For a while now, I’ve been incorporating voice journaling into my morning walk.
The purpose of this is to dump any thoughts that are top of mind onto digital paper so I can make use of them later.
I’ll share how I do this, but first here’s what I capture (in no particular order):
- Context around recent weigh ins, meals, or workouts
- Upcoming plans and events, including training schedule for the week
- Any random to dos I can think of (usually home or family related)
- Description of nagging problems I’m trying to solve
- One or more things I’m grateful for
I record all this in an app called Voicenotes.
Voicenotes is by far the best app I’ve found for voice journaling or creating any kind of voice-first content (blogs, newsletters, emails, meeting notes).
It works seamlessly on iPhone via shortcuts and widgets for quick capture. Recording is always reliable. Transcription is accurate, even with background noise. Notes sync across all devices and you can record from any device, including your Apple Watch.
The AI content creation piece is also seamless because you can take any Voicenote transcript and turn it into a number of different preset content types like a summary, blog, email, tweet, list of key points, or a custom rewrite prompt with one tap (The blog preset works really well as I often do not need to edit the rewrite any further).
The best part about Voicenotes is it integrates with Claude via a connector so any Claude chat can automatically read your Voicenotes.
You can imagine how powerful this is. When you have one or more chats set up to do this, it’s an easy way to feed them as much information or context as your want without having to type it.
This year, I've built two Claude projects which rely heavily on the Voicenotes connector: a Personal COO (task manager, research assistant, and proactive problem solver) and Chief Longevity Officer (personal trainer, nutrition coach, longevity advisor, and health accountability partner).
I instruct both to read my daily morning brain dump and the difference in the quality of output is staggering.
If you are using Claude, I highly recommend this workflow.