later so you won't miss anything now.

Make a tape with someone you meet (ask first!) and email it to them right there.

When you email someone you meet like this, your return receipt email will include their email address in it so you can add them to your Contacts from there.

If you’re at a party and are having an amazing conversation that you both want to remember, this is a slick way of creating an audio memento to facilitate recall of the encounter at a later date for both of you.

Have them enter their own email in the prompt. It'll show up in seconds. They'll be amazed.

You can send a tape to multiple people by separating their emails with commas in the Enter Friend’s Email field.

DID YOU KNOW THAT AFTER YOU TAPE:

• you can post it to your Facebook News Feed, Twitter, Tumblr and Soundcloud with one upload?

• you can post as many audio updates to Tumblr as you like a day with TinyVox?

 • You can "post nowhere" (no icons lit in the Play/Share screen), get a TINYVOX url, and type that URL anywhere in Facebook Messages, Groups, Chat, Pages or Walls?

• you can immediately delete the tape from the Stop Menu? Just hit the STOP button and then "Delete & Start Over" if someone you taped is squeamish.

5) BUILT FOR STUDENTS

How students can use TINYVOX

to take perfect notes and study

LEARNING IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN JUST PASSING

Nobody is subjected to rigorous intellectual work like a student. Students who adapt powerful new techniques get their work done faster and better.

TINYVOX is tuned for students. Audio taping can move the needle on your grades! You will be able to listen to these tapes you email yourself FOREVER.

Share the tapes you make of classes if the professor is OK with it to spread knowledge through the universe.

This app is 99¢ if you can stand an adbanner. (CHEAP!)The Pro version without an ad is $5 with occasional sale pricing.

Deadlines mean having to perform intellectual feats on demand.

Talking it out beats staring at a blank word processor screen for getting started.

Students are graded on how well they can keep up.

Having an infinite memory with TINYVOX is the best way to do this.

Dealing with scribbled notes when cramming for a test isn't as easy as just listening to a tape you made of the lecture.

Needing to brainstorm about what to write about for an essay question means you need a tool to talk it out like TINYVOX.

TINYVOX is a smartphone app that really makes you smarter. Put away the cheesy games and start thinking out loud!

Students are having great conversations in dorms, and should want to remember these moments many years from now.

Study groups are conversations; nothing captures a conversation like audio taping. Scribbled notes are no comparison but you can take those too!

The student experience is full of awesome stuff to broadcast on Twitter so the rest of us can live vicariously through you.

 

MUSICIANS – GET AIRPLAY !!!

It’s obvious what you can accomplish with TINYVOX. Infinite airplay on Twitter in seconds.

Get fans to tape every live show and post songs to YouTube on the fly.

BECOME YOUR OWNRADIO STATION :D

6) WHAT DO YOU THINK?

• It's easier and quicker to talk than type.

• There are no spelling errors when you talk.

• Everybody is interesting if you get them talking about a story they experienced.

• Unique grammar and sentence contruction when typed up later can yield surprisingly satisfying text.

 

• Audio takes up an audience's time while communicating information completely with little risk of misunderstanding.

• It's easier to empathize with a point of view when you can hear the honesty in a speaker's voice than just reading the idea.

• Not everybody can write with passion like they can speak with passion.

 

• You can type up the ideas you talk later, which lets you get at every angle.

• When people talk, they often come up with new, powerful ideas.

• Ideas need to be brainstormed to become plans and turn into actions and behaviors.

 

• Successful people are articulate.

• Ideas can fail if they aren't put into words properly.

• A story is a narrative that links a set of events in a "one thing leads to another" sequence.

• All human beings know how to tell stories.

• To motivate people, take them where you want them to go in their imaginations.

 

LEADERSHIP IS ABOUT GETTING PEOPLE TO CHANGE.

• Leadership is essentially a task of persuasion - of winning people's minds and hearts.

• Values are contagious - when you state you like or dislike something, others tend to agree.

 

• You can jumpstart your brain by talking out whatever's on your mind.

 

• Talking out the memories of the day is a great way to piece together a real narrative of your life over time and remember old ideas that you can refresh.

 

• It feels good to help others avoid mistakes by telling them about your own experiences.

 

A VAST, ACTIVE, LIVING INFORMATION SYSTEM.

You want a tape deck so you can recall things perfectly later. Tape it or it's gone, basically.

So we made a tape deck for you. TINYVOX takes the hassle out of taking notes.

But it's also fun to communicate and broadcast tapes you make with TINYVOX.

Aren't you sick of typing all the time into Twitter for instance? Talk out your ideas and tweet them out instead.

 

THE TELEPHONE IS THE ORIGINAL SOCIAL NETWORK.

Send sound. Share tapes with any Contact by emailing them a private file. Turn your twitter into a radio station. TinyVox looks like a retro tape deck. Rather than frantically scribbling down notes, just tape it.

TINYVOX turns Facebook, Twitter, email and message boards into a huge voicemail system. You'll soon find that talking out ideas is different from typing them.

TINYVOX brings podcasting and a new kind of phone call to you for just 99¢.

Take some time and get used to this app. Dock it or put it on your home screen so you can use it constantly, as I do.

TINYVOX will help you mine the gold of your untapped creativity, both by yourself and with and to others.

There will be updates. If you have an idea or issue, or want some free tinyvox stickers, tweet to me @tinyvox.

PRIVACY NOTE:For Facebook Messages, just hit the big blue Share! button without any of the sharing icons lit. Then just copy-paste the URL into a Message in the Facebook app. Important: such tapes are only semi-private because your friend might share them, of course.

For total privacy, you need to use the Email tools, and your email settings must have "Send as MP3" selected.

For an ad-free experience, try TINYVOX PRO or upgradein-app to remove adbannersfor $1.99.

Sorry this is so long, but there's a lot to this app.

Thanks for reading all this! Spread the word.