Productivity
30 posts
Evergreen 1.7 Lets the Phone Do the Work
Evergreen 1.7 turns the iPhone from a place you look things up into a place you actually get things done, plus a handful of fixes worth having.
Building Reusable Prompt Templates in Lexicon
How to use Lexicon's template system to build reusable, parameterized prompts with variables, validation, and multi-message chains.
Lexicon: A Prompt Library for macOS
Lexicon is a local-first prompt library for macOS with a built-in MCP server. Organize, template, and trigger your AI prompts directly from Claude Desktop.
Evergreen Skills - Teaching Claude to Manage Your Relationships
I built 18 Claude Code skills that turn Evergreen into an AI-powered relationship management system. Now they're on the skills marketplace.
Evergreen Comes to iPhone and iPad
Evergreen, my local-first personal CRM, is now on iPhone and iPad, with optional iCloud sync to keep contacts current across all your devices.
The Full McGinnis Stack: An Opinionated Python Developer Setup
How to wire together ContextSwitch, python-skills, makefile-mcp, mutmut-mcp, Rampart, and the rest into a complete AI-powered Python development workflow.
Using Claude Code Hooks to Force uv
A simple pre-tool-use hook that intercepts bare pip and python commands in Claude Code and redirects them to use uv instead.
ContextSwitch Is Now Free
ContextSwitch, the MCP-connected kanban board for AI coding agents, is now free on the Mac App Store. The models got better, so the price went to zero.
How I Use AI to Act on Ideas, Not Just Collect Them
Two changes doubled my follow-through on ideas: defining a first step for everything, and building a bridge to AI tools for execution.
Your Ideas Deserve Better Than Apple Notes
Apple Notes is fine for grocery lists. But ideas need a first step, a status, and a path to action. Here's what I built instead.