https://stashbase.ai/blog/ Guides, comparisons, and writing workflows from StashBase. en https://stashbase.ai/blog/claude-opus-5-5-writing/https://stashbase.ai/blog/claude-opus-5-5-writing/Claude Opus 5.5 writes shorter, clearer prose than Opus 5 and follows style rules better. Some AI tells remain. Here's what changed, plus prompts to copy.Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://stashbase.ai/blog/best-open-weight-models-for-writing/https://stashbase.ai/blog/best-open-weight-models-for-writing/The top of the writing leaderboards is open models too big for any desk. Eleven open-weight models sorted by what they are built for, what is independently measured, and what fits on one GPU or a Mac.Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://stashbase.ai/blog/ai-humanizer-or-a-better-model/https://stashbase.ai/blog/ai-humanizer-or-a-better-model/A humanizer edits the AI sound out of a finished draft. A model trained to write like a person starts closer. What each one fixes, from our tests, and when to use both.Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://stashbase.ai/blog/draft-with-claude-finish-with-hemmingway/https://stashbase.ai/blog/draft-with-claude-finish-with-hemmingway/Claude is good at sources, structure and long drafts. Hemmingway-1 is trained to sound like a person. How to split one article between them without losing your facts.Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://stashbase.ai/blog/hemmingway-1-vs-claude-vs-chatgpt-for-writing/https://stashbase.ai/blog/hemmingway-1-vs-claude-vs-chatgpt-for-writing/You already pay for Claude or ChatGPT. Does a small model that only writes add anything? The makers' numbers, what they leave out, and five prompts to run on all three.Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://stashbase.ai/blog/run-hemmingway-1-locally/https://stashbase.ai/blog/run-hemmingway-1-locally/Hemmingway-1's makers document only vLLM and a 54 GB download. The community has 17 GB builds: which file to pick, and the commands for llama.cpp, LM Studio, MLX and Ollama.Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://stashbase.ai/blog/use-hemmingway-1-in-obsidian-cursor-vscode/https://stashbase.ai/blog/use-hemmingway-1-in-obsidian-cursor-vscode/Hemmingway-1 has an OpenAI-compatible API, so it should work wherever you can paste a base URL. It works in Obsidian and VS Code. Cursor is shaky, and Codex and Claude Code can't use it.Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://stashbase.ai/blog/what-is-hemmingway-1/https://stashbase.ai/blog/what-is-hemmingway-1/Hemmingway-1 is a small open model that only writes. What its makers' benchmark claims rest on, where it loses, what it costs, and six places to use it.Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://stashbase.ai/blog/meta-muse-negotiate-bills/https://stashbase.ai/blog/meta-muse-negotiate-bills/People are letting Meta's Muse call the cable company and cut their bills. What it does, the cases people posted, where it gets blocked, and how to write the message yourself when it does.Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://stashbase.ai/blog/generate-images-claude-code-qwen-image/https://stashbase.ai/blog/generate-images-claude-code-qwen-image/Claude can't generate images, but Claude Code can call a model that does. One command and a free Hugging Face account connect it to Qwen-Image-2.1. No GPU needed.Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://stashbase.ai/blog/run-qwen-image-2-1-locally-uncensored/https://stashbase.ai/blog/run-qwen-image-2-1-locally-uncensored/A post on X says Qwen-Image-2.1 was uncensored overnight. The files it points to are the original weights, unmodified. What the facts are, and two ways to run the model on your own computer.Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://stashbase.ai/blog/jev-project-ideas/https://stashbase.ai/blog/jev-project-ideas/Jev can't write a sentence, so what is it for? Eighteen projects from its first week, each explained by the idea behind it, with the repository when there is one.Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://stashbase.ai/blog/does-claude-code-read-agents-md/https://stashbase.ai/blog/does-claude-code-read-agents-md/Claude Code 2.1.277 reads AGENTS.md when a project has no CLAUDE.md. What to do with your CLAUDE.md, symlink or import, what happens when both files exist, why AGENTS.md may still not load, and how Codex reads the same file differently.Sat, 19 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://stashbase.ai/blog/how-to-use-humanizer-claude-skill/https://stashbase.ai/blog/how-to-use-humanizer-claude-skill/Install blader/humanizer, paste a draft, and add a few paragraphs of your own writing. Then compare before and after to check your facts and opinions survived.Sat, 19 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://stashbase.ai/blog/ai-native-notion-alternatives/https://stashbase.ai/blog/ai-native-notion-alternatives/Notion has agents now, on its Business plan and its own credits. If you want to write with the Claude Code or Codex plan you already pay for, compare Palette, StashBase and Obsidian.Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://stashbase.ai/blog/base-models-for-creative-writing/https://stashbase.ai/blog/base-models-for-creative-writing/For fiction, poetry and roleplay, base models write livelier prose than the chat models built on them. Here is why, and the few places that still host one in 2026.Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://stashbase.ai/blog/connect-claude-code-to-notion/https://stashbase.ai/blog/connect-claude-code-to-notion/One command and a Notion sign-in connect Claude Code to your workspace through MCP. What it can do there, where it falls short, and why long pages use so many tokens.Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://stashbase.ai/blog/how-to-write-with-an-llm-ptacek/https://stashbase.ai/blog/how-to-write-with-an-llm-ptacek/Thomas Ptacek's two rules for writing with an LLM, plus what only appears in the Hacker News thread: his copyediting system prompt, how many suggestions he takes, the strongest objection, and when the rules apply.Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://stashbase.ai/blog/notion-vs-markdown-files-claude-code/https://stashbase.ai/blog/notion-vs-markdown-files-claude-code/Claude Code can write in Notion through MCP, but it edits a Markdown copy of the page. When to keep Notion, when to draft in files, and how to use both.Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://stashbase.ai/blog/ai-native-obsidian-alternatives/https://stashbase.ai/blog/ai-native-obsidian-alternatives/Can you use Claude Code or Codex? Sync between computers and phones? Compare five Obsidian AI options by agent support, devices, sync, and cost.Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://stashbase.ai/blog/founder-led-seo/https://stashbase.ai/blog/founder-led-seo/Founder-led SEO means writing your product's content yourself, with AI helping with research and drafting. Choose a reader's question, check the answer, and keep your sources for the next article.Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://stashbase.ai/blog/learn-llms-from-scratch/https://stashbase.ai/blog/learn-llms-from-scratch/Five stages in order, each with a repository you can clone and keep. Every number measured the day we checked, including which resources have stopped being maintained.Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://stashbase.ai/blog/how-to-write-with-ai/https://stashbase.ai/blog/how-to-write-with-ai/AI drafts read as empty because none of your thinking is in them. Interview yourself through the agent, edit out the AI habits, then turn your own edits into writing preferences you can reuse.Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://stashbase.ai/blog/humanizer-and-similar-claude-skills/https://stashbase.ai/blog/humanizer-and-similar-claude-skills/Understand AI writing traces, preserve your voice, and compare Humanizer with similar open-source skills for editing blogs, newsletters and product announcements.Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://stashbase.ai/blog/humanizer-vs-stop-slop/https://stashbase.ai/blog/humanizer-vs-stop-slop/Compare Humanizer and Stop Slop for English AI writing, with the same draft, a no-skill control, and a writing-sample test. See what actually changed.Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://stashbase.ai/blog/did-claude-actually-read-my-pdf/https://stashbase.ai/blog/did-claude-actually-read-my-pdf/Claude described my 943-page PDF after reading just 4 pages. Ask what it read, check its tool calls, and prepare the full document for repeated use.Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://stashbase.ai/blog/upload-folder-to-claude/https://stashbase.ai/blog/upload-folder-to-claude/Upload a few files or connect a folder through Cowork. Understand the search gaps, then use StashBase to prepare documents, scans and recordings as context for Claude.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://stashbase.ai/blog/voicestudio-vs-elevenlabs/https://stashbase.ai/blog/voicestudio-vs-elevenlabs/Yes for cloning, dubbing, transcription, and audiobooks on your own GPU; no for real-time agents, fine-tuned clones, and the voice library. A fact table from both products' own docs, checked September 8, 2026, plus the license catch that decides commercial use.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://stashbase.ai/blog/eccv-2026-oral-trends/https://stashbase.ai/blog/eccv-2026-oral-trends/What's worth watching at ECCV 2026? Mostly trends the AI industry already runs — frozen backbones, context engineering, latency, evals. The largest cluster is the exception: optics is back inside the algorithm.Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://stashbase.ai/blog/anythingllm-vs-notebooklm/https://stashbase.ai/blog/anythingllm-vs-notebooklm/Both make you upload documents into their own store — the real choice is whose machine and whose model. A fact-checked comparison as of September 2026, and what neither one does.Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://stashbase.ai/blog/claude-code-second-brain/https://stashbase.ai/blog/claude-code-second-brain/Karpathy's LLM Wiki pattern on your own folder: one prompt builds an index and topic pages that link back to your files. A second brain in plain Markdown, with or without Obsidian.Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://stashbase.ai/blog/codex-second-brain/https://stashbase.ai/blog/codex-second-brain/The agent-maintained second brain, Codex edition — point OpenAI's coding agent at the folder where your notes already live, give it a wiki contract in AGENTS.md, and know where grep runs out.Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://stashbase.ai/blog/humanizer-claude-skill-tested/https://stashbase.ai/blog/humanizer-claude-skill-tested/We fed the 43k-star skill a paragraph built to trip its own pattern list. It flagged 7 of its 35 patterns, cut 67 words to 45, and kept every fact.Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://stashbase.ai/blog/local-ai-knowledge-base/https://stashbase.ai/blog/local-ai-knowledge-base/A local AI knowledge base is files on your machine plus an index an AI can search. The three architecture decisions that matter more than the tool list — and which tool fits each answer. Checked September 2026.Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://stashbase.ai/blog/what-is-voicestudio/https://stashbase.ai/blog/what-is-voicestudio/The renamed OmniVoice-Studio, measured from its repo: 16 TTS and 11 ASR engines, what the 646-language number really means, and the CC-BY-NC catch in the default model.Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://stashbase.ai/blog/how-to-use-archify-with-codex/https://stashbase.ai/blog/how-to-use-archify-with-codex/Ask Codex for the diagram in one prompt. It installs Archify if needed, inspects a real repository, and returns a validated interactive architecture map.Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://stashbase.ai/blog/trending-agent-skills-repos-measured/https://stashbase.ai/blog/trending-agent-skills-repos-measured/I cloned the agent-skills repos that kept appearing on GitHub Trending. One had 33k stars and four files. Another was 98% machine translation.Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://stashbase.ai/blog/chat-with-local-pdf-files/https://stashbase.ai/blog/chat-with-local-pdf-files/You don't need to upload PDFs one at a time to a chat site. Index the folder they already live in — scans included — and ask questions across all of them from Claude, Codex, or any MCP client.Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://stashbase.ai/blog/local-notebooklm-alternative/https://stashbase.ai/blog/local-notebooklm-alternative/Every open-source, self-hosted, or offline NotebookLM (now Gemini Notebook) alternative still worth running in September 2026 — checked repo by repo — plus the graveyard nobody mentions.Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://stashbase.ai/blog/can-claude-desktop-access-local-files/https://stashbase.ai/blog/can-claude-desktop-access-local-files/Claude Desktop reads and edits folders on your computer through Cowork, included in every paid plan. How to connect a folder, what the permission modes mean, and what to add when plain folder access stops being enough.Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://stashbase.ai/blog/give-codex-access-to-local-files/https://stashbase.ai/blog/give-codex-access-to-local-files/Codex reads and writes inside the workspace you launch it in; permission profiles widen or tighten that boundary. How the sandbox works, how to grant more directories, and when an MCP search index beats widening the sandbox.Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://stashbase.ai/blog/give-cursor-access-to-files-outside-project/https://stashbase.ai/blog/give-cursor-access-to-files-outside-project/Cursor's agent reads only what's inside your open workspace. Three real fixes: add the folder to a multi-root workspace, open a parent folder, or connect an MCP server that searches the folder for you.Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://stashbase.ai/blog/system-design-prep-library/https://stashbase.ai/blog/system-design-prep-library/Your prep material is scattered: a 300k-star repo, your own notes, hours of mock interview recordings. How to make all of it one searchable local library — including transcribing your mocks to find your weak spots.Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://stashbase.ai/blog/chat-with-research-papers-locally/https://stashbase.ai/blog/chat-with-research-papers-locally/Upload-a-PDF tools break down at forty papers. Keep the library as a local folder instead: extracted text, hybrid search, an agent that cites which paper a claim comes from.Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://stashbase.ai/blog/give-claude-access-to-local-files/https://stashbase.ai/blog/give-claude-access-to-local-files/How to give Claude access to a folder with Cowork — plus Projects uploads, Claude Code --add-dir, filesystem MCP servers, and an indexed library. What each method actually does, and when each is the right choice.Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://stashbase.ai/blog/semantic-search-local-files/https://stashbase.ai/blog/semantic-search-local-files/Find files by what they mean, not what they're named: how semantic search over a local folder works, what stays on your machine, and where keyword search still wins.Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://stashbase.ai/blog/transcribe-and-search-lectures/https://stashbase.ai/blog/transcribe-and-search-lectures/Transcription apps give you one transcript at a time. The real mid-semester need is retrieval: on-device transcription of a whole folder of recordings, timestamped and searchable, no per-minute fees.Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT