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Re:Writing by hand is good for your brain by LAC-Tech on Thursday July 23, 2026 @08:33PM (#49029932)
Anecdotally I find I connect more with what I write by pen as well.

Ultimately I want things to in text documents though (typst for me these days). If there was a non-slopware solution to ocr scanning to a typst doc, I would do it a lot more .

Re:Writing by hand is good for your brain by mimo84 on Thursday July 23, 2026 @09:36PM (#49030304)
I have been using LLMs for this and they excel and understanding my very poor calligraphy. All I do I take photos of the pages I wrote by hand, and then ask the LLM to convert those notes to markdown and convert any diagrams that I might have to mermaidjs style, and worked wonders for me.
Re:Writing by hand is good for your brain by LAC-Tech on Thursday July 23, 2026 @09:50PM (#49030394)
Hmmm - I guess all the "chatbot" web interfaces for LLMs have an option to upload images. And they're really good at this now you say? That's a really useful tip; thanks.
Re:Writing by hand is good for your brain by mimo84 on Friday July 24, 2026 @01:49AM (#49031634)
Yeah they work really well. I have tried Claude opus and ChatGPT 5.5