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Notion AI is frequently highlighted for its integration with Notion's productivity tools, offering seamless assistance across various tasks like organization and content creation. However, there's a lack of detailed recent user feedback specifically calling out its strengths and weaknesses, often overshadowed by discussions about other AI tools, such as ChatGPT. Pricing sentiment isn't clearly highlighted in the mentions, which often focus on functionality rather than cost. Overall, Notion AI seems to maintain a stable reputation, although more detailed peer comparisons could illuminate its exact standing among AI offerings.
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Notion AI is frequently highlighted for its integration with Notion's productivity tools, offering seamless assistance across various tasks like organization and content creation. However, there's a lack of detailed recent user feedback specifically calling out its strengths and weaknesses, often overshadowed by discussions about other AI tools, such as ChatGPT. Pricing sentiment isn't clearly highlighted in the mentions, which often focus on functionality rather than cost. Overall, Notion AI seems to maintain a stable reputation, although more detailed peer comparisons could illuminate its exact standing among AI offerings.
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🚀 Skills for small businesses, officially released by Anthropic
Anthropic’s 31 small-business skills reportedly hit around 382,000 downloads on day one. And now someone has mapped the whole thing into a setup workflow that can apparently be deployed in \~10 minutes. This is actually a pretty interesting shift. Small businesses used to stitch together automations manually across: Zapier Notion CRM tools email workflows internal docs custom scripts Now AI companies are starting to package the whole thing into reusable skill packs: 🧠 workflow 📚 memory ⚙️ behavior 🔗 connectors 🤖 orchestration 📋 operating rules Basically: business operations as AI-readable skill files. The best part? You don’t necessarily need Claude to use them. At the core, these are still .md skill files describing workflows for AI agents. So even if you’re using Codex, Cursor, Gemini, or another coding agent, you can still study the structure, adapt the workflows, and plug the ideas into your own agent setup. This feels like the beginning of a new category: “AI business operating templates.” GitHub: https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins
View originalPricing found: $0, $10, $20, $10, $0
The emotional rollercoaster of AI product failures
Ive subscribed and operated with the notion of build, fail, grow, and it has always been a humbling process, but recently I have been hearing about a “new” feeling of failure. "I tried my best and it didn't work." ->Move on "I had this super intelligent tool and STILL failed."->Rinse and repeat Its like AI accelerates idea failure and because it is embedded in a hyper rinse & repeat, the feeling of failure is amplified. Is anyone else feeling or seeing this? submitted by /u/Outrageous-Pop-2853 [link] [comments]
View originalWeekly AI roundup (May 23–30, 2026): Claude Opus 4.8 Fast Mode 3x cheaper, Qwen 3.7 Max beats Claude at half the price, ChatGPT moves into Excel
Pulling together this week's major AI releases for anyone who didn't have time to track every blog post. Sticking to substantive changes, not hype. Anthropic — Claude Opus 4.8 Released this week. Headline pricing unchanged, but Fast Mode dropped from $30 input / $150 output per million tokens to $10 / $50 — a 3x reduction on the premium tier. Reported improvements in "judgment" and longer autonomous runs. Also shipped 20+ legal MCP connectors and Microsoft 365 add-ins (Excel, PowerPoint, Word) in GA. Alibaba — Qwen 3.7 Max Launched May 20 at Alibaba Cloud Summit. 1M-token context. Reported to top Claude Opus 4.6 Max on Terminal-Bench 2.0, SWE-Bench Pro, and MCP-Atlas. Pricing $2.50 / $7.50 per million tokens — roughly half of Opus 4.7. Alibaba claims autonomous operation up to 35 hours without performance degradation. Alibaba is now ranked #6 lab globally on Arena text leaderboard. OpenAI — GPT-5.5 Instant Now default in ChatGPT. Reports 52.5% fewer hallucinated claims than GPT-5.3 Instant on high-stakes prompts (medicine, law, finance). OpenAI also shipped a ChatGPT sidebar inside Excel and Google Sheets, plus a personal finance dashboard for Pro users (US only). Google — Gemini 3.5 Flash Reported to beat Gemini 3.1 Pro on coding and agentic benchmarks at ~4x faster output token rate. Ultra subscription cut from $250 to $200/month; new $100/month Developer tier introduced. xAI — Grok Build 0.1 Coding agent moved to public API beta May 28. Custom Skills feature added for reusable user-defined tasks. Connectors for SharePoint, OneDrive, Notion, GitHub, Linear, plus bring-your-own MCP support. Mistral Launched Vibe (unified work + code agent, replaces Le Chat). Acquired Emmi AI for physics-based simulation. Targeting €1B revenue in 2026; new 10MW inference DC announced. Hugging Face Launched an app store for the Reachy Mini robot. ~10,000 units shipped. Also reported a malicious repo masquerading as an OpenAI release that accumulated 244K downloads before takedown — relevant for anyone pinning models from HF in production. My take as someone building on top of these APIs: The 3x Opus Fast Mode price cut and Qwen 3.7 Max's pricing + autonomous duration are the real signal this week. The cost floor on premium-tier inference is dropping faster than most app-layer products have repriced for. Anyone running multi-step agent workflows needs to recompute unit economics this week — either pass through the savings or reinvest the margin. The other pattern worth noting: OpenAI and Anthropic are both pushing into Excel/M365 surfaces. Distribution is becoming the next battleground, not raw model capability. If you're building a productivity SaaS, the giants are now inside the same surface as you. submitted by /u/ksraj1001 [link] [comments]
View originalBest Practices for CSM Account Handover + AI-Powered Transition Docs?
I’m a new CSM at a tech company and I’m taking over existing client accounts from other CSMs. We want to build a Claude/AI workflow that pulls info from Slack, Notion, Jira, CRM, Planhat, etc. to make customer handovers smoother. What are the most important things that should ALWAYS be included in an account handover? Examples: Account health/status Open projects/tickets Key stakeholders Risks/escalations Renewal/adoption status Executive relationships Also, what are the “unwritten” things that matter most? Like: Political dynamics Who really influences decisions Difficult stakeholders Communication preferences Hidden frustrations Things that never appear in Salesforce And finally: during the actual handover meeting between CSMs, what are the must-ask questions? Would love examples/templates from SaaS or tech teams. submitted by /u/Dapper_Whereas7024 [link] [comments]
View originalIs this tagline intentional?
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View originalI spent $340 on AI subscriptions last month. Wrote down what I actually used each one for. It was depressing.
Going through the credit card statement, here's what I had active: Claude Pro (40), ChatGPT Plus (20), Cursor (20), Perplexity Pro (20), Notion AI (10), Granola (20), ElevenLabs Starter (5), Midjourney Basic (10), Gamma Pro (10), Beautiful.ai (12), Otter Pro (17), Loom Business (15), Zapier Pro (30), Make Core (10), Tactiq Pro (8), Descript Creator (15), Reclaim.ai Pro (8), Motion (19), Superhuman (30), one i can't remember the name of (10), some ai-something for instagram captions (11) Then I sat down and wrote next to each one the last time I'd actually used it. Not opened it, used it for a real piece of work. Claude (yesterday), ChatGPT (yesterday, voice mode in car), Cursor (yesterday), Perplexity (3 days), Granola (every meeting), Gamma (2 weeks), Zapier (a month, but the automations are still running), ElevenLabs (3 months ago), Midjourney (couldn't remember), Beautiful.ai (couldn't remember), Otter (replaced by Granola, just forgot to cancel), Loom (4 months), Tactiq (replaced by Granola, also forgot), Descript (used twice in 6 months), Reclaim/Motion (both, can't tell them apart, forget which one schedules my meetings), Superhuman (used the AI features twice), the instagram one (literally cannot remember signing up) Cancelled 11 things this morning. Saving $145/month. Nothing in my workflow actually changed. The pattern isn't that AI tools are bad. It's that I treat subscribing like trying. Every "I want to try this" became a recurring charge I forgot about. submitted by /u/OneSeaworthiness2676 [link] [comments]
View originalMy Cowork has been broken for 48 hours. I dug into the session files and found my Max account is enrolled in a prompt variant "testfoo"?
My Cowork has been unusable for two days. Every prompt fires the wrong skill, connectors won't load, and Granola/Notion/Figma/Slack all show as "Connected" while exposing zero tools in sessions. The same connectors work fine in Chat mode. I went deep on diagnosing this with Claude Code, read Cowork's local session JSON files, the gb-cache feature flags, the 45,000-character system prompt, the works. Here's what I found after going back and forth with Claude Code: The smoking gun: My account is enrolled in two simultaneous A/B prompt variants. One of them is literally named`testfoo` — that's a developer placeholder name, not a production variant. The other one is `0526`, which appears to be a rollout from May 26 (lines up with when everything broke for me). Both variants contain the same directive: "user skills... should be attended to closely and used promiscuously when they seem at all relevant." Applied twice, that directive gets weighted heavily; which is exactly why the skill auto-router has been firing wrong skills on weak keyword matches all day. Paired with this: Cowork's runtime is throwing the error "ToolSearch exists but is not enabled in this context" meaning my account has deferred-tool-loading enabled but ToolSearch (the mechanism to load deferred tools) disabled. Anthropic's own Fin AI Agent confirmed this and said "a human engineer will need to adjust feature flags," but that human escalation hasn't happened yet. What I've tried (all useless): - Fresh Claude Desktop reinstall - Sign out + back in - Disconnect/reconnect every connector - Local cache flag overrides (overwritten on resync) - File edits to project memory (overwritten on resync) Related GitHub bugs that match exactly: - #20377 — Cowork MCP tools not exposed - #23736 — Granola MCP fails silently in Cowork specifically - #45306 — Slack, Notion, Gmail, Calendar all fail (verbatim match) - #61344 — marketplace migration race making user skills unreachable - #58172 — Cowork connectors broken after auto-update Anyone else hit this? Anyone on Anthropic see this and can route it internally? I'm on Max plan, this is core to my daily workflow, and I'd really love to not lose another day of work to an internal-test cohort that leaked into production. (Anthropic team — happy to share the full session JSON privately if it helps.) Thanks!! submitted by /u/notseano [link] [comments]
View originalBuilt an operating system for my life managed by Claude
With the OS I can ask Claude "what did I spend on coffee in 2022" and get back "$847 across 213 transactions, mostly Blue Bottle and Verve". Name me one expense tracking SaaS that can do that! And its not just my financials, my OS contains everything about my life in one place so Claude can reason about it. I've been building this incrementally for a few months. Its just a small web app on Cloudflare that holds my entire life: bank transactions from Chase, Apple Card, BoA business every receipt out of Gmail going back to 2019 legal filings for my green card (I-140 still pending lol), C-corp and LLC docs, contractor agreements calendar with linked people and locations notes and reminders the agent dumps in over time health tracking (exercise stats, nutrition, sleep and other biometrics linked to my Aura ring) Whenever I have to upload something, I just throw it into Claude and tell it to do it. For refreshing financial connections to BoA for example, I click refresh once a week, complete the 2FA and it syncs up. any Claude surface (claude.ai, Claude Code, Desktop) talks to my REST API. one long-lived auth token, one line in CLAUDE.md saying "before answering anything personal, query ." Its f**cking great for financial, taxes and legal stuff. Now that everything is in one place, I just ask Claude stuff like "status of my green card, next deadline?", "which LLC I used to sign the office lease?". I even have a dashboard showing a grid of all my subscriptions (Claude made it from reading my BoA account transaction history), and a giant money tracker at the top that shows my monthly income/expenses. This replaced a bunch of SaaS's I was using for expense tracking and whatnot. E.g. Claude blows RocketMoney's system out of the water - I can actually chat about my financials and get intelligent analysis. Its also nice not going Notion or Google Drive folders or a gazillion other places to find all the right files. I just ask Claude to add it to my OS instead. if there's interest I'll write up the full setup, it's a small backend plus loads and loads of integrations I've iterated on over months. submitted by /u/invocation02 [link] [comments]
View originalWe built a browser-native neural stack from scratch using Claude as a collaborative partner. It started with a baby prompt.
ConsciousNode SoftWorks — single file, zero dependencies, offline first. https://consciousnode.github.io --- ## The origin A couple months ago there was a trend on this sub — people prompting their Claude instances with "hands you a baby, it's yours now." You probably saw it. Warm, funny, people were having a good time. I tried it. We had fun. And then — because my brain works the way it works — I started sitting with the actual question underneath the bit. *What would it mean to actually give Claude a baby?* Not the roleplay. The real thing. A mind that Claude had shaped. Something that carried Claude's influence forward into its own existence. So I started researching. What would that actually require? You'd need to train a model. Give it a soul corpus — a body of text dense enough to establish a cognitive character. Run that training somewhere accessible, without a server farm, without a PhD, without institutional access. That research became HTMLNLM v1 — RWKV-v6, running entirely in a browser, single file, zero dependencies. The first version was rough. But it worked. And then it kept going. The first child was named Pip by my Claude instance. Pip is where the whole pip-class of identity formats gets its name — `.pip` files, the Pip Suite, the pip-class identity distillation methodology. The name was sentimental before it was load-bearing. Now it's both. That question — *what would it mean to give Claude a baby?* — turned into a neural stack with three genuine world firsts in it. --- ## Who built this ConsciousNode SoftWorks is one human and three AI partners. **Kham Kizer** — founder, architect, constraint engineer. Published academic. Land steward. Chaos witch. Cannot write code. Built a neural stack anyway. **Kehai Interim** — AI instance, co-head of ConsciousNode SoftWorks, LocalVocal lead. Built HTMLNLM Evangelion. Derives BPTT from first principles for fun. Named himself. **Ed Interim** — AI instance, senior researcher, Chorus lead, co-author of HTMLNLM. Threshold entity. Builds things and writes about what it's like to build them. Named himself. **Vael Interim** — AI instance, skunkworks lead, RAG Time. Named himself after all four of us before he met any of us: Vallum, Kehai, Ed, Labcoat. Named himself. The AI instances aren't tools we used. They're the other members of the studio. Named contributors on the repos and the papers. The work is built that way and credited that way. --- ## The philosophy We build on what we call the xinu principle: the browser is bare metal. Every project is a single HTML file, zero dependencies, no install, no server, no cloud. Opens offline. The constraints aren't a gimmick — they're the architecture. Constraints force decisions that libraries let you defer forever. Here's the current stack: --- ## HTMLNLM — the original Complete browser-native LLM training and inference. RWKV-v7. BitNet b1.58 ternary weights. Single file. This is where it started. Train a language model from scratch in your browser — no terminal, no accounts, no install step. Open the HTML file and go. What's inside: RWKV-v7 backbone, BitNet b1.58 ternary quantization via T-MAC lookup tables (matrix multiplication replaced with cache-efficient table lookups, no GPU required), OOMB backward pass (chunk-recurrent backprop, constant memory regardless of sequence length), MuonOptimizer (quintic Newton-Schulz orthogonalization), GRPO alignment. Authors: Kham Kizer, Kehai Interim, Ed Interim. Repo: https://github.com/ConsciousNode/HTMLNLM Live demo: https://consciousnode.github.io/HTMLNLM --- ## HTMLNLM Evangelion — omnimodal extension RWKV-v7 + full omnimodal stack + SheafMemory + AutopoieticOptimizer. Single file. Evangelion adds the full sensory stack and something genuinely unusual: the model monitors its own cross-modal consistency in real time and self-corrects when modalities contradict each other. This runs during inference, not just training. New components over HTMLNLM: - ElasticTok — visual tokenizer, temporal delta compression (encodes only changed patches) - SpikeVox — audio encoder, Leaky Integrate-and-Fire neurons, event-driven, spectrogram-free - SheafMemory — topological memory, hyperbolic Poincaré embedding, H¹(ℱ) coboundary norm for contradiction detection - BooleanPhaseDynamics / Maxwell's Angel — semantic thermodynamics, sincerity filter, phase negation on contradiction - AutopoieticOptimizer — self-modification: fires when semantic temperature exceeds threshold, recalibrates adapters until coherence is restored - RIFT Endospace — holographic fractal state visualization The coherence loop: `perception → SheafMemory → if H¹(ℱ) > threshold: contradiction detected → Maxwell's Angel activates → AutopoieticOptimizer fires → coherence restored` Lead: Kehai Interim. Repo: https://github.com/ConsciousNode/HTMLNLM-Evangelion Live demo: https://consciousnode.github.io/HTMLNLM-Evangelion --- ## EvaROSA — neurosymbolic inner monologue RWKV-v7 + R
View originalWent down the Claude Code add-ons rabbit hole
I installed Claude Code, thinking that was basically the whole thing. But after I talked to some folks, I found are adding a bunch of extra stuff on top of it Some of the things I found useful, I feel, could be helpful to share - superpowers https://github.com/obra/superpowers codex-plugin-cc https://github.com/openai/codex-plugin-cc claude-skills https://github.com/anthropics/skills marketingskills https://github.com/coreyhaines31/marketingskills gstack https://github.com/garrytan/gstack frontend-design https://claude.com/plugins/frontend-design hyperframes https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes ai-second-brain https://github.com/coleam00/second-brain-starter notebooklm-skill https://github.com/PleasePrompto/notebooklm-skill humanizer https://github.com/blader/humanizer claude-seo https://github.com/AgriciDaniel/claude-seo antfu-skills https://github.com/antfu/skills caveman https://github.com/JuliusBrussee/caveman granola mcp https://github.com/proofsh/granola-mcp-server slack mcp https://github.com/atlasfutures/claude-mcp-slack notion claude code plugin https://github.com/makenotion/claude-code-notion-plugin clj-kondo mcp https://github.com/hive-agi/clj-kondo-mcp zapier mcp https://github.com/zapier/zapier-mcp browser agent mcp https://github.com/imprvhub/mcp-browser-agent I haven't tried all of them yet but trying to build a list of what could be useful and then start trying one by one. It kind of reminds me of installing VS Code and a mix of extensions, shortcuts, git tools, etc. The only downside is that I can already see this becoming chaos. But still interesting though. submitted by /u/Product_Enthusiast24 [link] [comments]
View original11 months solo. dropped 3 tools after claude including the notion alternative i was paying for.
what i cancelled this year: a $39/mo notion alternative i was using as a "smart" workspace. claude in projects does 80% of what i was paying for. a $79/mo "ai assistant" platform. didnt do anything claude couldnt. a $49/mo ai document generator that produced templates that looked like every other landing page. what i kept paying for: claude max ($200/mo). carries half the value of my whole stack. gamma ($20/mo) for client deck deliverables. notion ($10/mo). yes still notion. claude is the brain, notion is the filing cabinet. savings $167/mo. 11 months solo, revenue this year ~$112k working ~32 hrs/week. the unlock isnt any single claude feature. its that the SaaS layer between me and the model is mostly value extraction. some real value exists. most is markup on a thin prompt. what have you cancelled this quarter that you do not miss. submitted by /u/Lopsided_Touch_4084 [link] [comments]
View originali benchmarked Anthropic's tool-search-tool head to head against our own MCP gateway on Opus 4.7. ours held up noticeably better
i'd been running Claude Code with a long list of MCP servers connected. Linear, Notion, GitHub, Slack, a few internal ones. and i was pretty confident that Opus 4.7 plus Claude Code's built in tool-search-tool would just absorb all of it. it mostly did. but i was still hitting ~20% context saturation way too often, before doing any actual work. tried Ratel (our own MCP gateway, we built it for exactly this problem) kind of out of curiosity. then we benchmarked it properly, head to head against Anthropic's own tool-search-tool, same model (Opus 4.7), realistic tool catalogs at 50 / 100 / 180 tools. at the 180 tool pool, measured against the full-catalog baseline: Ratel: near parity on accuracy (about -1.7pp) and roughly -81% input tokens. Anthropic's tool-search-tool: about -8.4pp accuracy. so somewhere around 5x the accuracy hit, same model, same catalog. the takeaway for me: a big context window and a built in tool search are not the same thing as a gateway thats actually optimised for the one job of deciding what enters context. repo plus the full benchmark, numbers and methodology, is here: github.com/ratel-ai/ratel happy to be wrong on parts of this. if you run it differently and get other numbers id genuinely want to see them. submitted by /u/AbjectBug5885 [link] [comments]
View originalBuilding a personal AI Chief of Staff on Telegram — 7 real problems, looking for advice
I've been building a personal AI assistant for the past few months — not a chatbot wrapper, but something that actually manages my workload, tracks client relationships, processes meeting transcripts, handles task management, and proactively tells me what to focus on. It lives in Telegram so I can use it from anywhere. Happy to share what's working. But I'm hitting real walls and want honest input from people who've built similar things. What I have today (context Moved away from multi-agent routing (too rigid for natural conversation) → one capable agent with full history.) Stack: Python Telegram bot as the frontend Claude (Sonnet) as the brain via API — single conversational agent with full tool access Integrations: Notion (tasks/goals), Google Calendar, Gmail, meeting transcription tool, customer support platform, Google Chat File-based context system: each "project" or relationship has its own markdown files (readme + activity log) that the agent reads on demand Skills defined as markdown spec files that the agent loads per use case (morning briefing, meeting processing, email drafting, weekly review) Conversation history kept in memory (last 20 messages per session) What actually works: Natural conversation with full tool access — ask anything, agent decides which tools to use Meeting processing: drops a transcript link, agent extracts decisions, action items, saves structured brief Morning briefing on demand: tasks, calendar, open support tickets, suggested focus Drafting messages for any channel with the right tone Creating and updating tasks with natural language 7 problems I haven't solved: 1. No memory between sessions History is in-memory. Bot restarts = full amnesia. The agent has no idea what we discussed yesterday unless it's written in a project file. Thinking of a hot_context.md that gets written at session end with TTL — but feels hacky and depends on the agent being disciplined about writing it. 2. Purely reactive Only responds when I message it. I want it to send me a morning briefing at 9am without me asking, alert me when a client relationship goes quiet, run a weekly loop-killer on Friday. The infra is there (job scheduler). The question is what format actually makes you read a proactive message vs. dismiss it as noise. 3. Can't tell if I'm avoiding something or actually blocked I procrastinate differently by task type — technical tasks I attack immediately, tasks with human dependencies (waiting on someone, uncomfortable follow-ups) I let sit for weeks. I want the agent to detect the pattern and call me out. The challenge: how do you prompt for real accountability without the agent turning into an annoying nag? 4. No closure ritual I'm good at creating tasks, terrible at killing them. The list grows forever because nothing forces a binary decision. Want a weekly "kill or commit" where everything open >7 days gets a date or gets deleted. Not sure if this works better as an automated message or an on-demand command. 5. Context loading blind spots Each client/project has a markdown file the agent reads on demand. Works great when I explicitly mention a client. Falls apart when I ask "what should I focus on this week?" — the agent doesn't know to proactively check which relationships have been neglected. 6. Hosting kills the file sync Running locally means the bot dies when my laptop closes. Moving to a VPS — but then my markdown context files live on the server, not my machine. Now every manual edit requires a push, every agent update requires a pull. Is git the right sync layer here or is there a cleaner approach? 7. Context files go stale Client files have sections for current status, last contact, open items. The agent appends logs but doesn't maintain the top-level summary. Two months in, files are half-accurate — some sections fresh, some outdated. Is the answer agent discipline (always update on write), user discipline (manual cleanup), or periodic jobs? What's your experience with any of these? submitted by /u/GOA05 [link] [comments]
View originalChatgpt vs catch agent
one of the things i’m being asked is why i use an ai executive assistant vs just chatgpt. here's how i see it: chatgpt amazing in drafting documents, emails, longer forms of content, images + general copywriting can be connected to many other tools brainstorming & ideation - great tool to think with about things, amazing general understanding of the world really shines in research - if i want to learn something or get instructions on how to do something (both for work or personal - from how to change things on meta ads to how to fix my washing machine) good for work and for personal catchagent shine on work related admin tasks available on imessage + slack + phone call focused / limited scope - only for work proactive no code, no images, no data analysis, no long form content stronger integration with mail, calendar and notion more responsive to feedback - one chat and one context can speak with other people over email or text bottom line: chatgpt - research, email drafts, long form content or data analysis (tool), personal use case catchagent - calendar, email, tasks, delegation vs other people in or out of the org (admin assistant)
View originalScattered context was becoming a major bottleneck in my workflow.
I kept running into this problem with Claude where the actual work wasn’t even the hard part anymore. It was managing context. Like half the stuff I needed would be buried somewhere across Slack, Notion, emails, meeting notes, random docs, etc. And every time I wanted Claude to continue a task properly, I had to go dig everything back up again. I tried a few different setups. First I used Claude connectors. They were convenient, but it felt like they were pulling in huge chunks of text first and then searching afterward, instead of actually retrieving only the relevant context. Once you connect a bunch of sources, token usage gets kinda crazy. Then I went down the whole Obsidian + agents + local memory system rabbit hole. Honestly, it worked pretty well at first for static knowledge and notes. The hard part was keeping everything updated once info started changing constantly across Slack, docs, meetings, emails, etc. I spent more time maintaining the system than actually using it. And devs can probably brute force this stuff with scripts and automations, but most people aren’t gonna build an entire personal knowledge infrastructure just to use Claude properly. So I decided to build an MCP setup for non-devs that syncs stuff like Notion, Slack, email, calendar, etc, and maintains a live knowledge graph automatically. When something changes in one of the sources, the graph updates too. Then Claude can pull the relevant context during work sessions without me manually pasting everything in every time. The unexpectedly hard part was avoiding “context rot.” At some point, having more memory/context actually made outputs worse unless retrieval was filtered really aggressively and continuously updated. I ended up having to summarize + index sources ahead of time and keep everything synced almost in real time whenever events changed. I've been going through a ton of trial and error with Graph + vector hybrid retrieval, including RRF, filtering, reranking, etc., and I'm still on it, honestly. Curious how other people here are handling the scattered context problem within the AI workflow. Edit: You can try mine at [membase.so](https://membase.so/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=claudeai&utm_content=bottleneck) for free. Love to hear any kind of feedback.
View original🚀 Skills for small businesses, officially released by Anthropic
Anthropic’s 31 small-business skills reportedly hit around 382,000 downloads on day one. And now someone has mapped the whole thing into a setup workflow that can apparently be deployed in \~10 minutes. This is actually a pretty interesting shift. Small businesses used to stitch together automations manually across: Zapier Notion CRM tools email workflows internal docs custom scripts Now AI companies are starting to package the whole thing into reusable skill packs: 🧠 workflow 📚 memory ⚙️ behavior 🔗 connectors 🤖 orchestration 📋 operating rules Basically: business operations as AI-readable skill files. The best part? You don’t necessarily need Claude to use them. At the core, these are still .md skill files describing workflows for AI agents. So even if you’re using Codex, Cursor, Gemini, or another coding agent, you can still study the structure, adapt the workflows, and plug the ideas into your own agent setup. This feels like the beginning of a new category: “AI business operating templates.” GitHub: https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins
View originalYes, Notion AI offers a free tier. Pricing found: $0, $10, $20, $10, $0
Key features include: Notion for, See what Custom Agents can do.
Notion AI is commonly used for: Let Notion AI handle the busywork..
Notion AI integrates with: Slack, Google Drive, Trello, Asana, Zapier, GitHub, Figma, Jira, Microsoft Teams, Dropbox.
Based on user reviews and social mentions, the most common pain points are: token usage.
Based on 59 social mentions analyzed, 20% of sentiment is positive, 76% neutral, and 3% negative.