u/heart-of-violet

I’m currently using Superwhisper on all of my devices (upgraded from Dragon Naturally Speaking, and would never go back!) to dictate novels, but I’ve been very interested in getting a dedicated dictation device for a while and Plaud keeps coming up. I’m aware my use case isn’t what it’s designed for, but I’d love to know if it would work anyway.

Are you able to enter custom instructions? For example, instead of summarizing a recording, could I get it to format my words directs into prose, including automatically inserting quotation marks around dialogue, adding a line break when I say “new paragraph,” etc, without changing much when it comes to the actual content I dictated?

Have any other novelists used Plaud to dictate their books, rather than just for note taking?

I’d love to hear firsthand from other users whether this will work for me, or if someone is aware of a better device, I would appreciate being pointed that direction!

ETA: Adding this update in case anyone else has a similar question. I ended up purchasing a Plaud NotePin S and am able to get the exact workflow I want with a custom template! I can dictate exactly like I do with Superwhisper (and like I used to do with Dragon), and it provides both a word for word transcription and a cleaned up version with proper punctuation, line breaks, and automatically applied quotation marks around dialogue. I’ll probably still use Superwhisper for long sessions at my desk, but this is going to be amazing for inspiration that hits me when I’m on a walk or lying in bed or anywhere else where I don’t want to sit down with a computer. All I have to do is copy and paste it from the Plaud app to my writing program, then proofread and sometimes do a few minor tweaks.

I’m still playing around with it, but so far I highly recommend it for other writers who like to dictate. It’s important to get your prompt right and keep an eye out for hallucinations so it doesn’t change your words, but it’s way, way, way more accurate than Dragon Naturally Speaking.

Hi everyone, I’m new to keeping snails and I’m not sure where to start. I know they are highly regulated in the US. Does anyone happen to know which snails are legal to keep in Michigan specifically, and how to source them?

I’m not sure if this can be asked here due to the no eating snails rule, but this is specifically about breeding feeder snails for another pet and there aren’t that many resources out there. I totally get it if it gets deleted, but I wanted to try.

I recently got a Cuban False Chameleon, and they’re specialized snail eaters. There is a commercially available canned snail diet but the snails are shell-less and frankly, I doubt they’re raised in particularly great conditions.

I’d like to start breeding my own feeder snails, and I’d love to know which species I could get in NA that would breed quickly and be relatively easy to take care of, how to obtain them, plus husbandry tips for keeping them happy and healthy. Thanks!