My wife asked me a simple question: “Why don’t we have a shared calendar that shows sunrise, sunset, tides, and cloud conditions every day?”
Twenty minutes later - done.
I built a Claude Cowork skill that pulls tide data from NOAA, grabs weather from an open-source site, checks the astronomy conditions, bundles everything up, and updates a shared Google Calendar. Automatically. Every single day.
Twenty minutes. Just me, Cowork, and a clear idea of what I wanted.
And this is exactly the point I keep coming back to: The barrier to automating your life - and your work - has never been lower. If there’s a repetitive task in your day that follows a process, there’s probably a co-work skill waiting to be built.
What would you automate if you knew it would take 20 minutes?