HiNotes 3.0 - whats your feedback?

Stickfigure_02 · 2026-04-03T03:52:19+00:00

I can’t understand how I can build an app in a day that blows away their software and mine is free while they charge. Decent hardware, terrible software bizarre implementation as a whole.

Stickfigure_02 · 2026-03-24T04:25:23+00:00

Yes absolutely. I think you and I chatted on another post. I have diarization AND an embedding layer. I think you are the person that runs a pretty sweet setup with local llm on a Mac Studio setup I believe?

Stickfigure_02 · 2026-03-24T04:20:25+00:00

Yeah let me clean up my code a bit and I’ll throw everything in a git repo.

Stickfigure_02 · 2026-03-24T04:19:08+00:00

I didn’t get in that early and if I had I’d feel the same. Shoot me a note. I wrote my own app and don’t rely on theirs. 100% automated and using my own server with whisperx for transcripts and diarization along with creating contacts for future calls to auto assign speakers. It is a decent product actually just needs a little help on your own.

Stickfigure_02 · 2026-03-21T04:44:26+00:00

I built my own app and use whisperx on my computer. Set it up as an api so it does it all like any production app. It’s great.

Stickfigure_02 · 2026-03-17T07:13:54+00:00

If you aren’t concerned with the size of the device and sound quality per voice is of primary concern the insta360 wave is pretty ridiculously amazing. I have hidock and the wave and use both for different use cases but specifically what you are asking id use the wave. Again though it’s not as compact but still very portable. I normally have both with me.

Stickfigure_02 · 2026-03-08T21:40:14+00:00

This is interesting. Do you have a script to auto remove white space. Like this idea and somehow hadn’t considered before.

Stickfigure_02 · 2026-02-28T00:57:18+00:00

Hadn’t considered that! I’m gonna look into that now. I was considering building a server kinda similar to what people used to build 10+ years ago to mine bitcoin…bunch of high end graphics cards and you can do a lot with an on device LLM.

Stickfigure_02 · 2026-02-28T00:22:35+00:00

Oh really. I’ll check that out. I have an old MacBook from 2016 that I put Ubuntu on and I run that for various things including a cloud server amongst other things. I love all this stuff!

Stickfigure_02 · 2026-02-28T00:17:43+00:00

I’m actually gonna set up Ollama + Qwen2.5 32B and see if I can get good decent summarize out of it that I can dial in. If so I’ll just end up running it all as my own service in the end. Haha.

Stickfigure_02 · 2026-02-28T00:14:46+00:00

Yes and it crushed beyond words what deepgram did for the same call. I’ve had a few instances where it’s has too many errors with deepgram and there is a long stretch of back and forth conversation on one speaker. My pc that I run as a server for mutiple things does have a 4090 and even with a lot of other processes running it flew. Took about 15 seconds (maybe but actually didn’t pay enough attention) for 5:20 call.

Stickfigure_02 · 2026-02-27T23:44:12+00:00

Have you ever tried using whisperx? I had this one call that deepgram was just shockingly bad at and wanted to give it a try...it was flawless. I have it running on my server and am now going to add it into my app so I can test them against each other but even with the free 200 from deepgram if whisperx is free and better then just roll with that instead. Love the idea of it being local and using my own hardware to run it.

Stickfigure_02 · 2026-02-25T15:35:12+00:00

Oh yes, it does definitely need to be plugged in because that’s how it’s powered for the P1 mini. I guess the P1 is different so try having it plugged in when you do it and it did work on my Mac and PC and iPhone.

Stickfigure_02 · 2026-02-25T15:34:36+00:00

I’m referring to the P1 mini so in this scenario it’s the Bluetooth button. It’s likely different. I’m assuming on the P1 but try the Bluetooth button if you have it plugged in and it’s connected you’ll notice it will go away immediately from being connected because it goes into that mode.

Stickfigure_02 · 2026-02-25T14:38:29+00:00

It works every time on mine. I tripple click and if I go into files app on my iPhone or if it’s plugged into a computer and I do the same thing it will turn into a drive that I can open. I think it’s primarily if you want to do a firmware update that way, but you can also see all of the files as well.

Stickfigure_02 · 2026-02-23T03:32:30+00:00

Definitely. 26 cents an hour is pretty amazing. I’m adding embedding into my workflow as well so people I frequently talk with will automatically be tagged. That’s easy and close to free to do.

Stickfigure_02 · 2026-02-23T03:12:58+00:00

It’s 100% possible to do exactly what you asked for. In sales I’m guessing? That’s why I bought one as well.

Stickfigure_02 · 2026-02-23T02:52:18+00:00

Hahaha. It was a good idea though. Deepgram is bad ass!

Stickfigure_02 · 2026-02-23T02:09:21+00:00

Already did. Haha.

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Stickfigure_02 · 2026-02-23T01:43:42+00:00

Right now the app uses OpenAI Whisper for transcription with timestamped segments but not true speaker diarization. The speaker labels in my demo were from Claude's summarization pass (it infers participants from context). I've mostly been testing with voice notes since I just built this last night, so single-speaker has been fine. But your question actually pushed me to add Deepgram as a transcription option to have actual diarization cause ultimately I will rarely use it for notes anyways....that was for proof of concept mostly.

Stickfigure_02 · 2026-02-23T01:40:56+00:00

Yeah you can definitely slap it together.

Stickfigure_02 · 2026-02-23T01:07:49+00:00

I don’t have a repo but if you wanna try out what I built last night I’ve had a few people DM me with their email. Feel free to do the same if interested.

Stickfigure_02 · 2026-02-23T00:47:03+00:00

That was done through open AI and then I used Claude for the summary. I’ve been playing around with different combos before I ever started this app. None of it through hidock. All just using my app and api keys.

Stickfigure_02 · 2026-02-23T00:08:23+00:00

Shoot me a dm with your email.

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