Everyone seems to be asking what are the ways people are actually getting productivity gains from AI.
Here is one that changed how I work completely.
I used to find note taking apps frustrating.
Not because the tools or apps were bad but because every time I tried to capture a thought, I had to stop and organise it and decide where it lived.
That moment killed the habit every single time... probably because i was overthinking it.
So I flipped the approach entirely.
Capture dumb. Organise smart.
Now this is what i do. I use 4 tools.
- @obsdmd
- @WisprFlow
- @claudeai
- Apple Reminders
I open a daily note in Obsidian, I use Wispr Flow throughout the day, morning and afternoon brain dumps, right after meetings, when ideas come to mind and drop it straight into the note. Just raw thinking, out of my head and into one place.
Then Claude Code comes in.
At the end of the day it reads that daily note in full. It understands the context, identifies what matters, and takes key sections and categorises them into the folders I have set up. Folders for work projects, ideas, education, goals, anything you can think of.
If I mentioned in the note about following up with someone, it takes that and places it into my reminders app. If I flagged something to action next week, same thing.
I don't touch any of it.
But the part that genuinely surprised me came a few months into using this system.
I asked Claude to surface gaps in my thinking across a project I'd been working through. It came back with connections I hadn't made myself. Ideas I'd mentioned a week or so apart that were clearly pulling in the same direction.
I knew it somewhere. I just hadn't looked at it directly.
The more consistently you capture, the more context compounds.
The AI working with you after a few months of this is fundamentally different from day one, all because the context.
That is where the productivity gain actually lives.
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