How I Use AI
The system
Every project, every idea, every session lives in one Obsidian vault. Claude reads it at the start of a session instead of starting blank and writes new material back in as linked notes. When I run a deep audit, it goes through every note and finds contradictions and gaps I would never find by hand. Codex works from the same vault.
In plain words
A second brain is just a notes app that an AI actually reads, instead of a chat window that forgets everything the moment I close it. Every project I'm building, every idea, every decision goes into one place. Before Claude helps me with anything, it reads that place first -- so I'm not re-explaining my own apps to it every single time.
A macOS voice assistant that listened only for its wake word. Double-clap or say "hey Jarvis" and an offline model woke it up. Claude Haiku held the conversation and picked which of ten skills to run: weather, calendar, stocks, timers, opening an app. ElevenLabs spoke the answer back.
Built with Claude Code
Everything behind Hive: the servers that send each student's Live Activity, the invite system, and a dashboard I run it from. A Mac app and desktop widget show me how many students opened it today.
A page with a card for every AI skill, plugin and tool I have installed, 340 of them, saying what each one does and how often I use it. A script scans my setup every night without using any AI, and every Monday it emails me one I haven't tried.
A touchscreen in my dorm room that shows what's due tonight from Canvas, a countdown to my next class, my grades and the weather. A Cloudflare Worker feeds it, and it runs the room's LED strip too.
Reads trade alerts as they're posted and places them on a paper account. A second Claude model double-checks every alert the parser reads, and a Mac app shows the positions with a stop button.
An AI rehearsal coach for actors prepping self-tape auditions. Upload a script and an AI reader plays every other character while the app listens for your cue and advances the scene on its own.
Claude, Codex, ChatGPT, Obsidian, Terminal, Xcode, Notion -> different tools, same vault, same habit of turning a conversation into something that keeps running.