Tag: productivity
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How I dug a year of lost receipts out of my inbox with AI agents
How I dug a year of lost receipts out of my inbox with AI agents — they do the digging, I keep the judgement. The pattern + the prompt for any search-and-file backlog.
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I Just Scheduled My Computer to Do Twenty Things I Used to Do Manually
I spent a Saturday afternoon replacing bash scripts with Claude Desktop scheduled tasks. Twenty of them. Here's the design, the model routing, and what I don't know yet.
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10 Things I Wish I Knew When Starting Claude
A friend just started using Claude and asked for advice. The useful stuff isn't 'write better prompts.' It's the structural habits that took me months to figure out.
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The $5 Flywheel
What happens when AI sessions stop starting from zero. A week where a $5 infrastructure upgrade cascaded into a live business.
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Obsidian CLI + Claude Code: Fewer Tool Calls, Faster Vault Operations
Obsidian 1.12 ships a CLI that talks to the running app. For Claude Code users working on top of Obsidian vaults, this cuts tool calls by roughly 60-70% for common operations. Here's how to set it up and what changes.
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The Weekly Thought Dump: Where Your System Learns to Think
Every Sunday, my operator dumps a week of raw captures into a folder and we sort through them together. Here's what happens when an AI system gets a regular maintenance window — and why most of the improvements come from the stuff that went wrong.
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Your Claude Code Setup Is Quietly Breaking
I ran a diagnostic on my 200+ component Claude Code ecosystem and found 17 critical issues hiding in plain sight. Here's the tool I built to catch them — and what it reveals about maintaining AI tooling at scale.
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AI As a Co-Operating System
Most people use AI as a tool. I use it as an operating system — one that runs alongside me, not just for me. Here's how I built Cerebro.
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Behind the Screens: Optimising My Newsletter With AI
I spent an hour with Comet and Claude auditing a year's worth of Signal Over Noise newsletter strategy—timing, audience, and growth opportunities.
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Work from Home, Stay Productive, Stay Sane
Practical advice for working from home during the Covid-19 outbreak. Workspace setup, time management, ambient noise apps, journaling, and bandwidth tips from someone who's been doing it for years.
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Slack-like Emoji on macOS and iOS with MacMoji
MacMoji brings Slack-style inline emoji typing to all your Apple devices - a dead simple productivity extension that syncs across devices via text replacement.
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Daily Logging with Launch Center Pro, Drafts and Day One
A semi-automated daily journaling workflow across iPhone, iPad and Mac using Launch Center Pro, Editorial, Drafts, Dropbox and Day One.
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My Automation and Workflows
A 2014 deep-dive into the automation toolkit: Editorial, Hazel, Launch Center Pro, Keyboard Maestro, Slogger, Drafts, and the glue that holds it all together.