Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Watch a live experiment: Nico, our video producer, builds a fully functional mood-tracking app with no coding skills — just his Second Brain and Claude Cowork. He pulls from his Cognitive Behavioural Therapy notes saved years ago, hits a few bugs along the way, and ends up with something genuinely usable. This is what putting your Second Brain to work actually looks like.
🔗 Get Nico’s step-by-step checklist: bit.ly/4tXZaWF
Resources and Tools Mentioned:
📺 Tiago explains the PARA Method: youtu.be/T6Mfl1OywM8
🗣️ Voice Dictation Tool I use: ref.wisprflow.ai/tiagoforte
🤖 Claude Cowork (the AI tool Nico used): claude.ai
🎬 Zoom Clips (for recording and transcribing feedback): zoom.com/en/products/clips
📖 Readwise Reader (for saving and exporting highlights): readwise.io/tiago
💚 The Book “Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy” by David D. Burns
CHAPTERS:
00:00 - 00:34 Introduction
00:34 - 01:20 Meet Nico & the Experiment
01:20 - 03:35 Finding the App Idea in the Second Brain
03:35 - 07:18 Distilling the Source Material with Claude
07:18 - 10:38 Planning & Building the App
10:38 - 15:15 First Test Run & Finding Issues
15:11 - 17:43 Fixing the App with Voice Feedback
17:30 - 18:51 Results & Wrap-Up
Watch a live experiment: Nico, our video producer, builds a fully functional mood-tracking app with no coding skills — just his Second Brain and Claude Cowork. He pulls from his Cognitive Behavioural Therapy notes saved years ago, hits a few bugs along the way, and ends up with something genuinely usable. This is what putting your Second Brain to work actually looks like.
🔗 Get Nico’s step-by-step checklist: bit.ly/4tXZaWF
Resources and Tools Mentioned:
📺 Tiago explains the PARA Method: youtu.be/T6Mfl1OywM8
🗣️ Voice Dictation Tool I use: ref.wisprflow.ai/tiagoforte
🤖 Claude Cowork (the AI tool Nico used): claude.ai
🎬 Zoom Clips (for recording and transcribing feedback): zoom.com/en/products/clips
📖 Readwise Reader (for saving and exporting highlights): readwise.io/tiago
💚 The Book “Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy” by David D. Burns
CHAPTERS:
00:00 - 00:34 Introduction
00:34 - 01:20 Meet Nico & the Experiment
01:20 - 03:35 Finding the App Idea in the Second Brain
03:35 - 07:18 Distilling the Source Material with Claude
07:18 - 10:38 Planning & Building the App
10:38 - 15:15 First Test Run & Finding Issues
15:11 - 17:43 Fixing the App with Voice Feedback
17:30 - 18:51 Results & Wrap-Up
