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Good to know

1. Claude: If you're chatting with Opus, you should usually enable extended thinking. Many people haven't noticed this option, which warrants a 🤦 emoji.

2. Claude privacy: For personal accounts, "train on my data" is default on when you accept their new terms & conditions. Turn it off in Settings > Privacy.

3. Google Docs: You can now listen to Google Docs.

How memory works

4. ChatGPT: ChatGPT gets to know you, a bit like a human would. My note explains how it works, and how to control it.

5. Claude: Claude does not have memory, but it can reference past chats. You'll always see when it does this, and normally you must explicitly request it.

Apps I like

6. Claude Code: It has improved a lot since May. Here are some impressive examples.

7. Codex CLI: With the release of GPT-5, some Twitter vibes suggest that it's a better coding agent than Claude Code. My early impressions are consistent with this—faster, smarter, cheaper. For now, the Claude Code UI remains better, and that matters.

Apps I still like

Mentioned before, but worth highlighting again, now that I've learnt more.

8. Airtable: Got a list of names and email addresses? Airtable AI fields can get job titles and LinkedIn URLs from the web. Their sidebar assistant is good, especially if you're new to Airtable.

9. Granola: I've written a detailed review of Granola for call transcription.

Inspiration

10. Good framing: “AI is great when I’m a noob, but not when I’m a world expert”.

11. Roundup: Collection of "How I use AI" posts and podcasts.

Try this

12. Shortcuts: Make keyboard shortcuts for common prompts. ⭐

13. Prompting: Ask your LLM to help you write prompts. ⭐

14. Computer use: ChatGPT Agent can book you a hotel, find the best flights and record invoice payments in Xero. I will actually use this, which feels like a milestone.

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Apps I like

1. Terminal: Warp is a terminal you can talk to. Developers should try it.

2. Narration: ElevenReader may be the least bad way to listen to articles and Google Docs. Here's a quick way to make complex texts more listenable.

3. Shortcuts: BetterChat now works with Claude.

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Good to know

4. Airtable: "field agents" can analyse documents and get information from the web. So if you have a spreadsheet of CVs or website URLs, you can use LLMs to assess them right within the sheet.

5. Claude & Asana: You can create Asana tasks from text or screenshots. With a bit of config, this works well on desktop and mobile.

6. Todoist: The desktop app can create tasks with voice.

7. Raycast: Raycast AI enables fast text manipulation, which is great for proofreading.

Try this

8. Planning: Plan your week with Claude. ⭐

9. Workflow: Collect context in Google Docs. ⭐

10. Google Docs: Enable markdown to preserve links and formatting when copy-pasting into LLMs.

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Apps I like

1. Voice input: Wispr Flow. I use voice input dozens of times per day. To see how, watch this two-minute screencast.

2. Shortcuts: I've released BetterChat, which adds keyboard shortcuts to ChatGPT.

3. Call transcription: Granola for video calls, and the Google Pixel "Recorder" app for in-person meetings. Granola summaries are fine, but o3 does it better, so I often copy-paste.

4. ChatGPT o3: Currently the best model for most of my purposes. I routinely send identical prompts to o3, Claude 4 Opus, Gemini 2.5 Pro and Grok 4 Heavy. At least two-thirds of the time, o3 wins. But it's still worth sending important stuff to several models.

Good to know

5. Web search: ChatGPT o3 has much better web search than Claude 4 Opus and Gemini 2.5 Pro.

6. Google Sheets: There's an =AI() function. E.g. =AI("categorise sentiment as positive or negative", A2). Docs here.

7. Data analysis: clean CSVs first and use o3 or Gemini. Do not use Claude.

Try this

8. Context: Make an "about me" doc, to tell the AI who you are. This enables much better chats about planning, personal challenges, life dreams, and much else. ⭐

9. Nutrition: Low-effort diet tracking: take a photo, get the numbers (and some great advice).

10. Vibe-coding: Make websites better with a personal browser extension.

11. Voice input: Mentioned above. But seriously: if you haven't tried it recently, do it now. ⭐

Fun

12. Suno AI: Glue yourself to the Autobahn.

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