AI in Action | June 1, 2026

Niky Dix: Hey!

Niky Dix: How's it going?

Niky Dix: Not bad.

Niky Dix: I'm having camera issues, so I'm on a random camera, so sorry if I'm not looking at you today.

Niky Dix: It's on the wrong screen.

Niky Dix: Sounds like you have too many cameras.

R.J. Nestor: Are you running like a talk show there in your office?

R.J. Nestor: And on camera three.

R.J. Nestor: Excellent.

R.J. Nestor: All right.

R.J. Nestor: think Fathom's back in and hopefully doing what it's supposed to do.

R.J. Nestor: Now, let me just...

R.J. Nestor: Yes, it appears to be recording correctly now.

R.J. Nestor: All right.

R.J. Nestor: So let me go ahead and get started.

R.J. Nestor: Welcome, everybody, to this special full community session of AI in action.

R.J. Nestor: Typically, these are in my paid APP Pioneers community, but this one I felt was a...

R.J. Nestor: I was going to be talking about something foundational to my approach to productivity and beyond, and I wanted to share it here.

R.J. Nestor: With the full community, and since it's tied so tightly to my implementation of action-powered productivity in AI tools, I use Claude primarily, but it could be used in whatever AI tool, but because it's so closely tied to that, I felt like this was a logical place to share what it is that is new for me here.

R.J. Nestor: So let me switch over to a quick presentation here.

R.J. Nestor: You saw in the email that I sent out, I described this as working and thinking and dreaming with Claude, and I'll come back to a very specific case of what I mean by dreaming in Claude parlance here in a moment.

R.J. Nestor: But I wanted to say from the outset that working is tied to how I've…

R.J. Nestor: Set up Claude to function with my task management, my project management, the things that are typically associated with my action-powered productivity approach.

R.J. Nestor: The thinking side of it is tied into knowledge management, which I prefer to call knowledge development or even knowledge incubation.

R.J. Nestor: I don't like management.

R.J. Nestor: I'm not just about managing it.

R.J. Nestor: I want to be able to do something with it.

R.J. Nestor: That's something that's not typically been part of APP or APP.

R.J. Nestor: APP, when I say that is my abbreviation for action-powered productivity, APP hasn't really had a lot to say about knowledge management.

R.J. Nestor: That's changing as I'm able to implement AI into that knowledge development context.

R.J. Nestor: And then dreaming.

R.J. Nestor: And as I said, I'll share in a little bit what I mean from Claude's perspective for dreaming.

R.J. Nestor: But for those of us who are accustomed to productivity approaches that require a level of maintenance that effectively...

R.J. Nestor: Maintaining the system becomes as onerous as, you know, not having a system can be sometimes.

R.J. Nestor: The power of the approach that I'm going to share here today is that I don't have to do very much maintenance.

R.J. Nestor: Now, at the moment, I'm very much still in the building process.

R.J. Nestor: And, of course, I'm a total nerd, so I enjoy the building process.

R.J. Nestor: Let's not kid ourselves.

R.J. Nestor: But the angle here is that Claude does a great amount of the maintenance for me.

R.J. Nestor: So I am free to dream, and I'm free to think more broadly.

R.J. Nestor: Thank you.

R.J. Nestor: My wife just brought me some coffee.

R.J. Nestor: I appreciate it.

R.J. Nestor: And that's what I'm talking about when I say that.

R.J. Nestor: So I see another person coming to the waiting room.

R.J. Nestor: Sorry about that.

R.J. Nestor: Okay.

R.J. Nestor: So you'll see the little – I don't know why that text is so small.

R.J. Nestor: First of all, what you're looking at on the screen, just as a side note that relates to how I'm using a.

R.J. Nestor: AI now, which will come into more clarity as I talk through my presentation here.

R.J. Nestor: But the presentation is not in PowerPoint or Canva.

R.J. Nestor: It's just plain HTML.

R.J. Nestor: That's an HTML file that Claude built for me based on not only the conversation of building that presentation, but a tremendous amount of work in just developing the system overall.

R.J. Nestor: And it built me an HTML file because one of the primary points that I'll be making today is that the most direct and most valuable way to get value out of AI is to have it working directly with files.

R.J. Nestor: When it has to work through the context of skill for PowerPoint or through the connector to Canva, it's not that it can't do that, but it adds this layer of, you know, potential for confusion.

R.J. Nestor: When it's working directly with an HTML.

R.J. Nestor: And directly with the CSS and JavaScript, that style that file and do all of that, you can get a presentation that functions just like a presentation, as you'll see when I change slides here.

R.J. Nestor: It's just like any other old presentation, but it's built directly in HTML by Claude.

R.J. Nestor: That's not the key point of my presentation today, but I just wanted to let you know that this is another layer of it.

R.J. Nestor: I can have it build things for me that are just plain old files, but are styled in such a way, you know, and built in such a way that they function almost like magic.

R.J. Nestor: So you're, I don't know, you know, how far along in using AI everyone is.

Grant Dinner: Are you taking questions as you go or you want us to hold them to the end?

R.J. Nestor: What's your question?

Grant Dinner: My question is, is that a workaround by having, instead of having using like a lovable as a website builder for this HTML presentation, you can just all do it with inside of Claude?

R.J. Nestor: Well, worth noting.

R.J. Nestor: I.

R.J. Nestor: I even call this a website because this is just a file that I'm opening in a browser.

R.J. Nestor: It's just sitting on my, it's sitting in my project folder for AI in action on June 1st.

R.J. Nestor: It's an HTML file that is opened locally.

R.J. Nestor: As far as that goes, I would, I absolutely build websites with Claude directly because, I mean, websites are just text files too.

R.J. Nestor: They're just hosted on a server that everybody has access to.

R.J. Nestor: Um, so it's, I, I, I've never seen Lovable, so I won't speak to its ability one way or another, but I would build it in Claude.

R.J. Nestor: Yeah.

R.J. Nestor: And I will say, uh, that's a good question.

R.J. Nestor: Uh, for the most part, I'll take questions if there's, especially pertinent to what we're, we're, we're looking at, by all means ask.

R.J. Nestor: Um, if you want to write them down and save them to the end, that's also fine.

R.J. Nestor: Um, so, as I was saying, I don't know what everybody's, uh, you know, everyone's skill level is or usage level of AI is.

R.J. Nestor: But for a lot of folks, and I see this a lot of my Facebook feed.

R.J. Nestor: It makes me sad.

R.J. Nestor: The people who are either anti-AI or the people who haven't been able to find much value in using it in their systems, it's because the only real way that they interact with it is in the chat format.

R.J. Nestor: Whether that be Claude or ChatGPT or whatever it is, they're just chatting with it.

R.J. Nestor: And yes, those have, you know, memory systems.

R.J. Nestor: I may get into later why I don't really trust their memory systems all that well.

R.J. Nestor: But it's rudimentary the way that works.

R.J. Nestor: And you don't have the full context of your life and your work and your projects and your goals.

R.J. Nestor: And I use roles, not goals, but just for the sake of clarity here.

R.J. Nestor: The, so what you get is this highly prone to hallucination, you know, everyday chat.

R.J. Nestor: does its best and it guesses the rest.

R.J. Nestor: And it's really, you know, attuned to trying to give you what you want, even if it doesn't really have access to do that.

R.J. Nestor: And it'll make you something that you, it thinks you want, whether or not that.

R.J. Nestor: That is accurate to the reality of your needs.

R.J. Nestor: That's the AI that most people are accustomed to, and we've just gotten kind of used to, well, it probably is right, but it might be wrong, and we kind of have to work around that.

R.J. Nestor: That's all well and good.

R.J. Nestor: But there's another really wonderful way to use AI, and that's what I'm talking about here.

R.J. Nestor: And that is the idea of being able to center it in the files and folders on your system, structured in such a way that not only does it have access to those things, but it has tools custom built for it to interact with tasks, projects, knowledge notes, things like that, in such a way that its accuracy increases dramatically.

R.J. Nestor: So it has the knowledge, and it has the tools to interact with it.

R.J. Nestor: And when I say custom, don't fret, I am not a coder, none of the things I talk about today or show require...

R.J. Nestor: You know that you need to be able to write your own code or do anything like that.

R.J. Nestor: All of that's done by Claude.

R.J. Nestor: All of that's done.

R.J. Nestor: All you got to do is figure out what it is that you need to get the work done that you want to get done or you want Claude to get done.

R.J. Nestor: And then you talk to it about what it would need in order to be able to get that accomplished.

R.J. Nestor: And all of that lives in your files.

R.J. Nestor: All of that lives in the tools that it builds for itself.

R.J. Nestor: And now with that, it doesn't have to guess.

R.J. Nestor: It has the information.

R.J. Nestor: It doesn't have to find a way to accomplish something.

R.J. Nestor: It has the tool for it.

R.J. Nestor: And if it doesn't, you work together to build the tool.

R.J. Nestor: When you use AI like this, you are then creating yourself a collaborator and assistant that has the ability to do real honest to goodness work for you.

R.J. Nestor: Okay.

R.J. Nestor: The analogy here, I'll talk about it.

R.J. Nestor: There are people out there who want to simply give you a fish and there's nothing wrong with that.

R.J. Nestor: Sometimes you just need an app that does exactly what you want it to do.

R.J. Nestor: That's fantastic.

R.J. Nestor: Take it.

R.J. Nestor: Do your thing.

R.J. Nestor: I've always been more of a teach a person to fish kind of guy.

R.J. Nestor: I want to help you build the tools that are custom to what you need so that you can, you know, accomplish the things you need to do.

R.J. Nestor: With the release of the last course that I did, Reclaim Your Creative Mind, I realized I wasn't really, I was still teaching to fish somewhat, but I'm also giving you a fisherman.

R.J. Nestor: AI essentially is a fisherman who can do a lot of the work for you.

R.J. Nestor: What we're going to talk about now is that the fisherman, left to its own devices, may do some unusual things if it doesn't have the right tools.

R.J. Nestor: And so what we're going to do is we're going to make sure that our fisherman, who's doing our work for us, has the tools it needs.

R.J. Nestor: AI has a tendency.

R.J. Nestor: This is my favorite slide, by the way.

R.J. Nestor: AI has a tendency to do its own wild things.

R.J. Nestor: Absent context, as I say, you're a fisherman here.

R.J. Nestor: It put on the hip waders and grab a spear and wander into the lake and just start of spearing whatever it can find.

R.J. Nestor: It might, and this is not all that uncommon, dynamite the cove.

R.J. Nestor: So it just kills all the fish in the vicinity and brings them to the surface.

R.J. Nestor: Or it might send out a fleet of small boats to dredge the entire lake, searching for fish everywhere all over the place.

R.J. Nestor: If you've ever had your AI send out sub-agents to do things, I'm not saying there's anything wrong with sub-agents, I use them a lot.

R.J. Nestor: I'm saying that absent context, lots of times those things are just looking everywhere for things that, if it knew where to look, would be a lot simpler.

R.J. Nestor: The problem with this untooled fisherman is not that it doesn't sometimes work, but that it's slow, it's prone to inaccuracy and hallucination.

R.J. Nestor: It costs a lot because tokens are money, even if you have a subscription, you're going to run through your tokens pretty fast.

R.J. Nestor: Um.

R.J. Nestor: Um.

R.J. Nestor: And it's likely to wreck workflows, meaning if you've actually set up some sort of tooling, but you haven't gotten it directed to use that, sometimes it will, you know, rewrite a file that now no longer fits the way you have things structured.

R.J. Nestor: So this is the sort of, you may remember a few months ago, it's still out there, but it's less in the zeitgeist of the AI world.

R.J. Nestor: Everybody was talking about OpenClaw.

R.J. Nestor: And OpenClaw, you know, is this agent system where AI agent can essentially, you just give it access to all your stuff and it kind of figures out what to do and builds its own scripts and does whatever it needs to do in order to, you know, work on your behalf.

R.J. Nestor: This is not unlike that, but one, I'm not really interested in the Wild West approach to just give it access and hope that it, you know, does all the right things and does the right things on my behalf.

R.J. Nestor: I would much rather sort of direct it toward what I wanted to do.

R.J. Nestor: And two, this is all local to your, to, you know, your .

R.J. Nestor: Yes, you can tie things into other tools, but our primary goal here is to engage with what we've built and to give it the tools to engage with it.

R.J. Nestor: So it's a little less reckless.

R.J. Nestor: It's a little more directly tied to our work.

R.J. Nestor: And that's what we're doing here.

R.J. Nestor: That's what I'm going to talk about.

R.J. Nestor: That's what I'm to demo.

R.J. Nestor: And that's what I'm going to do in my next Reclaim Your Creative Mind course, because, of course, I mean, I am going to talk about what I'm going to what I'm I'm selling here as well.

R.J. Nestor: That's part of the part of the gig.

R.J. Nestor: But our job here is to give the fishermen tools.

R.J. Nestor: We want our A.I.

R.J. Nestor: to have a boat, to have sonar, to have a rod and reel, to have hooks and to have be able to set traps for, I don't know, lobsters, whatever, whatever we set traps for.

R.J. Nestor: And this is the key part.

R.J. Nestor: This is the part that takes a thing like, you know, for those of you who've Tana, for those of you who used Rome, who followed me in the past, things like that.

R.J. Nestor: But if you want.

R.J. Nestor: If Tana to have a super tag with a bunch of commands, there is only one way for you to do that, and that is for you to learn how to work with the super tags and commands and build them.

R.J. Nestor: You have to do it, or you have to hire someone else to do it for you.

R.J. Nestor: With this system that I'm talking about here, Claude builds its own tools.

R.J. Nestor: You tell it what you want it to be able to do or to see or to act on, you engage with it to figure out what it needs to be able to access to do that, and then it can build the script, it can build the database, it can build the whatever it needs to be able to execute that.

R.J. Nestor: And then if it works, magnificent, you're set.

R.J. Nestor: If something doesn't quite seem to work the way you want, you go back and you say, hey, you know what, this piece doesn't do what I want, let's get that fixed.

R.J. Nestor: As I said, I'm a nerd, so I enjoy that process anyway.

R.J. Nestor: But I will tell you that it does not take very long to scaffold something really powerful, because what you wind up doing is you wind up building little blocks.

R.J. Nestor: You're not trying to solve the whole system at once.

R.J. Nestor: For those of who've read my first book, I say first book because I am still working on my second one, you know, my dictum of think little.

R.J. Nestor: I don't encourage people to think at the system level.

R.J. Nestor: I don't want you to be thinking about how do I solve everything all at once.

R.J. Nestor: I want you to solve the individual problems.

R.J. Nestor: How do I get, you know, how do I get this one particular thing accomplished?

R.J. Nestor: Same process here.

R.J. Nestor: We give Claude access to things.

R.J. Nestor: We give it eyes.

R.J. Nestor: We give it ears.

R.J. Nestor: We give it hands.

R.J. Nestor: We give it feet.

R.J. Nestor: And we have it build those itself so that the tool making is Claude's job, not yours.

R.J. Nestor: So the key element to being able to have this conversation, like I just said, is it's not that you have to figure everything out.

R.J. Nestor: It's not that you have to be a coder or even so much think like a coder.

R.J. Nestor: I think that there are times and part of what I'll teach as I go forward in this mentality of this new system is the sort of how do you how do you think like a person who's working with Claude, which has a layer, perhaps?

R.J. Nestor: So of thinking structurally in it.

R.J. Nestor: But the main question that you need to ask Claude is, if we wanted to do this, if I wanted to see this, if I needed this to be in my toolkit, what would you need to be able to see?

R.J. Nestor: What would you need to be able to act on?

R.J. Nestor: When you ask that, when you name what that job is, when you tell it, you know, what needs to be accomplished, it can tell you what it needs, and you can figure out how to, you know, help it build what it needs to access that.

R.J. Nestor: It's not something that you have to build all at once.

R.J. Nestor: As I'll show you in a moment, I've built this little bit by little bit by little bit as I have added pieces to the structure.

R.J. Nestor: But it wasn't built by me sitting down and writing even a single word of code.

R.J. Nestor: I haven't done any such thing.

R.J. Nestor: I've talked to Claude, I've engaged with it, I've given it access where it needs it and helped it build its own tools or helped tell it what tools it needs to build in order to do that.

R.J. Nestor: So one last point before I start.

R.J. Nestor: I want to talk about infrastructure, and this speaks to something that I think is important for folks that are watching here today.

R.J. Nestor: I am not using Tana right now.

R.J. Nestor: I think it's important for me to share that.

R.J. Nestor: The primary reason is that as I have used Claude more and more, I have come to the conclusion that working directly with the files on my system is a far more native way for Claude to get work done.

R.J. Nestor: That doesn't mean, I want to be clear, I still have Tana, I still have access into Tana from Claude.

R.J. Nestor: That doesn't mean you can't use the tools that you like with Claude.

R.J. Nestor: You absolutely can't.

R.J. Nestor: It just becomes a question of how do you make sure that you wire it so that it has access to what you need it to have access to.

R.J. Nestor: I've chosen to go with files because that's the easiest.

R.J. Nestor: It's very easy for Claude to be able to read the files on your system.

R.J. Nestor: It's very easy to structure them so that it reads them with context without having to do a whole lot of extra work.

R.J. Nestor: If you've got the folders laid out and they've got logical names and the files have logical names, a big part of your job is done.

R.J. Nestor: Claude doesn't have to look at a whole bunch of stuff if it can just look at a folder that makes sense and see a list of files that make sense.

R.J. Nestor: But that solves a lot of the, you know, confusion possibilities that are there.

R.J. Nestor: It has to go searching for a particular node inside Tana or a particular, you know, whatever they're called in Notion, page inside Notion, that gets a, you know, that just adds a layer that it doesn't necessarily need to have.

R.J. Nestor: So I say that because for me, the foundation of all of this is just simply files.

R.J. Nestor: For those of you who use tools like Obsidian,

R.J. Nestor: Or note plan, you're accustomed to using files already.

R.J. Nestor: Those tools are already built on files that are on your system.

R.J. Nestor: And so to be able to pair something like what I'm talking about today with a tool like Obsidian is a pretty straightforward pairing because you would be using the interface of Obsidian.

R.J. Nestor: It would be using the interface of the tools that you and it build together, but all of it's still looking at your files.

R.J. Nestor: This is easy to get.

R.J. Nestor: This is easy to misunderstand.

R.J. Nestor: And so that's why I'm going to lean on it just a little bit here before I demo anything, because I think it's critical to the understanding of what it is that I'm doing.

R.J. Nestor: Because when we talk about, I'll use Obsidian as example, and this is one I know I've harped on in my courses, so people have heard me say this before.

R.J. Nestor: I don't suppose it's true to say there's no such thing as an Obsidian file, but largely speaking, there's no such thing as an Obsidian file.

R.J. Nestor: There are just files that Obsidian can view and files that Obsidian can have certain ways of interacting with.

R.J. Nestor: If you have, you know, if you have Obsidian open as a...

R.J. Nestor: On a folder, you know, things that are double bracketed in there now will refer to other files and so forth within that.

R.J. Nestor: So it adds a layer of functionality and it adds an interface for a human on top of the existing files.

R.J. Nestor: But the files themselves are not Obsidian files.

R.J. Nestor: The files are the files.

R.J. Nestor: They happen to be Markdown or PDF or whatever, the kinds of things that Obsidian can view.

R.J. Nestor: So it is absolutely possible for you, the human, to have as an interface on your files, Obsidian, and for us to build Claude another interface in the file so it has that, it has its own tools.

R.J. Nestor: But it's also possible for you to use other tools to be able to see your files.

R.J. Nestor: The real key is how is Claude interacting with them and then how are you interacting with them and then how are you interacting with Claude?

R.J. Nestor: If we can answer all those questions, we can, and, and it's not, that's sort of what I'm going to demo here, then a lot of the other problems melt away.

R.J. Nestor: So

R.J. Nestor: Files are the key.

R.J. Nestor: We build an interface for Claude with Claude.

R.J. Nestor: builds it for itself at our direction.

R.J. Nestor: And then we can either build an interface for ourselves, I'll show you a little bit of what I've been building for myself, or you could use something like NVIDIA or NotePlan that already has a direct view onto your files.

R.J. Nestor: So, as I demo here, these are the things I'm going to demo.

R.J. Nestor: There will be a couple more slides after.

R.J. Nestor: I'm going to show you sort of the general shape of what I built.

R.J. Nestor: I'm going to show you an example of some of the task management that Claude can do for me and how I have that set up.

R.J. Nestor: I'm going to show you a little bit of the interface that I'm having Claude build for me.

R.J. Nestor: The only reason is I still use Obsidian for pieces of my files, but it's a little difficult to build my own agenda to the way I like to build it in Obsidian.

R.J. Nestor: So, I'm going to, I had it build something for me, which I'll show you.

R.J. Nestor: I had it build me an email data.

R.J. Nestor: I'll talk about that.

R.J. Nestor: I built connections with Claude to Fathom and Circle.

R.J. Nestor: Fathom is my recording thing here that I had a little trouble with at the beginning of the call, but it's working now.

R.J. Nestor: And Circle is the community, of course, through which you all came to visit this.

R.J. Nestor: And then the thing I mentioned in the email that I sent out where it built me an actual interactive HTML page to work with to find hotels for a trip I'm taking coming up.

R.J. Nestor: And it was able to do all of that because it has access to Google Maps.

R.J. Nestor: It's able to actually directly use the Maps interface or the Maps API in order to do that for me.

R.J. Nestor: So before I demo, I think this would be a logical place that if anybody has any questions about anything I've said so far, if anything was a little too technical, you know, jump in.

R.J. Nestor: Any questions of anything that I've discussed so far?

R.J. Nestor: Okay, great.

R.J. Nestor: Let me hop into demoing what I've got here.

R.J. Nestor: So, first of all, I mentioned that, and this will be a little small, I apologize because this is Finder, but I mentioned that I had, you know, files.

R.J. Nestor: Everything that I have is in a folder, it happens to be in my Dropbox, but all of the files that I'm using are in this folder called HQ.

R.J. Nestor: And HQ is just, you know, and I can make it a little bit bigger here.

R.J. Nestor: Let me get my zoom.

R.J. Nestor: Well, that didn't make it bigger.

R.J. Nestor: I just, there.

R.J. Nestor: That's clearly not bigger.

R.J. Nestor: Let's just try the keyboard, the normal keyboard shortcut and see if that works.

R.J. Nestor: Eh, sort of.

R.J. Nestor: The structure of the files in here is what Claude and I have sort of come to.

R.J. Nestor: I make no claims that this is the one and only structure.

R.J. Nestor: Any time I demo, and I've done this from the very get-go, like Mickey was there in cohort one of

R.J. Nestor: AP Productivity.

R.J. Nestor: So I've talked like this for ages.

R.J. Nestor: You're always looking a little bit at the chaos of my own iteration.

R.J. Nestor: So bear that in mind.

R.J. Nestor: It's why I layer the presentation over the top to give a little structure to that.

R.J. Nestor: But I essentially just have folders in here for things like my tasks, for my projects, for people.

R.J. Nestor: I'm not really using that part of it yet.

R.J. Nestor: For inbox, for documents and things like that that come in.

R.J. Nestor: You'll see Study and Garden.

R.J. Nestor: We'll come to those here in a little bit.

R.J. Nestor: But this is all just plain files.

R.J. Nestor: These are just files that sit here.

R.J. Nestor: Some of them are ones that Obsidian can view.

R.J. Nestor: Obsidian can't view HTML.

R.J. Nestor: It's part of the reason I've actually built a little bit of an interface for myself on top.

R.J. Nestor: The one feature that it's worth knowing about is ClaudeMD.

R.J. Nestor: ClaudeMD is sort of the basic instruction manual that Claude will read every time.

R.J. Nestor: It's it tells it in my in my case, it's a routing tool for me.

R.J. Nestor: I don't.

R.J. Nestor: like to have too heavy of a Claude M.D., give it a few specific rules, tell it where to look for certain types of things, and that's about it.

R.J. Nestor: I won't open it up here because it's, you know, technical in nature, but it's written by Claude for Claude, and it directs it to know where everything is, and it also has instructions that any changes get automatically documented, which you still have to, you know, watch and make sure that happens because, like a human, it might decide not to do everything you tell us But it's much more likely to.

R.J. Nestor: That's the basic structure of my files.

R.J. Nestor: If you go into something like Tasks here, you'll see these are literally just individual markdown files for my Tasks, and it has a folder for Cancel and a folder for Done, and the Done ones are laid out in this way.

R.J. Nestor: And none of this is any, it has any maintenance whatsoever from me.

R.J. Nestor: Here are the four things that I've already done today.

R.J. Nestor: I am not moving any files.

R.J. Nestor: Anywhere, I'm not doing any of that.

R.J. Nestor: All of that is automatically handled by the scripts that Claude has built for itself to do that.

R.J. Nestor: Those scripts live elsewhere.

R.J. Nestor: Those scripts live in places like my primary.

R.J. Nestor: I have, you know, a config place here.

R.J. Nestor: won't go too into this because some of these have, you know, authorization keys and things like that.

R.J. Nestor: But there are places that it stores information that are outside Dropbox, sometimes because I don't want those things on cloud servers or whatever.

R.J. Nestor: Scripts are designed so they don't, like, feed actual authorization codes or anything like that directly into the chat.

R.J. Nestor: So that never goes off to Anthropic servers or anything like that.

R.J. Nestor: It's just all that.

R.J. Nestor: Any handshake, any kind of authorization handshake is handled outside the AI, so there's no, you know, security issues there.

R.J. Nestor: That's the kind of stuff that I would want to teach you as far as how to work with this so that, you know, you're making things safe.

R.J. Nestor: Everything's backed up.

R.J. Nestor: You know, I make sure that everything has it.

R.J. Nestor: It has a regular backup, hourly for most things, but also Backblaze, which is a cloud backup, is operating all the time and catching new things.

R.J. Nestor: That way, you know, if anything goes wrong, I haven't had anything go wrong, but, you know, you want to defend against that.

R.J. Nestor: You don't just be freewheeling here.

R.J. Nestor: But that's how all of these things are laid out.

R.J. Nestor: It's clawed, has its files, and then it has, you know, here in its local bin, it has all of these things that are called CLIs.

R.J. Nestor: CLIs, it's Map CLI, it's Message CLI, it's IMAP CLI.

R.J. Nestor: CLI stands for Command Line Interface, and just so you feel comfortable with that, I didn't even know what CLI stood for.

R.J. Nestor: I couldn't ever remember it just a few months ago, and now I've built any number of them for clawed because I didn't build them.

R.J. Nestor: Clawed built them.

R.J. Nestor: I just made sure that it knew what it needed to do, and it built its CLI and gave itself verbs, actions that allow it to execute what it needs to do.

R.J. Nestor: So all of that just lives on my system.

R.J. Nestor: None of that is living anywhere else.

R.J. Nestor: That's...

R.J. Nestor: That's the shape of these things.

R.J. Nestor: What those scripts, those CLIs, those files allow Claude to do is execute directly on my system.

R.J. Nestor: So if I were to open up, I'm going to open up, for the sake of this demo here, I'm going to open up a Claude code window.

R.J. Nestor: You can definitely do this in the Claude desktop app.

R.J. Nestor: So it's not like this is not a required, you don't have to get comfortable working in Terminal or anything like that.

R.J. Nestor: Let me, oops, sorry, I made it bigger and then it got too big for this here.

R.J. Nestor: Let me exit this conversation, I'll come back to it later.

R.J. Nestor: Reopen it.

R.J. Nestor: It looks, this all looks crazy in, in, I know, in Terminal, but it's not, it's not crazy at all.

R.J. Nestor: Once you have Claude open like this, it's just talking to regular Claude.

R.J. Nestor: It's just, just, uh.

R.J. Nestor: This is smaller, and I can put it on the same screen with the rest of my interface.

R.J. Nestor: It's just a little nicer in that way than Claude Desktop as a result.

R.J. Nestor: But you can do this stuff in desktop, too.

R.J. Nestor: So later today, I'm going to need a task in my AI in Action project to take this video and to put it into the Circle event.

R.J. Nestor: Now, I won't have to do that.

R.J. Nestor: Claude will do that for me because it has connection to Fathom and it has a connection to Circle.

R.J. Nestor: But I want the task.

R.J. Nestor: I want the reminder to do that.

R.J. Nestor: So I'll do this here.

R.J. Nestor: Please create a task for me scheduled for later today to put the AI in Action replay video in the AI in Action event in Circle and put that in the AI in Action project.

R.J. Nestor: And so we'll see how it does here.

R.J. Nestor: Notice I say please.

R.J. Nestor: That's because when the robots take over, I want to be one of the ones that they protect.

R.J. Nestor: And you'll see it goes looking here to find how to do that, and very quickly it finds the right place and it solves it.

R.J. Nestor: Anytime you see a little error code here, that's a good thing.

R.J. Nestor: That's a good thing because I have in place, and this is something I would teach you if you decided to, you know, to work with me for this, you will use the AI in action on Monday, June 1st.

R.J. Nestor: That's the right one.

R.J. Nestor: But notice it asked me when there was a thing to disambiguate here.

R.J. Nestor: We'll use that one.

R.J. Nestor: But I have it set up so there are things that are called hooks, and they stop it from doing certain things that I don't want it to do.

R.J. Nestor: So there are ways to actually say, hey, don't, rather than relying on it to always know what to do, you could have it build for itself a thing that says, no, don't do this, and reminds it to do a different thing instead.

R.J. Nestor: Okay, so that task is now created.

R.J. Nestor: It's here.

R.J. Nestor: I'm going to show you move this over.

R.J. Nestor: So you can see it.

R.J. Nestor: This is the interface that's been building for me.

R.J. Nestor: And you can see down here, put the AI in action replay video and the AI in action event in circle.

R.J. Nestor: – – – – –

R.J. Nestor: And action Monday, June 1st.

R.J. Nestor: What's really interesting about it is I just showed you that interface, but we can also just go over to circle, not circle, to finder, and go into the tasks, and what was that called?

R.J. Nestor: Put the AI in action, so we're in alphabetical order here, and so you can see what it actually did was just create this file.

R.J. Nestor: Put an AI in action, replay video in the AI in action event in circle, and it created it in a certain way.

R.J. Nestor: It has, I'll view it in my viewer over here, because it'll be easier to see.

R.J. Nestor: Just like other files on Obsidian or something, it has, well, actually, you know what?

R.J. Nestor: Let me view it in the viewer.

R.J. Nestor: So put, put the AI in action.

R.J. Nestor: Okay, so this is, this is my little file viewer that I have here.

R.J. Nestor: There it is.

R.J. Nestor: So this is what that file actually looks like.

R.J. Nestor: This is the file, and it just has a type task, title, put the AI in action, blah, blah, blah.

R.J. Nestor: Created, updated.

R.J. Nestor: There are no tags.

R.J. Nestor: That's not really a field that I

R.J. Nestor: I want to be clear.

R.J. Nestor: This is not technical.

R.J. Nestor: You'll hear me say this repeatedly.

R.J. Nestor: It looks technical.

R.J. Nestor: The reason it isn't is, one, you'd have me helping you with the first steps, and two, Claude built it.

R.J. Nestor: I didn't build this.

R.J. Nestor: It did.

R.J. Nestor: So it's got this file.

R.J. Nestor: It's got this file set up in that place, and all I I need to know is, what's my interface?

R.J. Nestor: How do I see that showing up for me?

R.J. Nestor: And there it is.

R.J. Nestor: Put the AI in action replay in the AI action event circle.

R.J. Nestor: And then later today, I will hop back into that Claude conversation.

R.J. Nestor: I won't do it now because obviously this video doesn't exist yet.

R.J. Nestor: We're still in the meeting.

R.J. Nestor: And I will say, go to Fathom, find the latest AI in action video, and put it on the latest AI in action video event in circle.

R.J. Nestor: And it will do.

R.J. Nestor: Because it has tools that I have built, I have given it, that it is built for itself, to connect to Fathom and to connect to Circle.

R.J. Nestor: And you watched it here use this little HQ tool, HQ Task Add, that is a verb inside the HQ CLI that it custom built for itself.

R.J. Nestor: Once again, that sounds hopelessly technical.

R.J. Nestor: I don't know anything about that.

R.J. Nestor: I wouldn't know how to build that for myself.

R.J. Nestor: It's safe because we have backups, because we have hooks that block it from doing things we don't want it to do, but I don't have to know how to build it.

R.J. Nestor: All I have to know is that I want to have it behave a certain way and ask it to build it for me.

R.J. Nestor: For those of you who use Tana and use my Tana for action and things like that where I have a bunch of commands.

R.J. Nestor: All of those commands, I built myself, and it was fun too, because again, nerd.

R.J. Nestor: But

R.J. Nestor: The thing is there is all of those had to be built by me, and they're constrained by what Tana's command system can do.

R.J. Nestor: Out here, there are effectively no constraints, because code can do just about anything.

R.J. Nestor: And so as long as I have, you know, some idea of what it is that I want to do, I can build in this interface here.

R.J. Nestor: Now, I've talked about, you can see how Claude did its task management side.

R.J. Nestor: I can now go here, and I can say, okay, well, I've got this, put this A in, actually replay video.

R.J. Nestor: I want to do that while I am sitting outside the boys' speech therapy.

R.J. Nestor: So we'll just drag that up and slide this into here.

R.J. Nestor: It made this for me.

R.J. Nestor: I told it, I want an agenda where I can drag and drop things.

R.J. Nestor: I want an agenda where I can reschedule things.

R.J. Nestor: I probably am not going to get to, let's see here.

R.J. Nestor: However, I'll review these eight by, I don't necessarily want to do that today.

R.J. Nestor: Okay, look, I have a whole set of commands here.

R.J. Nestor: Just...

R.J. Nestor: Just like I would in Tana, all just scripts, all just built by Claude for me.

R.J. Nestor: Most of this, I mean, obviously there's a fair amount of iteration.

R.J. Nestor: I come across something that I want it to be able to do, and then, you know, it'll build it for me.

R.J. Nestor: And I can, you know, let's say I want to go to reschedule for tomorrow.

R.J. Nestor: I can click reschedule for tomorrow, and it just goes away from here.

R.J. Nestor: And tomorrow isn't laid out as an agenda yet, but it has all the tasks that are there on it.

R.J. Nestor: And we'll see that it is here somewhere.

R.J. Nestor: I know it is because, which one did I move?

R.J. Nestor: It was removed.

R.J. Nestor: Oh, it was this one.

R.J. Nestor: It was the APB community operator, and it's right there.

R.J. Nestor: And I also had it build me, for those of who've seen calendar views in Tana or in other things, had it build me a calendar view too.

R.J. Nestor: I can drag things around in a calendar view if I want to.

R.J. Nestor: This can be Friday, for instance, and now I can drag it around.

R.J. Nestor: How did I build this?

R.J. Nestor: It looks really technical.

R.J. Nestor: It must be really technical.

R.J. Nestor: It's not.

R.J. Nestor: I have files that represent all of these.

R.J. Nestor: Claude built me this.

R.J. Nestor: This infrastructure here, this layout, this calendar layout was a one-shot.

R.J. Nestor: I said, I want a weekly calendar view where I can drag the tasks around and the schedule based on the date that they're scheduled for.

R.J. Nestor: It built it and it was a one-shot.

R.J. Nestor: It was done.

R.J. Nestor: It worked.

R.J. Nestor: I've added one other layer to it that I can, like, for instance, let's say cancel it.

R.J. Nestor: I can now click them and it will open the file information up for me that I can edit.

R.J. Nestor: But, again, it built that for me.

R.J. Nestor: This was done in about three minutes because I knew I wanted a thing to do that.

R.J. Nestor: Sharon, go ahead.

R.J. Nestor: What's your question?

Sharon Lewis: So is this then like a flat file HTML on your system that it's showing in a browser window?

R.J. Nestor: That is exactly correct.

R.J. Nestor: This is, it is a, it is, structurally speaking, it's a server being delivered by a Python file that renders as an HTML file that is then hosted on.

R.J. Nestor: As you can see up top here, it's on a port on a local host.

R.J. Nestor: One thing I'm not going to really talk about in this presentation because it's beyond the scope of everything, except I guess I'm bringing it into the scope, is I can actually access this from my phone.

R.J. Nestor: There's an app that for what I'm doing here is free called TailScale that allows you to create a connection between your various devices that's secure.

R.J. Nestor: So that I can, through my phone, I can actually connect to, this is not going to be a great demo because I'm not going to bring my phone up to the screen, but I can actually connect to that same agenda on my phone because I'm connected to that local host there.

R.J. Nestor: Again, all of that sounds very technical, but with Claude helping me set it up, am I technically minded?

R.J. Nestor: I am technically minded, but I'm not a coder.

R.J. Nestor: Um, so I, I, that's why I say I can help you get the first phases done and then, you know, Claude can, once you know how to work with Claude.

R.J. Nestor: Do it.

R.J. Nestor: It's not particularly technical, but being able to do something like putting on my phone, that would have been outlandish.

R.J. Nestor: That's way beyond anything that I would have understood how to do myself.

R.J. Nestor: But a couple of conversations with Claude and it's set up.

R.J. Nestor: That's that's that's what's so wild about it.

R.J. Nestor: Nikki, go ahead.

Niky Dix: I'm just picking up on Sharon's question, really thinking about needing to be online because obviously Claude needs to be working online.

Niky Dix: Right.

Niky Dix: So what about this?

Niky Dix: Does this work?

R.J. Nestor: This is online as well.

R.J. Nestor: So this is online because now the the this would work.

R.J. Nestor: The phone is online.

R.J. Nestor: I should say this would work without having to be online because this is a file on my this is just a thing on my system.

Niky Dix: This is what you've got sharing screen right now.

R.J. Nestor: Correct.

R.J. Nestor: The thing that's shared on the screen right now.

R.J. Nestor: management.

Niky Dix: Correct.

R.J. Nestor: I would demonstrate except if I went offline, I would also lose you all.

R.J. Nestor: But yes, this is a file that.

R.J. Nestor: It's locally served, and I'm connecting with it locally.

R.J. Nestor: So yes, this would work if it were offline.

R.J. Nestor: That's actually, I hadn't even really thought about that benefit, but it's absolutely true.

R.J. Nestor: This would work offline because this is just a local file.

R.J. Nestor: Now, I wouldn't be able to say to Claude, do something, because it requires the online.

R.J. Nestor: But as far as operating with my agenda, my calendar, it's just moving files.

R.J. Nestor: It's not moving files around.

R.J. Nestor: It's not doing anything to the files except changing their parameters.

R.J. Nestor: You know, it's, when I do something like this, if I say, oh, I don't want to replace the furnace filter tomorrow, I'll do that Thursday.

R.J. Nestor: Not that, what changed in that file was this scheduled information.

R.J. Nestor: You know, it was just the front matter that changed to the fourth from the second.

R.J. Nestor: I'll bring it back to the second because it's related to repairing the pan on my HVAC.

R.J. Nestor: But that's all that's happening.

R.J. Nestor: It's just happening.

R.J. Nestor: And really, when you were, you know, for those of using Tana for something like this or other tools as well, that's all that's happening in those things as well.

R.J. Nestor: Um, this...

R.J. Nestor: This...

R.J. Nestor: This is just a little bit freer, because I can set it to basically do anything I want, because I'm operating now with scripts and Claude's building them for me.

R.J. Nestor: But yes, go ahead, Niky.

Niky Dix: So if I say I was on a train or a plane or whatever, I didn't have Wi-Fi, and I banged through a load of those tasks, checked them off or whatever it is, and then went back online, would Claude know what to do with that?

Niky Dix: Would you have to build a script for that?

R.J. Nestor: absolutely.

R.J. Nestor: Because Claude is not even, that's a great question, too.

R.J. Nestor: Boy, this is so fun to, thank you for asking that, because this is important clarification.

R.J. Nestor: Claude itself requires the internet connection because it links to anthropic servers in order to get its compute, its brain, so to speak, to operate.

R.J. Nestor: However, in terms of the files that it's looking at, it's just looking at the files that are on your system.

R.J. Nestor: And so when you, you know, when you tick things around on here, you're just changing the data that it will be looking at.

R.J. Nestor: So yes, it will have no, it will, it will have no problem because when it looks at it, it will see the changes that you made locally to your files.

R.J. Nestor: Yes.

R.J. Nestor: yes.

R.J. Nestor: Yes.

R.J. Nestor: A hundred percent.

R.J. Nestor: Penny, go ahead.

Penny Olorenshaw: So just sort of continuing on, you brought it into focus, the whole mobile ability of working with something like this.

Penny Olorenshaw: That's one of the things that scares me is that I may not, I'm often on a laptop somewhere else.

R.J. Nestor: And it's keeping things coordinated and synced that I'd be concerned about going away from an online system.

R.J. Nestor: Sure.

R.J. Nestor: Sure.

R.J. Nestor: Absolutely.

R.J. Nestor: Well, that's, the beauty of files in general is, you know, they're just on your system.

R.J. Nestor: So you're not having to worry about them being somewhere else and having to sync.

R.J. Nestor: They're yours forever.

R.J. Nestor: I didn't say this at the beginning of it because it wasn't a huge motivator for me.

R.J. Nestor: Like I wasn't, you know, I use Rome and Tana and those were proprietary for a long time.

R.J. Nestor: But I think it's important to note that files, Claude may go away.

R.J. Nestor: Obsidian, NotePlan, they may go

R.J. Nestor: Files are not going to go away.

R.J. Nestor: Files are going to continue to be a thing.

R.J. Nestor: And if I have them on my system, and that is the main source, that's the source of truth on which any AI is looking, on which any interface that I'm using is looking, then I'm future-proofed.

R.J. Nestor: Now, yeah, scripts may change a little bit over time as, you know, I'm sure Python isn't going away, but, you know, the coding that's used for that, you may be updated and there may be a couple of changes needed here.

R.J. Nestor: But I'm in control of all of that.

R.J. Nestor: I don't have to worry about anything being, you know, proprietary or being somewhere else.

R.J. Nestor: I don't know what the AI of the future might look like.

R.J. Nestor: I don't know what the text editing apps in the future might look like.

R.J. Nestor: But my files are still going to be my files, which makes it a lot nicer.

R.J. Nestor: Yeah.

Penny Olorenshaw: Right.

Penny Olorenshaw: But if you're being, if you mostly use it on your computer, your home computer, and then you go away for say a month.

R.J. Nestor: Yes.

R.J. Nestor: Doing everything.

Penny Olorenshaw: And you want, you know, it's like how.

Penny Olorenshaw: Yeah.

Penny Olorenshaw: do you make sure everything files?

Penny Olorenshaw: Yes.

Penny Olorenshaw: was still thinking.

R.J. Nestor: Yes.

R.J. Nestor: If you went away for a month and you no longer had internet, you'd be in trouble.

R.J. Nestor: But you'd be in trouble on any of those other systems as well.

Penny Olorenshaw: Yes.

Penny Olorenshaw: As long as you have a connection to expect to have internet.

Penny Olorenshaw: I would just be somewhere else, like on a beach in Portugal or something.

R.J. Nestor: Which sounds nice, by the by.

R.J. Nestor: It does.

R.J. Nestor: Yeah.

R.J. Nestor: If you're getting a group together, I'll come along.

R.J. Nestor: Um, but the, uh, all of that's, uh, straightforward because for the same reason that I can see it from my phone.

R.J. Nestor: If I have to set up with tail scale again, free app.

R.J. Nestor: Um, I mean that are paid version too, but for everything I'm using it for it's free.

R.J. Nestor: Um, you just have a home computer where the setup was, it would be on the same system tail scale system as your laptop.

R.J. Nestor: And then the home computer, your laptop would essentially just be a client looking at your home computer.

R.J. Nestor: So it would just look at the files that were there over tail scale.

R.J. Nestor: It wouldn't feel unusual.

R.J. Nestor: Like for, for it would.

R.J. Nestor: wouldn't be like, oh, I have to log into Tailscale.

Penny Olorenshaw: That's just a connection that's there.

R.J. Nestor: You know, you wouldn't, you could just open directly onto those files, and now you'd be working, you'd open it to your, a terminal that's hosted on the home computer, but you'd be able to access it without a problem from yours.

R.J. Nestor: Again, you'd have to have internet, but you would, you know, Tailscale make that, it's anywhere in the world.

R.J. Nestor: And in fact, your computer could not be at home.

R.J. Nestor: It could be wherever.

R.J. Nestor: As long as they're connected, Tailscale will take care of that for you.

Penny Olorenshaw: Right, okay, cool, thanks.

R.J. Nestor: Yep, absolutely.

Niky Dix: One more question about, I saw you were connecting all your files live in Dropbox, so there's some remoteness about that, even though they're also local, right?

R.J. Nestor: Yeah, there is.

R.J. Nestor: I will say, I'm not totally sold that I'm going to stay with Dropbox for this function.

R.J. Nestor: There are some issues that arise.

R.J. Nestor: I think they're mostly mitigated by just having it, having Dropbox settings set to make offline, like permanently offline.

R.J. Nestor: Dropbox...

R.J. Nestor: does some syncing things.

R.J. Nestor: DropDucks does some things where it will pull things into the cloud so that you can then have to refresh them on the computer.

R.J. Nestor: All of that's great stuff, but it's not always cooperative with what you need to have available, always local.

R.J. Nestor: But you're right that the idea, at least behind it, is if the files are there, then I have access to those files anywhere.

R.J. Nestor: What I've built on top of it a little bit, because that's more local to the computer, and you don't want to build a custom database in Dropbox because of the syncing process.

R.J. Nestor: I learned this, by the way.

R.J. Nestor: I didn't know this before.

R.J. Nestor: I learned this when I had a database that went weird.

R.J. Nestor: The syncing on Dropbox can mess with databases.

R.J. Nestor: If there's a write happening to the database while Dropbox is doing a sync, it can mess things up.

R.J. Nestor: So my database and stuff, those live outside Dropbox.

R.J. Nestor: They're still backed up, but they're only on the local computer.

R.J. Nestor: So in other words, the answer is, in theory, yes, having those files in Dropbox gives you some more.

R.J. Nestor: But because a fair amount of what I'm running in terms of the mechanics of how this agenda and things like that are being built are operating locally on the computer, I'd still have to have access to that in addition to the Dropbox.

R.J. Nestor: One other thing I wanted to show you here before I talked about one of the key points of this, and that is, and this has actually been in operation for a while now, I can reject that, I have an email dashboard.

R.J. Nestor: I built, or rather directed Claude to build, a connection for it, it's a CLI as well, command line interface that it uses, that connects directly to my email server.

R.J. Nestor: It doesn't even operate through my local Apple Mail or anything like that, it connects directly to Bluehost, where my emails are saved, using standard long-term libraries so it's not like anything, it's not, you don't have to make anything up, it's using things that already exist.

R.J. Nestor: What that allows me to do,

R.J. Nestor: For instance, this is a great example of how I use AI.

R.J. Nestor: I don't have AI write replies for me.

R.J. Nestor: I'm not interested in replying to someone with an AI written email.

R.J. Nestor: I sometimes will have it maybe do a first pass or something, but I am always working on it.

R.J. Nestor: What I want AI to do is to find the tasks, the events, the notes, the things that need replies in my emails and give me that.

R.J. Nestor: That way I don't have to go fishing through my email personally.

R.J. Nestor: I don't have to read every email in depth.

R.J. Nestor: I just need to find the ones that are actionable and let it automatically handle the ones that don't.

R.J. Nestor: Now, I can change this.

R.J. Nestor: I can always go here and say, hey, let's add a task or something like that.

R.J. Nestor: built this for me.

R.J. Nestor: But I don't want to have to read through all of these.

R.J. Nestor: I can just have it handle them.

R.J. Nestor: And if I decide that I'm done with them, I'll click clear all and they'll go away.

R.J. Nestor: But this changes my world significantly because now instead of me thinking of email as something.

R.J. Nestor: That piles up that I have to read each one to figure out what I need to do with it.

R.J. Nestor: That first pass is handled for me so that I don't have to, you know, read everything in depth.

R.J. Nestor: I only have to read the ones that tell me there's something important that's in here.

R.J. Nestor: You know, if I go to the task, I can then open my email.

R.J. Nestor: You can't see it on that screen because it opened on the other screen, but it just opened the email from which that was from for me.

R.J. Nestor: And all of that is handled because emails are also files.

R.J. Nestor: So they're saved locally here, you know, on my computer.

R.J. Nestor: But it also built itself a little database on top so that it keep track of which emails have tasks and which emails have notes.

R.J. Nestor: And then if I decide not neither of these tasks are of particular importance, but let's just pretend that this is something because these are messages that are that are just notification messages.

R.J. Nestor: But I could approve this task and then it would it would add that task.

R.J. Nestor: I won't do it right now because I don't really want this task in there.

R.J. Nestor: But.

R.J. Nestor: It would add that task to my files, and then because it's in my files, Claude can see it, I can see it, it's set up in my system.

R.J. Nestor: This is something that requires a little bit more, you know, customization.

R.J. Nestor: My email is Bluehost, so it just needed to be able to authenticate those to there.

R.J. Nestor: You may be hosted via Gmail.

R.J. Nestor: I also have a couple of Gmails, and I actually have a system set up for that as well.

R.J. Nestor: There are built-in connectors for things like Gmail.

R.J. Nestor: Gmail, however, I like to use my own custom-built one because it's not an MCP server, so it doesn't take as many tokens to run it.

R.J. Nestor: It's a little bit quicker and easier to run.

R.J. Nestor: So anyway, long and short, the point that I'm, you know, building toward here, I'll get back to my slides here.

R.J. Nestor: Oh, I didn't show the one.

R.J. Nestor: Here, let show the one that's a hotel because I told you about that.

R.J. Nestor: It has access to the Maps CLI, so it built for me.

R.J. Nestor: By the way, you're looking at just the system running here.

R.J. Nestor: Obsidian can't open HTML files.

R.J. Nestor: One of the reasons I built this little file for myself is that we could make it so that it could run files.

R.J. Nestor: But this is what it built for me.

R.J. Nestor: It built me this whole thing with an interactive map view with all of the hotels that could work for this trip to DC that I have for the conference, by the brands that I have the rewards for, the ones that sleep five and get to decide to take the family.

R.J. Nestor: Or whether I go myself.

R.J. Nestor: Ones that have an indoor pool or not, I can check that on or off.

R.J. Nestor: I can make them near whichever relevant stations there are on the DC metro.

R.J. Nestor: I want to be clear.

R.J. Nestor: All I did was have it build itself a map CLI so it could connect to Google Maps.

R.J. Nestor: So it would have detailed information, not just stuff it's guessing.

R.J. Nestor: And I asked it to please, when it created the report, to make it as an HTML file.

R.J. Nestor: That's it.

R.J. Nestor: And because it had really great information.

R.J. Nestor: And because it had the, you know, the ability now to use CSS and JavaScript to make a really cool interactive HTML file, this is what I got.

R.J. Nestor: And it's extraordinarily useful.

R.J. Nestor: It's like having a, you know, a, some sort of web app.

R.J. Nestor: It basically is a web app.

R.J. Nestor: But that's specifically for this one project.

R.J. Nestor: And it took, you know, a minute or two.

R.J. Nestor: And I had it.

R.J. Nestor: And I, it was even more than I, I dreamed it would be.

R.J. Nestor: It was, it was kind of a miracle when I got this.

R.J. Nestor: And it was, and it's all because it has great maps data.

R.J. Nestor: And it knows how to make really nice HTML files.

R.J. Nestor: Because it's, because of what, that's what it's really good at.

R.J. Nestor: It's good at building.

R.J. Nestor: It's good at coding.

R.J. Nestor: It's good at a lot of things.

R.J. Nestor: But because it's good at coding, we can leverage that to get it to build us really cool stuff.

R.J. Nestor: Like this.

R.J. Nestor: Okay.

R.J. Nestor: So back to the slides.

R.J. Nestor: Guys, I just want to close out with a couple quick things here.

R.J. Nestor: I know we're close on time and I do have a call afterward.

R.J. Nestor: Um, you know.

R.J. Nestor: Well, You You You

R.J. Nestor: Well, I'll address that in second.

R.J. Nestor: One other layer that I want you to know, I mentioned that, you know, you could set traps for lobsters or things like that.

R.J. Nestor: One of the big challenges of systems in general is that they tend to drift.

R.J. Nestor: Things can, you know, get misnamed or things get set wrong or the, you know, whatever.

R.J. Nestor: Sure.

R.J. Nestor: I have in my, this one is in the Claw desktop app.

R.J. Nestor: I'll open it here.

R.J. Nestor: I have scheduled tasks that run.

R.J. Nestor: And those scheduled tasks have very specific things that they do.

R.J. Nestor: They go through a great one here, project health reasoning.

R.J. Nestor: This is a little thing that runs overnight.

R.J. Nestor: It fires a script that it built for itself to get information about my projects.

R.J. Nestor: And if it sees any red flags, it will parse, you know, what the issues might be and bring that to me in my morning, uh, briefing.

R.J. Nestor: So, so, so projects that might otherwise fall, you know, fall by the wayside because they're, uh, they, they don't have any tasks in them or they.

R.J. Nestor: They, we haven't looked at them in a while or what have you, suddenly I don't have to, I don't have to just look at them all the time in order to know what they are.

R.J. Nestor: It will surface those to me based on those flags.

R.J. Nestor: This one here, DreamFix file names.

R.J. Nestor: This one looks at any new or edited files.

R.J. Nestor: It does that with a script.

R.J. Nestor: It doesn't have to go searching for them.

R.J. Nestor: It has a script it built for itself to find new or edited files.

R.J. Nestor: And once it has those files, it reads them.

R.J. Nestor: And if it decides that the file name is an accurate reflection of what's in the file, it leaves it alone.

R.J. Nestor: If it decides the file name is not an accurate reflection of what's in the file, it renames the file based on what's there.

R.J. Nestor: That way, because I'm relying on Claude's ability to know what's there based on, you know, the names of the files, it's valuable to make sure that any new or edited files are properly named.

R.J. Nestor: And because this happens, this is a sonnet, for those of you who know Claude, sonnet's the mid-tier agent.

R.J. Nestor: It doesn't cost very many.

R.J. Nestor: This is a sonnet agent, and it runs a script.

R.J. Nestor: It costs nothing, effectively.

R.J. Nestor: It takes very little for this to work, but it makes sure that I don't get this kind of little drift where suddenly I have a whole bunch of files that aren't particularly well-named, and so the system doesn't work as well.

R.J. Nestor: And all that happens in the background.

R.J. Nestor: Those of who've been with me a while know I talk about backstop reviews, backstops that fill gaps, places where things might fail.

R.J. Nestor: Just have a review so that you can make sure that those things don't slip through the gaps.

R.J. Nestor: That used to be something I had to do myself.

R.J. Nestor: Claude can do it.

R.J. Nestor: And by the way, I mentioned at the very beginning, I talk about the dream reference to Claude.

R.J. Nestor: I call these Claude's dream jobs, because most of them happen overnight.

R.J. Nestor: So I say these are Claude dreams, it's mechanical dreams, so I can dream my big expansive ones.

R.J. Nestor: I don't have to be tied up in this little, you know, the nickel and diming to death.

R.J. Nestor: That's probably a very American expression, isn't it, since we use nickels and diming.

R.J. Nestor: But little things hitting you that add up, the little things that add up, you can stop those by having some of the ones that require agents are here.

R.J. Nestor: I also have some that are just scripts.

R.J. Nestor: The one that's mentioned here is fix the emdashes.

R.J. Nestor: I don't have a problem with emdashes.

R.J. Nestor: I do have a problem with emdashes that have spaces on either side of them.

R.J. Nestor: And Claude writes them natively with emdashes spaces on either side of I hate it.

R.J. Nestor: So I just have a script that goes through my entire set of files and removes the spaces on both sides of the emdashes.

R.J. Nestor: It runs in, you know, a second or two.

R.J. Nestor: And it cleans it out so that I don't ever have to look at those nasty little emdashes with spaces on the other side of them and annoy the heck out of me.

R.J. Nestor: Since I can't, I also have several instructions to tell it not to write them that way.

R.J. Nestor: But Claude is very persistent on this point.

R.J. Nestor: It really wants those emdashes with spaces on the other side.

R.J. Nestor: But the larger point here is when you find something like that, well, oh, this is a place where things could get out of sync.

R.J. Nestor: Build yourself a little scheduled action.

R.J. Nestor: Have Claude build it for you to fix it.

R.J. Nestor: So that it doesn't drift anymore.

R.J. Nestor: And like I said, my projects, the ones that need my review surface in my morning briefing, have it set up so that if there's something it genuinely doesn't know, it writes it somewhere that it can send it to you.

R.J. Nestor: So that you can, you know, you can, if there are things that genuinely do need to rise to your attention, that they will.

R.J. Nestor: I know I'm slightly over time and I do actually have another call, so there are probably people waiting on that.

R.J. Nestor: So I'll have to go in a second here.

R.J. Nestor: So you know what I'm going to do?

R.J. Nestor: For those of who can stay, I'm going to give you the link.

R.J. Nestor: To that next call, because I'm going to be talking about a lot of the same stuff on the next call.

R.J. Nestor: I'm going to allow this call to continue into that call a little bit.

R.J. Nestor: Nobody over there will care.

R.J. Nestor: A lot of them probably would have come to this if the timing was right anyway, because I'll talk about that there.

R.J. Nestor: But I want to, I do want to mention, it's the Reclaim Your Creative Mind.

R.J. Nestor: It is my Reclaim Your Creative Mind people.

R.J. Nestor: So this is the last, I gave them a couple of bonus sessions because I wanted to share a couple of things after I had rebuilt the system and hear from them as well.

R.J. Nestor: same.

R.J. Nestor: to mention, but

R.J. Nestor: If you have time or whatever, let me pop in the chat what the link to that Zoom is.

R.J. Nestor: I truly wasn't intending to do this, but since I ran right up against time, I want to give you an opportunity to ask some questions if you have them.

R.J. Nestor: Let me go get the link here.

R.J. Nestor: Do you want a session happening now?

R.J. Nestor: Well, not quite yet.

R.J. Nestor: I'm not there yet.

R.J. Nestor: What's the link here?

R.J. Nestor: Edit.

R.J. Nestor: There it is.

R.J. Nestor: Okay.

R.J. Nestor: Probably could have guessed what that link is, honestly, but I'm going to put this here in the chat.

R.J. Nestor: The next round of Reclaim Your Creative Mind, where I'm going to teach all of this, and I'm also going to give the option for people to have one-on-one sessions to help set it up, because I do think there's some value in that, since there's a lot going on.

R.J. Nestor: But the next one is going to start June 22nd.

R.J. Nestor: I'm going to be opening the sales right away here for people who have attended past cohorts.

R.J. Nestor: you're be able to business.

R.J. Nestor: you question complete

R.J. Nestor: Uh, you'll get an email today with a, with a sales link for people who've not, um, I'll tease an email today or tomorrow, but you'll, that sales will open up later in the, um, in the, in the week.

R.J. Nestor: Um, but the link I just sent you will take you to the other call and, uh, you know, it's my last call in that session anyway.

R.J. Nestor: So in that, in that course, so it'll be fine.

R.J. Nestor: If you want to come over and you want to ask some questions there, come on over, ask some questions there.

R.J. Nestor: Um, and, uh, and of course always ask in the community as well, if you want, but hopefully that's, that, that kind of introducing a new way of thinking here is, is not super overwhelming.

R.J. Nestor: I know it's highly technical in places.

R.J. Nestor: It seems that way, but you're not the technician.

R.J. Nestor: Claude is.

R.J. Nestor: So it makes it a whole heck of a lot easier when you can just be at the level above that.

R.J. Nestor: All right.

R.J. Nestor: If I see you on the other call, I'll see you on the other call.

Sharon Lewis: That's the zoom link.

Sharon Lewis: Is that the call right now?

R.J. Nestor: Or is that the call that I'm going to right now?

Sharon Lewis: Okay.

R.J. Nestor: is the call right now.

R.J. Nestor: Yep.

Sharon Lewis: Okay.

Sharon Lewis: Thanks.

Sharon Lewis: Right.