don't you hate it when you have those moments when you have a brilliant idea or realization and you really want to remember it and you think to yourself I should really write that down but inevitably you don't have a pen Within Reach or you can't be bothered to take your phone out of your pocket and type out a note and so the idea is just gone forever well this device solves that problem and integrates AI so you don't even have to summarize your own thoughts so in today's video I'm going to review the plae note
an AI powered voice recorder I'm going to show you how I've integrated it into my workflow to capture all of my thoughts on the go and more it's just such an interesting product to me that I really wanted to share it with you guys especially as fellow content creators because I think it's tools like this that can really help speed up and make your workflow just that much more efficient so I'm going to walk through the features of the pla note and I'm going to talk about how I integrate it into my workflow as a
content creator then I'll share some of the limitations with this device that you should be aware of and then I'll give you my final thoughts at the very end of the video all right so let's start off by talking about the features of the pla note now I was sent the the pla note but I'm not being paid to review it and I'm not being told what to say so this is my honest thoughts but it's a slim recording device about the size of a thick credit card and you can attach it to the back
of your phone with the included mag safe case and the battery will last about 60 days which I think is actually quite impressive and it can continuously record for about 30 hours on a single charge it has 64 GB of internal storage which let you record about 480 hours of content which is huge in my opinion now on the note it has a record button which you just press and hold to start a recording and then you just press and hold it again to stop the recording it also has a small switch which switches between
a regular recording mode and then a phone call recording mode which I think is actually pretty cool because it means you don't need your phone on speaker you just put the pla note into phone record mode take your call and hit record and it will record both sides of the conversation pretty clearly then all you need to do is you open the pla note app transfer the file across and then start an AI transcription which in my experience is super accurate you can also get a chat gbt generated summary which I think is pretty cool
as well as a m map of the transcription now before I show you exactly how I use pla note in my workflow and some of the limitations of it I just want to talk about something that will remove the limitations in your very own brain which is Magic mind something I really struggle with as a full-time Creator is the midaf afternoon crash that I almost always get about 3:00 p.m. in the afternoon I start to feel sleepy my brain slows down and I lose focus and this is where magic mind has really impressed me it's
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the description and you can use the code Nick kle to get $40 off your first order all right so let's talk about how I use the plaud note in my daily workflow and basically for me it's as simple as it sounds just as I'm going about my day if there's something I want to remember or if I have some idea or realization I just pick up my phone hit the record button and speak the thought directly into the recorder and for me it's been so useful so far I've been using it multiple times a day
for a pretty big variety of different types of things I've used it for Content ideas for my channel I've used it to record sections of audio books that I've been listening to which is amazing because I've been looking for an effect effective way to take notes from audiobooks for a long time now and I've also been using it a lot just for personal realizations that I've been having now for me I don't use it for phone calls as much because I don't generally communicate when it comes to YouTube over the phone but I have still
recorded the odd phone call that I've wanted to remember and the transcription has been pretty decent after I've recorded my note either right then or at the end of the day I'll open the pla note transfer the file which you can either do via Bluetooth or if it's a really big file you can connect to the plot note with Wi-Fi and download it a lot faster that way and then I'll get my transcripts my summary and my mind maath and let me tell you one of the things I've been most impressed with is the accuracy
of the transcription on the pla note whether I've been speaking into it with my voice recording audio books or phone calls it's just amazingly accurate you have less of a need for these quick dopam mean fixes right yes exactly I mean think about it I mean how could you want if you're whole and I assume it's because it's using an AI transcription service which is more accurate than standard transcriptions especially when you compare it to things like Siri for example and then from there once I've got my summary I'll send that to my second brain
apps like obsidian or notion and I've just found it to be genuinely a huge help just as I'm going through my day and there's things that I want to remember I find that I don't tend to get big ideas or realizations when I'm sitting at my computer focusing on work which is where I could take notes and so being able to carry something in my pocket that's just really easy to take out and take a quick note I've been finding really helpful now there are some limitations and bottlenecks that I found when it comes to
plot note which you should be aware of so the first thing is just that I find the summaries to be a little bit limited and short especially for longer recordings and transcripts so for example I've recorded hourlong discussions and it's given me a transcript summary that's just as long as a 5 minute voice note to me a longer note should get a longer summary and should be more detailed so I'm finding so far the kind of sweet spot for transcription length is at the 5 to 10 minute Mark anything longer than this this the summary
just really doesn't capture enough of the information that was discussed but my own workaround for this has basically just been to export the transcript and then copy and paste it into chat gbt myself and I've been using my own summary template prompt which has actually been giving me really good summaries with all the details that I need and if you're interested in grabbing that prompt to use for your own transcriptions then I've got a link in the description with a free pdf where I share the exact prompt that I use so I think looking forward
I just really hope that P AI gives us more options with summaries even being able to customize summaries and enter your own prompts for what you would like PL note to summarize from your transcripts would be amazing I can't imagine that that would be too hard to add as a feature in the future but as it is now the summaries are just a bit limited the next limitation is just that you can't currently access your recordings or transcriptions from a desktop now I know pla note does have this feature planned but they've told me that
it's not coming too soon but that would really help with that sort of bottleneck in terms of getting the transcription and the summary from the app into other second brain apps for example which leads me to the last limitation which is just the fact that it's not that well integrated with other apps just yet some sort of seamless integration with an app like notion or obsidian would be amazing currently you have to manually export all of your transcriptions and summaries which obviously is possible and it's not too big of a deal but it just would
make it so much easier and more streamlined if you can connect those apps or integrate them somehow into the pla note app now at the end of the day I think the idea of having AI transcribed voice notes with summaries is just a great idea it's really useful and really convenient I can see it really taking off in the future and that is kind of the key takeaway for me I personally I'm going to continue using the pla note for now for notes thoughts audiobook notes audiobook highlights and phone calls despite the limitations of the
pla note and I think the main objection that I can kind of hear people saying about the pla note is why not just use the voice recorder on your iPhone or your Android that's already built into your phone and I think there's a few reasons why using a dedicated at device is actually better the first is that it's external storage so it's not taking out more space in your phone which is nice the second obviously is the fact that it can record phone calls you can't really do that easily natively on an iPhone or an
Android and the other thing is just the convenience factor is also up there don't even have to open your phone you just literally press a button and it records instantly and then lastly in my personal opinion I actually kind of like having it attached to my phone because feeling it there is a constant reminder that I've got the ability to take notes whereas I think if it was an app on my phone I'd probably forget about it and not bother taking notes as consistently as I might with an external device so I'm personally really enjoying
using the pla note definitely recommend checking it out if it's something that you think would be useful for your workflow don't forget to check out magic M it's actually pretty incredible and worth checking out with the 60-day money back guarantee the link is in the description if you want to check that out and if you're looking for more chat TPT prompts specifically to help you with content creation and check out this video here where I share a whole bunch of different prompts that I use on a regular basis to help you make better content more
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