This week on Mac Power Users, Stephen and I go deep on the robot assistant system I’ve been building with Claude Cowork. We cover the whole journey — from why chatbots never quite delivered on their productivity promises to the combination of skill files, MCPs, and managed agents that finally made AI genuinely useful for the donkey work of running a creative business. I walk through practical examples including automated file renaming, email processing, sponsor invoicing, and podcast post-production pipelines. Stephen also shares his new Studio Display XDR setup and we dig into Perplexity Computer as another emerging option. Fair warning: I also confess to switching back to Gmail, so prepare your hot takes.
Episode Links
- Robot Assistant Field Guide | MacSparky Field Guides
- I regret nothing – YouTube
- Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra
- Claude
- Claude Code
- Introducing the Model Context Protocol
- Obsidian
- NotePlan
- Fantastical
- Google Gemini
- Perplexity Computer
- Studio Display XDR
- Superhuman
- Fastmail
- FreshBooks
- DEVONthink
- Audio Hijack
- Riverside
- Drafts
- Day One
- Bear
- MacBook Air
- Shortcuts User Guide
- MacSparky Labs
- MacBook Neo
- MPU 841 on YouTube
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