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Write to think is a little slow... Unless you can type pretty fast, in which case it's good to clear your mind... Talking to think is even better... Alone, wit
by dmingod666 4y ago
Write to think is a little slow... Unless you can type pretty fast, in which case it's good to clear your mind...
Talking to think is even better... Alone, with a Bluetooth headset, talk to yourself -- better if the app can skip silence --- you can now listen back and look back at your own thoughts from a detached 3rd person perspective.
I recently experimented with Google speech to text on goolge docs to chalk out some content that I went back and refined later, so that could be a happy compromise.
- omwow 4y agoI find that it's exactly the slowing down that helps me think more clearly. Even talking to think slows down my thinking, but to a lesser degree, and it's not as clearly structured. Writing on the other hand really helps me to think more thoroughly. The right answer is probably that we all are different and have to figure out what works best for us.
- dqpb 4y agoLol. Ok, tomorrow instead of writing software, I’ll speak the software, listen back, and re-speak any changes I want to make. Only when it’s perfect will I speech-to-text the actual code. This will definitely be faster.
- dmingod666 4y agoYea, I get your joke, but if you're writing for example an article, this is an excellent approach for a messy first draft that you can refine and clean up later..
- dqpb 4y agoI write so much so quickly (code and non code), that it’s hard for me to imagine speaking being better or faster.
- freilanzer 4y agoThat seems even slower and lacking the most important advantages of actually writing: you're articulating your thoughts via a slow medium which forces you to actually think through what you're putting down. Also writing by hand activates your motor cortex and that's beneficial when studying. If you don't have time to write, you don't have time to think thoroughly.