the prompt this whole guide is built on
Here's a photo of [my handwritten notes / the whiteboard] from [class]. Type it up as clean notes with headings and bullet points. Keep my wording where you can and don't add anything that isn't in the photo. If you can't read a word or a symbol, write (unclear) instead of guessing.
The professor filled the whiteboard and you got about half of it down before it got erased. Your own notes are a mess of arrows and half sentences that made total sense at the time.
Take a photo. AI chat tools can read pictures, handwriting included, and turn them into typed notes with headings you can actually study from. ChatGPT takes photo uploads on its free plan, but only a few a day. If you use a different tool, look for its upload button.
How to do it
- Take the photo straight on, in good light, with the whole board or page in frame. One page per photo works best.
- Upload it, paste the prompt above and fill in the class.
- Go through every (unclear) spot and fill it in from memory, a classmate or the slides.
- Compare the typed notes with the photo once. AI can misread numbers, symbols and formulas.
- Save the notes and the photo together, so you can always check the original.
Find the gaps
These are my notes from [topic]. List the spots where something seems to be missing or cut off, like a step that jumps or an arrow that points to nothing. Don't fill them in, just list them so I can ask about them.
Make them study ready
Add a short summary at the top of these notes, put the key terms in bold, and give me three questions I should be able to answer after this lecture. Don't change anything else.
that's it. go try it tonight.
