I've been coding using frontier AI tools for a while now. Github Copilot before ChatGPT came out. Cursor when its logo was a cursor. I made a manual context builder tool when pasting into O1 Pro was the best option available. I was an early user of Claude Code. I really like this stuff.
But the acceleration since December has been wild. Features that used to take me 3 months take 3 days. In a week, they're more robust and more complete than anything I could've shipped before, given any amount of time. With Anthropic's Mythos and OpenAI's Spud on the horizon, it's hard to imagine what we'll be doing by the end of the year. It feels like I can build anything.
But so can everyone else. Standing out in the chaos is harder than it's ever been. Everything is insane, so nothing seems impressive.
I just emailed out a new feature list for the first time in four months. A couple years ago, half of them would each have been a startup. Today they're just updates in someone's side project.
I'm proud of the features though. You don't spend 3.5 years on something without believing it's useful. But man, wherever this is leading, it sure is foggy.
From here on out, the hardest part will be keeping it cohesive and simple amongst all the Feature Vomit I'm now capable of.
Feature list in question:
- Live Editing Voice Mode — Experimental, but amazing. Press the space bar.
- Reminders that understand context — When you mention a date in a note, Grug now sorts it into: Reminders that stay visible until they’re checked off, Events show up on the day they happen, and Simple mentions don’t clutter the top of the page.
- Email Agents — Grug can assist through email, Telegram, and in-app chat, Which opens up some genuinely useful ways to interact with your notes without always being at your desk. Schedule emails or email your agent anytime.
- Meeting Notes — with multispeaker transcription and more reliable audio capture.
- Custom Tasks — Summarize meeting transcriptions or do any custom chat request.
- Better chat tools — Grug Chat can now do web research, maps/place lookup, and read a URL directly when you paste one in.
- Lists — Any prompt can now be a list type, ie proper table-style lists with inline editing, sorting, filtering, and references between items. Much like a database in other apps. Work in progress, but promising for kan ban style functionality.
- Better note management — Change the date or location of any block.
- CLI — There’s now a command line interface for developers.
- Pomodoro timers — Add a time estimate to a line and track time right inside your notes, just end any line with a time like 'my task 5m'.