Claude basics

Projects: stop repeating yourself

15 min

Projects are folders for conversations about one topic, with two superpowers:

  • Project instructions. Write your standing context once ("I run a small bakery in Kranj, 4 employees, answer in Slovenian, keep it practical") and every chat in the project starts already knowing it.
  • Project knowledge. Upload reference files once, price lists, CVs, house rules, and every chat can use them.

Good first projects: Job search. My apartment renovation. Kids school admin. My side business.

Practice

Create one project for a live topic in your life. Write three sentences of instructions and upload one relevant file. Then start a chat inside it and notice you did not have to explain anything.

Done when: one project exists with instructions plus at least one file, and you have used it.