How I use Claude Code to automate my entire life (5 tricks)

Everyone knows Claude Code is the best coding tool in the world. But what if I told you it has a million use cases outside of coding that will make your life significantly better? I use Claude Code to track my business metrics, to track my personal goals, to plan content for me, to analyze all my notes and thoughts, and so much more. In this video, I'm going to show you how to do the exact same thing. By the end of this video, you'll have every prompt you need to launch an army of AI agents from Claude Code that will be running your entire life. I'm Alex Finn and I use AI every single day to build and launch businesses, including Creator Buddy, which is now a $300,000 a year AI content tool. Let's get into it.

So, I'm going to show you five use cases of how I use Claude Code to run my day-to-day life. But first, I'm going to show you how to set this up yourself. In order for Claude Code to effectively do work for you, it needs to know context on who you are. So, open up Claude Code inside a cursor. Create a new folder in there. I call mine clawed life. You can call it life OS or whatever you want. And then create a new markdown file in there called background on yourself. In this markdown file, include as much information about yourself as you possibly can. Who you are, what your interests are, links to your content, links to your side hustles, anything that's relevant to who you are. This will be the data that's sent to Claude when you run any of the use cases I'm about to show you. For instance, when you run your weekly check-ins, your daily journal, your content researcher and planner, all of this data you put in this file will be sent to claude to make it so much more powerful. Once you've created that file inside of claude code and cursor, all you need to do is run /init in claude code. And what that'll do is take that information and create a cla rules file that will set cla code up for these use cases. So, let's get into the first use case that is my weekly check-in. Claude Code automatically runs a weekly check-in for me where it will track all my metrics on my business, my personal life, my career, my side hustles, everything. And it creates this incredible personal dashboard that shows my growth in all my metrics and everything I'm doing in my life. And it's all done through Claude Code. So, what I do is every single Sunday night, I run slashweekly check-in. And I'll show you how to set this up right after. I hit enter. And now a sub agent is spawned that I built that will now collect a bunch of metrics from me and update that dashboard with all my latest information and metrics. So what you can see here is it asks me for all my latest metrics. I just type it in. It knows dynamically which metrics are important to me based on the information I put in that file in that last step. So I quickly filled in those metrics it asked for. I hit enter. And now what it's going to do is take those metrics and update my personal weekly dashboard so I can track my growth over time. So now sub agents are being spun up and they're going taking my data and creating that really nice custom dashboard. And this was all done really intelligently, right? It went in, saw all the information about myself, saw that I had a YouTube, a business, a Twitter, all of that. Figured out what metrics would be important for me and then built that dashboard. And just like that, it's done. And this was all set up with a single prompt, which I put down below in the description. So feel free to pause, take this if you want, or wait till after. You grab that prompt, you put it into claw code after you did the setup I showed you earlier, and it will actually build out the slash command that launches the sub aents as well as build the sub aents itself that actually went in and performed this task. What's amazing is it actually gives you a lot of other recommendations as well. It tells you what content ideas you can build out based on what it knows about you. It gives you wins of the week, the fact I hit 30,000 on YouTube, it celebrates those wins. So, it gives you a lot of other cool things in here and tells you when you can even run the next check-in. It's like having a personal AI agent that works for me. Again, prompt to set up this AI agent down below. You can just feed that into Cloud Code and you're good to go.

The next use case I do is really good for my mental health. It is basically a daily journaling AI agent that Claude Code runs. So, every morning I go into Claude Code and I'll do SL daily check-in. This is basically a daily journaling habit I do every single night. And what this is going to do is it it's going to ask me for a bunch of information. It's going to put into a personal dashboard. But this dashboard's different. This dashboard's for habits. This dashboard's for mental health. This dashboards for how I'm feeling and what I accomplish. It's basically an automated journaling AI agent. So I'm going to run /aily check-in. This is basically my journaling agent. I'm going to hit enter. And now it's going to ask me a few questions about my day-to-day life. It will now store in my daily journaling dashboard. So, as you can see, good evening, Alex. What did I accomplish today? How are you feeling right now? What are your biggest wins today? I answer these questions. I hit enter. It sends it to my AI agent and Claude Code, and that creates my daily journal entry. So, this is a great way to have Claude Code work with you, track the things you're accomplishing in your life, help you practice a little bit of gratitude, and just stay on top of your day-to-day progress. Again, all done with a single prompt. I set that up and now all I do every day is just type in slash daily check-in and I'm good to go. I put that prompt down below as well. Feel free to wait till the end if you want to just copy and paste those prompts. You can do the step and just paste each one of those in individually and you're good to go.

So, as you obviously know, I am a content creator and I actually use Claude Code to help build all my content. I have a popular newsletter. It has 40,000 subs. I actually use Claude code to do research and all my competing newsletters and also look at my recent newsletters to see what does well based on all that information. It actually writes me my weekly draft for my newsletters with one single command. With one command, it's researching a ton of other newsletters. It's reading all my newsletters and based on what's trending, writes me a newsletter draft in my own voice. It doesn't have to just be newsletters. If you do any sort of content creation at all, you can use Clawed Code to research all your competitors and draft content in your own voice. The setup for this is simple. Inside of Clawude Code, I just have a markdown file where I list my newsletter as well as other newsletters that are in my niche. And then when I run the commands I'm about to show you in a second, it does the research through all those newsletters and writes me that draft. So, all I do is type slashnewsletter researcher, hit enter, and now the AI agent's not only going to read all my competitors newsletters, it's going to read my own newsletters and then write a newsletter draft in my own voice. So, I ran the command. It then read the newsletters from all my competitors, went through their entire content history to see what trends were going on at the moment. It saw what they were talking about. It talked about AI tool adoption, rapid skill acquisition, pricing, and business growth. And then it found unique angles for me based on the newsletters in my own newsletter, which is incredible. And the way this can work for you is if you're a YouTube creator, it can do similar things or researches competitor YouTubes. Or if you're a Twitter creator, it'll look at other Twitter accounts. And so for me, this helps me with my newsletter. I write my newsletter every single Thursday. And I just quickly run that command every Thursday. A few minutes later, I have a draft I can go with. I edit the draft, hit send, and it's good to go. Claude Code has been the best content researcher I've ever had in my life. With one command, I will never run out of newsletter ideas again. Again, if you want to set up your own content researcher prompt down below, you can just copy and paste this. Those are really cool use cases. My next one might be the most powerful one yet.

This next use case I call a brain dump analyzer, but basically what it is a note analyzing tool. I have a folder in my clawed folder here that has a bunch of brain dumps I that I do as often as I possibly can. In these brain dumps, I just talk about anything going on in my life, any observations I have, any interests I have, just things that are going on in my head. Then what I do on about a weekly basis is I run this brain dump analyzer which will go through my brain dumps and do a basically a mindm map visualization. You can see here that takes all my thoughts from that week and maps it out. Maps out my philosophy, my identity, my strategies. I can then take this and just either understand myself better, pick out different ideas I have to build other businesses or just create more content on it. And this is the same thing you can do. You don't even necessarily need to do brain dumps. You can just add all your own notes in here. So if you're taking notes right now in notion or in Obsidian, take those notes, copy them in, and then put them in a notes or brain dumps folder in your Claude code OS folder. Then you can run /brain dump analysis, which again prompt down below to get that slash command set up inside of Claude and it will take an AI agent and analyze your brain dumps or your notes and build out the same sort of mind map based on all your notes. And this is fully customizable too, right? If you wanted to analyze your notes and tell you next steps in meetings or people you have to reach out to, you can customize the prompt I have down below to do those exact same things. Claude Code analyzes all my notes so I get the best insights out of them. And then I can come in here and I have in my brain dumps folder an analysis folder where Claude automatically puts in all my analyses so I can see what it thinks about all my notes. I recommend doing this based on brain dumps because then you can get insight really into how your brain works. But you can use this for meeting analysis, notes analysis, whatever you want. Prompt down below. You just put the prompt in the cloud code and you're good to go. And you have that slash command set up. And here's the one that just ran just now. It goes through, tells me what type of morning routine I should do based on my brain dumps. It tells me what my content strategy should be based on my brain dumps. It gives me a weekend challenge. There's so many cool things that come out of running this agent.

The next one is a super powerful agent I spin up every single morning that gives me the rundown on all of my interests. You're going to like this one. So, the fifth use case I spin up every single morning is my daily brief agent. Here's an example of what the daily brief agent spins up for me. It goes through all my interests from that original file I showed you that you set up inside of Claude Code and goes on the internet and does research based on all my interests for the latest story. So, for instance, it found the latest tech news. news on YouTube and a whole bunch of other things going on in the industries I care about. And now I can use this and a just know what's going on in the industry. So, I'm up to date with everything going on in AI and tech, but also b this helps me come up with content, right? I see a news break overnight from my daily brief agent. I take that, I do a YouTube video or I make a tweet newsletter. This helps me stay on top of everything going on with my interest. So, so instead of having me go online and do research and have to Google everything I'm interested in, I just go inside a clawed code. I do slash daily brief. Again, prompt for this down below in the description. So, you can set this up as well. You hit enter and it goes and starts running the agent to get your daily brief. As you can see, it's doing research online for AI coding tools from the last 7 days. It's searching for creator economy updates. It's compiling and saving my daily brief. So, it's going online doing a whole bunch of research for me and saving me a tremendous amount of time so I don't have to do this Googling myself. Then it creates that daily brief for me so I can quickly understand what's going on, what happened in the world overnight and stay on top of all the latest trends. You can do the exact same thing. You just make sure your original files have all your interests in it that we talked about. Then you run the prompt from down below that sets up that daily brief agent and then every morning you go in and you hit slash daily brief and you're good to go. Those use cases I just showed you save me hours every single week. It saves me hours from having to write content. do research on all the topics I'm interested in. Claude Code just takes care of all that for me. And as you can see, none of that involved coding. Everyone uses Claude Code for coding. Obviously, I use it to build my app. Most of the time, I'm using it for things outside of coding. That's how powerful Claude Code is. So, if you can build your own claw code life operating system like I just showed you here, go in, you set up your folders with your notes, information about your businesses and your interests. Then, you take the prompts from down below to set up all those different processes like your daily and weekly check-ins, your daily brief, and you're good to go. This setup shouldn't take any more than 10 minutes. And all of a sudden, you have an entire AI agent ready to go to work for you to get you information. And there's so much more you can do on top of this. You're not limited just to the use cases I showed you. If you want to ask questions to Claude Code about your notes, if you want to ask anything you want, you can do it because now Claude Code has all the context about your life. Really, really powerful stuff. And all you would need to do to set up your own agents is say, "Hey, I want to do a sub agent that does this task for me. Can you set it up, Claude Code? " And Claude Code will build that agent for you. It's really amazing. All the prompts are down below to set up all these agents I showed you. Feel free to take that. I also have a template that you can fill out for all your own personal information you could put inside Claude Code. If you're brand new to Claude Code, linked somewhere beside me is a video to my Claude Code beginners guide. So, make sure to check that out as well. If you learned anything, make sure to leave a like. Make sure to subscribe. All I do is create incredible videos on AI. Turn on notifications and I'll see you in the next