The five-minute walk from pitch to car park is the most under-used coaching moment of your week. Your head is full of observations from the session — what worked, who looked off, the thing you forgot to coach. Most of those thoughts are gone by the time you get home. The Fireflies mobile app turns that walk into a transcribed, tagged, searchable log entry. Tier: Free Fireflies plan (800 minutes lifetime).
A memory tool, not a notes tool. The distinction matters.
This upgrades the Memory layer. Coaching observations are high-value, low-durability — they decay within hours unless you capture them. Fireflies on mobile records, transcribes, summarises, and stores the audio with full search across everything you've ever recorded.
It removes the 'I'll remember this' load — the false confidence that you'll recall a specific observation next week. Voice is the lowest-friction capture method that exists; if you can talk, you can log.
Immediately post-session. Open the app on the walk. Talk for 60–90 seconds without structure. Process the transcript later that evening or the next morning.
Three steps. Twelve minutes total.
- Step 01
InstallInstall the Fireflies app on your phone (iOS or Android). Sign up for a free account. The free tier gives you 800 minutes of recording lifetime — at 90 seconds per session that's 533 sessions, more than three full seasons. - Step 02
Use onceAfter your next session, open the app, tap Record. Walk to the car. Talk like you're leaving a voice note for tomorrow's you: 'Tuesday session. Defensive line speed was sharper today than last week. Player X looked tired in the second half — check with the physio. Forgot to coach the breakdown reset, do that Thursday.' Stop the recording. - Step 03
StoreThat evening, open the Fireflies dashboard (web). The transcript is ready, tagged, summarised. Use the prompt below in Claude (with the transcript pasted in) to convert it into a structured coaching log entry. Save the entry to your coaching log doc — a simple Google Doc or Notion page.
1 prompt, one unlocked.
Here's a transcript of my voice note after today's [SESSION TYPE] session on [DATE]: [PASTE TRANSCRIPT] Turn this into a structured coaching log entry with: - Date and session type - 3 key observations (what I noticed, stated clearly) - 2 action items (what I should do about it next session) - 1 player note (any individual who stood out, positively or negatively) - 1 follow-up question I should ask someone (physio / S&C / assistant coach) Keep my voice — don't make it formal. I want to recognise my own thoughts when I read this back in 3 weeks.