✦ Built, not postponed

I learn things — then build the tools to actually use them.

Hey, I'm the Gifted Procrastinator 👋 A neurodivergent brain that reads a lot, studies a lot, and forgets half of it — so I build small tools with AI to make the good parts stick. Every book, build and course lands here honestly: what worked, what didn't, and how you can do it too.

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Building in public — a new build every week.
So far 110 interactive concepts 88 hands-on tools 9 fields covered bilingual EN / DE a new build every week free, no signup
Build

Things I built, broke, and
then fixed again.

Each card is its own project with a story, code and learnings. Click in — honest notes instead of marketing gloss.

New

How to Vet an AI Skill Before You Install It

Community skills are one click to install and nobody checks them. Here's how I take one apart first — no coding.

AI skillsSafety
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New

The Ghost Theme

Four days, zero lines of code by me — a $90 premium theme out, a hand-built home in.

GhostClaude Code4-day build
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New

The Family Chore App

One day, vanilla JS, and a Supabase magic link — a traffic-light chore board that nags rooms, not people.

Vanilla JSSupabaseOne-day build
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Project of the month

One website, three tech stacks: PHP vs. Lovable vs. Claude Code.

I built the same site three ways — a PHP build, Lovable, and Claude Code — to feel where each one shines and where it fights you. Honest notes on speed, control and what I'd reach for next time.

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Learn

From a book to a tool I
actually use.

I read, I study — and instead of just highlighting passages, I build the thing the book is really about. Here's what each one turned into.

In progress

The 12 Week Year

→ SprintYear: a year’s goals as one 12-week sprint + weekly scorecard

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Coming up

The One Thing

→ OneFocus: the focusing question that cuts your list to one

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Coming up

Make It Stick

→ RecallLoop: retrieval + spaced-repetition scheduler

Coming soon →
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Reviews

Tried it so you
don't have to.

Honest, hands-on reviews of the courses and AI tools I actually used to learn all this — what's worth your money, and what isn't.

New

The Viral Skill I Took Apart

Big promise, famous name — I took it apart before installing. Most went in the bin. One part stayed.

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New

AI Foundations

Inside the AI Foundations Skool community — courses on AI automations & Claude Code. Worth joining?

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New

SheCodes AI

Vibecoding with a plan — learn why you’re prompting, not just what (handbook: books.shecodes.io).

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Must-haves to function

The stuff that keeps me
actually functioning.

Gear, gadgets and Kickstarter finds a wired-differently brain needs to get going — not to "optimize", just to work.

Incoming

Focusaur

The Kickstarter AI focus console that hatches dinosaurs while you do deep work. First look when it lands.

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New

Gravastar Mouse + Keyboard

Sci-fi desk candy that’s genuinely a joy to type on.

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New

LG 4K Ergo Monitor

The ergo-arm 4K that gave me back my desk — and my neck.

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Hey, I'm
The Procrastinator

I'm a gifted procrastinator — neurodivergent, endlessly curious, and currently on my third master's, most of which I'll somehow write in the last three weeks. I stopped fighting how my brain works. Now I build around it.

This site is my open logbook: the books I turn into tools, the courses I actually review, and the gear that keeps me functioning. No glossy guru act — real learning, real builds, real quirks, mostly figured out with AI at my side.

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The three Gifted Procrastinator mascots — a pink, a cyan and a yellow French bulldog
The crew
Build Notes

A build in your inbox every Sunday.

One short email a week: what I'm building right now, what I learned and which tools made the difference. No spam, unsubscribe anytime.

Just getting started — follow the builds as they happen.

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Frequently asked

Before you dive in.

Is the code for the projects freely available? +

Yes. Almost every project is open source and linked on GitHub. You're free to fork, learn and remix it — a link back is appreciated but not required.

Can I submit my own project? +

Right now I mostly share my own builds. If you've made something based on my tools, drop me a line — I'm happy to feature community projects in the Build Notes.

How often do new projects go up? +

On average one new build per week — sometimes a bigger tool, sometimes a weekend experiment. All updates land in the newsletter first.

What does all this cost? +

Nothing. The tools are free to use, the newsletter is free, and the case studies are openly here. If a project ever gets a Pro version, I'll say so transparently.

What is this site built with? +

Plain HTML & CSS on top of my own little design system — the same building blocks I use to build the projects.