Thanks for the comments Rod. I am experiencing just what you have described. Trying to maximise eyepiece time and notes on the observations are scanty or non existent.
The dictaphone idea sounds great. I think lgcles uses one.
Converting what's on the dictaphone to text should be possible. This site:
http://www.softwaregeek.com/speech-t...verter/p1.html
has various conversion programs that could help. It might be a case of converting the dictaphone output to a .wav file and then converting that into text. It might be worth posting the question into the Tips, Techniques and Computers forum for some of those clever chappies to think about. Cheers, Paul.