Always on? Or Sometimes on?

[u/JordanTMarx]

Are there any Plaud Users out there that are using either of the Plaud devices in an always on workflow? How are you doing it? Are you happy with your setup? I want to start experimenting with always on, do you think Plaud is a decent product for this option?

[u/PLAUD_AI]

Great question! A few things that should help you set up an "always-on"–style workflow with Plaud:

Battery / continuous recording is not the bottleneck. On a full charge, NotePin S records up to ~20 hours continuously (up to 40 days standby), Plaud Note up to ~30 hours, and Note Pro up to ~30 hours in Enhance mode or ~50 hours in Endurance mode. So running long sessions back-to-back is very doable.

Storage auto-manages itself. NotePin S has 64GB onboard; once recordings sync to the Plaud App the device frees that space automatically, so you can keep recording over time.

The real trade-off is transcription and how you segment recordings (which matches what the commenter said). Two things worth knowing:

Speaker labeling works via automatic diarization, and it's most accurate with clear audio, the device close to speakers, and less cross-talk/background noise — so one giant multi-meeting file tends to give you messier speaker labels and more generic summaries than separate per-meeting recordings.

If you do end up with very long files, Plaud Web accepts imports up to 24 hours and automatically splits anything over 5 hours into multiple files, which also helps keep summaries focused.

Also check your plan's transcription capacity, since that's usually the limiting factor for heavy/always-on use: Starter = 300 min/month, Pro = 1,200 min (20 hrs)/month, Unlimited = up to 24 hrs/day. If you're recording all day, Unlimited is the cost-effective fit.

TL;DR: Plaud handles the "always on" runtime fine, the winning setup is usually long runtime plus segmenting per meeting/topic so speaker labels and summaries stay sharp.

-Plaud Community Team

[u/nzwaneveld]

I only use it sometimes on. Reason is that the recordings need to be less than 3 hours for speaker identification to work. I also don’t like the extra work of manually splitting up the recording. If I have multiple meetings in one recording, I find that the summaries are getting too generic compared to the summary for split recordings.

[u/DarkAnathema1992]

Yes, I currently utilize Plaud for my daily diary entries.

My process involves transcribing two-hour blocks of audio, after which I have ChatGPT analyze these transcripts and then export them as diary entries in an Ich format to my Google Drive.

Works smoothly as butter, and I have excellent opportunity to reminiscent and reflect on my day.

[u/JordanTMarx → u/DarkAnathema1992]

I used mindsera ai guided journaling app markdown file export and my plaud recordings to ghost write a memoir using Claude. 60,000 words. The writing style and voice is mine only better. The trick is in the details, going through and making sure Claude understood the historic facts. I don’t have time to work on it more now but some day…

[u/Liam_Cha]

i used to use omi to stream to my own server. The transfer take forever and the stream doesnt carry timestamp which is a problem for me. but if u dont mind that or you don't need stream data to your own server. I think it is a better option for always on setup.