
One Plaud Recording, Several Differently Formatted Summaries
Saves ~20 min
Details
Gets you past the one-template-per-recording ceiling. The Plaud app applies a single AutoFlow template to a recording, so if you want a short recap for yourself, a decisions-only version for the people who missed it, and a clean action list for your task manager, you are re-running or rewriting by hand. This workflow reads the transcript once and produces every format you have defined in a single pass: you list the output formats you want in a Google Sheet, each with a name and a description of the shape and audience, and the workflow generates all of them from the same source text and writes them into one Google Doc per recording with a section for each. Because every version comes from the same read of the transcript, they stay consistent with each other rather than drifting the way separately generated summaries do. Formats are yours to change at any time by editing the sheet, with no re-recording and no template juggling in the app. A processed log keeps each recording to a single pass so it can run on a schedule over everything new.
Tools In This Workflow
Workflow Steps
- 1Get User Timezone and Date
- 2Ask for the Recording Window
- 3Read Output Formats
- 4List Plaud Recordings
- 5Each New Recording
- 6Fetch Transcript
- 7Generate Every Configured Format
- 8Write the Multi-Format Doc
- 9Log the Run
- 10Summarize the Run
Step 1 of 10
Tool1
Get User Timezone and Date
Get the user's current local date, time, timezone and UTC offset. The requested window and every recording timestamp are resolved against this and never against the server clock.




