Life Admin & HomeDone with Claude Code
Run life admin and to-dos from Claude Code
A new mom and entrepreneur uses Claude Code to capture to-dos, break overwhelming tasks into 10-minute first steps, and learn her preferences into a file.
- What They Did
- Hilary Gridley uses Claude Code as a simple life-admin system she calls an anti-system system. An iPhone back-tap shortcut captures to-dos without switching apps. Claude organizes the reminders and picks up her preferences by observing her, so she doesn't configure them upfront. For overwhelming tasks, it proposes a 10-minute first step. She also talks through what she's doing, so she doesn't need integrations.
- How It Went
- The source is a podcast page with a topic list and no measured results. It does show demos, including a returns-tracking skill built from scratch and a recording-mode skill that anonymizes demos.
- Worth Knowing
- The page is only a summary, so the setup details, such as the shortcut and the preference file, are in the episode itself.
Try it yourself with Claude Code
Act as my life admin assistant. I'm going to dump my to-dos for [this week or area of life]; save them in a file called todos.md, and for any task that feels overwhelming, break it into a first step that takes 10 minutes or less. Also keep a file called preferences.md where you note what you learn about how I like to work, and stop once todos.md is organized and the first steps are written.