I hate planning, and I love it. Or rather, I hate the prospect of planning, but actually enjoy doing it.
This morning, I decided to approach it in a new way. I would combine my lifelong enthusiasm for bits of paper with my newer adoption of AI tools.
In case you are interested in trying something similar, here’s an overview:
1. I took my paper 2023 diary/planner/notebook, and recorded a rambling account into my phone of what I found there. I recorded things that I’d done, things I’d failed to do. I recorded dates, and themes, and the kinds of people I was working with.
2. I used the recording to make a transcript, and fed the raw transcript into ChatGPT. I asked ChatGPT to put it into some order. I did this various ways (date, theme, etc).
3. I asked ChatGPT to “be my business manager” and help me to create a schedule for 2024. This involved much to-and-fro, as I adjusted things it simply hadn’t understood, or to cram in things I’d overlooked (like the need to take holidays).
What you see here are rows of different kinds of work: mentoring and teaching writers; teaching public speaking; creating and selling art; B2B work; and courses I’ve done before that can be re-launched as evergreen content.
If you want to know about any of these things in more detail, just let me know.
Thanks for looking.
Overview of the Plan
I made a video about how I created this year plan, because I think that could be helpful and interesting to others doing something similar.
I then cut the video in half. The first has more to do with AI, the second is more analogue. Watch both to understand how I combine them.
First video:
Second video:
