Laurence
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Reviews the Plaud line (Note, Note Pro, NotePin/S) to make sure the OpenScribe roadmap covers expected capabilities, and records where OpenScribe deliberately differs (bring-your-own-AI, self-hosted, open). What changed: - docs/plaud-comparison.md: feature map (Plaud vs OpenScribe status), a derived backlog, and what we deliberately do not copy. Sourced from Plaud's site (July 2026). - state/TODO.md: adds a Plaud-derived backlog section (diarisation, summary templating, Ask-AI/RAG, custom vocabulary, multimodal, mark-a-moment, auto-title, tags/folders/ search, share links, optional OLED display, calendar) and a pluggable-AI-providers milestone. Why: - The user asked to review Plaud for other todos; this captures them and frames the bring-your-own-AI differentiator that the next feature implements. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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<!-- SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-4.0 -->
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# Plaud comparison and feature gap analysis
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A review of the Plaud product line (Note, Note Pro, NotePin / NotePin S) to make sure the
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OpenScribe roadmap covers what people expect from this class of device, and to be clear
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about where OpenScribe deliberately differs. Reviewed July 2026 from Plaud's site and
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listings (see Sources).
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OpenScribe's core difference: **you bring the AI.** Plaud routes everything through
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Plaud's own cloud AI on a subscription. OpenScribe lets the owner point transcription and
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summarisation at any open-standard endpoint (OpenAI-compatible / local) or a commercial API
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(OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini), self-hosted or not, with no subscription and no lock-in.
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## Feature map
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| Capability | Plaud | OpenScribe status |
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|-----------|-------|-------------------|
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| One-button voice recording | Yes | Done (M1) |
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| Long recordings to storage | Yes (cloud) | Done (M1, microSD) |
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| Sync to phone app | Yes (BLE/WiFi) | M2 (WiFi) done; M4 (BLE); M7 (app) |
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| AI transcription, many languages | 112 languages | M5 (provider-driven; language set by provider) |
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| Speaker labels / diarisation | Yes | Backlog (added below) |
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| Custom vocabulary | Yes | Backlog |
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| AI summaries | Yes | M6 |
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| Summary templates (meeting, to-do, mind map, custom) | 10,000+ | Backlog (templating) |
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| Multidimensional / role-based summaries | Yes | Backlog |
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| Ask AI / chat grounded in the recording | "Ask Plaud" | Backlog (RAG over transcript) |
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| Multimodal: attach text/images to a recording | Yes | Backlog |
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| Highlight / mark key moments while recording | Yes | Backlog (device long-press -> timestamp) |
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| Auto title + auto formatting | Yes | Backlog |
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| Tags / folders / search | Yes | Backlog (server + app) |
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| Calendar integration | Yes | Backlog (nice-to-have) |
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| Share summaries / export | Yes | Export done in API (M5); share links backlog |
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| On-device status display (InstantView) | Note Pro | Hardware future (optional OLED variant) |
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| Phone-call recording | Yes (MagSafe) | Out of scope (no phone-call tap) |
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| Choice of AI provider (open or commercial) | No (Plaud cloud only) | **OpenScribe differentiator** |
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| Self-hostable, no subscription | No | **OpenScribe differentiator** |
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| Open source, open API, open hardware | No | **OpenScribe differentiator** |
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## New backlog items derived from this review
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These are added to `state/TODO.md` (Plaud-derived backlog):
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1. Speaker diarisation + labels (server), with rename-speaker in the app.
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2. Summary templating: built-in templates (meeting notes, action items, to-do list, mind
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map, decisions) + user-defined templates; role-based multidimensional summaries.
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3. Ask AI: chat grounded in a recording's transcript (RAG), reusing the chosen LLM provider.
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4. Custom vocabulary / prompt hints passed to the transcription + summary providers.
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5. Multimodal attachments: text notes and images attached to a recording.
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6. Mark-a-moment: device long-press during recording writes a highlight timestamp;
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surfaced in the app and used to focus summaries.
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7. Auto title + auto formatting of transcripts and summaries.
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8. Library organisation: tags, folders, full-text search (server + app).
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9. Share links / export of summaries (extends the existing export endpoint).
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10. Optional hardware variant with a small OLED status display (InstantView equivalent).
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11. Calendar integration (nice-to-have) to attach recordings to events.
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## What we deliberately do not copy
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- Phone-call recording via a phone accessory (Plaud's MagSafe call capture). Out of scope.
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- Subscription tiers and per-minute transcription quotas. OpenScribe has none by design; the
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cost is whatever your chosen AI provider charges (zero if self-hosted).
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- A closed cloud. Everything stays on infrastructure the owner controls.
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## Sources
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- [Plaud NotePin](https://www.plaud.ai/products/plaud-notepin)
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- [Plaud Note Pro](https://www.plaud.ai/products/plaud-note-pro)
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- [Plaud Note](https://www.plaud.ai/products/plaud-note-ai-voice-recorder)
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- [Plaud NotePin S](https://www.plaud.ai/products/plaud-notepin-s)
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- [Plaud: AI Note Taker (App Store)](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/plaud-ai-note-taker/id6450364080)
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