Productivity Tapas Edition 1:

This Week's Productivity Hack: Talk to Your Laptop

This Week’s Productivity hack: Talk to Your Laptop, Supercharge Your Day

Let’s kick things off with a simple, but game-changing productivity hack: talking to your laptop.

Yes, you read that right. Using voice-to-text tools and AI assistants, you can:

• Dictate user stories, PRDs, or meeting notes in minutes.

• Brainstorm ideas out loud and let AI organise them for you.

• Save hours of typing and editing by speaking your thoughts directly.

Talk to Your Laptop, Transform Your PM Workflow

✅ Most PMs spend hours typing documents, emails, and specs
✅ Voice-to-text + AI can cut that time by 75%
✅ Speaking unlocks better thinking and clearer communication

Let's talk about a game-changing productivity hack that's transformed my workflow and those of PMs in my team: talking to my laptop.

Yes, seriously. I know it sounds awkward (and trust me, your colleagues might give you strange looks), but the productivity gains are absolutely worth it.

Here's why.

Why Talk to Your Laptop?

As a PM, my team will spend countless hours typing:

• User stories

• Product requirements documents

• Meeting notes

• Team communications

• Release notes

• Strategy documents

• Emails

• EVERYTHING

Sound familiar?

Then I discovered something interesting: by using Better Dictation (my tool of choice) combined with AI, I could:

• Dictate at 200 words per minute (vs. 40-60 typing)

• Think more clearly and structure ideas better

• Maintain a more natural, conversational tone

• Get through my content creation in record time

The Science Behind Why It Works

When you type, you're constantly stopping, editing, second-guessing. Your brain is juggling the mechanical act of typing with the creative process of thinking.

But when you talk? It's different.

You naturally:

• Structure your thoughts more clearly

• Explain things as if talking to a teammate

• Keep a consistent flow of ideas

• Think through problems more effectively

• You’re also much less fussed about the “perfect” nature of the copy. Which by the way AI doesn’t care about

A Real-World Example: Creating a Feature Spec

Let me walk you through exactly how PMs in my team use this for creating a one pager about upcoming EPICs or features.

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