Note Taking

​

Quick start: speak these

Send a voice note with your ideas.

Can you organize this into a coherent summary?

Can you challenge this idea? Please play devil’s advocate.

Share a photo or a document and ask Notis to save it along with your notes

​

Note taking workflow

​

1. Capture your thoughts

I’ve been thinking about the future of AI in education… personalized learning paths… teachers as facilitators rather than lecturers…

​

2. Organize into coherent notes

Can you organize this into a coherent summary?

Turn this into a structured document.

Save this to my notes database.

• Extract key themes
• Create logical structure
• Save to your Notion database with a link

​

3. Challenge your thinking

Can you challenge this idea? Please play devil’s advocate.

What are the counterarguments to this?

Poke holes in my reasoning.

​

4. Organize

Associate this with my work area.

Associate this with new help center project.

​

Set up your Notes database in Notion

​

Recommended Integrations

​

Automations

​

Weekly Notes Digest (Patterns + Top of Mind)

1. In the Notis portal, open the Automations tab and create a new scheduled automation.
2. Set the schedule to: Every Friday at 5:00 PM.
3. Paste and adapt this instruction:

# Goal
Create a short, highly digestible end-of-week digest of all my notes from the last 7 days.

The digest must surface
- Patterns and recurring themes
- Key insights worth keeping top of mind
- Decisions and commitments
- Open loops (questions, follow-ups, revisit later)

Input scope
- Include all notes created or updated in the last 7 days.
- If possible, prioritize notes that look important (longer notes, notes with action items, decisions, or repeated topics).

# Output format (follow exactly)

### 1) TL;DR (60 seconds)

- 5 bullets max.
- Each bullet must be specific and easy to remember.

### 2) This week’s patterns

List 3–7 patterns. For each pattern, include:

- Pattern name (short, punchy)
- What I kept circling back to (1–2 sentences)
- Evidence: reference the specific notes behind it (titles + links)

### 3) Key insights worth keeping top of mind

- 5–10 bullets.
- Each bullet must include why it matters.

### 4) Decisions and commitments I made

- Decision or commitment
- Date (if known)
- Note reference (title + link)

### 5) Open loops

- Questions I left unanswered
- Follow-ups I promised
- Ideas I said I would revisit

Each item must include the related note link.

### 6) Next week’s focus (suggested)

- 3 concrete focus items
- Each with a short rationale tied back to this week’s notes.

# Tone

- Write like a clear, sharp personal operating report.
- No fluff. No generic advice.
- Prefer short bullets and short paragraphs.

# Delivery

- Save the digest into my Notes system as a new entry titled: Weekly Notes Digest — YYYY-MM-DD
- Also send me the TL;DR + “This week’s patterns” section in the chat output.

​

Pro tips

• Stream of consciousness: Don’t worry about structure — that’s Notis’s job.
• Multiple voice notes: Send several related notes, then ask Notis to combine them.
• Devil’s advocate: Use this for important decisions to stress-test your thinking.
• Add instructions: Simply add all your instructions to Notis in the same voice note such as “decompose this into tasks”, “draft a new technical specs requirements based on this”, “create a voice note summary I can share”.