@WisprFlow@oasisdevices Skeptical about the voice quality as Wispr requires a good headphone for accurate dictation. I am even thinking of using a microphone over my headphones so I don't even know if this even works.
Doom scrolling but make it educational 🤓
Introducing Short Video Overviews in NotebookLM! Turn your most complex sources into 60-second, vertical videos that deep dive into any concept.
Rolling out now to Google AI Ultra and Pro subscribers on mobile & web (free users soon!)
LLM Knowledge Bases
Something I'm finding very useful recently: using LLMs to build personal knowledge bases for various topics of research interest. In this way, a large fraction of my recent token throughput is going less into manipulating code, and more into manipulating knowledge (stored as markdown and images). The latest LLMs are quite good at it. So:
Data ingest:
I index source documents (articles, papers, repos, datasets, images, etc.) into a raw/ directory, then I use an LLM to incrementally "compile" a wiki, which is just a collection of .md files in a directory structure. The wiki includes summaries of all the data in raw/, backlinks, and then it categorizes data into concepts, writes articles for them, and links them all. To convert web articles into .md files I like to use the Obsidian Web Clipper extension, and then I also use a hotkey to download all the related images to local so that my LLM can easily reference them.
IDE:
I use Obsidian as the IDE "frontend" where I can view the raw data, the the compiled wiki, and the derived visualizations. Important to note that the LLM writes and maintains all of the data of the wiki, I rarely touch it directly. I've played with a few Obsidian plugins to render and view data in other ways (e.g. Marp for slides).
Q&A:
Where things get interesting is that once your wiki is big enough (e.g. mine on some recent research is ~100 articles and ~400K words), you can ask your LLM agent all kinds of complex questions against the wiki, and it will go off, research the answers, etc. I thought I had to reach for fancy RAG, but the LLM has been pretty good about auto-maintaining index files and brief summaries of all the documents and it reads all the important related data fairly easily at this ~small scale.
Output:
Instead of getting answers in text/terminal, I like to have it render markdown files for me, or slide shows (Marp format), or matplotlib images, all of which I then view again in Obsidian. You can imagine many other visual output formats depending on the query. Often, I end up "filing" the outputs back into the wiki to enhance it for further queries. So my own explorations and queries always "add up" in the knowledge base.
Linting:
I've run some LLM "health checks" over the wiki to e.g. find inconsistent data, impute missing data (with web searchers), find interesting connections for new article candidates, etc., to incrementally clean up the wiki and enhance its overall data integrity. The LLMs are quite good at suggesting further questions to ask and look into.
Extra tools:
I find myself developing additional tools to process the data, e.g. I vibe coded a small and naive search engine over the wiki, which I both use directly (in a web ui), but more often I want to hand it off to an LLM via CLI as a tool for larger queries.
Further explorations:
As the repo grows, the natural desire is to also think about synthetic data generation + finetuning to have your LLM "know" the data in its weights instead of just context windows.
TLDR: raw data from a given number of sources is collected, then compiled by an LLM into a .md wiki, then operated on by various CLIs by the LLM to do Q&A and to incrementally enhance the wiki, and all of it viewable in Obsidian. You rarely ever write or edit the wiki manually, it's the domain of the LLM. I think there is room here for an incredible new product instead of a hacky collection of scripts.
Today we're launching Meta Ad Researcher skills for Claude.
This is a set of skills inside /gooseworks that turns Claude into an expert ad research team — find what's trending, see what competitors are running, and mine the angles that actually convert.
First, install by running:
npx gooseworks install --all
Then you can do any of the following:
/gooseworks --skill trending-ad-hook-spotter
Find trending topics in my niche to run ads on right now
/gooseworks --skill competitor-ad-intelligence
Scrape my competitors' ads and reverse-engineer their funnel
/gooseworks --skill ad-angle-miner
Mine my reviews and Reddit for the angles that actually convert
/gooseworks --skill brand-research
Research my brand and build a reusable context pack for ads
Oh and then you can use /gooseworks to make ad creatives directly from the research.
/gooseworks use goose-ads remix to create 5 static ads based on the research above.
All of this works right in Claude. No need to leave Claude at all.
We've built a library of 100+ skills to turn Claude into an expert growth team - this includes skills for ads, social, content, research, gtm, seo and more.
Comment Goose below and I'll send you an early access link.
Apple's new Icon Composer is genuinely fun to mess around with.
You can try different Liquid Glass effects, OS 26/27 icon styles, adjust specularity, refraction, chromatic shadows, and more.
Anyone interested in designing icons for iOS or macOS should give it a try.
A lot of exciting new consumer product launches recently.
Some of my favorites are from Philips, Mondo Robotics, LINC, and Autonomous.
Check out the latest drops:
Here's a first look at Snapchat's new AR glasses launching this fall for $2,195. They are designed for productivity, streaming, gaming and a wide range of day-to-day activities.
Introducing Avatars in @ElevenCreative.
The best AI voices, now with a face. Create studio-grade talking videos from a script, a voice, and an avatar - all in one place.