Funny how the simple stuff is always the last thing we figure out.

That "like the sea" line is no joke, I got the same speech from a line cook buddy years ago and ignored it too. Now I do a big handful of kosher salt in the pot, probably close to your 2 tablespoons per quart, and I taste the water before it boils to check it's almost too salty. The wild part is the pasta water left over is so good I use it for the sauce instead of dumping it, and everything comes together way better. Ten years of bland noodles for both of us, huh?

Checked mine against a recording once and it had flipped two numbers on a budget line, said 15k when it was really 50k. That kind of thing will bite you if you never look it over. The trick is to scan the summary for any number or name that actually matters, then go back to that spot in the audio and confirm it. Takes five minutes instead of an hour of note taking. Also worth saying the mic matters more than the app, a laptop across the table will drop words when people mumble or talk over each other. Put your phone or a little recorder right in the middle of the table and the whole thing gets way cleaner. So yeah use it for every call, just treat it like a first draft you still have to check, not the final word.