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Here's what I've been working with lately:
Last week, OpenAI released their browser, Atlas.
I decided to give it a shot.
I was watching this 40-minute YCombinator video, taking notes as I watched.
Like I always do.
I learn it all from Youtube. It’s my real teacher nowadays.
anyway,
I was watching this video
When I realized: Atlas can take notes for me.
So instead of pausing the video every 2-3 minutes, I opened ChatGPT in the Atlas sidebar.
and just
Loved it.
Atlas took notes as I watched the video.
Keypoints, timestamps, sections I could use later.
I didn’t actually realize how much time and attention I lost when I was note-taking.
now that will not happen again.
I’ve also used it for:
Google Docs editing:
Just to write or rewrite some things I'm too lazy to do. ChatGPT, it’s not the greatest writer in the world, but it does it.
Agent mode:
To do some research about things that I care about, but it would take me forever to do it myself. Real useful.
ChatGPT is almost like an Operating System now
(that’s probably coming in the future)
It’s on your desk, phone, browser
Some people are really worried about it.
But also people were worried when the calculator was made because “no one is gonna know math no more”
and here we are.
So, learn to use it as best as you can.
It can do good for you, just don’t stop thinking and you’ll be fine.
(Use Atlas with Youtube, that’s when it clicked for me)
Another thing I’ve been using: MCP in Warp
I connected Linear and Supabase to Warp using MCP (Model Context Protocol).
I keep a product folder with notes from every cycle we've had.
Product decisions, technical requirements, context that usually gets lost.
Now when I'm planning a feature, I talk through it with AI, reference the product folder, then:
@ai show me all issues assigned to me in Linear@ai create a Linear issue titled "Add export feature" in team "Backend"
The ticket gets created with full context.
Product history, technical notes, decisions we made three months ago.
Everything.
Before:
Discuss feature in Slack. Open notes app. Write requirements. Switch to Linear. Create ticket manually. Copy notes over. Lose half the context in the process
Now:
Conversation to ticket. Context stays intact.
I also set up Supabase MCP with a context folder.
It took some time to train it on our schema, but now I can just ask:
"How many collection calls did we make this week with our AI agent?"
"Compare that to last week"
It queries and answers. Like a conversational dashboard. No SQL, no switching tabs.
That 's it.
Two tools, real hours saved. If you try either, tell me how it goes.
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See you next week,
Ed.