Hey
I'm a big fan of Claude. I assume most of us are.
But there is one thing about it that drains my pocket every single month.
The usage limit.
While I was building Second Brain 7.0 and Game Mode V3, the work needed real logic. Heavy formulas. Deep research. Long back-and-forth thinking. I was hitting the Claude limit every three days. And in the last 15 days of every month, every single day. Even though I was paying.
That wall, mid-flow state, mid-build — that is the worst feeling.
Here is the part that makes it worse. I already had Notion AI agent. Full access to Opus 4.7, the new ChatGPT 5.4, Gemini, all of them.
But I never went all in on it. I kept telling myself the same thing: this is just a light version of the real Claude, I'll use it for quick stuff when I'm lazy. Plus Claude already knew everything about my projects.
Then one day I hit that wall again, mid-flow, building one of the most advanced sections in SB7. The kind of logic most people would not even attempt. I said let me just test it. Let me give the same prompt to both and see what happens.
Same. Exact. Answer.
Not "kind of similar." Not "close enough." The same.
(I'm that type of talk to the AI as if it's real)
At that moment, I asked Claude to summarize everything it knew about my projects into a doc. Then I built custom instructions inside Notion. Actually, I built a few. One for content. One for advanced logic and SB7-specific work. One for general stuff.
Now I just switch instructions and the agent already knows my tone, my style, my projects. No re-explaining. No re-feeding context.
And thank God I made the switch.
Now let me be honest, because I'm not here to sell you a fairy tale.
There is a downside.
The agent gets slow after a heavy session. For me, around 20 chats in, things start to lag. To be fair, I'm still on a Mac M1. If you have a more powerful machine, you'll go way longer before you feel it.
And my use is heavy — one answer from the agent is already a long, dense response. So 20 chats for me is probably 50 chats for someone doing lighter work.
Claude has the same issue, by the way. Just at a higher ceiling — around 50+ messages on the same M1.
So not a dealbreaker. Not even close. Because before this, I was copy-pasting from Claude into Notion every single day. Now I just stay in Notion. The work and the AI live in the same place.
20$ a month. That is it. And honestly, it is worth it.
This is not a promo. I have no reason to lie about this. It is just my real experience after months of living inside both. If you don't believe me, don't take my word for it — do the trial. Notion has one.
Try it, throw your hardest prompt at the agent, and compare it to Claude or ChatGPT yourself.
You'll see.
One more thing, while I have you here.
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Osama (OLS)
