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They are not mutually exclusive, in the era of ubiquitous cameras and handwriting recognition.

Paper and physical notebooks offer motor memory and time delay before data ingestion by cloud analytics.




Handwriting recognition is still very hit-or-miss. The best results I've had so far are by running the handwriting through the Google Cloud Vision API, and then asking ChatGPT to fix transcription mistakes. The problem with that is that effectively you are asking it to hallucinate.

It's great at producing something that sounds a lot like what I might have written, but I can't trust anything that it says, because it frequently hallucinates numbers, dates, people's names—the exact kind of thing that I take notes to have a good record of.

So I've given up and only use paper now.




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