Building a readable, editable platform specific knowledge library so your AI tool stops hitting the same wall twice

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...

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Building a readable, editable platform specific knowledge library so your AI tool stops hitting the same wall twice