OnEBoard Chat: Digital Journaling with Google Keep, Docs and NotebookLM

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This week OnEBoard's Bob Danley explained his wildlife journaling method. He takes voice notes in the field with Google Keep, those automatically transcribed notes are imported into a Google Doc with his other notes, and the recorded observations in the Doc are analyzed with NotebookLM. 


This week's generated Meet background used the prompt "student hall with big screens reading journaling". 

Topics


  • The benefits of digital journaling over analog journaling. 
  • Taking field notes in Google Keep using voice recording.
  • Creating a journal in Google Docs and importing notes from Keep. 
  • Analyzing the Google Doc with in NotebookLM.
  • Possibilities for automating the journaling process.
  • Human review and oversight of AI processes.

Takeaways

Bob Danley: "I want you to abandon analog journaling for faster, timely note capture for a multimedia format subject to comprehensive analytics."

Bob Danley: "And the really awesome part of Google Keep is that it will immediately transcribe your voice into words. And then that's all captured as a note. And then not only can you edit in Google Keep, but you also can step number two is imported into a Google Doc."

Bob Danley: "I think that the biggest challenge is when you use NotebookLM ... not only can it, you know, look for patterns, but it can also, you know, make assumptions and that's when you really want to be careful, especially if you're using it to produce something like a podcast or you allow it to make a quiz or a report. You'll have to go over it, make sure that what it has identified as important really is in the actual  piece of work that you gave it to, you know, to overview or analyze. So, yeah, ... obviously it's like magic, but there's still a lot of work involved."

Bob Danley: "... let's remember that your voice isn't deleted. It's part of that Google Keep note. You can always have that to double check the transcription and or to use it you know in a blog posting you know how exciting it is that you're actually describing a photograph that you have up there that was re-recorded in real time."

Bob Danley: "And of course you know you can make Google Docs into a book or a PDF or again a blog post and that is really powerful."

Peggy Kolm: "10 years from now, presumably the analytical systems that we have access to will be better. So you could go back and analyze again and it might be even better. So, this seems like a pretty cool way to record your thoughts and observations."

Nina Trankova: "... we have this benefit of using digital tools. Otherwise for people who are journaling from the analog  era it was much more complicated. You had to rewrite things.  It was a lot of writing because you would first take the notes then summarize what they wrote then write again. That could take years"

Nina Trankova: "It's by all means it's really fascinating and it's creative because you are the author and you use all those tools. It's not just prompting the AI to okay generate me this and it's a hallucination or absolutely relevant result. So you begin with trust and facts and knowledge and expertise and then you use all those tools. So that's perfect."

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