I sit here at my desk with post it notes scattered everywhere, organizing my thoughts and things to do for the day. Something about being able to physically move them around and cross things off just makes it easier for my brain to work.
The problem with this workflow is getting it into the apps that I use to organize my life. These change from time to time, but Sunsama is the clear winner for me at the moment.
PostIt has a great app to use your camera to organize your notes.
I've also found that Apple's FreeForm has a fantastic feature for scanning. Over the weekend I scanned hundreds of old post-it notes of mine that I was trying to declutter, yet some of them had important thoughts that I wanted to stash for later. I used Freeform to scan all my notes.
Next up I'll try feeding this to a model and see if it can organize my notes and create action items from them.
Come to think of it, I could have done none of this and just organized the notes by hand while scanning them :)
Maybe I should try turning my computer off next time and just thinking before I do something.
This brings me back to college. We did this as our final project for our networking class at Georgia Tech.
I've long lost the code for this, but the lessons learned have lived on :)
Projects like these are great ways to learn new languages too!