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Personal Assistant

Your constant companion throughout the day. Random questions, quick lookups, delegating little things. In the desktop chat on top.

When do I use this?

All day long. Everyday questions, quick lookups, "look this up for me about A or B." Everything you'd otherwise open a new chat for. No workflow changes. That's what the terminal is for.

The start-of-day prompt

Send this as the first message in the chat in the morning, right after /prime. Sets the frame.

You are my personal assistant today. I'll ask you things here and give you instructions across the board that you'll handle for me throughout the day.

What do you use it for?

Random questions

"What does X mean?", "What was the formula for Y again?", "Draft the email to Z for me." Anything that would otherwise be a new chat tab.

Delegating little things

"Check the calendar for when I last called X", "Summarize the latest newsletter for me", "Find me the three best hotels in Y."

Quick lookups in the workspace

"How much revenue did we have last month?", "When is the discovery call with X?", "Where's the audit framework file?"

Thinking out loud

Seriously. Sometimes you want to think out loud. That's what the assistant is for. Not every thought needs to land in a Markdown file.

Critical
The most important rule

When something important comes up: save it now

Explicitly say: "Save that as Markdown, I want to do a brainstorm session on it later."

Otherwise the knowledge disappears when the chat closes. Chats are tools, not knowledge stores.

Lunch break: full restart

When the chat gets too full

The chat can stay open all day. When you notice you've asked a lot or the context window is filling up, it's time for a reset. By feel, not by clock.

Important: /shutdown in the same chat is not enough. The context window stays full. You need to throw the whole window away.

How you do it:

  1. End the current session cleanly
  2. Delete the whole window in the left sidebar
  3. Start a new session
  4. Run the full start setup again: chat on top with /prime, drag the terminal to the bottom and start it with cr, open the files pane on the right