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this looks cool. I have a request: I've been using the Notes app for my todo lists since mid-2020. I have one note per day, and I then break them up by quarter
by aaronbrethorst 3y ago
this looks cool. I have a request: I've been using the Notes app for my todo lists since mid-2020. I have one note per day, and I then break them up by quarter and year. e.g.:
2024
Q1
Monday, January 1, 2024:
- [x] [XYZ] - Review pull request from [Person]
- [x] Investigate error rates for [XYZ] in Sentry
I look back through these documents for two reasons:
1. Right now, I have to go back through all of my notes from the past week for engineering sync meetings to assemble a list of completed tasks, then I group them by functional area, and then I write out a little bullet-pointed synopsis that I share with my peers.
2. I use my completed todo lists from the previous year to help fill in my annual performance evaluation. I look back through the entire year for major projects I worked on.
I'd love to speed up both of these processes by pointing an LLM at all of these documents and having it auto-summarize either on a weekly, monthly, quarterly, or yearly basis.
- rexec 3y agoThanks! There's a "Summarize selection" prompt in there, so if you try it with a good model like Mixtral you might already get good results for (1). For (2) I'm guessing you'd want to be able to write a custom prompt?
- aaronbrethorst 3y agoCan "Summarize selection" work across multiple documents, or is it limited to only a single document at a time? Also, the Notes app on macOS has a reasonably comprehensive AppleScript Dictionary associated with it for scripting; have you considered using osascript with either AppleScript (ugh) or JavaScript to expand your cross-document capabilities?
- rexec 3y agoAh yes it's limited to single documents. Using AppleScript/JavaScript to pull multiple notes is a good idea!
- codazoda 3y agoI love to read about this type of stuff. Have you blogged about or written about it in more detail here on HN? Edit: I reworded my question because it was a bit vague.
- aaronbrethorst 3y agoI wrote up a bit more information on the subject: https://www.brethorsting.com/blog/2024/02/how-i-manage-my-todo-lists/ https://www.brethorsting.com/blog/2024/02/how-i-manage-my-to...
- aaronbrethorst 3y agoMy todo list method? No, I've never written about it anywhere. It had never occurred to me that other people would find it interesting. I'll add it to the section of my todo list for future blog posts ;) (but seriously, that's where they go.)