I put Claude on steroids

Hey there, solopreneur!

2 months ago, I was staring at 17 browser tabs. Claude in one. Notion in another. Google Docs somewhere else.

Copy, paste between tabs like Tom Cruise in Minority Report.

Getting lost trying to find ideas, tweets or insights in the depth of my “productivity tools”.

Ask Claude something brilliant, then spend 15 minutes shuffling the answer across my tools like an idiot living in 1993.

On X I saw people raving about this “MCP” thing that was supposed to fix it.

Everyone made it sound simple, just connect Claude to your tools, no more tool switching (sounds so easy, right?)

But the tutorials? Pure developer speak.

I rage-quit after an hour.

MCP this, MCP that. What the F was it even supposed to mean?

Fast forward to last week. 5 AM in Berlin. My 3-week-old son is sleeping and well, I am not. 

I'm still thinking about all the time I waste switching around between Claude and my poorly organized tools.

Time I could spend with him.

The math hit me hard: 8-10+ hours a week on digital busywork around my content creation.

That's 700+ hours a year of my life I'll never get back.

So I gave this magical MCP one more shot. 30 minutes later, Claude was creating Notion pages, analyzing my tweets, and organizing my content.

Automatically.

I literally laughed out loud (and posted this on X).

No more copy-paste marathons .

Claude organizes your messy docs better than you ever could.

Scrape any website or YouTube video in seconds.

Your ideas get saved automatically (never lose another brilliant 3 AM thought)

The setup is actually simple once someone shows you in human language.

It suddenly turns AI into your operating system.

I didn’t plan on writing about this topic but it got me SO excited that I had to share how to set it up with you:

What MCP actually does (without the tech speak)

MCP stands for Model Context Protocol.

But honestly? Who gives a shit what it stands for.

Here's what it actually does:

It lets Claude touch your tools directly. No more being the middleman. Claude just does it itself.

Plot twist: I realized I was the bottleneck

Here's the uncomfortable truth I had to accept: The machine is better at using my tools than I am.

My content library proved it. 3,000+ posts scattered across random pages. Pure chaos.

After connecting MCP, I typed this:

"Find all my tweets about AI agents in my tweet bank, analyze which ones performed best, and create 4 new content ideas based on what worked"

45 seconds later: Claude had found every relevant tweet, spotted the patterns, and created a perfectly formatted page with fresh content ideas.

I used to spend 30 minutes just FINDING my old tweets. Another hour analyzing them. Now Claude does it better and faster than I ever could.

That's when it clicked: I wasn't bad at organization.

I was just... human.

And that was the bottleneck.

Claude never gets tired. Never forgets where things go. Never half-asses it because it's 11 PM.

Once I got over my ego and just let Claude handle the boring stuff, my content process went from hours to minutes.

The future isn't about competing with AI at tasks it's obviously better at. It's about stepping aside and letting it work.

What I'm doing with MCP now (that saves me hours)

Once you get this working, here are some examples of what becomes possible:

Content creation on autopilot: "Check my content library for posts about [topic], analyze the top performers, draft 5 new variations" → Fresh content in my voice, backed by data

Instant research: "Scrape this competitor's landing page and create a breakdown of their value props and pricing" → Competitive analysis in 30 seconds without leaving the Claude window

YouTube deep dives: "Get the transcript from [URL], extract key insights, and save the most relevant insights to my swipe file inside Notion" → Never manually copy timestamps again

Website intelligence: "Scrape the top 5 articles about [topic] and find patterns in what they're saying. cross check my short form SOPs and create 3 potential scripts" → Hours of research in minutes.

Each of these used to eat up 30-60 minutes of manual work. Now? One sentence and done.

The craziest part is I'm probably using 10% of what's possible. Every week I discover new ways to automate stuff I didn't even realize was stealing my time.

Enough talking, let’s focus on how to set it up for you too:

How to set this up in 15 minutes

Look, I know what you're thinking:

'This sounds way too technical for me.'"

That's what I thought too. But here's exactly what you need:

1. Claude Desktop app (not the web version)

2. Node.js (just download and click install - like any normal app)

3. Docker Desktop app

4. 15 minutes of focus

I found two ways that actually work (I recommend you watch the video, it’s much easier to follow)

The Docker route (surprisingly simple, click to watch the video)

• Download Docker Desktop, start it

• Activate MCP Toolkit (Settings → Beta Features → Enable Docker MCP)

• Go to Clients→ Connect Claude Desktop

• Go to Servers → Connect with Notion (you need to create an integration for your notion account copy the Token to Docker and connect a Notion workspace)

• Activate the Notion integration in docker

• You should now be able to access your notion via Claude

• if it DOESN’T work check the next manual route

The manual route (bombproof backup, click to watch the video)

• Go to notion integrations and create a new integration

• Give it access to your workspace and copy your notion token

• Allow all capabilities you want to (I use all of them)

• Go to “Access” and chose which pages MCP should get access to (I use a dedicated MCP workspace for this)

• Go to the Claude Toolbar → Settings → Developer

• Click Edit Config

  

• Open the file with Texteditor and add this code

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "notionApi": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@notionhq/notion-mcp-server"],
      "env": {
        "OPENAPI_MCP_HEADERS": "{\"Authorization\": \"Bearer ntn_****\", \"Notion-Version\": \"2022-06-28\" }"
      }
    }
  }
}

• Paste into Claude and also paste our notion token and tell Claude to insert your notion token into the code (ntn_*** should be replaced with your unique Notion token)

• Save the file and restart Claude

• You should now be able to use Notion MCP

Pro tip: Start with ONE tool. Just connect Notion. Feel the magic. Then add more.

The next thing I added was the Apify MCP server.

(Here’s a guide how to add these, paste it into Claude and it will help you)

Suddenly Claude could use TikTok scrapers, X scrapers, LinkedIn scrapers - basically any web scraping tool you can imagine.

There's also a whole ecosystem of tools hiding inside Docker you can activate with a few clicks.

As you can see, it’s an explosion of opportunity, just start somewhere.

The early adopter advantage

Look, MCP isn't perfect yet. Desktop only. Manual setup. Sometimes glitchy.

But that's kind of the point.

Right now, barely anyone's using this. Most people see "15-minute setup" and close the tab.

Meanwhile, I'm saving hours every week. My content process is automated. My research happens in seconds instead of hours.

The tools are improving fast. What took me 2 hours to figure out 2 months ago now takes 30 minutes. In a few months it'll probably be even easier.

But why wait? Every week you postpone this is another week of copy-paste marathons and manual busy work.

The setup is a one-time pain for ongoing gains. Like going to the gym - sucks for the first week, then becomes part of your life.

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I’m also coming to the conclusion that tracking everything only makes you paranoid and that intuition matters 100x more.

A cool resource that helps you to create better automations (I’m using it!)

I've been taking some time off lately, just enjoying the slower pace with my newborn son.

Long walks through Berlin, watching him discover the world, actually being present instead of constantly checking notifications.

But here's what I realized during these quiet weeks:

I genuinely love creating.

Building things and solving problems.

The break was amazing, but I'm excited to get back into it.

Especially now with Berlin summer coming, there's something about those long, warm evenings that makes everything feel possible.

The difference?

This time I'm not going back to the old copy-paste grind. MCP changed the game for me.

Now I can create more while actually having time to enjoy an evening walk in nature.

That's the real win.

Ole

P.S. Would you be interested to learn more about content automation, pls reply to this email and I might set something up.