AI Productivity Playbook

• QA veteran Amit Rawat built PromptWright, a desktop tool converting natural language prompts into Playwright tests with screen recording, Gherkin...

• Morning Inbox Summary runs daily at 9am across four email accounts, delivering a two-minute prioritized scan of urgent items only
• Blog Watcher...

A lightweight PKM system turns raw notes into connected wiki pages using Obsidian for navigation and Claude Code as the processing agent.

• Three...

A journalist ditched Claude for Perplexity Computer on crunch days, keeping both tools for complementary roles.

• Setup: Perplexity macOS app with...

These clever setups turn a smart home into a proactive productivity coach and daily-life assistant.

• Sedentary monitor: Presence sensor tracks chair...

A first-person walkthrough reveals a privacy-focused local setup rivaling cloud assistants:

• Pi harness provides a minimal, extensible base with MCP...

Satellite-Resilient Chief-of-Staff Workflows

• 🔥 Cortex over T-Satellite: First-person account of commanding coding agents and Claude sessions via...

Sutha Kamal commands his Cortex AI chief-of-staff via T-Mobile satellite iMessage while hiking with zero cell service, dispatching coding agents,...

Apple Notes plus three Shortcuts beats Obsidian for most people by slashing capture friction and maintenance.

• Clip + Distill (share sheet): sends...

Production teams default to building their own agent runtime over third-party frameworks to avoid long-term maintenance burdens.

Framework options at...

A single AutoHotkey v2 script turns repetitive friction into instant action, delivering a night and day productivity shift.

• One-hotkey launch:...

A Walmart regional load manager built an AI app after completing the company's Google AI certification to automatically match truckers with nearby...

openHAB MCP Server lets MCP clients like Claude or ChatGPT read and control your smart home via simple natural language commands. Install the add-on,...

DIY Local Smart Home Setups

• 🔥 ESP32 Projects for Home Automation: First-person walkthrough of six replicable ESP32 builds with ESPHome and Home...

Two real-world examples show analytical AI tackling routine mental overhead beyond generative tools.

• A freelance writer uses Google’s AI search,...

Plano routes prompts to cheaper models like gpt-4o-mini for routine tasks while reserving claude-sonnet-4.5 for complex work, delivering the reported...

Building your own ESP32 devices with Home Assistant delivers local control and expandability without cloud dependencies or app sprawl.

• XiaoZhi...

Jakub Jirák's fully local workflow uses Ollama + Qwen2.5 14B to deliver verdicts on ~50 daily RSS items in a 20-minute pass, keeping all data...

Three tools aim to wrap local models with memory, docs, tools, and agents, but differ sharply in delivery.

• AnythingLLM excels at persistent memory...

Ambient AI Smart Home Setups

• 🔥 Local Voice Assistant Replacement: First-person walkthrough of swapping Google Home/Alexa for a fully local...