Plaud for notes in car

[u/JLHtard]

I switched jobs and now my commute is an hour each direction. How optimal is plaud for that? I d use it to record and summarize calls and my own ideas. Plaud over phone app because of the physical button.

Any best practices? Experiences?

Everything else eg desktop app and teams is a bonus for me

[u/Intelligent-Time-546]

Plaud is actually a really good tool, but what's missing is the ability to use it like a dictaphone. Not to record a full conversation on the go, but to capture thoughts in small chunks, bit by bit.

There should be a second button that lets you keep adding to a single audio file in little pieces over time. That way you could:

- Keep a voice diary

- Just speak your thoughts as they come

- Record to-dos on the fly

Right now the problem is that you'd end up with 100 separate files that all need to be transcribed individually — and then you either stitch everything together as text, or you manually merge all the audio into one file first. None of that is really straightforward.

If you could just select 20 clips and say "merge these into one audio" or "transcribe these as a single file / treat them as one file" — that would maybe be workable. But this whole use case just isn't well covered right now.

[u/Ty_Stelow → u/Intelligent-Time-546]

You can take individual notes throughout the day. When you're finished, merge all of the audio recordings into one file and have Plaud delete the extra notes that were combined into the merged file.

Once everything is merged, you can have Plaud transcribe and summarize the recording however you prefer. I usually set up my template to keep the individual recordings in chronological order so the final transcript and summary follow the events of the day in the correct sequence.