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Happy Sunday,
Today I'm walking you through how to talk to your computer from your phone and have it actually do things while you're out, then I've got five things to build with Claude in one weekend, and a ChatGPT setup that turns a photo of your fridge into a week of dinners and a grocery cart.
Let's get into it.
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» Use ChatGPT to Remote Control Your Computer
» 5 Things to Build With Claude in One Weekend
» ChatGPT Just Became Your Personal Chef
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🧠 TRY THIS
Use ChatGPT to Remote Control Your Computer
You can use ChatGPT on the go to do more than have a conversation. You can connect to your computer back home, have it complete tasks in ChatGPT Work or Codex, and use the files on that computer while you're nowhere near it. So the work keeps moving even when you're away from your desk.
Think of it like calling an assistant who stayed at your desk. You tell them what you need, they use the computer, and you can change direction while they're working.
The feature is called Remote. I spoke about it a while back, but I realized I never gave you the full setup. So here's how to connect it and actually make it useful.
Step 1: Open the ChatGPT desktop app, go to Settings → Connections → Control this Mac or PC, and select Set up or Add. Approve the connection and follow the verification steps.
Step 2: Scan the QR code with your phone and sign into the same account and workspace. In the mobile app, open Remote on the left side, choose your computer and project, then start a task or open an existing one.
Step 3: Back in the desktop app, go to Settings → Connections → Other settings and turn on Keep this Mac awake. With your computer plugged in and remote access enabled, this keeps it running.
Leave the app open and the computer connected to the internet. And keep your laptop lid open, because closing it usually puts the computer to sleep. If the screen goes black, that's fine. The computer can keep working with the display off.
Whether you have a laptop or a desktop, try leaving it on for 24 hours one day and giving it a few jobs while you're out.
The reason I'm telling you this now is that OpenAI just added plugins to Voice on mobile. You can talk to ChatGPT and have it use your connected apps.
With Remote, you can also talk to the task running back home, using the files, plugins and computer tools you've set up there. On your paired iPhone, open the Remote task and tap Start voice chat. Then just talk to it.
Let's say you're brushing your teeth in the morning and you've already connected your email, Apple Messages and calendar to ChatGPT on your computer. Open Remote, start voice chat and say:
Give me a detailed two-minute briefing on today based on my texts, emails and calendar. Read out the messages I need to reply to first and explain what needs my attention. Walk me through today's appointments and anything I should prepare beforehand. Finish with my three biggest priorities, then ask which one I want help with. Draft any replies we discuss, but don't send anything. |
ChatGPT is also on Apple CarPlay for hands-free voice. I've been using it while driving recently to talk things through instead of waiting until I'm back at my desk. Set it up before you drive, and leave anything you need to read or approve until you're parked.
I've been trying Remote for a while now, and I'm literally getting work done on the move. There are so many other things you can do with this, from preparing for a meeting to turning a voice note into a draft.
There's nothing wrong with listening to music, but if you're trying to get more out of AI, spend a few of those minutes talking through something you need to get done. Once you try talking to your computer while you're nowhere near it, it's hard to go back to saving everything for later.
I put together the full setup guide below, including the Mac and Windows details, connecting your apps, and more things to try with voice.
Get my full ChatGPT Remote setup guide →
💡 BUILD THIS
5 Things to Build With Claude in One Weekend
Here are five things to build with Claude in one weekend that will make your life a lot more organized. Pick the one you'd actually use on Monday.
Open Claude on your computer and start with the prompt for the one you want. For anything using your email, calendar or to-do list, connect those accounts through Customize → Connectors first. Use Cowork if your app still has that separate option.
1. A life dashboard. Connect your calendar, your email, and your to-do list, and have Claude build one single page that shows your entire life at a glance. Then put it on a routine, and every single morning it hands you a briefing on the day ahead.
Build one life dashboard from my connected calendar, email and to-do list. Show today’s schedule, unanswered messages and overdue tasks. Include when you last checked the data. Then help me schedule a morning briefing. |
2. A second brain. Take every important document in your life, your lease, your insurance, your contracts, your receipts, and drop them all into one project. And now you can just ask things like, when does my insurance renew, and it answers from your actual documents.
Organize the documents I add to this project into an index of dates, renewals and things I need to remember. When I ask a question, show which document the answer came from. If it is missing, tell me. |
If you set up Wednesday's file system, build on that instead of starting over.
3. A daily and weekly review agent. It checks in every night to review what did and did not go well that day, and then at the end of every week it rolls it all up into an analysis of exactly what to improve for the new week.
Help me set up an evening check-in about what went well, what got stuck and what matters tomorrow. Save my answers. Each Sunday, summarize the patterns and suggest one change for next week. |
For the scheduled builds, ask Claude to set up the timing and confirm the schedule it shows you. Its cloud schedules can run with your laptop closed when they use connected apps and files saved to your Claude account. Local-only files are different.
4. A marketing and branding kit. Give Claude your voice and your values, and it builds out a full brand kit of colors, fonts, and components, and then it uses that kit to create websites, social media posts, even email newsletters for you and your business.
Interview me about my business, audience, voice and values. Build a reusable brand kit with colors, fonts, writing examples and design components. Ask for my existing brand assets before making anything new. |
5. A life library. Every book, article, and video you consume gets logged into one place, and now you can ask Claude about anything you have learned and it pulls the answer straight out of your own library.
Build a searchable library from the notes, articles and transcripts I give you. Save the source and key ideas for each entry. When I ask a question, connect the relevant ideas and show where they came from. |
Keep adding the articles, notes and transcripts you want it to remember. Then ask which ideas from your collection apply to what you're working on.
Get the full setup and prompts for all five builds →
🧠 TRY THIS
ChatGPT Just Became Your Personal Chef
So you can now connect ChatGPT to your grocery shopping with a plugin called Peristyle Grocery Cart. It can help you plan your dinners and get the missing ingredients ready for a Kroger or Walmart cart.
The useful part is starting with the food you already have. Here's how to go from a photo of your fridge to a week's meals and a shopping list.
Step 1: Take a photo of your open fridge, upload it into ChatGPT, and say:
You're my personal chef now. Tell me every real meal I could make tonight using only what's in here. Ask me about anything you cannot identify, and check how many people I'm cooking for and any dietary restrictions first. |
You'll get dinner ideas based on what's actually on your shelves. Add a pantry photo too if you've got rice, pasta or other ingredients tucked away, so it knows what else it can use.
Step 2: Stay in the same chat and turn those ideas into your week:
Now build my entire week of meals from what I already have. Ask me for use-by dates, when anything was opened and what needs using first. Plan around those answers, reuse ingredients across meals, and list anything missing. |
That way, the food you need to use first goes into the early meals, and ingredients get reused across the week. A photo cannot tell it whether something is still safe to eat, so give it those dates instead of letting it guess.
Step 3: On the left go to Plugins, search for Peristyle Grocery Cart, and click Install plugin. You can also open the plugin directly here.
Peristyle can match ingredients to products at Kroger or Walmart. For Kroger, you sign in and connect your account. For Walmart, it gives you a link with the selected items ready to add to your cart, without connecting your Walmart account to Peristyle.
Using Peristyle Grocery Cart, plan five more restaurant-level dinners for my household this week. Ask for my store, location and number of servings. Keep the estimated grocery total under $200, skip what I already have, and show me the products, quantities and prices before adding anything to my cart. |
Check the picks, swap anything you don't want, then approve the cart. You still check out yourself in the store's app or website. Check the final total too, because prices, substitutions and delivery fees can change it.
If those aren't your grocery stores, the fridge and meal-plan prompts still work. Have ChatGPT group the shopping list by aisle and take it to whichever store you use. You still got rid of the part where you stand in front of an open fridge hoping dinner introduces itself.
Get my full personal-chef prompt guide →
Try Remote for a day this week and give your computer one job while you're away from it. And tonight, take the fridge photo before you order the same takeout again.
See you Wednesday.
Maverick
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