Designing Your Digital Mind: Charlie Grinnell's AI Journaling System
NOV 11, 202460 MIN
Designing Your Digital Mind: Charlie Grinnell's AI Journaling System
NOV 11, 202460 MIN
Description
About the episodeIn this episode, Andrew chats with Charlie Grinnell, the productivity-obsessed Co-CEO of RightMetric. Together, they get into his foolproof system for getting things done and how AI has revolutionized his workflow.Tune in to learn how to boost your productivity and achieve more with less.We go over1. AI and Journaling: Charlie uses Reflect to transcribe his thoughts while he’s on his morning walk. It’s helped him reduce the friction of journaling.2. Deep Work: “ I go for a walk and I do some journaling, which we'll talk about in a little bit here. I come back home. I do some deep work until I get to lunchtime.”3. Keeping Track of Meetings, Book Quotes, & Interesting Podcasts: The Readwise app helps Charlie keep track of everything he reads and listens to. 4. Interesting AI Use Cases: Chatting with notes, journal prompts, and speech to textAnd so much more. Resources Mentioned- Readwise - Superwhisper- EightSleep- Lomi: Smart Waste Kitchen Composter- Text - Things- Reclaim AI- Basecamp- Fathom- ClayChapters00:00 Intro00:33 Getting to Know Charlie3:17 Charlie’s Typical Day5:15 Charlie’s Journaling Routine11:56 Charlie’s Library of Journaling Questions13:48 Facilitating Deep Work15:39 Dealing With Low Priority Tasks20:09 Avoiding Distraction While in Deep Work21:19 Time spent in Deep Work21:47 Charlie’s Favorite Type of Deep Work23:19 Meeting Recordings, Transcripts, & CRMs26:48 Charlie’s System for Reading31:35 Keeping Track of Interesting Podcast Tidbits34:22 Dealing With AI’s Recency Bias35:57 How Charlie Keeps Consistent With His System38:11 What Drives Charlie to Create Systems42:18 Broken Parts of Charlie’s System44:00 What Charlie’s Looking Forward to With AI45:55 Other Interesting Ways Charlie Uses AI49:30 Products Charlie Really Loves🔗 Find Charlie On:LinkedIn: @charliegrinnell Twitter/X: @CharlieGrinnell Instagram: @charliegrinnell🔗 Find Andrew on:Twitter/X: @awilkinsonLinkedIn: @awilkinsonWebsite: https://www.neverenough.com/Sign up for Andrew's newsletter