PLAUD AI Voice Recorder
AI voice recorder
A recording wand that transcribes conversations on its own and turns them into diary and material. Waving it produces nothing.
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INVENTORY
Gear and items.
The kit that keeps my adventure running. Serious equipment and utterly pointless equipment sit on the same shelf.
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These three first
The ones that punch above their price. Also what readers actually buy through the note links.
Apple AirTag
2nd generation
A second-generation tracking stone. I fly abroad a lot, so where my checked bag is decides whether I can work in the next city.
Paid 4,779 yen (2026)
View on AmazonUGREEN 4K HDMI capture card
4K
Pulls whatever comes out of HDMI straight into the PC. The mic stand was ordered the next day; recording and audio gear arrived in the same week.
Paid 4,499 yen (2026)
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What you can buy
The books, the one bookstores would not stock, and the goods. All from here.
“コードを書かない Claude Code” (Claude Code Without Writing Code)
A year of handing a company's paperwork, outsourcing and deliveries to Claude Code. No programming in the text. (Japanese)
Kindle 2,380 yen / paperback 3,278 yen
“#100 Day Challenge”
One app a day for 100 days. Where all of this started. Nikkei BP; #1 in Amazon Japan's programming category. (Japanese)
1,980 yen
“#100 Day Challenge: The Unfiltered Edition”
The part a commercial publisher had no room for, as its own book. PDF. (Japanese)
1,480 yen
Ami's Monologue (note membership)
Decisions and loopholes I never post in public, told through the businesses I am running right now. Members-only posts and board. (Japanese)
from 500 yen a month
AMI RESORT goods
Tees, caps, a mug, stickers. Hotel amenities, more or less. 26 items.
700 to 6,200 yen
GADGETS
Gadgets
The hardware I touch every day.
MacBook Pro 14-inch
M2 Max / 64GB / Silver / 2023
Main weapon, attack +9999. The 64GB of memory is mostly used to summon several AIs in parallel.
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second screen for making and recording
Works in tandem with the MacBook for making and recording things. One of the few pieces of equipment she has named herself in an interview.
View on AmazonDJI Osmo Pocket 3
gimbal camera
The camera that keeps filming evidence of the AI-supervised life. It proves to the world that I'm working, so I don't have to.
View on AmazonGalaxy S25 Ultra
Android test unit
One of the four phones. Summoned for 220,000 yen only because development needed an Android test unit. Case and film added 7,000 yen.
Paid 220,000 yen (2025)
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60W chargers ×15
about ¥100,000 in total
Has a proven record of physically beating airport weight checks with five of them in her pockets. Why there are fifteen is unknown even to the owner.
View on AmazonAnker Nano Charger
70W / 3 ports
One brick that feeds three devices. Part of the charger squad of a person who boards LCC flights with five chargers in her pockets.
View on AmazonPressure-regulating earplugs
about ¥1,000
Nullifies cabin-pressure damage. After trying many expensive sleep gadgets, only this thousand-yen one survived.
View on AmazonMic stand (for AT2020)
desktop / shock mount
Holds the mic on the desk and cuts desk vibration with a shock mount. Ordered the day after the capture card.
Paid 2,799 yen (2026)
View on AmazonSanDisk MicroSDXC 512GB
Extreme
Storage +512GB. A board the size of a fingernail holds what does not fit. Ordered May 2026.
View on AmazonSwim goggles
SZSL / anti-fog
Anti-fog underwater vision for breaststroke practice in the hotel pool, which is what the whole system runs for.
Paid 748 yen (2026)
View on AmazonFour smartphones
iPhone 17 / iPhone 16 / Samsung S25 Ultra and more
Spotted that “one free hour of in-flight Wi-Fi” is per device, and with the laptop turned it into five hours. Limits broken by sheer numbers.
BOOKS
Bookshelf
Books read and written about, and books bought. (Japanese titles)
“Scarcity” (Japanese edition)
いつも「時間がない」あなたに
Ordered March 2025. What came of reading it became one note post.
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ぼくたちに、もうモノは必要ない。
Read, written about on note, and later the furniture was all disposed of and the estate became two suitcases.
View on Amazon“TAKE NOTES!”
Mentioned on note alongside the habit of writing ideas straight into Google Docs.
View on Amazon“The Mythical Man-Month” (Japanese edition)
人月の神話
Reviewed on note as the book to read now, in the age of generative AI.
View on Amazon“英単語の語源図鑑”
Clear even for someone who cannot memorize anything by rote, and actually practiced from.
View on Amazon“SPY×FAMILY”
Jump Comics
A manga she put on the shelf of books she has read, by her own call.
View on Amazon“その幸運は偶然ではないんです!”
View on Amazon“お気をつけて、いい旅を。”
“人間を幸福にしない日本というシステム”
View on Amazon“The Little Prince” (新潮文庫)
View on Amazon“Work Rules!” (Japanese edition)
View on Amazon“スマホ脳” (新潮新書)
View on Amazon“The Secrets of Consulting” (Japanese edition)
View on Amazon“人生のレールを外れる衝動のみつけかた”
View on Amazon“バカの壁” (新潮新書)
View on Amazon“The Cuckoo's Egg” vol. 1 (Japanese edition)
View on Amazon“最高の戦略教科書 孫子”
View on Amazon“Grinding It Out” (Japanese edition)
View on Amazon“BRAIN WORKOUT”
View on Amazon“K-On!” vol. 1
View on Amazon“The Goal” comic edition (Japanese)
View on AmazonMONEY
What the money runs through
Accounting, transfers, hotel bills. All of it passes through here.
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freee
accounting / company card
Paid 100,000 yen for this accounting software from day one. The company card with its 500,000 yen limit, registered in Grab, turns into unlimited taxis.
Wise
overseas payments
Summons local currency from ATMs anywhere in the world. Confirmed working even in Nepal.
Open WiseShopify
shop.amiresort.com
The furnace behind the AMI RESORT store. Set up under the US company, with worldwide direct shipping. 26 items on the shelves.
Airalo
eSIM
A contract spell that grants signal the moment I clear immigration. Skips the entire queue at the airport SIM counter.
Agoda
hotel booking
For someone who gave up the apartment to live in hotels: the next bed, booked and paid from a phone.
AI
AI
AI puts together the documents and places the orders with contractors. What I wrote in the time that opened up became two books and the note posts (all in Japanese). AmiGPT answers questions about me so I don't have to.
“コードを書かない Claude Code” (Claude Code Without Writing Code)
my book, September 2026, Kindle / paperback (Japanese)
A year of handing documents, orders to contractors, revisions of client deliverables and social media to Claude Code. No programming in the text.
View on Amazon“#100 Day Challenge”
my book, Nikkei BP, January 2025 (Japanese)
No programming background, one app a day for 100 days with ChatGPT. No. 1 in Amazon Japan's programming category, reprinted.
View on AmazonAmiGPT
dedicated AI
A copy of me trained on my diaries and thinking. Asking the real one costs ¥1,000,000 an hour; this one is ¥1,000 for five questions.
Open AmiGPT200 hours with Gemini: living as a one-person enterprise
note post, ¥980 (Japanese)
Two weeks, 200 hours of talking to Gemini. The second half is the conversation routine that came out of it.
Read on note (Japanese)Can you make ¥1M a month just by obeying an AI boss?
note post, ¥980 (Japanese)
Two weeks with AI as my boss, following 100% of its orders. Monthly income from X and note went from ¥100,000 to nearly ¥200,000.
Read on note (Japanese)Why I spend ¥110,000 a month on AI at 23
note post, ¥980 (Japanese)
March 2025: what the ¥110,000 a month on AI went to, and why. Devin ¥80,000, ChatGPT ¥30,000, Claude ¥3,000, Notta ¥1,200.
Read on note (Japanese)100 paid posts on note later, I stopped needing a résumé
note post, ¥980 (Japanese)
No title, no track record, 100 paid posts written anyway. The shape of writing I found on the way to book and speaking offers.
Read on note (Japanese)“Work that survives” and “work that pays” are not the same
note post, ¥980 (Japanese)
The work AI will not take, and the work that pays in the AI era, are two different things. Both are laid out side by side.
Read on note (Japanese)This is how I wrote, and it became a bestseller
note post, ¥980 (Japanese)
I took on the book with no habit of writing, rewrote it again and again and finished in six months. The method behind “#100 Day Challenge”, step by step.
Read on note (Japanese)TRAVEL & LIFE
Travel and life
I gave up the apartment and live in hotels. The whole system exists for the pool and the spa.
Asahi green tea, label-free
630ml x24
Hydration. A 24-pack that skips the label-peeling step. Five boxes in six months from August 2025.
Paid 1,698 yen / 24 bottles (2025)
View on AmazonBreakfast buffet
hotel ground floor
Cures all status ailments. However shaken I am, the usual buffet returns me to normal.
Hotel pool
breaststroke practice grounds
A sanctuary that restores HP and MP at once. Alongside the spa, it is what the entire system runs for in the first place.
Spa treatments
daily in Bangkok
Full HP recovery plus a mood buff. The entire system exists for this and the pool in the first place.
Mango
Thai
A healing item sold in Thailand in piles, like potatoes. Consumed by heaping it on a buffet plate.
100-yen sketchbook and gel pen
Paper and pen for notes outside. Both from the 100-yen shop. The pen was recently upgraded to gel ink.
The standard sketchbook on AmazonHotel room key
The key I carry instead of a “home”. While held, the housework command is permanently sealed.
Overseas relocation notice (filed)
The paperwork that turns you into “someone who doesn't live in Japan”. Nullifies the damage-over-time called residence tax.
The speaking outfit
full set, about ¥300,000
Armour that makes you look like a serious person. Combined with professional make-up, the effect jumps.
Sleeping lucky cat
mascot
In charge of receiving deposit notifications on the phone in its raised paw while I sleep. The blessings are outsourced to the AI.
