Turn photos of handwritten task lists into Linear issues

Snap a photo of your handwritten task list and the automation turns it into ready-made tasks in Linear.

How the work actually flows

A straight line. Runs once per one per handwritten task.

Pattern: Sequence (1) ยท Multiple Instances with a priori Design-Time Knowledge (13)

flowchart TD trig(("you photograph a task list")):::human s0["extract handwriting to text"]:::svc s1["clean and organize task list"]:::svc s2[["create issue in Linear"]]:::mi trig --> s0 s0 --> s1 s1 -->|"one per one per handwritten task"| s2 out[/"Linear issues created for each task"/]:::out pay{{"handwritten plans become tracked work instantly"}}:::pay s2 --> out out --> pay classDef task fill:#e7f6fe,stroke:#34b8f0,color:#2c2a29 classDef svc fill:#f6f8fa,stroke:#7c8795,color:#2c2a29 classDef mi fill:#e7f6fe,stroke:#0079a8,color:#2c2a29,stroke-width:2px classDef human fill:#fff,stroke:#0079a8,color:#0079a8 classDef store fill:#f6f8fa,stroke:#0079a8,color:#2c2a29 classDef trig fill:#00a4eb,stroke:#0079a8,color:#fff,font-weight:bold classDef trigtime fill:#00a4eb,stroke:#0079a8,color:#fff,font-weight:bold classDef trigdata fill:#8ad4f5,stroke:#0079a8,color:#06314c,font-weight:bold classDef gate fill:#fff,stroke:#e8a23d,color:#6b4708,font-weight:bold classDef out fill:#1f9d6b,stroke:#167a53,color:#fff,font-weight:bold classDef pay fill:#06314c,stroke:#021f33,color:#fff
An outside serviceRuns once per itemA personResultPayoff
Build size
Standard

A mid-size build with several tools working together.

Business functions
Document Processing & OCRSurvey & Feedback
Connects
Mistral AIOpenAILinear

The problem it solves

You and your team brainstorm on whiteboards and sticky notes, but the real work lives in Linear. Retyping every handwritten task into your project tracker eats up time you'd rather spend actually doing the work, and items get missed or garbled in the copy-over.

Who it fits

Teams who plan on paper or whiteboards but manage their execution in Linear.

How it works

  1. You upload or snap a photo of your handwritten task list
  2. Mistral AI reads the handwriting and pulls out the raw text
  3. ChatGPT cleans up and organizes the text into a clear task list
  4. The system creates a matching issue in Linear for each task
  5. You get a fully populated Linear board without typing a word
What you get

Handwritten notes turned into tracked tasks

Snap a photo of your handwritten list and every task shows up in Linear, ready for your team to work from.

What you get

A set of properly formatted issues added directly to your Linear project.

What you need

A Mistral AI account, an OpenAI account, and a Linear account with API access.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

That is what a Fractional Chief AI Officer figures out with you, before anyone writes a line of code.

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