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I have been a Rewind user on the Mac for months and on the iPhone (beta) for a few days now, and there are basically no tools in the past few years that have ch

I have been a Rewind user on the Mac for months and on the iPhone (beta) for a few days now, and there are basically no tools in the past few years that have changed the way I work this much. I get a transcription and summary for every meeting that I'm in. The summary fairly reliably captures all main points, and definitely enough to job my memory on anything else. It gets action items. I use Ask Rewind constantly – "who mentioned X in a meeting last week", "what did Joe say was his top priority for Q3", "was I reading about project X in Notion, Slack, or Jira last month" ... all questions Rewind handles well. It just makes me a better colleague. I am a bad note taker, and this allows me to be more present and engaged in meetings because I have zero stress about forgetting something. It's not perfect by any means; I wish transcription was more accurate and things like that, but all it needs is marginal improvement in a bunch of areas and we're so early. Such an exciting product.

jedberg 3y ago
> I get a transcription and summary for every meeting that I'm in. So it records and transcribes audio and stores it on your phone? That's awesome! But I wonder what my corp security team would think about that. I would however love to have such a thing because I too am a bad notetaker, as I prefer to listen closely to what others are saying.
- blairbeckwith 3y ago
  I believe the meeting transcription is Mac only currently and can be set to automatic (via syncing your calendar and it detecting the meeting automatically) or manual (toggling on and off mic recording). I do think this type of thing probably drives compliance and security folks mad and will be a barrier to adoption in many companies. All of my work is client-based rather than traditional FTE which largely gets me out of that sort of thing.
  - unstatusthequo 3y ago
    Not to mention two party consent laws about recording conversations. https://recordinglaw.com/party-two-party-consent-states/ https://recordinglaw.com/party-two-party-consent-states/
    - toomuchtodo 3y ago
      I am responsible for crafting and implementing GRC and infosec policy at a fintech. We review and approve AI tools with DLP, auditing, and logging wrapped around them. Meetings require a click through to acknowledge when they are being recorded.
cyrux004 3y ago
I used Rewind for a few days but stopped after my resource usage spiked. I didnt research much into this; but have you seen any perf issues when using Rewind.
- blairbeckwith 3y ago
  It has gotten better, but it's still a factor. Relatively shortly after launch they switched all processing to only occur when plugged in vs. on battery, which helped from a consumption standpoint. As far as pure performance I can't speak to it too much; I have a massively overpowered machine (M1 Max w/ 64 gb RAM) for my typical workload (meetings/email/docs) so I don't feel anything.

jedberg 3y ago

> I get a transcription and summary for every meeting that I'm in. So it records and transcribes audio and stores it on your phone? That's awesome! But I wonder what my corp security team would think about that. I would however love to have such a thing because I too am a bad notetaker, as I prefer to listen closely to what others are saying.

blairbeckwith 3y ago
I believe the meeting transcription is Mac only currently and can be set to automatic (via syncing your calendar and it detecting the meeting automatically) or manual (toggling on and off mic recording). I do think this type of thing probably drives compliance and security folks mad and will be a barrier to adoption in many companies. All of my work is client-based rather than traditional FTE which largely gets me out of that sort of thing.
- unstatusthequo 3y ago
  Not to mention two party consent laws about recording conversations. https://recordinglaw.com/party-two-party-consent-states/ https://recordinglaw.com/party-two-party-consent-states/
  - toomuchtodo 3y ago
    I am responsible for crafting and implementing GRC and infosec policy at a fintech. We review and approve AI tools with DLP, auditing, and logging wrapped around them. Meetings require a click through to acknowledge when they are being recorded.

cyrux004 3y ago

I used Rewind for a few days but stopped after my resource usage spiked. I didnt research much into this; but have you seen any perf issues when using Rewind.

blairbeckwith 3y ago
It has gotten better, but it's still a factor. Relatively shortly after launch they switched all processing to only occur when plugged in vs. on battery, which helped from a consumption standpoint. As far as pure performance I can't speak to it too much; I have a massively overpowered machine (M1 Max w/ 64 gb RAM) for my typical workload (meetings/email/docs) so I don't feel anything.