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Same. I just bought a scanner which I intend to use to scan and OCR my notes so that I can finally shred the mountain of paper I have. But I know I won't read the digital copy either so I'm not sure why I'm bothering. I guess it's the next step to putting it completely out of mind.

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Same here too. It's the act of writing that's important to me.

Keeps my thoughts in order while I'm switching tasks etc.

I do use a rocketbook which is a little reusable notebook with a companion app you can use to quickly scan and upload the pages.

I only scan the things I think I might refer back to, but it is seldom I actually do refer back.

Would you have an LLM summarise it for you instead?

That's not a terrible idea. The OCR is struggling with my chicken scratch, but maybe ChatGPT can read the image directly. Might try one day. I was reading some of my notes...and it's mostly garbage, not sure it's even worth doing.

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