How I use audio journaling and AI to improve my trading decisions

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by anupshinde • 1 year ago

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_benj• 1 year ago

This sounds interesting! I find journaling very tedious but I think is my ADHD brain that doesn’t wanna do anything too annoying. I’m not sure how from audio journaling Id get stats like MAE and MFE, apart from general win ratio and accuracy percentage… but I’m sure different stuff works for different people

qntmfred2• 1 year ago

I have been using a Google Form with a single prompt to journal since 2016

https://x.com/kenwarner/status/1436385090679017477

I go for long walks at night a few times a week and find myself journaling a lot then. It got annoying to stop my walk to type out a thought so much, eventually I started primarily voice typing instead.

But I still had to stop and pull up the Google form, then start voice typing, fix any mistakes, and then continue the walk. So I moved on to just turning on a recording app on during the walks and just start talking whenever I want without having to stop or pull out my phone.

https://x.com/kenwarner/status/1817348131291291892

I transcribe the audio file when I get home and add it with a summary to the journal.

Now I keep a livestream going while I'm working at my PC and transcribe and summarize whatever happens there too.

Blue024• 1 year ago

What is the prompt?

dullcrisp• 1 year ago

Journal!

jonaias• 1 year ago

You might want to check out the Limitless Pendant: https://www.limitless.ai/

It’s designed for exactly this kind of use—hands-free, continuous voice capture while you go about your day. You get access to your raw data through an open API, so there’s no lock-in.

(Disclaimer: I work there)

qntmfred2• 1 year ago

I love limitless, I use the app all the time. I didn't buy the pendant, but I'm a big fan of the concept.

https://x.com/kenwarner/status/1779971086974681455

dimitri-vs• 1 year ago

*Currently iOS only:

The Pendant syncs with the native phone app. We currently only have a Limitless iOS app, and the Limitless Android app will be built in [~Q3 2025].

ramesh31• 1 year ago

Cool, now post a journal of your net returns versus the S&P.

Surprised this didn't end with a soft sell on an e-book course.

groby_b• 1 year ago

Wait, somebody shares genuinely useful info, and you complain that it could've been spam, but wasn't?

Look, yes, the daytrading field is weird. You don't have to like it. (I don't either). But... that's an interesting workflow. I'm glad they did share it, I hadn't thought of that approach, and it might be genuinely useful.

Last I checked "interesting" was the criteria for posts here.

jamil7• 1 year ago

I’m not an expert but isn’t this not really comparable since traders are typically trying to generate cashflow?

deanputney• 1 year ago

Tracking stock trades is one of the most advanced uses of audio journaling I've seen– wow! You're pushing that into an area I had not thought of, very cool.

I made Stardate[0] for my own voice journaling and use it similarly. I track how much my dog weighs, sailing hours and notes, and new issues I find in the app. Recently I used it to make a daily checklist on paper by feeding the notes into LaTeX[1]. There's just so much to explore here!

[0] https://stardateapp.com

[1] https://www.deanputney.com/blog/2025/03/20/Paper-Checklist-P...

ejoso• 1 year ago

This is cool. Nice to stumble on it here.

sepositus• 1 year ago

I've been thinking of using a voice + AI flow. I do a lot of thinking when I go on walks and it'd be nice to record, transcribe, and summarize in a single flow. Does anyone know of an app that does all three?

anupshinde• 1 year ago

There are like "Rosebud: AI Journal & Diary" and a few others; please look them up before selecting.

est• 1 year ago

i highly recommend this approach. Especially for kids learning to write and keep a diary habit. I wrote about this in 2021 in Chinese https://blog.est.im/202105/stderr-004

simianwords• 1 year ago

I posted this before but I think I have a better system for audio journaling.

TL;DR use Apple shortcuts to transcribe my recording using OpenAI whisper model and add it as an entry to Notion.

The key difference is that there's close to zero manual intervention. I have all the logs in Notion and I have another shortcut to query these journal entries again using ChatGPT in Apple shortcuts.

https://simianwords.bearblog.dev/how-i-use-my-apple-watch-to...

andrerpena• 1 year ago

Coincidentally, this weekend I've started my open-source AI-assisted journaling tool: https://github.com/neblinedev/nebline

For now it only supports insights with Anthropic Claude 3.7 and there are some must have features that are missing, but I've got a prototype in a weekend and I'm proud of it :)

darajava• 1 year ago

I used to do similar to this so then I built AudioDiary which also utilizes AI and centralizes all my entries: https://audiodiary.ai

It also uses Whisper which is great at transcribing. It's gotten relatively popular so it's turned into my full time job now!

How I use audio journaling and AI to improve my trading decisions

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