The App For Tracking Tv, Movies, Podcasts, And Everything

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 122, your guideline to nan champion and Verge-iest worldly successful nan world. (If you’re caller here, welcome, spell ’Zona, and besides you tin publication each nan aged editions astatine nan Installer homepage.)

I besides person for you a caller measurement to publication nan internet, a caller Mario movie, a much backstage measurement to do video chat, and more. Lots of apps this week! You emotion to spot it. Let’s do it.

(As always, nan champion portion of Installer is your ideas and tips. What are you watching / playing / reference / listening to / spreading food connected this week? Tell maine everything: installer@theverge.com. And if you cognize personification other who mightiness bask Installer, guardant it to them and show them to subscribe here.)

I’ve been utilizing Twos, a note-taking and to-do database app, a batch complete nan past mates of years. The app does a lot, but successful a very straightforward way, and it conscionable useful nan measurement my encephalon does. All of my problems pinch nan app person been pinch its creation and its polish — nan app conscionable ne'er rather felt done to me.

Well, Parker Klein, nan developer down Twos, shipped a caller type of nan app this week that is simply a immense betterment successful that respect. Every area of nan app feels cleaner and much polished, and I’ve been loving it successful beta for nan past fewer weeks. The wildest part? The full point was made pinch Claude Code. Parker tells maine he’s fundamentally not penning immoderate codification himself anymore — he is orchestrating nan process, and understands profoundly really nan full point works, but Claude is doing nan coding.

I asked Parker to stock his AI setup pinch us, to spot what I mightiness beryllium capable to bargain for my ain projects. Here it is, and a fewer specifications astir it:

Parker said he doesn’t person immoderate typical prompts he uses complete and over, but did connection a clever trick: person Claude create its ain archiving for larger features and architecture, and past stock that archiving backmost pinch nan instrumentality erstwhile it’s clip to activity connected bugs aliases caller features. Saves a bunch of “let maine spell publication each these files” time, and keeps everything a batch much organized.

I besides asked Parker if he had immoderate tips for nan caller Twos, and he gave maine nan 1 he ever gives me: “My proposal astir apt won’t ever change. Write things down. We’ve designed astir quickly capturing anything, truthful that’s what we’re optimizing for. I still heavy usage lists, bookmarks, search, and chat for recall, but those are only useful if you’re penning things down.” Friends, he’s not wrong.

Here’s what nan Installer organization is into this week. I want to cognize what you’re into correct now arsenic well! Email installer@theverge.com aliases connection maine connected Signal — @davidpierce.11 — pinch your recommendations for thing and everything, and we’ll characteristic immoderate of our favorites present each week. For moreover much awesome recommendations, cheque retired nan replies to this station connected Threads and this station connected Bluesky.

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See you adjacent week!