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The DeRoussel MinuteTools & workflows
From Thomas DeRoussel
Here's 6 AI Tools I'm Using
Summary of this issue
A tour of six tools in Thomas’s June workflow, with guides for delegating work, creating media, organizing context, and building repeatable automations.
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The tools: Codex, OpenClaw, Higgsfield, Obsidian, Claude, and Gumloop.
Keeping prompts, workflows, and decisions together in Obsidian so AI tools have useful context.
Designing an automation backward from its output, then testing it on one record before scaling.
A look at moving from individual AI answers to connected workflows, with practical resources for building, organizing knowledge, and reviewing the work.
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Thinking about agents as systems that handle connected steps.
Matching models to particular jobs and revisiting the workflow as model offerings change.
An overnight build prompt, AI search visibility, an Obsidian second brain, and reusable prompts.