Excerpts from a conversation with John Wiegley (johnw) and Adam Porter (alphapapa) about personal information management :: Sacha Chua

Adam Porter (alphapapa) reached out to John Wiegley (johnw) to ask about his current Org Mode workflow. John figured he'd experiment with a braindumping/brainstorming conversation about Org Mode in the hopes of getting more thoughts out of his head and into articles or blog posts. Instead of waiting until someone finally gets the time to polish it into something beautifully concise and insightful, they decided to let me share snippets of the transcript in case that sparks other ideas. Enjoy!

Today I was playing a lot with org-review. I'm just trying to really incorporate a strong review process because one of the things I started doing recently is that this [Fireflies AI]​ note taker that's running in the background. Now, it produces terrible transcripts, but it produces great summaries. And at the bottom of every summary, there's a list of all the action items that everyone talked about associated with the names.

So I now have some automation, that will all I have to do is download the word document and then I have a whole process in the background that uses Pandoc to convert it to Org Mode. Then I have Elisp code that automatically will suck it into the file that I dedicate to that particular meeting.

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