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Not product pages. The questions that come up around recording conversations for work — including the ones where the honest answer is that our product is not the right one.
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How to record a conversation without making it strange
5 min read · Updated 10 September 2026
The awkwardness of recording is not a technical problem, and no device solves it for you. This is what actually works.
Running a meeting that switches between Arabic and English
6 min read · Updated 10 September 2026
Code-switching is not a problem to be fixed. It is how business here is conducted — and most note-taking tools were not built for it.
What to actually do with a meeting transcript
4 min read · Updated 10 September 2026
A transcript is not notes. Nobody reads an hour of raw text, and treating it as an archive is how it becomes worthless.
How to choose an AI note taker without regretting it
6 min read · Updated 10 September 2026
Six questions that separate the tools that survive a month of real use from the ones that end up in a drawer.
Why transcription gets names wrong, and what to do about it
5 min read · Updated 10 September 2026
Every speech model is worse at names than at ordinary words, and the reason explains how to work around it.
Five things that ruin a meeting recording
4 min read · Updated 10 September 2026
None of them are the microphone. All of them are fixable in the ten seconds before a meeting starts.
Writing clinical notes without typing during the consultation
6 min read · Updated 10 September 2026
Typing changes what patients tell you. Here is how clinicians work around that, with and without a recording device.
Handing over a client without losing the context
5 min read · Updated 10 September 2026
The CRM has the facts. What gets lost is everything that explains them — and that is what the next person needs.
How long should you keep a recording?
5 min read · Updated 10 September 2026
Most people keep everything forever by default. That is a decision, even when nobody made it deliberately.
Running a one-to-one people do not dread
5 min read · Updated 10 September 2026
The format is not the problem. The problem is that nothing said in the last one visibly happened.
Where it goes
The rooms a phone on the table can't sit in.
Six places a working week here actually happens. In each one, the thing worth remembering is said once, out loud, and nobody writes it down.
The majlis
Where the real decision gets made after the formal meeting has ended — in Arabic, over coffee, with no laptop open.
It catches the commitment made in passing
The site visit
Walking a half-built floor with a contractor, hands full, reading a snagging list off a phone.
It catches the revised date and the number attached to it
The client lunch
Ninety minutes across a table where taking notes would be rude and not taking them costs you the brief.
It catches what they said they actually wanted
The car
The call between two viewings, the thought on Sheikh Zayed Road, the voice note you never send.
It catches the idea before it goes
The consultation
A patient describing three weeks of symptoms in Hindi while you keep your eyes on them, not a screen.
It catches the history, in their words
The boardroom
Six people, two languages, one agenda and four conversations happening at once.
It catches who agreed to what