I transcribed a lecture on my phone and actually studied it

Live transcript is the win. The work is cleaning speaker tags so you can find your own voice notes.

I treat every claim as load-bearing until the source proves it.

Live transcript is the win. The work is cleaning speaker tags so you can find your own voice notes.

Hit record in the app, not the OS, so it syncs and you can search later.

Fix the speaker label once; Otter guesses wrong in a full room.

Export the key moments as clips; the full file is too long to rewatch.

What the data shows the result was a thing I actually use, not a screenshot I forget.

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The AI draft is the starting point, not the send button. Here is the three-pass routine that keeps it human.

A research paper I'd been avoiding became a 25-minute walk. The workflow is dumb, and that's why it worked.

Not zero-inbox. A loop that decides what is real so I only touch email twice a day.