Reading up on productivity

jumping on the trend of folks finishing folios finally https://mikes.cv

@mjbarton_

I should visit their office at some point, looks superb honestly. I have some of the furnitures displayed here in my own office, and I think they have a great taste! :)

@fatih

I f***ing finished it

@lennysan

Question for ChatGPT iPhone users: have you figured out when to use Chat and when to use Work yet? What kind of tasks are you switching to Work for? Have you made Work your default?

@simonw

I've been using Notion databases as a project/task tracker for Grok Bot and it just like, works really well...ezmode.

@brian_lovin

reminder to run `/tui fullscreen` in the claude code cli if you haven't already 👍

@lydiahallie

I’ve struggled to find deep value in AI assistants. “Daily digest” style tasks provide some utility, but given the hype, I wonder what I’m missing. What are the highest-value things AI assistants help you do?

@zachperret

I built the ultimate Apple Notes CLI. Apple never made a real API for Notes. So, I reverse-engineered one. NotesCTL covers ALL the features of the Notes app. NotesCTL can: - Create notes with support for every element. Tags, rich links, attachments, checklists, headings, tables, audio recordings, highlights, and more. Great for assembling deep research reports with agents! - Search and edit notes with the same queries and filters - Create native PencilKit drawings! This is fun. Have your agent turn SVGs into native drawings that you can then edit and color with the Apple Pencil. Great for kids, coloring books, or simple mockups - Support for Smart Folders, sub-folders, and pins - Transcribe audio recordings and extract Notes' transcriptions - Export everything with a customizable Markdown Exporter with template support NotesCTL is not another AppleScript wrapper: it aims to be the full Notes CLI Apple never made. I've genuinely had the best time using this with Codex, Codex Voice, Hermes Agent, and Claude Cowork over the past 2 months. NotesCTL is now in early testing for members of the Club MacStories Discord. You can join at $10 or $12/month here:

@viticci

folks that orchestrate: what's your workflow? seen lots of folks say the "plan with fable, implement with XYZ". how? what's the UI/UX/flow/tooling for that?

@Shpigford

I know we have a lot of PRs pending for Omarchy. It was around 200 when Quattro launched and now we're at ~1000. I promise they'll all get reviewed. But I worked on Quattro for 3 months straight, and have been pulling 16h days since launch. Might just need a quick break 😄

@dhh

The best AI design guide I’ve seen here for months I recommend you to turn it into a skill 👀

@AmirMushich

codex' visualization feature got really good.

@steipete

And now Omarchy. I can't believe how spoiled we are. Imagine paying top dollar for macOS, Vercel, GitHub, etc, when we literally get all this for free 🥹

@SimonHoiberg

One solution is to train the AI to write like you. Specifically: 1. Ask your agent to assemble everything you've ever written. Docs + Slack + X + Other. 2. Then have it write a markdown profile on you, your style and beliefs. 3. Then when it writes, ask it to pull specific words and phrases from what you've written in the past. HT @rwitoff

@brian_armstrong

I’m Noah, the founder of Instinct. Instinct is a personal agent that we’ve been building for the past few months. The interface is simple: there are no new interfaces. You can text or call it. It's trained to use a phone and a computer in the same way that humans do. Instinct combines simplicity with extreme capability. I’m thrilled with everything our early users are doing with Instinct. They’ve told us they’ve planned cross-country road trips, bought weekly groceries and concert tickets, and cancelled hundreds of dollars of subscriptions. Someone’s even planning their wedding with Instinct. We want to make Instinct the best personal agent for all of you. It’s available in an invite-only beta program while we’re actively bringing up more compute. I’m excited to see what you all do with it.

@noahrshinn

A few updates to scheduled tasks in ChatGPT Work on web and mobile: Plus and Pro users can now set tasks to respond when something changes in Slack, Gmail, and Github, rather than just run on a set schedule. We’re also rolling out scheduled tasks in ChatGPT to Free users, who can create up to three tasks. You can also now share your favorite tasks for others to customize and use.

@ChatGPT

I'm a cleanshot guy dang if this launch video doesn't catch my attention.

@krispuckett

HEY what!? HEY yes! The HEY CLI and TUI is out! Calling all terminal dwellers, automation aficionados, and agents. Get your CLI right here:

@jasonfried

incredible use of computer history “based on my computer history, what single-use software would make my life easier?” computer history turns your activity across apps and websites into memories and a timeline, so codex can spot repeated workflows and build the little tools that make them easier

@reach_vb

i really don't want to use your agent, i want to use my agent to use your thing.

@ASpittel

Never stop talking about your new projects until everyone finds out!

@levelsio

Cursor Designer, Ryo Lu: "Right now I'm running 10-20 GrokBot agents that automate 90% of my routine I have a Chief of staff agent. He knows about all my other bots and manages everything" In a 20-minute podcast, a Cursor Designer explained how to build a team of GrokBot agents that will work for you 24/7 Worth more than a $500 course on agentic engineering Watch today, then read how to build a Grok agents team from scratch in article below

@maestrooth

omarchy looks so damn sick but i fear i will use atleast 6 weeks of idle time just making my computer work (which may very well be worth the hassle, though im not quite ready to find that out)

@jackfriks

See, here's the thing. I don't have any major problems with Apple products. Quality may have slipped on the software side recently, but ok, things happen. New guy in charge soon, maybe that turns around. And their hardware is undeniably great. I still enjoy using Apple products, and I'm cheering Apple on. The industry benefits when Apple's at the top of their game. But also... Omarchy is super interesting and super good. I try to be a curious person, and Omarchy presents an opportunity for me to stretch my curiousity, crack some habits, and try a novel different approach on for size. Linux!? I never thought. But here I am, and I'm here for it. I mean this is what we ask our HEY and Basecamp customers to do. Try something new! Be open! Be curious! We don't make software like everyone else. Our products don't look or work like anyone else's. We have a very different point of view than the mainstream. And those open to shedding their perception of what they think they need, are always in for a treat when they walk through our doors. I've essentially been following the Apple way for 40 (!) years. Maybe it's time for a break? Omarchy feels good for my brain! And I really like it! Getting more and more used to it every day. It's now my primary computer. The Macbook is sleeping, clamshell closed, under a pile of papers. The Dell XPS 16 w/ Omarchy is bright and alive. I'm writing this on it right now. I try to live my life by a few simple principles. One of those is to Like More Things. I wish that for you too.

@jasonfried

Here's how I'm running my $4M/year SaaS with a $260/month executive team of Grok Bots: Inbox Triage - is logged into my email, Facebook, X, LinkedIn. It ignores/closes all emails and DMs that don't need a reply from me. It opens an inbox item in Trello with a link to the email or DM if it needs a reply. Assistant - helps me plan my day and week schedule. Has access to my calendar. I chat back and forth to plan out fitting lunch, gym, meetings, handling my inbox, and "creative time" boxes into my day. COO - is logged into Intercom and Slack to give me a report on any customer requests or project deadlines slipping. Daily News - summary of news for each of my stock investments ($RIVN, $QXO, $FLUT, $CHTR, and $TINY.TO), the latest Reddit or social media thing going viral in my business niche which is Ubiquiti stuff. CMO - this one hasn't been useful tbh because I don't trust it to give it access to social media accounts, blog, or website and as a thought partner it's not very intelligent. It seems to me that Grok Bots are for actually doing things, Grok direct is still best for strategy and thinking through ideas. CISO - I put it in a group chat with all the other bots and they were given instructions on what not to do by the CISO bot for security purposes. CFO - I give it access to QuickBooks, ProfitWell, and our internal reporting dashboards then ask it questions and bounce ideas. They're all running around logged into my accounts via a web browser in the Grok Bot provided VM. Zero APIs or integration setups needed.

@rchase

This is my desktop now. I have 7 random text edits holding prompts for my agents for different situations. Surely, this is not the future and a sign of how early it is.

@Suhail

this guy is on track to make $30k/month if you have a mobile app, you can definitely learn something from this

@andilosing

So many nice features in omasnap now. Here is text OCR. Even that can look awesome.

@tobi

Holy shit, I can't believe it took this long but I'm so happy it's finally here @1Password

@SoVeryCuul

This *is* an improvement, but still not as "set it and forget it" as Codex remote control. You have to run a command in terminal first, and it's scoped by directory, so all new chats start there. Which they'd just let me enable a setting once and start a Claude remote session in any folder I want. Hopefully soon 🤞 (Pictured: the excellent @Astropad Workbench with Picture in Picture mode.)

@viticci

Built a little agent automation where I paste a link to a cool website I want to save: → checks for duplicates in my notion db → extracts metadata (favicon, x handle, title) → ai classifies as personal site or company/product → pings a small endpoint to capture light and dark mode screenshots → adds the site + all details to my notion db → purges the cache on my /sites page → replies with a tweet draft (in case I want to share) It's probably slightly inefficient compared to making this fully deterministic, but I like having an agent take care of it because I can say things like: - oh, that site you captured has a weird loading state, recapture after waiting 3 seconds - review all sites I've saved in the notion db and see if we accidentally captured loading states/403 errors and re-process Yesterday I tried to save a link that 403d so I had my agent wire up a rotating residential proxy to get around it. Look ma no hands! →

@brian_lovin

I used 𝚏𝚡 to build Mini, a personal web browser. Many times I need to screen share, stream, or just test something without the 'bloat' and state of my browser. So I go Mini. This was a cool test for

@rauchg

Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of laziness—lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being overwhelmed is often as unproductive as doing nothing, and is far more unpleasant. Being selective—doing less—is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest.

@tferriss

omasnap update: ~70 PRs since I first shared it 📝 Multiline text ✂️ Cut out sections 🔎 Spotlight + magnifier 📌 Screenshots pinnable across workspaces 🛡️ Actually secure redactions 🎨 Editable vector annotations 🔍 OCR ↩️ Crash-proof undo ⚡ Native Wayland capture Still one tiny 800kb ridiculously fast binary. QT is cool.

@tobi

another day. another http://nurb.dev use in the wild. i quite literally would like to eat this it's so good.

@Shpigford

check out the Meta AI desktop app! the dictation has been a game changer for me personally

@alexandr_wang

On macOS I used the screenshot tool all the time to measure things. It was the one thing I missed in omasnap (great CleanShot X replacement by @tobi), so I made a PR that adds it.

@jankeesvw

$ ori --model stealth/ox-alpha It's very impressive.

@patrickc

It's me again. I come bearing great news. First of all, we have hit 20M active users for Codex some time this week. Second of all, this is cause for celebration and during the day we will credit every Codex and ChatGPT Work user with a BANKED reset that you can use at your own leisure. And we will have some other good news later too! Now, on usage limits draining faster, while we're not seeing anything abnormal, we do take it incredibly seriously and there is an ongoing investigation. I will share if we do find anything and my below post is really a clarification on a specific pattern that we did see that I wanted to call out. Go do something amazing today.

@thsottiaux

Everyday conversations just got easier with the new Apple Messages plugin. Search messages, catch up on conversations, draft and send replies—all with ChatGPT on your Mac. Now available in ChatGPT Work and Codex on desktop.

@ChatGPT

Don’t code alone. Slack Code is live. Humans and agents. Same channel. Same work. Launching today with agents from @AnthropicAI, @github, @Cognition, and @vercel. This is real multiplayer coding. See it at @Dreamforce #DF26

@Benioff

Are the examples of great products or features that probably wouldn't have existed without having AI to help to build them?

@karrisaarinen

I don't think people truly understand just how determined I am at making Linux succeed on the desktop.

@dhh

Usually don´t care much about fonts, but that Berkeley Mono by @usgraphics got me... Looks especially good in Omawrite with @dhh's Diablo theme. https://usgraphics.com/products/berkeley-mono

@michaelspori

You can now set Claude Code's output style to Concise. Claude leads with the result, keeps responses short, and still gives full detail when you ask. Turn it on in /config → Output style, or set "outputStyle": "Concise" in settings.json.

@ClaudeDevs

More than half of the text I 'type' into my computer is now dictation via the Meta AI Mac app - has quickly become indispensible 🎤. Get it at https://meta.ai

@dps

things i use codex browser/chrome/computer for - closing the books our accounting software - clearing my linkedin queue - managing gmail / clearing inbox - setting up stripe radar rules - iterating on images in midjourney - browser based QA on every PR - build inspo library from other websites - completing security questionaires - signing up for procurement systems - research + outreach for vendors who only have crummy online forms - configuring saas when API is not available - registering for conferences - cancelling subscriptions - using iphone mirroring to use mobile apps from my desktop (look ma, no hands!) what else should I be doing?

@clairevo

I've been tinkering with an AI to increase my “luck surface area” (basically, to find interesting opportunities that exist across my entire network) and the results are ... pretty interesting. Built on my corpus of personal & professional data - everyone I’ve met with, emailed, talked to, thousands of call notes, LinkedIn connections, emails, Slacks etc. Plus it does its own desk research on my contacts overnight (did that by itself without being asked, weirdly). Example - it suggested I introduce Marco (an insurtech founder, hiring for multiple roles) to Ben (an insurance headhunter I really rate). It pieced that together through a combo of Granola transcripts, emails, LinkedIn messages, and internal Slack messages. Powered by a social graph algorithm that scores relationships and potential intros - based on things like relationship strength, recency, communication style, and “likely-mutual-value”, etc. I left it running overnight, and it: > found people who have helped me with intros & advice, but where that help hasn't been reciprocated by me - then it suggested actions I could take to repay the favours > remembered that a colleague described her ideal mentor to me in a meeting *a year ago* - found someone in my network with the exact right experience, and drafted an intro > surfaced a bunch of insights about my own life - like a drop-off in social & fitness activity since becoming a dad(!) - and set up a local run club on WhatsApp The suggestions are… surprisingly good! And devoid of the usual AI slop. I talk a lot about luck surface area - putting yourself in situations where good things tend to magically happen. This is the first time I’ve built something that actually tries to increase that surface area for me and my network. I’m quite encouraged by the results, and it was surprisingly easy to build (with @claudeai, of course). Happy to share how for anyone who is interested in building their own. @bcherny

@edleonklinger

My life has become boring All I do is asking coding agents to write a PLAN.md, then /grill-me on it to improve the plan, then spin up an agent to implement it I'm just a markdown manager now😭😭

@NielsRogge

Many ways to win

@kepano