I am in a FB group called something like AI for Church Leaders. The owner is a guy named Kenny Jahng and he gave the first AI workshop I ever attended so he is a real dude. However the real group doesn't get too much interaction except for the owner. And even then the posts are not filled with loads of value like we have experienced in the JM group but also in the groups and posts of many who have learned from him. Many of those folks that ask questions are just beginning. So off and on I decided to posted a few articles on what I am learning about Claude pretty much like what I have posted here and boil it down to basics and step by step assuming they only have a little understanding. Tonight, the leader sent me a friend request and then after I accepted he sent me the attached. Frankly, anytime I get something like this from anyone I haven't had a few chats with first, or follow the group and just watch would make me very leary to respond, but I decided to risk it and say yes. Hopefully a fun adventure awaits and not an entrance fee!

I've been thinking of creative ways to use Fable 5. Yesterday, using Claude Code on Fable 5, I asked it to read my entire Google Drive and tell me every idea I never followed through on - plans, brainstorms, products, classes, programs, etc. It found 3,075 files and came back with a report of 149 ideas I began but never finished. It sorted them by topic/business (I have a business, a nonprofit, a side hustle, and work for a church). It also told me about things I'd purchased and never used - prompt packs, courses, templates, etc. It took all yesterday and part of this morning, mostly running in the background while I did other things. I want to be honest, I hit my Claude usage limit twice (and was lucky enough to have just finished this project when we all magically got reset this afternoon - yeah). The final report starred 16 items that are the closest to done, with links to each item in my Drive. If anyone wants the prompt, here it is - works best in Claude Code (Cowork would probably work too) and make sure your Google Drive connector is turned on. Make sure when it's done tell Claude to add it to your memory so you can refer back to it. "I want you to audit my entire Google Drive for unfinished business. Go through my files and find every idea I conceptualized but never executed or followed through on — products, classes, courses, programs, events, apps, books, content series, business ideas, anything. How to do it: 1. First build an inventory of my Google Drive. Skip receipts, taxes, banking, personal/family admin, and other people's files. 2. Read the documents I actually authored — plans, brainstorms, outlines, drafts, to-do lists, and anything vaguely titled or untitled. 3. For each idea you find, judge from the document itself whether it was executed or abandoned: look for blank date fields, placeholder links, 'TODO' notes, outlines with no finished product, and plans with no follow-through. 4. Also make a separate list of courses, templates, and resources I purchased from other people but never appear to have used.

Have you run into this? You're using an AI tool to help you build something in a platform you don't know your way around, and the interface has changed since the AI's training data was current. It walks you through steps confidently, and none of them match what's actually on your screen. I jump on this wheel over and over- Stripe this week, Cloudflare last week, Lovable this week and last week, Brevo 2 weeks ago, among others. It made me realize how often this was going to keep happening, since most of what I do in my tech stack, I only touch occasionally and not enough time to learn the platform fairly well. I used Claude (lowest paid tier) and Notion (free) as those are the tools I know the best. You do have to connect them in the Connections section of Claude first. Here's the part that will make it much less work going forward and actually make it stick instead of becoming one more system I meant to use. I don't have to open Notion to do any of this! Claude creates the platform knowledge library on how to do each of the tasks I need to do (like setup and test a webhook in Stripe.) Claude writes the entries, and looks things up in Notion, all inside our conversation. No copying, no pasting, no tab switching. First time through a new task, we still go slow and thorough, screenshot by screenshot if needed, that part doesn't disappear. What changes is that most of the time now, the up to date instructions are just sitting there waiting to be called up, instead of starting back at screenshot one every single time. Full step-by-step in the attached doc if you want to set this up for yourself. 👇 A caution. The footer in the doc refers to a Substack that doesn't exist yet. Not sure when it will happen but when it does you will all know about it. I have a name and an idea, said all of us often...

We dug into the YAP Challenge strategy everyone's been watching, swapped real production tips for short-form video, and had an honest conversation about focus because building cool things doesn't pay the electric bill. Selling does. :) What we covered: - The YAP Challenge breakdown — why 60-90 second videos built around YOUR life stories are converting, and the 80% connection / 20% selling content rule - The story bank exercise — uploading the workbook to Claude and having it interview you to pull out stories you've never shared publicly - Content pillars that rotate so you always know what to post (and never stare at a blank screen) - The camera trick that changes everything — flip your phone so you can't see yourself, and talk to the lens like it's a first date - Caption tools compared — Instagram's built-in captions, the free Edits app, Captions.ai, and CapCut - Why captions matter — nearly half of viewers watch with the sound off - The algorithm secret on captions — keep fonts simple and close to the platform's native style, one word at a time - The editing order that saves hours — fix your vocals FIRST, then trim by transcript instead of listening through - The 3-second hook triangle — visual hook, verbal hook, and text hook working together - Why platform metadata matters — TikTok can tell when you upload a video downloaded from Instagram - The restack-with-a-note strategy for growing on Substack fast - Email marketing math — a $37 return for every $1 spent, and why you build your list BEFORE your book or offer launches - The DM strategy that converts — personally messaging the people who already raised their hand in your community - A brand new Content Seed System built live with Fable 5 — one Sunday content seed becomes six deliverables, pushed straight to Notion What your fellow members are actively working on: - One member is rebranding around her book and building an idea bank of content pillars ahead of her launch - Someone is pulling vocal clips from client testimonials to create authentic short-form content - One member grew her Substack to new followers in her first month by batching articles and Notes in under an hour a week - A member is running four focused TikTok channels, each built around a specific niche - One action taker vibe-coded an entire membership platform in a day and a half — courses, live Zoom links, member collaboration, all of it — the kind of build agencies charge $3,500+ for - Someone is refining her product ecosystem with a mid-tier portfolio builder to bridge her free and premium offers - A member redesigned her landing page, added community testimonials, and welcomed two new members to her club this week

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