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Now in today's video, I want to share with you my review
on this awesome new software called Grain.
New software that allows you to do minute taking on zoom.
Basically we're zooming out, we're always zooming,
and how do we best use zoom?
It's often that I've been on a zoom call,
and I'm like, oh my god, you're gonna listen to this recording,
because we've had a lot of great tips in there.
Those recordings usually is like an one hour long.
Imagine giving that to your team,
and they have to go really listen throughout the whole
thing
and trying to figure out when am I going to learn something from
here?
Which part should I watch?
Unless you're actually in the zoom meeting,
you're not going to really focus.
Giving someone a one hour recording is not very useful.
I want to share with you that feature or the benefit of that,
but plus more.
I really want to share how I feel about using it.
Now that I've had a few weeks of using it. When do I actually use
it?
When is it beneficial for you to use it? Who should we use it?
etc.
Enjoy!
Okay, so let's start with what is Grain exactly?
Grain is a software that you install,
it goes straight into your computer.
Once it's installed, whenever you're on zoom,
it will automatically come up with this little notepad,
little mini notepad and it has a timestamp.
While you're having a zoom call, you can actually note take
and it will note take and tell you exactly the timestamp of
that note tape.
Now, once you finish the recording,
it automatically goes into its library of video
where you know where your recording is.
In there, you're going to get the full transcription of your
whole recording.
So you don't have to actually download zoom
and then upload it somewhere to get the transcription.
The video and the transcription is automatically
already pushed into the Grain recording library.
When you're in there, this is when you can create snippets.
So you can actually highlight certain parts of your
transcription
and turn it into little small videos.
That is exactly what grain is.
It's automatically transcribing, putting it into a...
I guess it's software so that you could even create snippets
and you can share that recording with someone
and they can straightaway see all your minutes
that you've taken throughout the whole session.
Okay, so why should you use Grain?
Well, to be honest, I've felt the pain of being on recordings
and zoom meeting and I'm like, Oh, my God,
I want the team to watch the recording.
My teammate would be like, "it's like, one hour long,
I don't think anyone's gonna really watch it."
It's kind of that wastage of content,
where you just feel like, you might have a one hour session
with someone,
but in that one hour, there were just some really great gold
nuggets.
How do you actually share that?
How do you actually take the minutes and,
and be able to share with your teammates.
Only the parts that they want to see
or if you're taking minutes of your meeting,
how do I go back into that section of the video
and learn more about it.
So Grain allows you to do that.
The other thing is, for someone who's not technical at all,
I can't use any of the video editing tools at all.
Grain allows me to just literally highlight a piece of
passage
and then cut it into a video file, like a little snippet.
It's just amazing for someone who's not technical,
because I can't even use those video editing tool when trying
to cut videos.
Whereas this is just giving me that ability to be able to share
a small content.
So giving an example.
Recently, I was having a zoom meeting with one of my pastors,
who was sharing some really great tips around God and money.
Although it was a casual meeting with me and him,
he was just given me so many gold nuggets t
hat I was able to after the meeting, cut a small two minute
video,
and then share it on my social media.
I just basically easily did it myself,
I didn't have to go and grab the video file,
send it to my video editor to go and cut it and telling him which
part cut.
I was able to do that myself.
Grain is awesome for that!
Okay, so when would you actually be using Grain?
I wanted to do this video after a few weeks of using Grain,
because sometimes you have a great tool,
but if you don't know when you should be using it,
you don't really use it because it's not applicable to
everything right?
First of all, what isn't not useful for?
I find that I don't really care about note taking or recording
my session
if I'm just having a quick casual chat with my teammates.
I'm like wanting to... "Hey, are you free to jump online? I need
to ask you a question."
With those little casual ones, I'm not going to care about
sharing that recording
or taking the minutes or creating any snippets.
Grain is really great is when I know I'm going to go into an
important meeting.
Recently I was in a meeting to discuss with another company
about a partnership,
there was maybe six people in that meeting,
but there's still other people in my company that wasn't there,
because we don't want to put too many people in the meeting.
We still needed the rest of the company
to know what's going on from that meeting,
because that meeting was really important.
In my mind, I knew straightaway that I was going to be note
taking.
Also, I knew that I wasn't the person who really had to speak,
one of my ops manager was the one that's delivering the
message
or talking to the other party.
Straightaway, I knew I was a note taker,
I wanted to use Grain for that purpose.
As they were talking, I was taking notes.
When I'm saying taking notes, it's not really about writing
long passages,
it's just a little note, like they said, this, we should do
this.
I'm almost creating action steps throughout the thing.
In the meeting, we're like, okay, after this, we need to
schedule a meeting,
we need to do this, I'll write all these things, write all
these notes.
Once the session was finished, it was automatically sent up
onto this link.
I added the members or shared the link with the members
with people who weren't there,
people who was even there was so impressed with it,
because now they can actually see a video recording
with all the important summary of the notes on the side,
which just made him...
because sometimes you're in a really important meeting,
you don't want to be missing out on key points as well.
People who were at the meeting was impressed with the notes.
Besides, if you look at the notes, you can actually click
into it
and then go deeper into it and go,
"Okay, what did we actually mean by that?" or
"what was the context behind that note".
Sometimes, if you're just notetaking, without a video,
you might interpret that note very differently.
By sending that recording to the rest of our team members as
well,
they can actually pick the parts that are relevant for them.
If I'm talking about marketing,
and things in the first part of the video,
but someone that's in sales don't care about that part,
they're not gonna even need to watch that bit.
They're gonna just pick the part for them to watch.
That was really cool when it comes to important meetings.
Another time that you would probably want to use your note
is,
let's just say you are the person that's been instructed to
do something.
Sometimes your employer or your manager,
or your teammate wants to teach you something online.
They want to give you a screenshare and show you around
and talk so that you could answer.
You know that this is a time for you to actually absorb
information.
This is a perfect time to have Grain on and take notes.
While you're learning whatever you're actually taking notes,
because if you're not taking notes on the screen,
you can't actually remember exactly what you've been taught.
Once you have that recording, like I said, once again,
you can go to the parts that you're unclear with,
review it again and check exactly
what was the instruction that you had to do.
When you have been given an instruction is a really great
time as well.
Now the next piece is when you're interviewing someone,
you know that they're going to be giving you a lot of gold
nuggets.
This is the best time to start taking notes.
The good thing about brain is that you actually don't even
have to type.
Let's say you're having an important interview,
you don't want to be typing away, because that's a bit rude.
You can actually just create some emojis that means
something.
I have emojis like light bulb.
Light bulb, for me means ideas or fire might be a problem.
Creating these little emojis,
you can actually just press one little icon on the little text.
There's no need to type it all,
but you're just taking a note for yourself to say that this is
a cool bit,
this is a good bit, because maybe later on, it's not really
about you.
If you're the manager or the owner of the business,
you don't even want to be cutting snippets by yourself.
You want to be able to to note down which part is important
and then send it to your video editor,
so that they could now find that section and repurpose it.
It's kind of like note taking in a more, I guess, smaller
version.
It's using emojis.
When you're interviewing someone, like I said,
don't get carried away with typing,
because you're not present.
You're not very focused on that person and it's a bit rude.
But using Grain doing that you can
actually still take note of which part is important
and then you can create snippets, whether yourself or
your team.
There you go, guys, I hope you've enjoyed my tutorial on
how to use grain.
My review is that I really like it.
I just think it's a cool tool, especially it's still free right
now,
I don't know how much it's going to be in the future.
I zoom all the time, I want that ability to be able to take note.
It's been really useful when I've had to share the recording
to someone.
I highly recommend checking it out and downloading it
and let me know how you think about it or what you think about
using Grain.
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