Re:Use a Work Journal to Recover Focus Faster and Clarify Yo...
by pizzathyme on Friday July 12, 2024 @11:13PM
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I’ve found a lot of success going one step further giving up on retrieval all together. I use either a new text file every time (which I never open again) or a physical notebook page (which I never refer back to). I get so much value from the act of writing itself.
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Re:Use a Work Journal to Recover Focus Faster and Clarify Yo...
by 8n4vidtmkvmk on Saturday July 13, 2024 @01:39AM
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Same. I just bought a scanner which I intend to use to scan and OCR my notes so that I can finally shred the mountain of paper I have. But I know I won't read the digital copy either so I'm not sure why I'm bothering. I guess it's the next step to putting it completely out of mind.
Re:Use a Work Journal to Recover Focus Faster and Clarify Yo...
by kingo55 on Saturday July 13, 2024 @05:34PM
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Would you have an LLM summarise it for you instead?
Re:Use a Work Journal to Recover Focus Faster and Clarify Yo...
by 8n4vidtmkvmk on Sunday July 14, 2024 @02:24PM
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That's not a terrible idea. The OCR is struggling with my chicken scratch, but maybe ChatGPT can read the image directly. Might try one day. I was reading some of my notes...and it's mostly garbage, not sure it's even worth doing.
Re:Use a Work Journal to Recover Focus Faster and Clarify Yo...
by jcul on Sunday July 14, 2024 @04:06AM
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Same here too. It's the act of writing that's important to me.
Keeps my thoughts in order while I'm switching tasks etc.
I do use a rocketbook which is a little reusable notebook with a companion app you can use to quickly scan and upload the pages.
I only scan the things I think I might refer back to, but it is seldom I actually do refer back.
Re:Use a Work Journal to Recover Focus Faster and Clarify Yo...
by nashadelic on Monday July 22, 2024 @10:26AM
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Essentially "working memory", gets discarded with the task