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After scoring a four-star review and sneaking a win in the Tom's Guide AI awards earlier this year, the Plaud NotePin has quickly become one of our favorite gadgets that has emerged in the AI hardware category.
In fact, the company's entire range of note-taking devices has really impressed us, and now is a great time to get your hands on one yourself.
Which device is better?
Both of these devices from Plaud do very similar things. The big difference comes in how you plan to interact with it.
At their core, these are notetakers. They record conversations, meetings, and personal voice-notes, just like your phone or any other recorder would. It's the use of AI that helps make them stand out.
In our review of the NotePin, we noted that "It can transcribe complex, meandering brainstorming sessions while adding intelligent segues, and make light work of understanding specific prompts."
In fact, our biggest critique of the NotePin was its price... which this deal can help you with!
The Plaud NotePin is designed to be a discrete notetaker. Wear it on your clothes, around your neck, or place it on a table. The Voice recorder, on the other hand, is bigger and more obvious.
Which one to choose comes to what you need it for. If you want to record your daily life or subtly keep track of information at a conference, the NotePin is the choice for you. For meetings, conversations, and interviews, the voice recorder is a better option, where subtly is traded for a more robust and thought-through design.
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