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Thought I'd share

Since I'm going to be down for a couple of days I'm trying to get a couple things done before then and thought I'd share. I don't think I'm sharing any secrets here and it's all among family right?

The attached image is what my Claude code looks like when I'm really working. I can only truly focus on 3 things at a time and in this image I'm actively working on three projects at once.

Tl;Dr - Michael lists current projects and shows pretty pictures at the end

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On the Main screen and to the left you can See "Advisor Fable" and 12 Agents running on a plan for a massive update to layercrafter now that I solved the last of the issues I had with making it a true Vellum/Atticus replacement. When done it will be more in line with a streamlined desktop publishing package. Master Pages, better cover, spine, paper, and sizes. the ability to integrate images and backgrounds, justification and hyphens, type kerning, callouts, imports from comiccrafter for children's book layouts, comics, and Graphic Novels. Text Books is also on the list. True professional pdf export and some epub fixes. Live editing of the file you are working with so you do not have to jump back and forth when you see that sentence you want to correct. More options for page design not just text. A whole bevy of goodies, because I got annoyed with laying out a nonfiction book in Affinity and I have ten to do in that series. ( Yes you will get them for free when they are finished).

Below that in the left hand you see tarotcrafter which is almost finished for designing card decks. Tarot Cards, Oracle Cards, Custom playing card decks and gaming cards proxies like Pokemon or Magic the Gathering. I needed the improvements to layercrafter to create the book for my oracle card deck (sample below) created with tarotcrafter. This is a separate app altogether.

and finally MindVault a new Personal Knowledge Manager I've mentioned once before to replace Evernote, Raindrop, Recall, Pocket, Notion, Google Keep, a web clipper, and task manager. Will save me $240 a year and do what I want it to do, searchable with a guided information search like the storydb in WCP has.

My only problem with working like this is how quickly I run out of my Claude time. I'm at 71% for the week right now and the reset is Thursday at 7pm. This is also why I don't get books done. My "Ooooh something shiny hits" and off I go, but it all moves us forward.

TarotCrafter was just fun. I entered a contest to create a new deck and built taorcrafter to create THAT deck..but of course it had to do more and be for everyone not just me. I've collected decks and been a reader for many years. I just don't do it for many people. I don't trust many professional readers I have met so why should anyone trust me or my interpretations right? But what I learned from it was style consistency across images and sizing. I have 3 decks I've created that will get printed eventually.

MindVault. After I accidentally deleted a hge youtube playlist I hadn't watched yet I decided i needed Better way to manage the lists and keep them. I haven't found a web clipper or PKM program i really liked, that worked the way I think. And not being able to find something I know I saved irks me no end. Offering to shar emy research files with others also was a kick in the pants to get some things better organized and searchable for a series of books to write as well. MindVault was born, when the kinks are worked out I'll move it online and make it available to others. This is also tied to the storydb in WCP to make entries and updates there easier and easier to share with others.

Other items on my Claude list you have seen already. Updates to the series tools (these are ongoing..it just gets better). Folio became the writers desk in WCP. Image Element and separtig is my new image/cover tool I'm still battling. Walk away and come back to it. and then DragonForge.

DragonForge is indeed Frankenstein's monster. It is a Claude plugin that Forges books. Parts of the research in this need to make it into BookCrafter and BookWeaver. It truly is the most amazing and scary automation system. You are not the author. You have no input. It writes only to the market. Creates it's own pen names appropriate to a genre/market with a background and social media. As long as you have Claude tokens to spend it will keep writing. about a book every 10 hours to a truly ridiculous number of tokens, and two of the "AI testers" ranked it's output a 20% AI written and 36% Ai written. It's very, very good Fiction writing. Even creates it's own marketing plan and Social media posts. If I had a strong enough machine to run with a decent local AI it could work constantly and given some of the UGC videos and fake influencers out there could become an online personality that fans could interact with. Scary huh? I let it roll for three books and turned it off.

I figured since I kind of bailed on Show your Work Saturday I'd share here

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Thought I'd share