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Your calls, honestly.
Three sliders about your week, then six questions about your client calls. The page adds it up as you go: the time you spend writing calls up, where their words end up, and what Recordist would change.
Your week
The sliders start on an example week. Move them to yours.
77 hours a year writing up calls. About 2 working weeks.
Six questions
Answer only what is true for you. The questions change the words below, never the numbers.
The moments people know from their own client calls, and what Recordist changes for each.
What it comes to
77 hours a year
writing up 460 calls. That is about 2 working weeks, on top of 230 hours in the calls themselves.
At the top of a slider the sums use its top value, so your real number is higher.
Notes are like bread. They are best the hour they are made.
Where your calls go
Their words, today
- Notes you write after the call
- Notes written the next day
- Words you cannot find again
- Promises kept in your head
- Your memory
- Somewhere you would need to check
- Someone else's notetaker
With Recordist
- With you, on your laptop: the transcript, each line with its time, and the notes.
Your time
What Recordist changes
Recordist writes up your client calls, and the record stays with you. No bot joins, and we never receive your audio. By default it asks before it records.
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Notes written the next day
Recordist transcribes the call while it happens, so the transcript builds while you talk. With Pro, the notes are written a few minutes after you hang up.
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Words you cannot find again
Type a word and Recordist shows every call it was said in, with the sentence. A click opens the call at that line.
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Promises kept in your head
Promises gathers what was promised in your noted calls into two lists, what you owe and what you are owed, each with the words it was made in and the time.
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Your memory
Each line of the transcript carries its time, and while the audio is kept, any line plays back in the voice that said it. Audio is kept 30 days by default, and you choose.
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Somewhere you would need to check
With Recordist the answer is one sentence: with you, on your laptop, and we never receive your audio. On a Mac your firm manages, it can also keep a copy in its own archive.
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Someone else's notetaker
Recordist adds no bot to the call. It works on your laptop. By default it asks before it records, and telling the people on the call is still yours to do. For the bots others bring, here is how hosts keep them out.
- A yes to any question above adds what Recordist changes for that moment. If every answer is no, your calls sound well looked after.
- You answered no to every question. Your calls sound well looked after. Recordist would keep the record of each one with you, ready for the day you need it.
What it does not change
- Recordist does not ask the people on the call for you; that is still yours to do. By default it asks before it records, and it asks you, not them. The words to say
- Notes can be wrong. Each item carries the time it was said, so anything that matters can be checked against the transcript.
- Your firm's rules still apply. Where it wants client records kept is still its call.
- We do not promise a number of hours back. Reading and checking notes takes some minutes too, and how many depends on how you work.
Try your own guess
Notes written for you still need reading and checking. How long would that take you, per call?
It starts where you are today. Move it to your guess.
Show the working
- Calls a year: 10 calls × 46 weeks = 460.
- Hours writing up: 10 calls × 10 minutes × 46 weeks ÷ 60 = 76.7 hours.
- Working weeks: 76.7 hours ÷ 37.5 hours = 2 weeks.
- Hours in calls: 10 calls × 30 minutes × 46 weeks ÷ 60 = 230 hours.
- What it is worth: 76.7 hours × your hourly value. Your number, in your currency.
Two numbers are ours, and you can change them:
Every other number is yours. The page holds no average, no benchmark and no survey figure.
What we leave out is the decision you end up arguing twice, or the client who quietly stops trusting the notes. Those are real and cost more than the hours, but we can't count them for you, so we don't try.
We also do not guess how much of a call you forget. The classic research on forgetting (Ebbinghaus, 1885, repeated by Murre and Dros in 2015) used lists of nonsense syllables, not conversations, so its curve would be a false number here. Murre and Dros, PLOS ONE, 2015.
We don't give a number of hours saved, because how much of the writing up Recordist takes off your hands depends on how you work. The only such number here is your own guess.
Check it yourself: open your browser's developer tools, choose Network, then move any slider or tick any question. Nothing is sent.
Show the working
- Calls a year: your client calls in a typical week, times 46 working weeks.
- Hours a year writing up: your calls a week, times the minutes you spend writing up each one, times 46, divided by 60.
- Working weeks: those hours divided by 37.5, the hours in a working week.
- Working days, when it is under a week: those hours divided by 7.5, a fifth of the working week.
- Hours a year in the calls: your calls a week, times the minutes a typical call lasts, times 46, divided by 60.
- What it is worth: the hours writing up, times what an hour of your time is worth to you.
For example, 10 calls a week with 10 minutes of writing up each come to 460 calls and 77 hours a year writing up, about 2 working weeks.
Two numbers are ours, so use your own if they differ: 46 working weeks a year (52, less about six for holidays and time off), and 37.5 hours in a working week (five days of 7.5 hours).
Every other number is yours. The page holds no average, no benchmark and no survey figure.
What we leave out is the decision you end up arguing twice, or the client who quietly stops trusting the notes. Those are real and cost more than the hours, but we can't count them for you, so we don't try.
We also do not guess how much of a call you forget. The classic research on forgetting (Ebbinghaus, 1885, repeated by Murre and Dros in 2015) used lists of nonsense syllables, not conversations, so its curve would be a false number here. Murre and Dros, PLOS ONE, 2015.
We don't give a number of hours saved, because how much of the writing up Recordist takes off your hands depends on how you work. The only such number here is your own guess.
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Happy with where your calls go today? Then stay. No hard feelings. The oven stays warm.
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