Priya Raman is a PhD researcher in Leeds studying paid and unpaid care work. Her fieldwork produced 212 interviews and roughly 190 hours of audio.
The setup
Recording on an iPhone 13 with a clip-on mic.
Speaker labels named after the first minute of each interview.
A folder per participant group, filled automatically after the first five.
Each evening she read the summaries, flagged quotes, and exported the transcript to her coding software with timestamps intact.
I stopped rewinding. When I needed a quote I asked for it, and it played.
The result
She finished first-pass coding in eleven weeks instead of the thirty she had budgeted, and every quote in her thesis links back to the second it was said.