Someone who was already ahead of the curve
Aaron, an independent consultant who deliberately keeps only two clients while also building AI integrations and automations full-time, had already solved a problem most people haven't hit yet: getting Claude and ChatGPT to share the same memory, so he can pick whichever fits a given task. He uses both heavily. He also has ADHD, which is part of why xTiles appealed to him in the first place — it keeps things in front of him instead of buried where they're easy to forget.
The planner he hadn't gotten to yet
Despite using the product regularly, he hadn't actually opened the dedicated planner view — tasks had been scattered across separate project boards instead. The AI daily brief runs specifically on top of the planner, and that turned out to be the piece that made the rest click into place for him.
A repeatable daily log, solved without any custom build
He came in with a specific, ADHD-relevant problem: a sleep log, structured like an Obsidian daily note with a repeatable template, to track a pattern he suspected was tied to some health issues he'd been having. It didn't need a custom build — saving any page as a template means the same structure shows up again the next day, ready to fill in without rebuilding it from scratch.
What the AI connection covers once it's turned on
Connected through Account Settings → xTiles MCP, the same setup reviews inbox, calendar, communication channels, and meeting notes, then turns any promised follow-up into a task automatically instead of relying on memory. At the end of the day, the same reflection also logs completed tasks that were never manually tracked — a detail that matters more than it sounds for anyone whose ADHD makes it hard to tell, by evening, whether the day actually produced anything.
Turning meeting notes into a client-facing workspace
Since he intentionally keeps his consulting work to two clients, the idea that landed hardest wasn't a personal productivity trick — it was pulling details from a recorded client meeting directly into a dedicated page for that client: discussion points, agenda items, and follow-up tasks, instead of a plain invoicing tool's client workspace. He hadn't thought about using xTiles that way before, and said it changed how he might use the product going forward.
What this says about the officially connected version
Even someone who'd already engineered his own cross-tool memory bridge found real value in the version that just gets switched on through account settings, no custom integration required. The value wasn't the AI itself — he already had plenty of that. It was pointing it at a planner and a template system already built for exactly this kind of repeatable, visual structure.