Use a Work Journal to Recover Focus Faster and Clarify Your Thoughts

Re:Use a Work Journal to Recover Focus Faster and Clarify Yo... by 8n4vidtmkvmk on Saturday July 13, 2024 @01:39AM (#40952042)

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.

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Re:Use a Work Journal to Recover Focus Faster and Clarify Yo... by kingo55 on Saturday July 13, 2024 @05:34PM (#40957078)

Would you have an LLM summarise it for you instead?

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Re:Use a Work Journal to Recover Focus Faster and Clarify Yo... by 8n4vidtmkvmk on Sunday July 14, 2024 @02:24PM (#40962429)

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.

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Re:Use a Work Journal to Recover Focus Faster and Clarify Yo... by jcul on Sunday July 14, 2024 @04:06AM (#40959595)

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.

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