AI Transcription Hack - use Plaud. Thank Me Later

I've got to share this because it's genuinely changed how I run my day, and I think a lot of you dealing with client walkthroughs, team conversations, and constant mental juggling will get a lot out of it too.

It's this little device, about the size of a credit card, that sticks on the back of your phone. It records and transcribes conversations, then hands you back a summary. There are a bunch of templates built in depending on what kind of conversation you're having.

I originally picked it up to help with walkthroughs. If you're like me, people talk to you about so much stuff during a single job site visit that it's impossible to keep it all straight in your head. Now I've got it recording, and afterward I get a clean summary instead of trying to remember everything or scribble notes while I'm supposed to be paying attention to the person in front of me.

Here's the part that's saved me more than once: when a client says "well, I said this" or "you told me that," I can actually go back to the AI summary and say, "here's what was actually said." No more he-said-she-said. It's all sitting right there.

But the thing I'm most excited about is what it's done for GSR meetings — goal setting and review meetings. There was a recent Jobber podcast episode that got into these, and I liked the idea, but I had a mental block about actually doing them. I hate the idea of filling out extra spreadsheets and handing my team more stuff to track. It just becomes one more thing nobody keeps up with.

So instead, I just run the meeting, let Plaud record it, and have it spit out a summary. That summary becomes my record. No spreadsheet, no separate tracking system, no extra homework for anyone. I just keep the summaries and refer back to them next time.

If you're drowning in notes, or you've been putting off something like GSR meetings because of the extra admin, this might be the nudge you need. Worth checking out.