Description
I gave Claude Sonnet 5.5 four years of our lessons. One hour later it had built a full ICOR app.
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📺 The final App that I built - and it killed all the Productivity Tools I used so far (even email!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdMtTLy4PhA
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ABOUT THIS VIDEO
For over four years Paco and I have been writing lessons, articles and videos about one thing: a productivity system that works end to end, from note-taking and knowledge management to tasks, projects and automation. All of it lives in the backend of our membership.
So I gave Sonnet 5.5 access to all of it, with one short prompt: study the lessons first, write a plan, then build an ICOR-aligned app that runs on my Mac. It worked for one hour on high effort. I had not opened the result before I hit record.
What came back is not a note-taking app. It is the ICOR methodology as software: a highlight of the day with a focus mode, an interruption button that asks if something is really urgent, speedies, daily planning with your calendar, weekly goals, routines, inner and outer world inboxes, a Thought Lab, and My Life with key elements and dimensions. Every file is plain Markdown in a local folder, so I can even open it in Obsidian.
It looks cheap, because I never pointed it at our design system. The design is the next step. The functionality is the part that shocked me.
CHAPTERS
00:00 Sonnet 5.5 built a third app
01:22 The prompt: 4 years of lessons as context
03:25 One hour on Sonnet, and the plan it wrote
04:21 First look: right idea, cheap look
06:33 Highlight of the day and focus mode
08:02 Interruption: is it really urgent?
10:18 Speedies and the action verb reminder
11:33 Daily planning with your calendar
12:58 Weekly goals and the morning routine
15:02 The Thought Lab
16:37 My Life at a glance: key elements, dimensions
18:09 Notes, with a decision model reading along
19:10 AI and files: plain Markdown on disk
19:51 A global quick capture shortcut
20:41 Why this is a turning point
WHAT I AM USING
Claude Code in VS Code with Sonnet 5.5 on high effort, one short prompt, and the Supabase CLI to read our own lessons and articles.
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My full AI team against Sonnet in an empty folder, and why the team lost:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpywh0F0gzI
ABOUT
Tom helps professionals build AI productivity systems that work, using the ICOR Methodology, courses, coaching, and the myICOR community.
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