You know that feeling when you’re deep in thought, and someone opens the door to get something from your room?
It’s not just the interruption that kills your focus. It’s what happens next:
- The school next door becomes impossible to ignore
- The dog barking outside your house now sounds loud & clear
- Your iMessage, Slack & WhatsApp notifications suddenly feel urgent
Your brain was muting all the noise while you were in flow state.
And just like the constant interruptions, switching between 10 different apps or tabs fractures your attention. In an effort to do things faster, you end up:
- Hopping between browser tabs
- Switching between Google docs
- Finding & copy/pasting from Notion pages
- Moving from keyboard to mouse and back
It leaves you with illusion of productivity, but the minute you step away from the screen you realise the work isn’t complete.
You panic.
“Shit, what have I been doing all day?!”
You go back into your browser history, and the reality is that you didn’t visit many websites. In fact, you didn’t even doom scroll social media.
Now yesterday’s work is going to overflow into tomorrow.
All because of context switching and information overload. Overdue, overdue, overdue!
Now just like me, I am sure you use ChatGPT or Claude every day. The problem with your current approach is that to bring AI up to speed, a lot of switching is involved.
Here’s what it looks like:
- ChatGPT or Claude reads through your gigantic file and roughly finds the what you’re after
- 3-4 messages later, you either get the message “This chat is getting too long!” or the responses are slow with a lot of hallucination
- You create a new chat and copy/paste some context and re-explain your whole situation
- A few messages later, you get closer to the answer but not quite there
- So you create another chat… then another one… and one more
It’s frustrating to explain the same thing to ChatGPT or Claude over and over again. And just like the old days where you’d be hopping between browser tabs, now you’re jumping between 10 different chats.
Think about it.
Is AI ACTUALLY helping you get the job done?
OR are you slowing yourself down in an effort to speed up?
Now let me show you how I achieve uninterrupted flow & 0 switching costs with my Second Brain OS
I can literally ask ChatGPT or Claude to pull directly from my knowledge, allowing it to be on the same page as me instantly. This makes AI a true thinking partner that can surface meaningful results every single time:
- That weird memory technique? It clicked when I was learning to code
- That quick note about writing hooks like Justin Welsh? It surfaced when I was writing my first Twitter thread
- That idea for using NFC tags to automate my routine? It appeared exactly when I was planning my deep work sessions
After trying pretty much every note taking solution out there, I realised they relate things like awkward party hosts trying to introduce guests.
“Hey Note A, meet Note B. You both mentioned coffee once!” It’s mechanical, obvious, and misses all the subtle connections that make your thinking unique.
But with my Second Brain OS, captured ideas don’t sit there awkwardly trying to make small talk. They are connected semantically and meaningfully. They have a real relationship with each other.
And here’s my favourite part. I don’t have to move beyond the Chat Interface within ChatGPT or Claude.
- No copy/pasting
- No hallucinations
- No uploading files
- No one new chat after another
- No window, browser tab or app switch
- No hand switch from mouse to keyboard
There’s also a bonus.
Because there’s no cheap AI under the hood or “error: request timed out” issues, I am able to have a value packed conversation with ChatGPT or Claude that doesn’t feel like a waste of time.
Today’s Action Step:
Count how many times you switch between apps, tabs, or windows in a single hour of work. Keep a tally. The number will shock you.
P.S. Ready to eliminate constant switching? Here’s how to set up your Second Brain OS today:
