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Your first hour with Claude

What is Claude?
Chapter 0.1 · 3 min readUp to date Where Claude lives
Chapter 0.2 · 4 min readUp to date Plans: free and paid, in plain words
Chapter 0.3 · 3 min readUp to date Your first 10 prompts
Chapter 0.4 · 3 min readUp to date How Claude thinks (the simple picture)
Chapter 0.5 · 3 min readUp to date

The Claude app

Chat, files, search, Projects, memory, artifacts

Chatting and choosing a model
Chapter 1.1 · 3 min readUp to date Giving Claude files
Chapter 1.2 · 3 min readUp to date Searching the web
Chapter 1.3 · 3 min readUp to date Research: bigger questions, many sources
Chapter 1.4 · 3 min readUp to date Projects
Chapter 1.5 · 3 min readUp to date Memory
Chapter 1.6 · 3 min readUp to date Instructions
Chapter 1.7 · 3 min readUp to date Artifacts: real documents, not just chat
Chapter 1.8 · 3 min readUp to date Connectors
Chapter 1.9 · 3 min readUp to date Voice
Chapter 1.10 · 3 min readUp to date Skills and plugins
Chapter 1.11 · 3 min readUp to date Scheduled tasks
Chapter 1.12 · 3 min readUp to date

Claude that does the work

Cowork, folders, browser, helpers

What is Cowork?
Chapter 2.1 · 3 min readUp to date Giving Claude a folder
Chapter 2.2 · 3 min readUp to date Letting Claude use the web for you
Chapter 2.3 · 3 min readUp to date Computer use
Chapter 2.4 · 3 min readUp to date Helpers (sub-agents) and workflows
Chapter 2.5 · 3 min readUp to date Office files that really work
Chapter 2.6 · 3 min readUp to date Claude inside Excel, Word and PowerPoint
Chapter 2.7 · 3 min readUp to date Claude in Chrome
Chapter 2.8 · 3 min readUp to date Claude in Slack (Claude Tag)
Chapter 2.9 · 3 min readUp to date

Claude Design

Pages, decks, prototypes

What Claude Design is
Chapter 3.1 · 3 min readUp to date Your design system
Chapter 3.2 · 3 min readUp to date Slides and one-pagers
Chapter 3.3 · 3 min readUp to date Prototypes you can click
Chapter 3.4 · 3 min readUp to date From design to real website
Chapter 3.5 · 3 min readUp to date

Asking well

The nine blocks, examples, review

Why the question matters more than the tool
Chapter 4.1 · 3 min readUp to date The nine building blocks (the Master Prompt)
Chapter 4.2 · 4 min readUp to date Show, don't tell (examples)
Chapter 4.3 · 3 min readUp to date Let Claude ask you first
Chapter 4.4 · 3 min readUp to date Draft, review, improve
Chapter 4.5 · 3 min readUp to date The eight kinds of ask
Chapter 4.6 · 3 min readUp to date Fixing a bad answer
Chapter 4.7 · 3 min readUp to date

For builders

Claude Code, API, agents, MCP

What Claude Code is
Chapter 6.1 · 3 min readUp to date Teaching it your rules (CLAUDE.md)
Chapter 6.2 · 3 min readUp to date Skills you write yourself
Chapter 6.3 · 3 min readUp to date Helpers, hooks and plugins
Chapter 6.4 · 3 min readUp to date Connecting anything (MCP)
Chapter 6.5 · 3 min readUp to date The API in plain words
Chapter 6.6 · 3 min readUp to date The API features that matter
Chapter 6.7 · 4 min readUp to date Building an agent
Chapter 6.8 · 3 min readUp to date Automating on a schedule
Chapter 6.9 · 3 min readUp to date Cost, safety and permissions
Chapter 6.10 · 3 min readUp to date

Safety and limits

Permissions, privacy, checking answers

Permissions and protection (read this first)
Chapter 2.10 · 3 min readUp to date Checking an answer
Chapter 4.8 · 3 min readUp to date