> No, because the work of manual transcription is a way of telling if transcribing them is worth doing. Yes, for a percent of the work. I have spent a bunch of

> No, because the work of manual transcription is a way of telling if transcribing them is worth doing. Yes, for a percent of the work. I have spent a bunch of time already digitizing my journals (including a loooong detour where I had to organize them because I didn’t exactly have them in chronological order…) I have seen and manually transcribed enough of my journals to know I want the rest. But it’s not worth it to do it manually at this time. > Orthogonally, maybe building a system is what you really want to do (for many people that would be more enjoyable than revisiting old journal content). And I do want to build a system to do this, as part of my own personal mind bike. Thanks for your comment.