Studio Dailies
Motion design, the craft of making things move, and the tools & rules that are changing how we do it. Published here first — Substack
October 15, 2026
toolsaibuild
One Claude, all my inboxes
Claude's Gmail connector sees one inbox at a time. So I built a small, read-only server on my laptop that searches all of them — plus the prompt to build your own.
September 23, 2026
I didn't pay for a sleep app. I built one.
Rise wanted a subscription and my health data. My Apple Watch already had the data, so I built it.
July 6, 2026
The second brain is a folder
The second brain isn't a brain. It's a folder of text files.
July 1, 2026
toolsmotion
Adobe didn't get worse, everything else got better
The default cracked in 2026, and most of the replacement is free. What I'm keeping, what I'm cutting & why After Effects is the only hard call.
