This is absolutely correct. On the flip side, the closer the mic is to your mouth, the more likely that it will pick up mouth noises.
Once you start recording you may hear all kinds of sounds you didn’t realize were there. I was surprised to hear airplane noises on the recording that I had never noticed in real life.
If you already own some kind of recorder, you may want to just start practicing with that to see what kind of problems you might have. Another problem with a mic far away from the mouth is that it is more likely to pick up room acoustics. So if you are in an empty room with nothing on the walls, the recording may be echo-ie. There really is a reason studio recordings sound as good as they do.
I just realized this conversation is happening in the voice assistant thread. Perhaps it needs its own.