Alma

Aug 4th sync-up

Where Alma is today

Alma has improved significantly.

Internal events
  • ▪
    Slide generation
    “Why AI won’t replace you”
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    Claude Code maxxing
    Odyssey tickets for the almanac claude maxxer of the week
External events
25+

folks trying Alma competitively

Alma @thinkwithalma · Jul 17

We got 20+ people at @goClueso to build pitch decks arguing why a few celebrity couples should get divorced and the arguments were compelling! 🪥

A pitch night in Bangalore with pairs going head to head, building slides with Alma just by talking to it, then pitching them out loud.

x.com/thinkwithalma/status/2078027190768185808
The honest part

But internal usage is still low.

WHICH AI GOT USED THE MOST
Claude Code 68%
Alma 18%
Codex 10%
ChatGPT 4%

how the team’s prompts split across every AI.

HOUDINI WRAPPED
Why?
  • 01
    The use cases weren’t high-frequency
  • 02
    It has to use the app across iterative sessions
    Otherwise it’s a good way to start, not to finish.
  • 03
    “I can do anything,
    I do nothing” problem
Our current answer

Shortcuts are the fix.

01
The way in
Every use of Alma starts with a shortcut.
02
A shorthand you both speak
One word carries the whole task.
recall compare organise
03
It lands on the first try
No ramp, and the team enjoys using it.

For the first time, we see our team members getting excited in imagining, creating, and using shortcuts.

organise

Say the word and Alma tidies what's on screen into order.

01 / 05

itinerary

Plans a trip as a day-by-day route on a live map, with stops, timings and distances.

02 / 05

stalk

Pull together everything on a person or topic in one pass.

03 / 05

annotate

Mark up anything on screen, hands-free, just by saying it.

04 / 05

auto join meetings

Alma watches your calendar and joins the call for you, on time.

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The library so far
01–07 of 14

Fourteen shortcuts, live today.

The ones we’re playing with right now, and the list keeps growing.

organise
Moves and resizes your open windows: halves, quadrants, grids.
itinerary
Plans a trip as a day-by-day route on a live map, with stops and timings.
stalk
Resolves whoever you named into their public profiles, and opens them.
annotate
Marks up your screen: boxes, arrows, numbered steps, highlights.
join-meeting
Joins the Meet on screen, or your next one, in your signed-in browser.
save
Writes what you’re looking at into your Obsidian vault.
recall
Answers from what you saved before, across every vault.
The library so far
08–14 of 14

Fourteen shortcuts, live today.

review
One-shots a PR review into a fresh Claude Code session.
compare
Compares what you already have open, on screen and across tabs.
convert
Turns the file in front of you into the format you asked for.
merge
Merges the files you selected into one: pages joined, rows stacked.
schedule
Creates a calendar event from whatever is on your screen.
paywall
Finds a readable archived copy of the article you’re on.
visualise
Sketches a subject or a page as a hand-drawn whiteboard diagram.
The next problem

You still have to remember them.

Every shortcut we add is one more to remember. The library grows, and the tax grows with it.

So we are building

A magical interface that offers the shortcut.

schedule meeting

01 / 02

save

02 / 02
Now cooking

Real-time transcription

WisprFlow

01 / 02

Alma

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