Tips & tricks

Choppy Video Call? A Cable Fixes What Wi-Fi Can't

“You froze” usually doesn't mean slow internet — it means unstable Wi-Fi. An Ethernet cable is the single most reliable upgrade for calls.

The Two-Screen Meeting Rule: One for People, One for Notes

Put the meeting window on the monitor with the camera, notes and materials on the other. You look people in the eye, never share anything private, and minutes write themselves.

In-depth guide · 15 min

What loops are: the agentic cycles said to replace prompting

An explainer with prompts: what it means to let AI run in a loop, what's true in the hype, what's overblown, and how to safely try your first loop.

In-depth guide · 23 min

Beeper as your message hub: Claude pulls promises out of your chats before you forget them

A complete guide with prompts: Beeper unifies WhatsApp, Messenger, and Slack into one app, and Claude pulls promises and deadlines out of them via MCP on a regular schedule and writes them into Notion. Includes a patient introduction to the terminal for anyone who's never opened one.

A Ten-Minute Subscription Audit: Search Your Own Inbox

You don't have to painfully recall every subscription you're paying for — searching payment confirmations in your inbox plus two system screens puts the list together in ten minutes.

Ask AI What It Assumed

Gaps in your prompt get silently filled with the model's own assumptions. Have them listed out — see what the answer is standing on before you build work on top of it.

A Letter From an Agency: Have AI Translate It Into Plain English

Paste an official letter into AI and get four answers: what they want from you, by when, what happens if you don't, and exactly what to do. No legalese, no panic.

A Table Locked Inside a PDF: AI Puts It Back Into Excel

Copying a table out of a PDF turns the columns into one tangled noodle of text. Upload the PDF to AI, ask for CSV — and check the control total.

Word on the Tip of Your Tongue: AI as a Reverse Dictionary

You know the meaning but not the word? Describe it to AI and get ten candidates with the shades of difference between them. Works for technical terms and cliché-free synonyms too.

Added to a 30-Email Thread? AI Tells You What's Expected of You

A forwarded conversation, “see below,” and thirty emails of history. Drop the thread into AI and ask: who's claiming what, where's the agreement, and what are you supposed to do.

Regex Without the Learning Curve: AI Writes It, Explains It, Tests It

Describe in plain words what you want to match, and AI returns a regular expression with a part-by-part explanation and test cases. For Sheets, editors, and bulk edits.

Two Lists Side by Side: AI Finds What's Missing

Attendance against sign-ups, payments against orders: paste two lists and AI lists what's in one and missing from the other — even through typos.

Proofreading That Doesn't Rewrite You: Fix Only the Errors

AI loves to improve your style, even when nobody asked it to. Tell it to fix only spelling and punctuation and list the changes — your voice stays yours.

Text With Missing Accents? AI Restores Them

An email typed on the wrong keyboard layout or an export from an old system: paste the text into AI and get it back with the accents in the right place. It works in reverse too.

Paste the Error Message Into AI, Not a Search Engine

Instead of trawling ten-year-old forum threads, paste the error message — or a screenshot of it — into AI and ask three things: what it means, what to do, and what not to do.

Smart Quotes and Dashes: Typographic Proofreading by AI

Before you publish, have AI fix only the typography: smart quotes, dashes instead of hyphens, spacing around numbers and units. It leaves the wording alone.

In-depth guide · 26 min

A custom website with Claude Code, git, and Vercel: from idea to domain

A guide with prompts: a website without hiring a developer — from scaffolding through git as a safety net to a domain and Vercel. Proven on this site.

In-depth guide · 23 min

Reproducible Data Analysis: Turn a One-Off Query into a Procedure That Always Gives the Same Number

A guide with prompts: why the agent writes a different script every time, when to move from chat to a file, scheduled runs, and catching silent breaks.

In-depth guide · 24 min

Ads and traffic through MCP: Meta Ads and Google Analytics without exports

A guide with seventeen prompts: the Meta Ads connector, the official Google Analytics MCP server, both sides combined into one picture — and clear limits.

In-depth guide · 27 min

Which tools have an MCP connector, and what you can actually do with them

A complete guide with prompts: how connectors get added, what Buffer, Canva, Notion, or Supabase can really do — and two honest ways to bring in Gemini.

In-depth guide · 27 min

Data Analysis in Plain Language: A Persistent Skill Built on DuckDB

A guide with prompts: why a chatbot silently gets math wrong, how a persistent DuckDB skill lets you query CSV or Excel in plain words — and check results.

In-depth guide · 18 min

Brand and tone of voice: a brand book AI can actually use

A guide with prompts: a style description from your own writing, a living brand book in a Project, one-prompt consistency checks, quarterly reviews.

In-depth guide · 17 min

From a box of business cards to a CRM table in one evening

A guide with 13 prompts: Claude Cowork pulls contacts and notes from scanned cards, prepares a CSV for your CRM, and drafts follow-ups. A human sends them.

In-depth guide · 18 min

Todoist vs. TickTick vs. Microsoft To Do: Which Task Manager Actually Sticks

An honest comparison of the three most popular task managers across ten criteria. Plus a table, a pick for your situation, and a lossless migration guide.

In-depth guide · 17 min

Social media on autopilot (with a human thumb)

A complete guide with prompts: content pillars and brand voice, a monthly plan, batch-produced posts for LinkedIn, Instagram, and X, and a monthly review.

In-depth guide · 22 min

A contract before you sign: let AI find the catches

A complete guide with prompts for five contract types: anonymization, clause-citing risk analysis, and questions for the other party. Know what you sign.

In-depth guide · 21 min

SEO with AI: from keyword research to content that ranks

A complete guide with prompts: from seed phrases through clusters and search intent to a content brief, writing without SEO spam, and the era of AI search.

In-depth guide · 16 min

Reply templates from your own sent mail: analysis, extraction, upkeep

A complete guide with prompts: have a year of sent mail analyzed, find the recurring types, and pull templates in your own words — time savings measured.

In-depth guide · 19 min

Research before a big purchase, in five minutes

A guide with prompts: nail down your criteria, search with citations, build a comparison table, and pull complaints from reviews. Services save most.

In-depth guide · 19 min

Ad Campaigns with AI: Audiences, Creative, Reporting

A complete guide with prompts: campaign structure from goal to format, personas from real data, seven copy angles for A/B tests, and reading an export.