How I use Claude Code to automate my entire life (5 tricks)

Alex Finn
19.7K views • July 30, 2025

In this video I go through how you can use Claude Code for everything BUT coding

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WGdMCQpCyWRubIgITovxQUrcoNOngqHXj2PKalTstfw/edit?usp=sharing

Timestamps:

0:00 intro
0:41 Weekly checkin
3:55 Daily journal
5:21 Content research
7:42 Note analyzer
9:53 Daily brief

0:00 Everyone knows Claude Code is the best
0:02 coding tool in the world. But what if I
0:04 told you it has a million use cases
0:06 outside of coding that will make your
0:08 life significantly better? I use Claude
0:10 Code to track my business metrics, to
0:12 track my personal goals, to plan content
0:15 for me, to analyze all my notes and
0:17 thoughts, and so much more. In this
0:18 video, I'm going to show you how to do
0:20 the exact same thing. By the end of this
0:22 video, you'll have every prompt you need
0:24 to launch an army of AI agents from
0:26 Claude Code that will be running your
0:28 entire life. I'm Alex Finn and I use AI
0:30 every single day to build and launch
0:32 businesses, including Creator Buddy,
0:34 which is now a $300,000 a year AI
0:36 content tool. Let's get into it.
0:41 So, I'm going to show you five use cases
0:43 of how I use Claude Code to run my
0:45 day-to-day life. But first, I'm going to
0:47 show you how to set this up yourself. In
0:48 order for Claude Code to effectively do
0:51 work for you, it needs to know context
0:53 on who you are. So, open up Claude Code
0:55 inside a cursor. Create a new folder in
0:58 there. I call mine clawed life. You can
1:00 call it life OS or whatever you want.
1:02 And then create a new markdown file in
1:04 there called background on yourself. In
1:06 this markdown file, include as much
1:09 information about yourself as you
1:11 possibly can. Who you are, what your
1:13 interests are, links to your content,
1:15 links to your side hustles, anything
1:17 that's relevant to who you are. This
1:18 will be the data that's sent to Claude
1:21 when you run any of the use cases I'm
1:23 about to show you. For instance, when
1:24 you run your weekly check-ins, your
1:25 daily journal, your content researcher
1:28 and planner, all of this data you put in
1:30 this file will be sent to claude to make
1:32 it so much more powerful. Once you've
1:33 created that file inside of claude code
1:36 and cursor, all you need to do is is run
1:38 /init in claude code. And what that'll
1:41 do is take that information and create a
1:43 cla rules file that will set cla code up
1:46 for these use cases. So, let's get into
1:48 the first use case that is my weekly
1:50 check-in. Claude Code automatically runs
1:52 a weekly check-in for me where it will
1:54 track all my metrics on my business, my
1:57 personal life, my career, my side
1:59 hustles, everything. And it creates this
2:00 incredible personal dashboard that shows
2:03 my growth in all my metrics and
2:05 everything I'm doing in my life. And
2:06 it's all done through Claude Code. So,
2:08 what I do is every single Sunday night,
2:10 I run slashweekly
2:13 check-in. And I'll show you how to set
2:15 this up right after. I hit enter. And
2:17 now a sub agent is spawned that I built
2:20 that will now collect a bunch of metrics
2:22 from me and update that dashboard with
2:24 all my latest information and metrics.
2:26 So what you can see here is it asks me
2:27 for all my latest metrics. I just type
2:29 it in. It knows dynamically which
2:32 metrics are important to me based on the
2:33 information I put in that file in that
2:35 last step. So I quickly filled in those
2:37 metrics it asked for. I hit enter. And
2:39 now what it's going to do is take those
2:40 metrics and update my personal weekly
2:44 dashboard so I can track my growth over
2:46 time. So now sub agents are being spun
2:48 up and they're going taking my data and
2:50 creating that really nice custom
2:52 dashboard. And this was all done really
2:54 intelligently, right? It went in, saw
2:56 all the information about myself, saw
2:58 that I had a YouTube, a business, a
3:00 Twitter, all of that. Figured out what
3:02 metrics would be important for me and
3:04 then built that dashboard. And just like
3:06 that, it's done. And this was all set up
3:08 with a single prompt, which I put down
3:10 below in the description. So feel free
3:12 to pause, take this if you want, or wait
3:14 till after. You grab that prompt, you
3:16 put it into claw code after you did the
3:18 setup I showed you earlier, and it will
3:21 actually build out the slash command
3:23 that launches the sub aents as well as
3:25 build the sub aents itself that actually
3:27 went in and performed this task. What's
3:29 amazing is it actually gives you a lot
3:31 of other recommendations as well. It
3:33 tells you what content ideas you can
3:35 build out based on what it knows about
3:36 you. It gives you wins of the week, the
3:38 fact I hit 30,000 on YouTube, it
3:40 celebrates those wins. So, it gives you
3:42 a lot of other cool things in here and
3:44 tells you when you can even run the next
3:45 check-in. It's like having a personal AI
3:47 agent that works for me. Again, prompt
3:48 to set up this AI agent down below. You
3:50 can just feed that into Cloud Code and
3:52 you're good to go.
3:54 [Music]
3:55 The next use case I do is really good
3:58 for my mental health. It is basically a
4:00 daily journaling AI agent that Claude
4:02 Code runs. So, every morning I go into
4:04 Claude Code and I'll do SL daily
4:07 check-in. This is basically a daily
4:09 journaling habit I do every single
4:11 night. And what this is going to do is
4:12 it it's going to ask me for a bunch of
4:14 information. It's going to put into a
4:16 personal dashboard. But this dashboard's
4:18 different. This dashboard's for habits.
4:20 This dashboard's for mental health. This
4:22 dashboards for how I'm feeling and what
4:24 I accomplish. It's basically an
4:25 automated journaling AI agent. So I'm
4:28 going to run /aily check-in. This is
4:31 basically my journaling agent. I'm going
4:32 to hit enter. And now it's going to ask
4:34 me a few questions about my day-to-day
4:36 life. It will now store in my daily
4:38 journaling dashboard. So, as you can
4:40 see, good evening, Alex. What did I
4:41 accomplish today? How are you feeling
4:42 right now? What are your biggest wins
4:44 today? I answer these questions. I hit
4:46 enter. It sends it to my AI agent and
4:48 Claude Code, and that creates my daily
4:51 journal entry. So, this is a great way
4:53 to have Claude Code work with you, track
4:56 the things you're accomplishing in your
4:58 life, help you practice a little bit of
5:00 gratitude, and just stay on top of your
5:02 day-to-day progress. Again, all done
5:05 with a single prompt. I set that up and
5:07 now all I do every day is just type in
5:08 slash daily check-in and I'm good to go.
5:10 I put that prompt down below as well.
5:12 Feel free to wait till the end if you
5:13 want to just copy and paste those
5:15 prompts. You can do the step and just
5:17 paste each one of those in individually
5:18 and you're good to go.
5:21 [Music]
5:22 So, as you obviously know, I am a
5:24 content creator and I actually use
5:25 Claude Code to help build all my
5:28 content. I have a popular newsletter. It
5:30 has 40,000 subs. I actually use Claude
5:33 code to do research and all my competing
5:35 newsletters and also look at my recent
5:38 newsletters to see what does well based
5:40 on all that information. It actually
5:42 writes me my weekly draft for my
5:45 newsletters with one single command.
5:47 With one command, it's researching a ton
5:49 of other newsletters. It's reading all
5:51 my newsletters and based on what's
5:53 trending, writes me a newsletter draft
5:54 in my own voice. It doesn't have to just
5:57 be newsletters. If you do any sort of
5:59 content creation at all, you can use
6:01 Clawed Code to research all your
6:03 competitors and draft content in your
6:05 own voice. The setup for this is simple.
6:08 Inside of Clawude Code, I just have a
6:10 markdown file where I list my newsletter
6:12 as well as other newsletters that are in
6:14 my niche. And then when I run the
6:15 commands I'm about to show you in a
6:17 second, it does the research through all
6:19 those newsletters and writes me that
6:20 draft. So, all I do is type
6:22 slashnewsletter
6:25 researcher,
6:26 hit enter, and now the AI agent's not
6:29 only going to read all my competitors
6:31 newsletters, it's going to read my own
6:33 newsletters and then write a newsletter
6:36 draft in my own voice. So, I ran the
6:38 command. It then read the newsletters
6:40 from all my competitors, went through
6:41 their entire content history to see what
6:44 trends were going on at the moment. It
6:45 saw what they were talking about. It
6:47 talked about AI tool adoption, rapid
6:49 skill acquisition, pricing, and business
6:51 growth. And then it found unique angles
6:53 for me based on the newsletters in my
6:55 own newsletter, which is incredible. And
6:57 the way this can work for you is if
6:58 you're a YouTube creator, it can do
7:00 similar things or researches competitor
7:02 YouTubes. Or if you're a Twitter
7:04 creator, it'll look at other Twitter
7:06 accounts. And so for me, this helps me
7:07 with my newsletter. I write my
7:08 newsletter every single Thursday. And I
7:10 just quickly run that command every
7:12 Thursday. A few minutes later, I have a
7:15 draft I can go with. I edit the draft,
7:17 hit send, and it's good to go. Claude
7:20 Code has been the best content
7:22 researcher I've ever had in my life.
7:24 With one command, I will never run out
7:27 of newsletter ideas again. Again, if you
7:29 want to set up your own content
7:31 researcher prompt down below, you can
7:33 just copy and paste this. Those are
7:35 really cool use cases. My next one might
7:37 be the most powerful one yet.
7:41 [Music]
7:42 This next use case I call a brain dump
7:45 analyzer, but basically what it is is a
7:47 note analyzing tool. I have a folder in
7:50 my clawed folder here that has a bunch
7:52 of brain dumps I that I do as often as I
7:55 possibly can. In these brain dumps, I
7:56 just talk about anything going on in my
7:58 life, any observations I have, any
8:00 interests I have, just things that are
8:02 going on in my head. Then what I do on
8:04 about a weekly basis is I run this brain
8:06 dump analyzer which will go through my
8:09 brain dumps and do a basically a mindm
8:11 map visualization. You can see here that
8:13 takes all my thoughts from that week and
8:15 maps it out. Maps out my philosophy, my
8:17 identity, my strategies. I can then take
8:20 this and just either understand myself
8:22 better, pick out different ideas I have
8:24 to build other businesses or just create
8:26 more content on it. And this is the same
8:28 thing you can do. You don't even
8:29 necessarily need to do brain dumps. You
8:32 can just add all your own notes in here.
8:34 So if you're taking notes right now in
8:35 notion or in Obsidian, take those notes,
8:38 copy them in, and then put them in a
8:40 notes or brain dumps folder in your
8:42 Claude code OS folder. Then you can run
8:44 /brain dump analysis, which again prompt
8:47 down below to get that slash command set
8:49 up inside of Claude and it will take an
8:51 AI agent and analyze your brain dumps or
8:54 your notes and build out the same sort
8:56 of mind map based on all your notes. And
8:58 this is fully customizable too, right?
9:00 If you wanted to analyze your notes and
9:02 tell you next steps in meetings or
9:04 people you have to reach out to, you can
9:06 customize the prompt I have down below
9:08 to do those exact same things. Claude
9:10 Code analyzes all my notes so I get the
9:12 best insights out of them. And then I
9:13 can come in here and I have in my brain
9:15 dumps folder an analysis folder where
9:17 Claude automatically puts in all my
9:19 analyses so I can see what it thinks
9:21 about all my notes. I recommend doing
9:23 this based on brain dumps because then
9:25 you can get insight really into how your
9:26 brain works. But you can use this for
9:28 meeting analysis, notes analysis,
9:29 whatever you want. Prompt down below.
9:31 You just put the prompt in the cloud
9:33 code and you're good to go. And you have
9:34 that slash command set up. And here's
9:36 the one that just ran just now. It goes
9:39 through, tells me what type of morning
9:41 routine I should do based on my brain
9:43 dumps. It tells me what my content
9:44 strategy should be based on my brain
9:46 dumps. It gives me a weekend challenge.
9:48 There's so many cool things that come
9:49 out of running this agent.
9:52 [Music]
9:53 The next one is a super powerful agent I
9:56 spin up every single morning that gives
9:59 me the rundown on all of my interests.
10:01 You're going to like this one. So, the
10:02 fifth use case I spin up every single
10:05 morning is my daily brief agent. Here's
10:08 an example of what the daily brief agent
10:10 spins up for me. It goes through all my
10:12 interests from that original file I
10:14 showed you that you set up inside of
10:16 Claude Code and goes on the internet and
10:18 does research based on all my interests
10:20 for the latest story. So, for instance,
10:22 it found the latest tech news. It found
10:24 the latest news on YouTube and a whole
10:26 bunch of other things going on in the
10:27 industries I care about. And now I can
10:30 use this and a just know what's going on
10:32 in the industry. So, I'm up to date with
10:34 everything going on in AI and tech, but
10:36 also b this helps me come up with
10:38 content, right? I see a news break
10:40 overnight from my daily brief agent. I
10:42 take that, I do a YouTube video or I
10:44 make a tweet or I make a newsletter.
10:46 This helps me stay on top of everything
10:48 going on with my interest. So, so
10:49 instead of having me go online and do
10:51 research and have to Google everything
10:53 I'm interested in, I just go inside a
10:55 clawed code. I do slash daily brief.
10:58 Again, prompt for this down below in the
11:01 description. So, you can set this up as
11:02 well. You hit enter and it goes and
11:04 starts running the agent to get your
11:06 daily brief. As you can see, it's doing
11:08 research online for AI coding tools from
11:10 the last 7 days. It's searching for
11:11 creator economy updates. It's compiling
11:13 and saving my daily brief. So, it's
11:15 going online doing a whole bunch of
11:17 research for me and saving me a
11:18 tremendous amount of time so I don't
11:20 have to do this Googling myself. Then it
11:21 creates that daily brief for me so I can
11:23 quickly understand what's going on, what
11:26 happened in the world overnight and stay
11:27 on top of all the latest trends. You can
11:29 do the exact same thing. You just make
11:32 sure your original files have all your
11:33 interests in it that we talked about.
11:35 Then you run the prompt from down below
11:37 that sets up that daily brief agent and
11:39 then every morning you go in and you hit
11:41 slash daily brief and you're good to go.
11:43 Those use cases I just showed you save
11:45 me hours every single week. It saves me
11:48 hours from having to write content. It
11:50 saves me hours from having to do
11:51 research on all the topics I'm
11:52 interested in. Claude Code just takes
11:54 care of all that for me. And as you can
11:56 see, none of that involved coding.
11:58 Everyone uses Claude Code for coding.
12:00 Obviously, I use it to build my app.
12:02 Most of the time, I'm using it for
12:04 things outside of coding. That's how
12:05 powerful Claude Code is. So, if you can
12:07 build your own claw code life operating
12:10 system like I just showed you here, go
12:12 in, you set up your folders with your
12:14 notes, you set up your folders with
12:15 information about your businesses and
12:18 your interests. Then, you take the
12:19 prompts from down below to set up all
12:21 those different processes like your
12:22 daily and weekly check-ins, your daily
12:24 brief, and you're good to go. This setup
12:26 shouldn't take any more than 10 minutes.
12:28 And all of a sudden, you have an entire
12:29 AI agent ready to go to work for you to
12:32 get you information. And there's so much
12:33 more you can do on top of this. You're
12:35 not limited just to the use cases I
12:36 showed you. If you want to ask questions
12:38 to Claude Code about your notes, if you
12:40 want to ask anything you want, you can
12:42 do it because now Claude Code has all
12:43 the context about your life. Really,
12:45 really powerful stuff. And all you would
12:47 need to do to set up your own agents is
12:48 say, "Hey, I want to do a sub agent that
12:51 does this task for me. Can you set it
12:52 up, Claude Code?" And Claude Code will
12:54 build that agent for you. It's really
12:56 amazing. All the prompts are down below
12:57 to set up all these agents I showed you.
12:59 Feel free to take that. I also have a
13:01 template that you can fill out for all
13:02 your own personal information you could
13:04 put inside Claude Code. If you're brand
13:06 new to Claude Code, linked somewhere
13:08 beside me is a video to my Claude Code
13:10 beginners guide. So, make sure to check
13:12 that out as well. If you learned
13:13 anything, make sure to leave a like.
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