Two Productivity Hacks for Notes and Highlights

Kindle Highlights to Notion. Voice Notes to AI summary.

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Hello, Happy Sunday! This week’s newsletter is going to be a very short one. Good weather is coming so make sure to enjoy it. I will share two tutorials that will accelerate how you take notes.

Read time: 2 minutes

The Rabbit Hole

Having all book highlights from Kindle pass automatically to Notion (or another notes app)

Here is a rapid and easy tutorial (also has a video) I followed to get all the highlights from my Kindle, separated per book, on a special page in my Notion (the app I use for notes and organization).

It lets you sync whenever you have new highlights and want to update the notes.

I plan to improve on top of it. Maybe create a shortcut where I press a button and everything syncs automatically (although this first version doesn’t require much work).

An idea that I will also try, and you can too: Connect GPT into your highlights and have it summarize the best ideas in bullet points, general summary, etc (if I end up doing this, I’ll create a simple tutorial for it).

Take voice notes and have them transcribed + summarized + action points

This is a game changer if you like taking voice notes when going for a walk, in the car, or at home.

Here are two videos that will help you create a voice note with the phone and automatically have it transcribed in a note, with a summary, action points, and whatever else you want it to have.

This first one lets you create something almost ready to use (without technical knowledge).

This second one gives you more flexibility. And if you use this flexibility to improve on the first video, you will have an amazing result.

One Interesting Link

  • Elon Musk touches on what is wrong with “traditional” education (Tweet with Video)

"If there are nine rabbits on the ground, if you want to catch one, just focus on one.”

Jack Ma

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