This is my favourite workflow for note taking at the moment:
Voice record my thoughts to iphone with the recording app. I don’t take much care to speak clearly or in a structured way. I just blurt all my thoughts out into the recorder.
Press the transcript button and copy the text
Then I either do:
3a. Paste into Copilot for Teams and prompt Clean up this voice recording and organize it into notes that are arranged in a logical order. Use markdown format
Or
3b. Paste into Teams chat to myself for later. Later on my laptop paste the text into a markdown document and use Roo Code or Github Copilot with Clean up this voice recording and organize it into notes that are arranged in a logical order. Use markdown format
In general I’m not a fan of AI note taking. The problem is if you take a document you didn’t write and then get AI to summarize it for you there is no mental energy. The mental energy is when you learn and synthesize ideas.
However, I feel differently about voice recordings, because the ideas are still going via my brain before they get to the AI. It also allows me to capture complex ideas that I may not get time to write down.
For example, I’ve used it while cleaning the house to get a blog idea down and then into a first draft. I used it while walking to an appointment to ‘write’ a first draft of the methods for a paper.
Designed by Chris Brown. Source on Github