5 Things I Stopped Googling After Adding MCP Tools to Claude

There are certain things I Google multiple times a week. Not because they're hard — because they're forgettable. "JWT decode online." "Unix timestamp converter." "Cron expression for every 15 minutes." "chmod 755 meaning." I finally got tired of context-switching to random web tools, so I added MCP servers to Claude Desktop. Now I just ask and get answers inline — no tabs, no copy-paste, no ads. Here are 5 things I legitimately stopped Googling. 1. Cron Expressions Before: Google "cron every weekday at 9am", click a cron generator site, fiddle with dropdowns. Now: "What does 0 9 * * 1-5 mean?" Claude uses the cron_explain tool and gives me a plain-English breakdown instantly. I also use it the other way — describe what I want, get the expression back. 2. JWT Decoding Before: Copy token, open jwt.io, paste, read payload. Now: "Decode this JWT: eyJhbG..." Claude calls jwt_decode and shows me the header, payload, and expiry — right in the conversation. No pasting tokens into random websit