New Delhi, Nov. 29 -- As someone who balances life between a corporate job and test driving the latest gadgets and gizmos, I've struggled altogether too often to get my note-taking game just right, whether it's the client discussions and meetings at work or transcribing exec interviews and key highlights of product immersion sessions.

For the most part, the Pixel and its excellent Recorder app has got my back, transcribing voices in real time and saving the recordings and transcripts in the cloud. It isn't perfect, and does get plenty of stuff wrong, so when the Plaud AI Note ( Rs.15,799) and NotePin ( Rs.16,990) showed up for review, I was cautiously optimistic. I mean, this year has seen some pretty massively hyped AI-driven hardware l...