I used Obsidian wrong for a year, here's the folder setup that finally clicks
…It was a hobby that was killing my creative output. Also, I used to be a folder maximalist. My logic was simple: A place for everything. My sidebar looked like a tower…
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Running local LLMs every day for five months broke every assumption I had about them
Nolen Jonker Apr 29, 2026, 6:00 PM EDT Nolen began their writing career in 2019, with three years dedicated to editing the Creative section at MakeUseOf . Their expertise lies at the…
Claude Code replaced my bloated PC optimization tools with custom scripts, and my Windows PC has never been happier
…This goes without saying, but as a power user, having this level of automation is an underrated luxury, especially coming from someone who would manually sift through hundreds of tiny byte-sized…
Photoshop's AI tools finally made me stop avoiding the app
…You either have to pay for the app alone, that’s $22.99 a month, or if you want the whole bundle, you can go for the Creative Cloud Pro , which will…
I finally unlocked NotebookLM's best feature, and now I use it for everything
Nolen Jonker May 19, 2026, 1:01 PM EDT Nolen began their writing career in 2019, with three years dedicated to editing the Creative section at MakeUseOf . Their expertise lies at the…
Instead of paying $40 a month for cloud AI tools, I run everything through a local model on my gaming PC
Nolen Jonker May 14, 2026, 10:30 AM EDT Nolen began their writing career in 2019, with three years dedicated to editing the Creative section at MakeUseOf . Their expertise lies at the…
I use Claude Pro every day, and it has nothing to do with coding
Nolen Jonker Apr 11, 2026, 4:30 PM EDT Nolen began their writing career in 2019, with three years dedicated to editing the Creative section at MakeUseOf . Their expertise lies at the…
I connected these tools with Claude and my productivity doubled in no time
…As a freelance tech writer, my work involves endless coordination between my research in Drive, my schedule in Calendar, and creative assets in Canva. When I was coordinating my recent trip, I…
Combining Claude with Notion was a bigger productivity boost than I could have hoped for
…Basically, think of it as the operational layer of everything that I do for work and my creative pursuits. But for practically as long as I've been using it, I've…
OpenAI's Codex is starting to look less like a coding tool and more like an AI workspace
…It's designed to write code, fix bugs, review pull requests, help you build tools and automations, and handle the kind of repetitive engineering work that eats into deep focus time. It…