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Claude Power User

Get More Out of Every Claude Conversation

The usage-focused counterpart to building with the API — Projects and project knowledge, artifacts as a working medium, Styles and custom instructions, model selection, research/writing/analysis workflows, connectors, and a Claude-vs-ChatGPT decision framework. Ends with a personal Claude operating setup you actually keep using.

Recommended: Complete AI as an Operating System first

10 lessons~92 min total

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Lesson 745·9 min read

Claude Projects: Persistent Workspaces for Real Work

A Project is a container, not a conversation — knowledge and instructions that persist across every chat, so you stop re-explaining yourself from scratch.

Lesson 746·9 min read

Project Knowledge: What to Upload, When to Split

Not every document belongs in Project knowledge — matching a source's update frequency to the right mechanism is the whole scoping decision.

Lesson 747·9 min read

Artifacts as a Working Medium: Documents, Diagrams, and Mini-Apps

An artifact is the right call when the output is the deliverable, not the conversation about it — and it's built for iteration in place, not regeneration from scratch.

Lesson 748·10 min read

Styles and Custom Instructions: Making Claude Sound Like You

Four layers decide how Claude sounds, and each overrides the one below it — set tone once at the right layer instead of repeating it in every prompt.

Lesson 749·9 min read

Model Selection: Fast vs Deep, and When Each Wins

The question is never which model is smarter — it's how much thinking a specific task actually needs, and routing before you type beats deciding after you're disappointed.

Lesson 750·10 min read

Claude for Research: From Question to Verified Answer

A cited claim is a lead, not a verdict — real-time search grounds an answer in current sources, but the verification step is what makes the answer trustworthy.

Lesson 751·10 min read

Claude for Writing and Analysis: Drafts, Documents, and Decisions

Writing that sounds like you and analysis that ends in a recommendation use the same discipline — name the specific problem before you fix it, don't accept a vague first pass.

Lesson 752·9 min read

Connecting Your Knowledge: Sources and Connectors

Uploaded knowledge is a snapshot; a connector is a window — and every official connector defaults to the same boundary: read broadly, act narrowly, never send on its own.

Lesson 753·9 min read

Claude vs ChatGPT: An Honest Decision Framework

Neither tool wins everything — the honest answer is per-task, not per-brand loyalty, and a written routing rule beats re-litigating the choice every time.

Lesson 754·8 min read

Capstone: Your Personal Claude Operating Setup

An operating setup is a small number of written defaults that keep compounding — five layers, built over four weeks, reviewed on a real trigger instead of never.