recommended LLM use: summarizing and organizing based on transcript
made w/ midjourney
A common part of the workflow for Ben and me is a long-ish brainstorming conversation. I’m especially enthusiastic about the hazy, conceptual, anything-is-possible part of a project, when we can yammer at each other with a bunch of different ideas. Historically, I’m pretty bad at taking notes on these kinds of conversations and some of the things that seemed especially shiny or promising in the moment slip my mind by the time I need to act. In instances where I have been more disciplined, it takes beaucoup time for me to organize my transcript-like notes into something that’s logical, concise, and easy to act on.
Ben has taught me how to outsource this stenographer-meets-project manager work to LLMs. The basic workflow looks like this:
We have the conversation, usually recording it on Loom. Loom generates a transcript. If you don’t have or don’t like Loom, consider using Zoom or uploading a recording of the conversation to an AI transcription service.
We then upload that transcript to GPT-5 Thinking or Claude Sonnet 4.5 and prompt something like: “Take this transcript and make an organized outline / action plan based on what we discussed.”
I’ve found that this frees up thinking and opens the conversation in the moment, because we’re confident we’re not going to lose things and one of us isn’t participating halfway by trying to play notetaker at the same time.
-eric
