A writer uses voice memos during walks to capture raw thoughts, then feeds the transcripts into ChatGPT to organize ideas and build outlines. The process turns rambling into structure without losing what made the thinking interesting in the first place.
What I will often do is I'll go take a walk, turn on my voice memo app, talk out loud about, like, whatever's on my mind, and then I'll transcribe that with Whisper. Then I'll throw it into ChatGPT and be like, can you summarize what I said? Can you pull out anything interesting, any ideas that you think are, like, particularly good? And it's really, really quite good at doing that and pulling out the little nuggets of, like, insight for me. And then I'll have a big document full of notes. I have no idea how to, like, turn this into anything because I've been thinking about this for so long. And I'll often take that and throw it into ChatGPT or Cloud and be like, hey, can you please turn this into a outline? And it's actually really, really good at figuring out. Take the unstructured blob of notes that I gave it and then find the simple structure for me. That helps me, like, get started. It's really good for helping you understand what's not working about a piece you're writing. With chatgpt and Cloth. I can just sort of like, throw it in there and be like, hey, you're an expert computer scientist. Can you, like, look through what I wrote and see if there are any problems with it? It's not going to be perfect, but it does find stuff and it gives me a level of confidence where I'm like, yeah, I think this is pretty much right. I think we can publish it. And that just dramatically expands the number of things that I can actually write.