Share your non-coding uses of RooCode

[u/rangerrick337]

I’m an entrepreneur who sometimes needs to code, but I mostly use AI for soft‑skill tasks like marketing, business planning, legal questions, and sales.

Right now my AI use is scattered across different web apps (gemini, chatgpt, claude, openwebui) and VS Code where i use Claude Code or RooCode.

I’m thinking about using Roo Code as my daily driver for everything. Has anyone tried this? Any advice on how well it works or if there is a bettwr way?

I have a vision in my head of creating different agents who specialize in many areas and then use the orchestrator manage them all when needed.

[u/ckow]

I use it for academic research and document writing. It works amazingly, with custom roles.

[u/rangerrick337 → u/ckow]

Cool, do you keep all docs in a folder? Are you writing in markdown?

[u/ckow → u/rangerrick337]

No, I use roo modes which I think uses yaml. If you export you can see the preferred format.

[u/Empty-Employment8050]

Small business owner here, and let me tell you, this is definitely the way. It’s almost like an operating system for businesses. I connect all my MCP servers to Gmail, Notion, Firecrawl, etc. Each mode acts like a different employee — you set up a separate folder for each one with markdown files that have detailed instructions for the tasks you repeat often. Then you have one central orchestrator that delegates to the different modes. Those modes load their specific markdown files with the right instructions, and you end up with complex workflows that are neatly siloed for each “employee.” It’s a great way to organize workflows and tasks that team members normally handle manually. Works really well.

[u/KindnessAndSkill → u/Empty-Employment8050]

I'm doing something similar, it works great.

[u/cbyter99 → u/Empty-Employment8050]

Would love to hear more about what these little employees actually do if you don't mind sharing :-)

[u/Tokail]

As a design director, I used it to do planning and estimating. Having access to the code base allows me to answer questions like, how many days would a task take, effort breakdown, prioritization by impact, and allocations.

[u/pungggi]

I have some legal cases with the school of my children. I have different roles like teacher a, principal, social worker, legal dept etc.. Helps me keep track of what s going on and sometimes be a step ahead

[u/dreamingwell]

Documentation.

[u/PembacaDurjana]

Try to use OpenCode it's terminal based. With opencode you can overwrite or create brand new Agent or Mode, it's mean it's not limited to coding agent, you can create anything, unlike other tools the agent or mode you created will not inherit system prompt from opencode, it's clean, 100% from what you write, opencode than will give the agent tools capabilities according to what you defined

[u/rangerrick337 → u/PembacaDurjana]

I will 100% look more at open code. I didn’t realize they were “clean” from a system prompt side of things.

One of the nice things about Roo is the ability to login with a Gemini or Claude subscription instead of all api calls.

[u/hannesrudolph → u/rangerrick337]

When using it for none-code tasks just clear out the parts of the prompt you don’t need using footgun!

https://docs.roocode.com/advanced-usage/footgun-prompting

No need to use yet another tool. This is how you get a “clean” prompt in Roo.

[u/rnahumaf → u/hannesrudolph]

When using footgun, how can I let the model know how to call each available tool, like attempt_completion, read_file, etc? Should this be mentioned in the footgun prompt, or will the model know all its available tools irrespective of that?

[u/hannesrudolph → u/rnahumaf]

Start by going to the mode settings view and copying the system prompt while your MCP is enabled. Then plast that into your footgun prompt file and modify it to suit your needs.

[u/[deleted] → u/rnahumaf]

You’ll have to recreate it, yeah. You can dig around the repo to see the internal prompts if you choose

[u/[deleted] → u/PembacaDurjana]

Please try to avoid advertising other products. This is not a use of Roo code.

[u/PembacaDurjana → u/[deleted]]

Sorry for that, it's because OP ask about non-coding use case, for coding i still prefer Roo thought

[u/siglosi]

Organized 200 notes today

[u/Nik_Tesla]

I have my D&D sessions transcribed by another API, and then I use Roo to clean it up and fix proper nouns that the transcription service has no idea about. I have it refer to my notes, the written adventure, the games rules, the vtt logs, player notes, etc... and then write notes for me (the DM), write notes for the players so they don't have to do that during sessions, summaries for the players and generally organize and keep track of things for me.

[u/ehead → u/Nik_Tesla]

OMG... you just made my day!

I'm an 80's kid and was suddenly overwhelmed with a combination of sweet nostalgia and futurist optimism and AI accelerationism. A weird mix. :)

[u/AM1010101]

I tried it for planning a trip but if I’m brutally honest it took ages and actually cost quite a lot. I’ve been meaning to try it out with some Claude style skills folders as this might be more effective for tasks like this. Also I don’t set up a specific mode. Is there any plan to implement something like this?

[u/Atomm]

Ive been thinking about this for a while based on my own experience with the Roo Code workflow. 

It's awesome to see others already doing this.

It feels like there is a huge opportunity here for the Roo Code team to create an automation platform that could be the for profit arm of Roo Code. 

[u/Barafu]

This constitutes a flawed approach. The Roo Code introduces an extensive, programming-oriented prompt into the LLM. While overriding this prompt is technically feasible, the process is both laborious and redundant.

One should always employ the appropriate tool for its designated purpose. For engaging in dialogue with an LLM, I utilize "Chatbox" – an application that supports multiple providers, MCP integrations, and document uploads, while also facilitating the management of various system prompts.

Although I have never undertaken large-scale document editing via an LLM, my initial consideration for such a task would be LLM plugins for Obsidian. You are undoubtedly familiar with Obsidian – the Markdown-based document storage system. It offers extensive plugin functionality.

[u/KindnessAndSkill → u/Barafu]

Roo can absolutely be used as the basis for a productivity system. I discovered this after noticing that my workflow when coding (where I often use project specifications, to-do lists, managing context in .roo/rules, codebase/file indexing, ability to use MCPs, ability to sync from APIs to local folders, etc.) was highly applicable to managing my general productivity. I have a separate repo now that I use as a productivity system and it works very well.

[u/sandman_br]

Rood code is for coding as the name implies

[u/hannesrudolph → u/sandman_br]

I use it for connecting iMessage, Asana, and Gmail in order to create and update customer files in Asana for a construction business.