From the course: Boosting Your Time Management with AI Tools

Use AI to turn notes into action plans

From the course: Boosting Your Time Management with AI Tools

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Use AI to turn notes into action plans

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- What do Leonardo da Vinci, Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein have in common? It's not just genius. They each had a system to capture their ideas and observations. There's a term for that in psychology, cognitive offloading, and it's a superpower. Many people have great ideas all the time, but they let 'em go down the drain thinking I'll remember, but of course, they rarely do. The research on this essentially says that our brains are great for generating ideas, but not the best at storing them. What's worse is that even when people have good ideas and note them down, in many cases they never do anything about them. They have notebooks filled with brilliant insights that never see the light of day. This is where AI can be very helpful. Let me show you my process. Here are three typical notes from my week. Note one, need to follow up with marketing team about Q4 campaign ideas. Note two, start exercise routine again, and note three, organize home office. Without ai these would sit in my notes app for weeks, but watch what happens when I ask AI to transform them. You can pause and read through the output and it may differ slightly from model to model. Do you see the difference? In seconds my vague ideas became concrete plans I can start executing today. My main tip schedule a weekly time to review your notes and run them all through AI to ask about, essentially, what can I do about it? Could be adding something to a calendar, breaking down a project into multiple steps or setting up a metric to track progress. What we're doing here is essentially expediting the most important process in the world, the process that transforms ideas into actions. Now, let's talk capture. Another type of AI we don't often think about, and that's been here since before Generative AI is voice assistance. When I'm on the move or riding a bike or whatever, I simply press a button on my headphones and say, note to self, X, Y, Z, or at home I just say, Hey, Google, note to self. I set it up so that all these notes go to my app, Google Keep. But of course, you can set it up so that it's compatible with whatever you want. You can do this with Siri or any voice assistant you want. It essentially makes idea capture easy, efficient, and no barrier. Your challenge for now, after this video, take three notes you've captured but have not acted on. Feed them to AI asking for an action plan for each. Then commit to implementing at least one this week. You'll be amazed at how quickly ideas transform into results.

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