This is a post idea taken from gwern. The idea is to list improvements to ordinary quality-of-life going beyond computers.
What are improvements?
Improvements
Divided by year, and in reverse chronological order.
2025
- Overcame the fear of annotating books. I now buy Oxford World Classics, or Penguin Classics, and annotate them with a Muji 0.38mm.
- I use a Midori MD Notebook A5 to track my ideas, and thoughts.
- I use my phone camera to take pictures of the annotations, and upload them to ChatGPT which are analyzed via this prompt.
- I deep research EVERYTHING I buy with GPT-o4mini-High, to avoid switching later.
- Prompt can be found here
- I learned how to read a book, framework here. Book Notes Here.