The recording of last night's call is up in the Classroom, under YouTube Learning › Claude Code + Obsidian: https://www.skool.com/the-construct-6291/classroom/0f4a923d?md=7af945e01e644de182e73107ef65ec55 Thanks to everyone who joined live. What is in the recording: - Why a human virtual assistant gave me more admin, and what a good assistant needs - Demo 1, at my desk: a house plant dashboard built in a work session - Demo 2, at the gym: "I'm at the gym" on Telegram, every set logged in the vault - Demo 3, on the go: a bank screenshot that lands in the finance tracker - The structure behind it, how to connect your tools, and how to reach your assistant from your phone - What broke along the way and how it got fixed It is only here for now. It goes public on YouTube later. What is the first job you would hand over to your assistant? Tell me in the comments.

Thursday 12 November, 19:00 CET, the second community call goes live. The topic is the anatomy of an AI assistant. What I wanted from an assistant for years, what I have now, and the structure behind it. - A live demo from my phone: I message my assistant on Telegram and you watch it work in my vault - The structure that makes it useful: one folder, organised in areas, hubs and projects - How it reaches me when I am away from my laptop Then your questions. 19:00 CET (19:00 Amsterdam, 13:00 New York, 10:00 San Francisco) Calendar event: https://www.skool.com/the-construct-6291/calendar?eid=1dcea814d42d466d8c1b88934937e0e8 Can't make it? The recording goes in The Construct (Premium) classroom afterwards.

Last week I watched a breakdown of how Andrej Karpathy uses Claude Code. One thing that stood out for me: he asks claude to explain things in ASD-STE100, Simplified Technical English. STE is the controlled language that aircraft maintenance manuals are written in. Short sentences, active voice, one word for one meaning. It exists so a mechanic cannot misread an instruction. I tested it in my own Claude Code sessions for the last few days. The replies got shorter and easier to act on. The answer comes first, steps come as a list, and a risk comes in one line at the top. Less scrolling, less re-reading, and fewer moments where I had to ask "so what do I do now?" Yesterday I made it permanent. If you want to try it out, paste this prompt into Claude and it does it for you: --- From now on, reply to me in ASD-STE100 (Simplified Technical English). Save this as a permanent rule in my instructions (CLAUDE.md in Claude Code), so it applies in every session, then show me the change: "Replies to me use ASD-STE100 (Simplified Technical English). Answer first. Sentences of 20 words or fewer, active voice, no filler or hedging. Steps and options as lists. Instructions in command form. If there is a risk, put it first, in one line. One term for one thing. Keep file names, commands and code exactly as they are. No summary at the end. Use it only in replies to me, not in files you write: code, comments, docs, emails or posts." --- Keep that last sentence. Your mails, posts and docs should still sound like you, so STE stays in the replies. In the Claude app, Claude cannot save its own settings. Ask it for the rule, then paste it into Settings > Profile > personal preferences. Run your next session and tell me below if the replies feel better or too blunt.

Have a look at the YouTube Learning course in the classroom: YouTube Library Every video from my channel, sorted by topic, each page with its title and video. I did not have to do this manually... I got Claude to click through Skool for about 2 hours while I did other things. (update) Watch the YouTube video here. How to set it up: 1. Install the Claude in Chrome extension from the Chrome Web Store and sign in (paid Claude plan) 2. Keep Chrome open 3. In Claude Code, type /chrome and check that it says Enabled 4. Ask in plain words. Claude opens its own tabs and stops when it needs you to log in What to use it for: anything tedious where you click through the same steps and copy-paste between pages. - Flights: I gave it my dates and it searched Google Flights for the cheapest return to South Africa, comparing airports - Forms: applications, registrations, expense claims, anything you fill in from information you already have - Your website: update text, prices or links across pages - Rearranging: reorder a course, move pages into sections, rename things in bulk - Monthly admin: log in to a portal and download the invoice or statement - Research: compare products, apartments or prices across sites and put them in one table It gets better when it is connected to Obsidian. Claude logs what it did in a work session note on the project, so the flight options sit in my trip project and the classroom build sits in my community project. That note is how we keep track of the work together. Claude writes down what it is doing and what it found, I can see it while it works, and weeks later we can both look back at what was done. Any use-cases come to mind for this?

I like uploading pictures in the daily note. Love this feature and how it builds over time.. Problem is the photos take up a large chunk of space inside the vault. Not that my vault is large, but the photos are probably taking up 60% of the space of the entire vault and that's with using the Image Converter Community plugin to shrink the file size.. Claude will fix the problem by making me a symlink so that when I add an image it will get copied on to my iCloud Drive /attachments folder instead of my vault folder where attachments currently live. . Obsidian won't know the difference.. :-) Lets see how it goes..