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I’ve found a lot of success going one step further giving up on retrieval all together. I use either a new text file every time (which I never open again) or a
by pizzathyme 2y ago
I’ve found a lot of success going one step further giving up on retrieval all together. I use either a new text file every time (which I never open again) or a physical notebook page (which I never refer back to). I get so much value from the act of writing itself.
- 8n4vidtmkvmk 2y agoSame. 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.
- kingo55 2y agoWould you have an LLM summarise it for you instead?
- 8n4vidtmkvmk 2y agoThat'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.
- jcul 2y agoSame 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.
- nashadelic 2y agoEssentially "working memory", gets discarded with the task