Behind the Build
Since publishing my first post about building the first few phases of a dream pipeline that would take me from scattered voice memos to organized, searchable writing gold—automatically, intelligently, and painlessly.
What I Dreamed Up: The OG Pipeline
Back then, my INTP brain was overflowing with “what if?” questions:
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What if every voice note could be auto-transcribed, tagged, and logged?
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What if I could summarize every idea with GPT, then file it by chapter, theme, or scene?
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What if Notion, Bash, Whisper, and Python could all just talk to each other—and do my organizing for me?
I mapped out an ambitious, multi-stage pipeline:
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Stage 1: Auto-transcribe, clean filenames, audit everything, summarize with GPT
Stage 2: Sync with Notion, merge in handwritten/typewritten notes, tag and organize
Stage 3: Index and search in Notion, tie it all together with Zapier and APIs
I imagined a world where I could just record, and the system would do the rest; and as any builder knows, the path from idea to execution is always a little messy.
