Mar 9, 2023

Organizing Your Writing with ChatGPT

ChatGPT can organize your notes for you and save you hours each week. Start by providing an actionable list of what you want to achieve. Then, ChatGPT will structure your notes and help you make the most of your time. Finally, you can edit and share your output.

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Alex Banks

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Note-taking sucks.

Luckily ChatGPT can organise your notes for you.

This method will save you hours each week:
— Alex Banks (@thealexbanks) March 9, 2023
I used to walk away from a meeting with an essay's worth of notes.

It was an unorganised mess that took hours to structure.

Now I sort my writing using this 3-step process:
— Alex Banks (@thealexbanks) March 9, 2023
1/ Write the prompt

Your output is only as good as your prompt.

A good prompt must be clear and specific.

Start by providing an actionable list of what you want to achieve.

This will help ChatGPT extract the relevant information for you. pic.twitter.com/n0AidKk2re
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2/ Paste in your unstructured notes

ChatGPT will take care of the heavy lifting.

I've saved hours each week doing this after meetings.

Even better—you get to impress the other person as you quickly synthesise the conversation and provide clarity. pic.twitter.com/u58tCgwBsZ
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3/ Generate output

ChatGPT segments the output into the categories you provided.

If the output seems incorrect you can:

• Ask it to restate
• Ask for reasoning
• Ask follow-up questions pic.twitter.com/8FEompqnLw
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I love the idea of asking ChatGPT for non-obvious and important considerations.

I find myself doing this when I'm making a big decision or starting a new project.

It acts as an intellectual sparring partner to cover blind spots.

What are your favourite note-taking use cases?
— Alex Banks (@thealexbanks) March 9, 2023