I built a private Google Docs for me and Claude
I'm writing a fantasy novel. I had it printed and bound at FedEx, read it with a pen, and then did not want to type all those notes back into a computer.
So I took a video of the pages and gave it to Claude. Overnight it built me a web app where I leave notes in the margin and Claude answers them.
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All right. I wanna give you a quick update on some tooling that fable52 built for me last night, uh, to help me edit a fantasy novel that I am writing. So here is, uh ... Here's the paper copy of the book. I had it printed and bound at FedEx. Then I read through it and just left a bunch of notes, edited a bunch of things, and then instead of, like, transferring this back to the computer, I just took a video and said, "Hey, Claude,
I took a video. Transfer all of these. Put it in somewhere that I can actually use pretty easily." And now we have this web app, and you can see this is being served from Tailscale. So if we come up here, this is being served from my Mac Studio in my closet. Uh, nothing is exposed to the internet.
It's all backed via Git on here, so I have a ... It's fully tracked and, uh, has a history. And I can talk to the agent. Uh, this is running inside of Solo, and so what I can come in here and do is in this margin over here, I can say, "Just testing." And so if I hit send on just testing ...
So I've said, "Just testing," and now in this Solo process right here, you can see I asked, "What's up?" earlier. This is just Claude code running inside of Solo, and now boom. Got some new input. Aaron left a note. They're waiting for you. Go check the note.
It's listing all of the threads. He wrote, "Just testing. I confirmed round trip works. Working on my end. Your notes reached me. Your replies landed here." So now, uh, because this is connected to Tailscale, I can do this from anywhere. I can do this from home. I can do this from on the road, and I just leave this process running here, and it's always going to respond to me, and all the files live on this computer, all totally backed by Git, so everything is durable, and I don't
have to have any web process running anywhere. It's kinda awesome. Another thing that's, uh, super cool is ... So I can, I can chat with the desktop agent on a particular note, and that's what we've been doing here, and if I wanted to come down to this note, I could either approve it or chat with it. Uh, but I also just have this universal chat if I wanna chat with kind of the lead agent.
So I can come in here and say, "I'm just testing the universal chat. It seems like it's working pretty well." And I hit send, and boom. It pops up right there. Just testing the universal chat. I replied in the margin. Both of your messages arrived. Working on my end too. They came through.
Not bad. So this is, uh, how I will, in my immense spare time, be editing a book and writing and hopefully creating a bunch of books. So hopefully that's cool. I think it's pretty awesome. Uh, I really like the fact that this is all running locally.
Nothing's exposed to the internet, and I'm chatting with an agent without having to have integrated some sort of agent SDK. It's all just running through the CLI, uh, with Solo managing all of that input. See ya.