Slide vs writing reports by hand

The twenty minutes

Time one write-up, end to end. Reading your notes, remembering what actually happened, writing it, reading it back, sending it. Then count the sessions in a normal week. Those are the only two numbers this page needs, and both of them are yours.

1. 20 minOne write-up, by hand. Put your own figure here. Twenty minutes is the number this site already uses.
2. 10Sessions in a normal week. Put your own figure here too.
3. 3 h 20Twenty minutes times ten sessions is two hundred minutes. That is the writing in one week, and it happens after the last client has gone.
4. 133 hTwo hundred minutes times forty working weeks. That is over three full working weeks in a year, spent writing up work you had already done.

Check it on your own two numbers rather than these. The answer is the point, not the example: a practice with six sessions a week and a fast fifteen minutes still spends sixty hours a year on it.

Slide does not turn that number into zero, and any page that tells you it does is selling you something. What it changes is what the twenty minutes is made of. The draft is written from the recording and is waiting when you finish; what is left is reading it, changing what is wrong, and sending it. The difference between writing and reading is real, and it is yours to measure on your own sessions rather than ours to quote at you.

The email goes out the same evening

By hand, the write-up waits for the next gap in your week. Wherever that gap falls, the session is older by the time you reach it, and you are writing from a few lines of notes and whatever you still remember. The client, meanwhile, has had nothing since they walked out.

The sample write-up on this site is one real shape of that. A forty five minute algebra session on Tuesday 9 June, and the parent email underneath it marked sent at 6:41 pm the same day. The tutor read the draft, changed two lines, and sent it.

Nothing reaches a client before a person has read it, and recording starts only after everyone in the session has agreed. How recording consent works.

Twenty write-ups, or one history

The second cost of writing by hand is not time, and it shows up later. Twenty write-ups written by hand are twenty documents. Some are in a notes app, some in a document, some only in your sent mail, and answering "what did we agree in March" means first remembering which of those you were using in March.

The sample write-up is headed session 7 of 12, and the parent email under it ends by pointing at the page that holds the earlier ones. Action items and goals carry from one session to the next instead of being retyped, so what you agreed last time is something you read rather than something you reconstruct.

What it costs

Writing by hand costs no money and the hours above. Slide costs money and gives some of those hours back. Here are the exact numbers on our side, so you can do the arithmetic yourself.

1. $29.99Pro, per month. Starter is $14.99 and Max is $49.99. Slide takes no commission, ever.
2. 200Write-ups included each month on Pro. One past that is $0.99. Ten sessions a week is about forty three a month, well inside it.
3. 7 daysThe trial, with no card. Nothing is charged when it ends.
4. YoursYour hourly rate. Divide $29.99 by it. That is how many hours Slide has to hand back in a month before it has paid for itself.

That last line is the whole comparison, and it is the one we are not going to finish for you. We will not guess your rate, and we will not guess how much of the twenty minutes you get back, because both of those are measurements about your practice and we have not made them. Run it on one real session and the numbers stop being ours.

The first 30 founding practitioners get Pro at $19 a month for 12 months, then $29.99. Paid plans open when card payments go live. Your trial keeps going at no charge until then.