I went out and bought a digital voice recorder some time ago, and boy oh boy it is great for just that. It fits into my wiggie case also so I have it constantly available. Now I am into recording all the times I take for seperate little tasks and I can down load the seperate recordings via the usb cable right to my computer. (Before I couldn't, but now I have a an intel dual processor mac, and I can now do it all.) I convert them later into text and transfer to my database system. Its getting better all the time.