Every week some new tool shows up, either someone points me to it or I bump into it while working on something else. Instead of letting it get lost in a browser tab, I’m starting to log it here.

Orca

A tip from a friend at work. Orca is an “agent development environment”: a desktop app for running several coding agents in parallel (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Cursor CLI and others) without them stepping on each other.

What caught my attention:

  • Parallel worktrees: each task runs in its own git worktree, so agents work side by side without you having to juggle branches by hand.
  • Terminal splits with scrollback search.
  • Design mode: an embedded browser per worktree. Click a UI element and send its HTML, CSS and a screenshot straight to the agent.
  • GitHub and Linear integration: review PRs, check CI and create issues without leaving the app.
  • Inline diff comments: annotate what you want changed in an AI-generated diff and send it back to the agent.
  • Usage tracking: shows Claude and Codex consumption and when the rate limit resets.

It’s free and open source, for macOS, Windows and Linux.

If you also run more than one coding agent at the same time and have felt the pain of juggling terminals and branches, it’s worth a try.

Claude Code to organize my computer

I found this one by accident, using Claude Code for something else entirely. I’m picky about storage: I try to keep little stuff saved so I don’t become a hoarder, and since my SSD is small, I basically need to clean it up every week.

The request is simple: “Claude, my computer is full, do a cleanup and ask me before deleting anything.” And it’s wild how much that changes the game. It scans the disk, organizes what it finds in ways I’d never think to do myself, and digs up so much accumulated junk it’s almost embarrassing.

What usually turns up in these cleanups:

  • Package manager caches (npm, pip, cargo) left over from projects that don’t even exist anymore.
  • Duplicate node_modules in forgotten copies of repositories.
  • Old downloads: installers, PDFs, zips that were already extracted and never looked at again.
  • Build and IDE caches (.cache, dist, .next, giant logs that just keep growing).
  • Temp files from other tools that never clean up after themselves.

What makes me trust this is the “ask me before” part: it lists what it found, explains why, and only deletes what I confirm. No silent automatic cleanup running over my files.

Result: gigabytes back without having to hunt through folders myself.

Claude Code to study for a certification

The third one changed how I study the most. I’m preparing for the Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer certification, and instead of sitting through endless manuals and videos, I had Claude Code build the plan.

The request was roughly: build a study plan for this certification, pull the official Google material, find the links and keep organizing it with me as I go. With it connected to my Google Cloud account, I start studying and ask things on the spot: what this service is, why this option and not that one, what’s likely to show up on the exam about it.

It’s a different world compared to just watching videos. Instead of passive, it becomes a conversation: I read a piece of the official material, test the concept right there in Google Cloud and get the doubt answered the moment it comes up, without losing the thread of what I was studying.

Connecting AI to your tools to organize your life

The last one is more of a concept than a specific tool, and it’s the one that got me thinking about how surreal the scale of this is: you can connect Claude (or any other AI with MCP support) straight into TickTick, Notion and any other tool you already use, and let it actually organize things.

It’s not just asking it questions. It’s Claude seeing your tasks in TickTick, your notes and plans in Notion, cross-referencing all of it and helping you organize the week, move what wasn’t done, flag what’s been sitting idle for too long. Every tool I use day to day becomes a point it can reach directly, with no copying and pasting anything from one place to another.

The result is that getting organized stops being one more task on your list and turns into another conversation with the AI, just like the ones above.