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Gift ideas

A gift idea list your AI fills as you go: ideas by person, sizes and likes, and suggestions before the next birthday.

For anyone who hears the perfect gift idea in March and forgets it by December.

Free. Paste the prompt into ChatGPT or Claude with Amber Notes connected: it creates the note, then fills it in. For Claude Code, use its tab below. No Amber Notes yet? Download it for Mac.

Today

Gift ideas

Save ideas the moment you hear them, so the next birthday is easy.

PersonOccasionIdeaBudgetStatus

Sizes and likes

Tell your AI

First, look for a note called "Gift ideas" in my Amber Notes with search_notes. If there isn't one, create it with create_note in the folder "Personal", using exactly the markdown at the end of this message, the <!-- pane-table --> line included (it gives the table's columns their types). Then: Use my Amber Notes note "Gift ideas". Whenever I mention something someone would like, add a row with log_table_row: Person, Occasion if I said one, Idea, Budget as a number if I gave one, and Status Idea. Keep what I learn about each person (sizes, favourite things, what they already have) under "Sizes and likes" with append_to_note. Before a birthday, when I ask, read the note and suggest three gifts within budget that fit what's there. When I buy one, set its Status to Bought with edit_note.

```markdown
Gift ideas

Save ideas the moment you hear them, so the next birthday is easy.

<!-- pane-table: Person=text; Occasion=text; Idea=text; Budget=number; Status=choice Idea|Bought|Given -->
| Person | Occasion | Idea | Budget | Status |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |

## Sizes and likes
```

Paste it into a chat in ChatGPT with Amber Notes turned on. That chat keeps it; paste it again when you start a new one.

Then just talk to it

  • Maja mentioned she wants a good chef's knife.
  • Dad's birthday is in three weeks. Ideas under 500?
  • Jonas wears a medium and loves anything green.

What you'll get

The same note after a few days of talking to your AI. Tinted lines are what it added, the way Amber Notes shows an AI's changes, with Undo and the earlier version kept in the note's history.

30 September 2026

Gift ideas

Save ideas the moment you hear them, so the next birthday is easy.

PersonOccasionIdeaBudgetStatus
MajaBirthday, 12 NovA good chef's knife900Idea
DadBirthday, 20 OctTickets to the football500Bought
JonasA green wool beanie300Idea

Sizes and likes

  • Maja: cooks a lot, already has a stand mixer.
  • Jonas: medium, loves anything green.

How to set it up

  1. Connect your AIConnect ChatGPT, Claude or Claude Code to Amber Notes once, and choose Read and Edit so it can write the note.
  2. Paste the promptCopy the prompt for your AI and paste it into a chat. It creates the "Gift ideas" note in your Personal folder, if you don't have it yet.
  3. Talk to your AITell it what happened, in your own words. It fills in the note, and you see every change in Amber Notes.

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