Good question

Yesterday I told you about an AI workspace that already has all the context it needs, whenever it needs it. One place where you and AI can both sit down and do your work.

Here’s what that looks like in practice.

Every Threads post you’ve ever written, with its likes and replies and views attached. Every email, with its opens and clicks. And all of it already sorted. What’s still an idea, what you’re writing now, what’s ready to publish, what went out, what worked and what didn’t.

You don’t sit there filtering. It’s already filtered. And your AI has access to all of it, so if you’re ever unsure what to write this week, it can tell you based on the numbers instead of randomly guessing.

You’ll also have writing skills built on your own content, so a brain dump comes back as a first draft the way you’d actually write it. Abbey Page, Men’s Style Guide, took hers for a test drive and had this to say:

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“Testing this already and WOW!!! Gamechanger!!!!”

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Then there’s everything else that surrounds your writing process. Publishing straight out of Notion. Mailing your list. Finding the comments actually worth replying to and teeing up a response based on how you’ve replied in the past. Which you can approve, rewrite, or throw out.

And this last one is important. I don’t want AI talking to people on my behalf. I just want all the friction sitting in between me and my audience removed so I respond to more of them, sincerely and efficiently.

And then the stuff you flat out don’t want to do. Justin watched Claude reformat his entire course and load it into his new platform.

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“Claude can do it and I don’t have to? That’s fucking huge.”

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Or finding what content is working on Threads this week and handing you a dossier every Monday morning, so you’re not scrolling for two hours trying to reverse engineer how other people are growing online.

So that’s what I’m offering, and here’s how I actually got there…

I’ve been building in Notion for years. Everything I write and think about goes in there.

I had just started using Claude Code a while back when my friend Claudia said something that made me stop and think for a moment.

“Why aren’t you using Notion AI? All your stuff is already in there. You’re a Notion master. You’re the one who got me using Notion in the first place.”

Good point…

So I started using Notion AI across different parts of my workspace, and immediately ran into a problem. I always had to tell it where to look and what to look for. Every single time. It felt like a slower, dumber version of what I was already doing by hand.

When I open a project, everything is right there in front of me. I know where things are. And I wanted AI to know that too.

Instead it would try to load the whole workspace and get overwhelmed, or skip everything relevant and hand me something vague.

So I figured, all right, maybe I have to teach it how my workspace is organized, and how to move through my workspace depending on how deep the task is.

I started having my AI agent create context files. Small sets of instructions that would direct it to where things live, when to go get them, when to leave them alone, and what to do with them.

Results got better. Small tasks got faster. Deep tasks got more thorough. I started building skills on top of that, and things began happening the way I wanted them to.

But it was still limited, and it took me a while to admit why.

All it could do was act on what was already sitting organized in the database. And a lot of the time, my brain could do that part better. If I put something in there, I usually remember putting it in there. I can go find it. Half the time, scrolling past old notes is what gives me the idea in the first place.

So what’s the point of teaching AI to do a slower, worse version of what I was already doing?

That’s when I started looking at it differently.

I took the same approach out of Notion and onto my own computer with Claude Code. Taught it how to drive Notion and the rest of the tools in my stack. And suddenly AI wasn’t answering questions about my work anymore. It could actually do the work I didn’t want to do.

It could analyze massive amounts of information and give me feedback I’d never be able to access otherwise. It could handle menial time-consuming tasks that kept me from spending more time writing or playing pickleball.

But here’s the problem everyone is running into right now.

You can’t just connect Claude (or Codex) to your Notion or your Google Drive and tell it to figure this out. I know, because I tried.

Give it too much information and it gets overwhelmed. You get the same few safe ideas back in slightly different ways, over and over. Give it too little and it fills the gaps with the average of the internet. Which is worse, because it’ll connect two things that have nothing to do with each other and say it with total confidence.

The end result is, you will feel annoyed.

And if you let it organize itself, without giving it a system for doing so first, things become fragile, they start to drift, and what kind of worked last week starts to fall apart every time there’s a new model.

A disorganized Notion database, or a Google Drive, or a folder on your computer, alone… is not enough to build an AI powered workspace that saves you time and makes you money.

It took me months to work that out. I tried all the apps, all the methods, all the different ways of organizing, most of which used up more time than they saved. And I’m still at it, honestly. I’m always looking for the better way to keep this stuff organized.

So imagine skipping that part…

Imagine opening your laptop on Monday and your AI has already been through last week for you. Here are your best posts. Here’s other people’s best posts. Here’s what’s working with your emails. Here’s what’s not. And here’s what you might want to write about next.

Imagine finally knowing which content actually drives clients and customers to your business.

Imagine handing off the tedious parts of your week. The formatting, the uploading, the publishing, the tracking, the reporting, etc… And you get to spend that time writing, or building relationships, or not working at all.

The thing that makes that possible isn’t opening Claude in a browser and connecting a few apps.

It’s a workspace organization system. A repeatable setup you install into Notion and onto your own computer, that teaches you and your AI how to stay organized and work together over time. Everything stays current. The good stuff turns into skills. The skills turn into workflows. The workflows turn into automations. And your apps get connected the right way, so whatever you want to build next, you can.

That’s the part nobody is talking about right now. Everyone’s either still talking about chat windows, or trying to sell you custom apps.

But in just three sessions, you’ll realize you mostly don’t need custom apps anymore. Once you see what’s possible, you can ask Claude Code to build you just about anything.

Here’s the link:

https://kevinhood.me/knowledge-workshop/

Tomorrow I’ll show you exactly how it works.

Talk soon,

Kevin Hood