Hey — glad you're here for issue 01.
Everyone's using AI in the browser. Nobody's talking about what happens when you give it access to your actual files. That's what this week is about.
Let's get into it.
The One Thing
If you've been using Claude in the browser, you already know what it's good for: drafting, thinking out loud, quick answers. It's great. But every session starts from scratch, and anything you want it to work with has to be manually uploaded.
Cowork is the desktop version, and it works differently. Instead of bringing work to Claude, Claude works directly in your files. Point it at a folder, describe what you need, and it reads your documents, builds new ones, and saves everything back — no uploading, no downloading, no copy-pasting between tabs.
The setup step most people skip is the one that matters most: before you run a single task, build three files in a folder called "Claude Context":
about-me.md — who you are, your role, what good output looks like
working-style.md — how you want Claude to behave, your tone preferences, what bad output looks like
role-context.md — your tools, recurring deliverables, terminology
Paste the highlights into Settings → Global Instructions and every future session starts with full context automatically. Skip this and your output will feel generic. Do it and you'll notice the difference immediately.
One more thing worth knowing: put related tasks in a single session rather than running them one at a time. Claude carries context across tasks within a session, so each output informs the next — and you use significantly less of your monthly allocation.
Try This Prompt
Paste this into your first Cowork session:
Read all the files in this folder completely. Then give me a summary of what you know about me, how I work, and what context you have access to.
If anything's off, fix it in the files before you do real work. Five minutes here saves a lot of frustration later.
LINK LOWDOWN
Link 1: One or two sentences of honest commentary. What it is, why it matters, what you'd do with it.
Link 2
Link 3
What's one thing you wish AI could do for your job that it can't yet? Curious where people's heads are at.
Talk soon,
Chris