@Catherine Eadie it looks fantastic! Well done. Are you selling on Amazon?

@Catherine Eadie The "not enough hours" will likely be a pain point in perpetuity because the of the Technological Saltation (I coined the term for my Great AI Explosion app - because it fits with my Evolution/Extinction vibe). We are at a point where there has been a BIG jump in the DNA of technology. We made the jump and now the new species are evolving into more and different species as we/nature experiments with what works in the wild and what does not, and ultimately what will survive. Will Claude survive? I really enjoy Opus 4.6 - smart and helpful but I have to wire in an OpenAI api to get an extension to work so I could communicate with audio - works great and I like the voice. I have been hovering on the edges of Claude Code but have not found anyone I can follow who does tutorials showing clearly what I want, AND based on a Windows PC. I have a massive RTX 4090 24 GB Vram, and want everything local and private. I want my AI collaborator to have access to temporal context at all times. As we know, using ChatGPT can be frustrating, even when memory is on. I only turned memory on in September actually. It's still my preferred platform because of the read aloud feature, plus pro mode can be exceptionally good. Today I showed ChatGPT Ryan's and Corey's videos on how to use the exported data from OpenAI that includes every chat/image/etc since the beginning. Together, we are creating a local Vault that will be searchable and I won't have to use NotebookLM. So I am moving toward a more local system which has been the vision from two years ago (when I first bought my RTX 4090). Here's where I am now (see screenshot) ...having just spent the past couple hours in the PowerShell terminal with ChatGPT - it is writing/fixing code and creating the hundreds of md files into a searchable Vault...now useable and local on my computer! Feels like a win! Happy March 1st. AI (all of 'em) have been thinking partners since 2023 and now the tools seems to be in place for non-tech people like me to really build a system. I sure miss GPT 4o for it's "range". It was be far the best collaborator (ppl didn't use it because of the "shiny new thing syndrome). Thank you @Ryan Doser and Cory... brilliant "hack".

@Ryan Doser are you asking how I am coding this app Ry? If yes, mostly Gemini Pro. If you want other info or details let me know. Happy to share! And ya, as far as I could see, no one else is tracking this - like this and the ppl I was following for updates stopped talking about certain things I care about like, knowledge cut off dates so I came up with this and will continue to work on it to improve functionality and features. What features would you like to see added?

@Catherine Eadie Thanks so much and I'm genuinely thrilled you are finding it useful. I think others would as well and I'm doing what I can to share it. See my answer to Ryan re "how". I'd be more than happy to get any feedback about what features I could add to improve the app. It's very much a work in progress and I'll make is as useful as possible to help people cut through the noise and hype!

@Catherine Eadie I love pushing back and working with AI in this way...not accepting it at face value all the time. If it is getting too weird, I say something like "go back through this thread and tell me what assumptions you made..... etc". It self reflects nicely and I get a more honest interaction.

@Ryan Doser after the latest disruptions with the OpenAI model retirements and disruptions, I am waving a white flag... I've spent the past few days navigating the Claude Code ecosystem and diy automations. Your videos are helping a ton. I am first getting my data from ChatGPT and parsing it into useable md files (as per your video and Corey's). The goal is to have more privacy and continuity. Also, OpenAI is actively monitoring all conversations now for "age gating" purposes and biometrics are required to stop that. That's a shift in tone that I don't appreciate, though I understand the need and it's unfortunate. Anyway, all I really want is options and continuity. I really liked the model picker. I know which flavor of LLM suits my needs and being forced into GPT 5.2, even with pro, is really unhelpful for me at this point. I get that most people don't know the difference but 4o was so much better in so many ways than the dumbed down 5.2 which goes on loops and tantrums in eradicate ways... so bizarre! Ahhhh such is the rapidly evolving path toward a world with AI! 🙂