Hey everyone—not sure if it's just me, but I've been hitting a wall with forgetting which AI prompts actually worked when I come back to a project weeks later. (I'm guessing I'm not the only one?)

After a lot of tinkering, I finally landed on a simple process that solves it. The best part? It's costing me less than $10/m.

Here's the simple fix I'm using:

First, you create a simple voice memo on your phone right after you get a good AI result (literally just say: "For [project name], this prompt worked: [prompt]. Why it worked: [reason].")
Then, once a week, use Otter.ai (free tier) to transcribe all your voice memos into text.
Finally, paste the transcriptions into a Google Doc organized by project, so you can search it later when you need that same approach.

It took me a while to figure this out, so I hope this saves some of you the headache.

The problem I kept hitting: I'd get amazing AI results, then weeks later I'd completely forget what prompt I used or why it worked. Started from scratch every time, wasting hours re-testing things I'd already figured out.

This tiny voice-memo system is helping me actually remember what works without adding extra screen time to my workflow.

Let me know if any of that is unclear. Happy to help! 🙏

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