Riley Brown — 7 Tools That Make Codex 10x MORE Powerful
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Everyone is talking about Codex and Claude Code…
AI Agent platforms that help you do any task that requires a computer…
But what about tools to use ALONGSIDE Codex?
By the way, you can find the Excalidraw skill I mentioned in the video here: https://chorus.com/skills
Here are my top 7: 00:00 Intro 01:18 Tool 1 - Wispr Flow 04:01 Tool 2 - Raycast 06:48 Tool 3 - CleanShot X 10:07 Tool 4 - Paper 14:36 Tool 5 - Readwise 17:06 Tool 6 - Excalidraw 20:03 Tool 7 - BYOT 23:14 Summary More about me: rileybrown.xyz Sponsorships: https://rileybrown.xyz/sponsorships
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Tools like Codex and Claude Code are taking over the world, but no one’s talking about the tools that you use alongside Codex and Claude Code. Because here’s the thing, these AI agents are powerful, but they’re only as good as what you feed them. The input matters. The context matters. How fast you move between your AI agent and the rest of your computer matters. [music] So, here are seven tools that I’ve downloaded on my Mac that I use to make AI agents 10 times better. So, before we dive into tool number one, I wanted to talk about Codex. So, Codex is the tool that I’ve been using for the past month or two. It is an AI agent tool that can create any type of file on my computer, and you can think of Codex as a combination of Claude Code and Claude Co-work. In Codex, you can vibe code any project, and it will actually open up on the right side of the screen. You can also create any type of document. So, you can ask Codex to create an Excel sheet, a document, or a PowerPoint presentation. And what I like about this tool is it allows me to multitask by switching the chat thread, and I can work on many things at the same time. And as I’m multitasking, this requires a lot of typing, which brings me to my first tool. The first tool that I use with my AI agents is Whisper Flow. Whisper Flow is a voice-to-text model that lives on your keyboard, right? I can press one single button on my keyboard, and I can speak, and that will immediately be turned to text. And so, I’m constantly prompting. I’m sending things like, “Please, can you make a notes app with a full database, and I want you to make it look like Notion.” Now, I can switch agents. “I want you to tell me any marketing opportunities for note-taking tools. I want you to search the internet, find market opportunities. Where could I find a marketing strategy, what can I do to grow my note-taking app? Right? I can just fire off these agents just by speaking into my computer. Neon Postgres integration, please tell me about that. What am I able to do with Neon? This is one of my first times live coding, so can you please explain to me how that works? And as you can see here, you can fire off tasks to agents, and each of these tasks, because we’re using GPT 5.5 high or extra high, I switch between these two. These agents can take a while, so you should be multitasking. I find speaking into my computer is significantly faster. And so, if you go to whisperflow.ai and you download it for your Mac, they also have a Windows app if you have Windows, you can download it and their free plan plan is pretty generous, but it is a paid plan after you say enough words throughout the week. And again, none of these are sponsored, so I’m sure there’s cheaper alternatives out there. And if you don’t want to hold down the FN key, you can actually double tap it and it what it will do is I can actually go fully hands-free and record my voice. And remember, you don’t need to like stay on this page while you’re using it. I could completely switch apps, I could go click around, and I might want to think like whisperflow docs. I might want to like go to different pages, do some research on it, and and I might want to go to different websites, and then I can go back to Codex, and then if I go back to Codex here, and then I just press the FN key again, that text will be inserted directly in Codex. Another thing to note, let’s say I’m recording my voice right now, I’m recording, I’m recording, I click on something, and then I accidentally press it, like that, right? I didn’t have my cursor in here, and it wasn’t entered in the text box. All I need to do is go to whisperflow, and I can see all of my recent ones. So, I can just very easily copy this and paste it in. Now, I want to move on to tool number two that I use with AI agents. Tool number two is arguably my favorite, and that is Raycast. Raycast is a desktop app that lives on my computer. And this app it has a lot of different uses to a lot of different p
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