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Omar Shahine

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Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Word + Editor. I write an opinionated product newsletter on http://OmarKnows.com

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"Compacting conversation… " my least favorite words….

01.03.2026 05:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Headless Sync - Obsidian Help Headless Sync - Obsidian Help

I'm all in on @Obsidian now. These guys are becoming the notebook, PKM for AI. help.obsidian.md/sync/headless

28.02.2026 05:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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A single message from 🦞 Lobster (@openclaw) told me:
• My aircraft landed in Istanbul
• It flies to Seattle next
• It operates my flight tomorrow

No dashboards. No switching apps.

That's where we're headed.
Intent in. Coordination out.
Apps fade into infrastructure.

28.02.2026 01:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Lobster Gets a Playbook (and a Superpower) 🦞🏠 I really really cannot express how useful Lobster is to me

Lobster Playbook (How I set my OpenClaw up with day by day updates, successes and failures) and HomeClaw an Apple Home Bridge for OpenClaw that I wrote and published on GitHub. Details below👇

www.omarknows.ai/p/lobster-ge...

25.02.2026 06:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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❤️🦞

25.02.2026 03:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Coming soon, HomeClaw, HomeKit support for your OpenClaw or Claude Code (MCP Server and CLI). Testing it out on my two HomeKit homes first. HomeClaw will allow you to allow/block certain devices from being accessed.

24.02.2026 00:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

@1Password in Safari is so unreliable. Always says it's locked when it's not. Passkey always messed up. Is this just the way it is and I should switch to Chrome?

22.02.2026 22:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Now that I have crazy awesome AI coding agents I realize I've been idea constrained my whole life. Tools like Claude Code totally unlock getting ideas into working things.

14.02.2026 20:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

MCP is the new DLL Registry Hell.

09.02.2026 01:22 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

What we need for Agents. A concept of a lockbox. A way for me to give an agent a one time use password or passcode I can sign with my passkey so it can do something once on my behalf with an audit trail. @1password has most of this in place.

08.02.2026 20:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Meet Lobster 🦞: My Personal AI Assistant And How You Can Build Your Own

It's hard to find words for how freaking amazing this is. We are on the path to having really capable personal AI assistants. Here is mine, Lobster. I love what he can do for me.

www.omarknows.ai/p/meet-lobst...

08.02.2026 19:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I just told Claude Code to figure out how to connect to my Car so I can send it remote commands. 10 minutes.

"Your Macan is alive and talking! Battery at 80%, locked, sunroof open."

08.02.2026 18:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

My OpenClaw assistant, Lobster 🦞, is up and running. What it can do for me:
1. Control my Sonos network.
2. Research music to play and get creative about playing things in the house.
3. Handle simple email and browsing tasks for me.

All via Lobster's dedicated iMessage number.

It runs in a VM

03.02.2026 07:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is so great. I'm having Claude Code take some Airtable apps I've built and turn them into web apps I can host myself. Half way done and I'll save $300 a year I spend on Airtable which I can feed to tokens instead.

18.01.2026 05:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Claude Code is Bananas How I Built a Personal AI Assistant That Actually Works

Claude Code is Bananas - How I Built a Personal AI Assistant That Actually Works

www.omarknows.ai/p/claude-cod...

15.01.2026 04:24 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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GitHub - microsoft/playwright-mcp: Playwright MCP server Playwright MCP server. Contribute to microsoft/playwright-mcp development by creating an account on GitHub.

I just wrote a Claude Code Skill that will upload and create an Insurance Claim. This works by using the ⁠Microsoft Plawright MCP Server, then navigate to the Premera Website and waits for you to authenticate, then fills out the form, and then you upload the PDF and hit submit.

The Skill will parse

11.01.2026 02:16 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Claude Code Use Claude Code to turbocharge your productivity!

Claude Code - Use Claude Code to turbocharge your productivity!

www.omarknows.ai/p/claude-code

09.01.2026 20:23 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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EstateHelm - your Digital Will, Estate and Household Brain Peace of Mind at last

EstateHelm - your Digital Will, Estate and Household Brain

Peace of Mind at last

www.omarknows.com/p/estatehel...

23.12.2025 18:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The state of the web in 2025. This is a news article link someone sent me.

19.12.2025 20:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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OmarKnows Holiday Picks 2025 🎁 A Curated Collection of Thoughtful Gifts, Tech Treasures, now in its 11th year! ✨

OmarKnows Holiday Picks 2025

🎁 A Curated Collection of Thoughtful Gifts, Tech Treasures, now in its 11th year! ✨

www.omarknows.com/p/omarknows...

28.11.2025 21:34 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Thank goodness for Tesla Super Chargers. Nothing beats them. Highly available and uptime, which you can count on. Glad that Porsche finally shipped their adapter and activated service. Totally seamless. 60% charge in 21 minutes.

16.11.2025 23:07 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Apple rolls out Digital ID in Apple Wallet for U.S. passport holders If you suffer from that recurring nightmare that you’re at the airport but have forgotten your wallet,1 fret no longer: starting today, holders of U.S. passports can create a Digital ID in Ap…

Progress. My Passport ID was verified in under one minute.

sixcolors.com/post/2025/11/ap...

13.11.2025 04:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

6 buildings, 9 managers, 5 teams, 27 years

07.11.2025 23:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Agent Mode in Microsoft Excel Incredible power through natural language

Agent Mode in Microsoft Excel - Incredible power through natural language

www.omarknows.ai/p/agent-mode...

07.11.2025 05:10 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Claude on iOS can be your assistant Claude can work with Reminders, Calendars, Maps, Messages and more

Claude on iOS can be your assistant

Claude can work with Reminders, Calendars, Maps, Messages and more

open.substack.com/pub/omarkno...

25.10.2025 16:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Soundcore Sleep A30: Sleep Earbuds with Noise Cancellation The Sleep Earbuds That Actually Block Noise

Soundcore Sleep A30: Sleep Earbuds with Noise Cancellation

The Sleep Earbuds That Actually Block Noise

www.omarknows.com/p/soundcore...

19.10.2025 13:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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New update for Office. We now support Liquid Glass. I love the new home experience in Microsoft Word.

14.10.2025 00:34 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Starlink WiFi on the plane is amazing. Just flew 14h on Qatar and had gate to gate service with zero hiccups and no buggy login or hacky captive web sites fighting with you.

11.10.2025 13:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Currently at 40,000 feet and the AirPods Pro 3 have better noice cancellation than the AirPods Pro Max. Not even close. No wonder Apple hasn't refreshed Max. They have to catch up.

11.10.2025 01:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Remarkable Paper Pro Move A return to analog thinking in our post-pandemic world

Remarkable Paper Pro Move - A return to analog thinking in our post-pandemic world

www.omarknows.com/p/remarkabl...

21.09.2025 17:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0