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Your best ideas die in Voice Memos. Mine land in GitHub about 20 seconds after I stop talking. No apps, no copy paste, no guilt.

I wired a tiny iOS Shortcut to do the grunt work. The bot is just the shovel. The outcome is the treasure: a clean, deduped GitHub issue with title, bullets, labels, and the transcript.

How it actually flows:

  • Record a 30-60s voice memo.
  • Share to my Shortcut called Voice → Git Issue.
  • It transcribes in the cloud using a cheap model for speech to text - about a third of a cent per minute.
  • A tiny format pass turns my ramble into JSON: title under 80 chars, 1-3 bullets, labels, assignee, optional due date.
  • It reads inline tags I say out loud: label: bug, assign: me, repo: owner/repo, due: Friday.
  • Quick dupe check by searching the first few words of the title. If it finds a match, I tap Open or Continue.
  • Optional: commit the .m4a to attachments/YYYY-MM and link it.
  • Create issue. Open URL. Done.

The issue body is readable on purpose:

  • Summary bullets on top
  • Details with my original words
  • Metadata with source time, optional audio link, parsed tags

Real timings on normal Wi‑Fi:

  • Upload and transcription: around 10 seconds
  • Format: under a second
  • Dupe search and create: under 2 seconds From end of recording to posted issue: roughly 10-25 seconds. Well under 2 minutes even if you count the talking.

The turn:

  • Your audio goes to the cloud. If it’s sensitive, use an on-device Whisper app and feed the transcript to the same Shortcut.
  • GitHub has no real issue-attachment API. I commit the file or just link it. If you truly need native uploads in the issue body, GitLab is cleaner.
  • Labels must exist or GitHub complains. Create them once.
  • Storing a token in Shortcuts is convenient and risky. Use a GitHub App relay if you’re strict.

Who is this for: solo devs and small teams who live on iOS and GitHub and hate overhead.

My take: if it isn’t in your tracker in 2 minutes, it doesn’t exist. Automate the capture and move on. 🎙️

Want the Shortcut and a 1-page quick start? Comment VOICE and I’ll share.

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