Tips, comparisons, and experiments on getting more from your voice notes.
Parents run a small logistics company with no admin support. How voice notes fit that reality — five uses for moments when both hands are full.
Apr 13, 2026
Founders don't lose headlines — they lose the reasoning behind their best ideas. How voice capture preserves thinking, and five patterns high-throughput entrepreneurs share.
Real estate is mobile knowledge work. How voice notes solve showing notes, CMA dictation, and client follow-ups — built for driveways, not desks.
Remote work killed the hallway conversations where thinking happens. How voice notes give between-task insights a place to land — five async capture patterns.
Writers grieve lost ideas. Why voice isn't an inferior version of writing, just a different cognitive mode — and how professional writers use it for drafts and angles.
Most executives capture information. The higher-leverage target is judgment. How a voice-powered decision log changes post-mortems and team learning.
How voice-first capture works with your brain instead of against it. Strategies for turning scattered thoughts into structured notes without the executive function tax.
Mar 10, 2026
A former tutor explains how voice notes with AI transcription outperform traditional note-taking — and five specific study techniques to use today.
Apr 5, 2026
How to build a frictionless system that captures ideas by voice and organizes them in Notion. Copy-paste summaries, to-dos, and tags in seconds.
Mar 4, 2026
Compared every major voice notes app on pricing and value. SpokenPlan at $59.99/yr vs Otter at $204/yr — here is what each one actually delivers.
The voice notes app graveyard is full. The pattern is always the same: great recording, zero post-recording intelligence. Here is what they all miss.
Feb 24, 2026
A 30-day experiment: 103 voice notes, one near-quit in Week 3, and what finally made the habit work. Honest data and lessons learned.
Tested 6 voice notes apps for weeks each. Here is what actually separates them — and which one turns recordings into to-dos.
Noted is great for meeting recordings with timestamps. SpokenPlan goes further with AI summaries, to-dos, and smart organization. See the full comparison.
Feb 12, 2026
Voice Memos records audio. SpokenPlan turns it into summaries, to-dos, and searchable notes. Here is why the default iOS app is not enough in 2026.
Brain Dump focuses on quick text capture. SpokenPlan starts with your voice and builds structured notes with AI. Different approaches to the same problem.
Feb 7, 2026
Otter.ai is built for enterprise teams at $480/year. SpokenPlan costs $59.99/year and is designed for personal voice productivity. Here is the full comparison.
SpeakApp has a paywall at 22 seconds and 63% negative reviews. SpokenPlan offers unlimited free recording and transparent pricing. See the full comparison.
SpokenPlan and Voicenotes both transcribe your voice — but only one turns recordings into to-dos and checklists. See the full feature and pricing comparison.