If a recording is interrupted, nothing is lost
What happens when a recording is cut off
While you record a Blink, the audio is saved to the server as you go. So if the recording stops before you finish — you lock the phone, close the tab, take a call, lose signal — the part you had already spoken is safe.
The next time you open OrbitingFox, that recording appears as a draft Blink with a title that says what it is:
Draft — interrupted recording #3, Sep 4 8:25 AM
The number counts your interruptions in order, and the date and time tell you which one it was — useful when two get cut off on the same afternoon.
Where to find them
Drafts show up in two places, and they are the same items either way:
- Your ordinary Blink list, mixed in with everything else, each marked with a small Draft label so you can spot it at a glance.
- The interrupted-recordings page, which shows only the drafts, with an explanation at the top and the choices next to each one.
Your three choices
- Keep — it becomes an ordinary Blink. The recording is attached to it, and you can rename it whenever you like; the draft title is just a starting point.
- Edit — open it first and change the title or text, then save it as usual.
- Delete — you did not want it. It goes to your Recycle Bin like anything else you delete, so a mis-tap is recoverable.
There is no deadline. A draft waits until you decide.
OrbitPilot and your drafts
OrbitPilot does not read a draft's contents. An interrupted recording is half a thought — you may not have finished the sentence, or you may delete it entirely — so the AI is not given it to learn from.
The moment you keep a draft it becomes an ordinary Blink, and from then on OrbitPilot treats it like any other: it can read it, unless you have marked that Blink private.
What changed, and why
Before this, an interrupted recording announced itself with a warning banner inside whatever Blink form you opened next — one banner per interrupted recording, stacked on top of each other, and the recording would be attached to whatever you happened to be writing at the time.
That was confusing in two ways: several alarms for one problem, and a recording ending up inside an unrelated Blink. Now each interrupted recording is its own item, with its own name, and you decide what happens to it.