I read physical books every day.
The science shows it’s better for comprehension and keeps me off digital devices.
My note-taking process involves underlining and putting three asterisks *** beside learnings that are new or important to me.
The biggest pain in the arse is sharing those learnings with our team without rewriting every word.
I’ve found a workaround that reinforces these learnings and saves me from rewriting them so I can share them easily.
Enter Super Whisper. Here’s how you can implement this process:
- Download and install Super Whisper on your device or cell phone
- Open Super Whisper and read the notes from your book out loud
The transcript of the indiscernible rambling of my voice recording - Copy the rambling (select Command A + Command C) and take this over to ChatGPT
- Use the following prompt – “Can you please summarise these into learnings that can be read in under 3 minutes – please make them bullet points and simple to understand for the reader”
- Share these with whoever you need to (I share them in Slack for our team to read)
My voice recording turned into a succinct summary for others to read
This process automation has come from a desire to get more of my time back, spurred on by this quote from Andrew Carnegie:
“Profits and prices are cyclical, subject to any number of transient forces of the marketplace. Costs, however, could be strictly controlled, and any savings achieved in costs are permanent.”
Doing this by hand used to cost me 30 minutes weekly; it now takes me 5.
Over a year, I’ve saved 21 hours (25 mins * 50 weeks).
I’ve gained another five working weeks’ worth of time over the next ten years.
Not a bad ROI.
