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How to actually set up Claude in 7 minutes:
(and never re-do it after this setup)
1. Pick the right model.
☑ Open the Claude desktop app
☑ Set Opus 4.7 for complex tasks
☑ Turn ON Extended Thinking
2. Create your 'Cowork' folder.
☑ 3 subfolders: About me, Outputs & Templates
☑ ABOUT ME holds your 3 context files
☑ Claude reads them for every single task
3. Write your Global Instructions.
☑ Settings → Cowork → Edit Global Instructions
☑ A persistent prompt before every task
☑ Tells Claude what to read, and when
4. Connect your daily tools.
☑ Gmail, Gamma, Drive, Granola
☑ All your tools in one place
☑ No more copy-paste between 12 tabs
5. Install Wispr .ai (it's free).
☑ Turns your voice → text
☑ Pick a hold-key (mine = Shift)
☑ Typing at 60 wpm is the bottleneck
6. Open your Cowork folder in Obsidian.
☑ Install Obsidian (free)
☑ Open Cowork as a vault
☑ Edit context files without leaving flow state
7. Save your top 3 workflows as Skills.
☑ Click any chat → "Turn into a Skill"
☑ /linkedin, /brief, /report = instant
☑ Reuse what already works
8. Build one Project per recurring deliverable.
☑ One Project = one type of output
☑ Files + instructions live inside
☑ Never re-explain the same task twice
9. Restart the chat at message 20.
☑ Long chats burn 30x more tokens
☑ Ask Claude to summarize → paste in new chat
☑ Fresh start = better results, lower bill
Full guide + prompts at how-to-ai.guide
(save this - small habits = big leverage over time)

Ruben Hassid@rubenhassid
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