How to set up Claude Cowork AI application? Ruben Hassid Explains

 

Image credit goes to Ruben Hassid on LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ruben-hassid_save-this-cowork-setup-before-your-next-session-share-7457703567752294402-vWUn

Ruben wrote:

Save this Cowork setup before your next session:

Step 1. Get the Claude app, not the browser.

Step 2. Pay $20/month for Pro. Skip the $100 plan.

Step 3. Create a folder named "Claude Cowork".

Step 4. Subfolders: About me, Outputs, Templates.

Step 5. In ABOUT ME, 3 subfolders: about-me, my-company, anti-ai-writing style .md files.

Step 6. Let it interview you with AskUserQuestion.

Step 7. Dictate your answers with Wispr. ai (faster)

Step 8. It should be under 2,000 words.

Step 9. Settings → Cowork → Global Instructions.

Paste: "Always read files in 'About Me' before tasks"

Step 10. Pick Opus 4.7 + Extended Thinking. 

Step 11. Write a 1-line prompt. It already knows you.

By the way, to download my (exact) .md files:

Step 1. Go to how-to-ai.guide.

Step 2. Subscribe for free. Don't pay anything.

Step 3. Open my welcome email.

Step 4. Hit the automatic reply button inside.

Step 5. In the second email, trace the notion link.

Step 6. Open the ".md files" folder on Notion.

Step 7. Download my .md files. Upload to Claude.