I'm retired, but I still use an old Sony recorder. When taking notes at work meetings, it didn't pay to fiddle with equipment too obviously (The boss is thinking: "Look at me while I'm speaking!"). I liked that pen which recorded & made notes: later the pen (and special paper!) allowed you to find the audio corresponding to a written note. I didn't try it. The special paper cost, and wasn't always available!!
I'd like to be able to place my recorder near the person speaking, sometimes, to get super sound from a faint speaker, but then I couldn't press buttons on it!
I'd like to be able to set up a voice recorder with an internal clock - to record for an hour or two, in such a way that I could make a written note of the time by my watch when a significant remark was made, and later quickly zip to the audio recording "labelled" in some way with that time. In this way I wouldn't be conspicuously fiddling with a complex recorder at the meeting, merely jotting down a few notes.
