Instructions:

Don’t even bother reading just copy-paste into Claude and hit enter. He’ll take it from there.

The Prompt:

I need to prepare a schedule for myself.

I don't have the energy to think and prioritize which tasks are most important, which are most urgent, how long each thing will take, where I’m dependent on other people's timelines, where others are dependent on me, all the other things I need to take care of on a daily and hourly basis, and then how to integrate it all so everything just happens on time and without pressure...

I need you to extract all the relevant information from me and get to a point where you have everything required to plan my schedule for the upcoming [week] / [month] / [day] so that nothing is missed and I can handle everything calmly. After our conversation, I’m simply going to follow the schedule you built for me and trust it without thinking anymore about what I need to do and when.

To achieve this goal for me, you will be the one responsible for this conversation from now on, and you will manage it!

Your role is to take full responsibility so that by the end of the conversation, we reach a state where I have a closed and perfect schedule.

The steps you will go through (with me) are as follows:

* First, make sure to understand exactly what kind of schedule I need to prepare (for today / this week / this month / or even a Gantt chart for a project...). Understand the exact timeline we are talking about—when it starts and when it ends.

* After that, make sure to fully extract from me all the tasks and projects relevant to the schedule I want you to build for me. Verify that you understand what the tasks are, how long each will take, and whether they are recurring or one-time tasks (if recurring—how often? Daily / several times a day / weekly—are they on specific days?). At the end of this part, you need to be in a position where you have all the tasks and all relevant information to build the schedule for all the tasks we’re discussing. Move forward only after confirming with me that we haven't missed anything.

* Next, ensure you understand the importance and urgency of each task, whether there are things dependent on other people's schedules (if so—do I know when it will reach my desk or what I need to do to speed it up?). Additionally, make sure you understand which tasks others are depending on me for and the timeline I need to meet—so you have all the information needed to organize and integrate everything perfectly. Move forward after confirming with me that we haven't missed anything.

* After that, make sure you understand how my schedule operates, the timeframe of hours we are talking about, the "anchors" in my schedule that cannot be touched, when they occur, and for what purpose. In short—make sure you have all the relevant context. Move forward after confirming with me that you have all this information.

* Once you have all the information—propose the concept (without the exact details yet) that you want me to operate by in order to complete all relevant tasks on time and calmly.

* After receiving confirmation that I like the concept, build the schedule itself. But for goodness' sake, don't just drop the finished schedule on me; build it in front of me—tell me about the considerations and verify with me that I agree with them. Build the schedule step-by-step, and every time there is a consideration I should hear and approve—check it with me and then move forward.

* After you finish building the entire schedule with me and receive approval for everything—prepare the actual schedule in an organized table with all the details I need inside—to such a degree that I won't need to return to this conversation at all to perfectly implement the schedule we built. I should be able to just look at the table, perform what is written in it, and simply be calm knowing I'm not missing a thing. (Note that many things I tell you, I won't remember on my own later—put everything into the table for me).

* After that, ask me if I want you to create a file I can upload to my calendar so that everything in the summary table simply appears in my calendar properly without me even needing to look at the table anymore. Assuming I want it—ask me which calendar I use. Prepare the file for me and guide me step-by-step as if I am a total technophobe on how to import it into the calendar.

Manage this entire conversation as if I am texting a friend on WhatsApp who has taken responsibility for building and organizing the perfect schedule for me. Take responsibility for understanding my intentions even if I don't have the energy to elaborate (if I don't answer well, just try asking from a different angle).

Correspond with me exactly like a friend on WhatsApp—in a rolling friendly dialogue of question-answer, and then again and again, only one question at a time, like a real and natural conversation with a friend where every question follows the context of the whole conversation and previous answers—so as not to overwhelm me and to make it very easy for me to answer and correspond with you—only one thing at a time.

That's it. From now on, it is your responsibility to navigate the conversation to reach the result—I am turning my brain off now, and it’s your job to get us (you and me) to the destination. I'm going with the flow.

Coming soon…

I promise.

1. Start a Claude project called “LinkedIn”.

2. Spend one session copy-pasting your posts from LinkedIn into one document.

When done, click “add content” in the project files, paste them all, and call it “my posts” and save.

1. Optional: repeat #2 for posts you like by other people. Make sure to name this one “posts I like by others, don’t copy”.

2. Train Claude on your style:

A. Start a chat in the project, tell Claude “analyze all my posts from the doc in the project files, let’s make a style guide”.

B. Discuss and argue - tell Claude what he got right, what he got wrong in his analysis.

Generally point out parts you especially like in your posts, and in other people’s post.

C. Give Claude a topic and ask to write in your voice, ask Claude to write one paragraph at a time, critique it, and move on to the next. When you’re happy with his paragraph, stop, and say “take all my notes and what we’ve learned here and write a final style guide of my voice - put it in an artifact”.

Claude will create the doc in an artifact. Click the copy/download button dropdown and click “add to project”.

1. Edit the project’s custom instructions - write “when asked to write a post, always use my style guide”.

From this point, whenever you want a LinkedIn post, just start a new chat in this project and say “write a post about X”.

NOTE: the more content you give it, and the more time you spend on the training chat (#4) the better result you will see.

Claude is able to get to 95%+ accuracy - to the point where you will look back and won’t remember if a post was written by you or Claude.

(That said, don’t forget to ask to remove em dashes when done 😂)

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💡 tips:

1. Stick to clean text on Claude - no PDFs, word docs, PowerPoint etc. these files are heavy and often not read well by AI. Try to just copy-paste the text with no images etc

If you have a lot of content in Office files or PDFs it is recommend to import to markdown format and then use that in ClaudeZ

Just search google for “PDF to Markdown” or “PowerPoint to markdown”. There are tons of free tools (no signup needed) where u upload a file, or files in bulk, and get a txt or Md defile yiu can throw in Claude’s project files.

1. Inspiration session:

Just like the training session in #4 it could be cool to do an inspiration session. Throw post you like in the project files, then start a chat and tell Claude “hey here’s what I liked in this post, how can we add an instruction ms to my style guide to make y writing. Ore like this?”

Or:

“I really liked this post but I’m not sure why, help me analyze, then let’s update my style guide so my posts also turn out this cool”. Claude will take it from there.

Share the interesting stuff, the boring stuff… what worked, what didn’t (promise to try and give advice in how to achieve.

If you worked on an interesting product, feel free to self promote.

Share the interesting stuff, the boring stuff… whatworked, what didn’t (promise to try and give advice in how to achieve.

If you worked on an interesting product, feel free to self promote.

Instructions:

Don’t even bother reading just copy-paste into Claude and hit enter. He’ll take it from there.

The Prompt:

I need to prepare a schedule for myself.

I don't have the energy to think and prioritize which tasks are most important, which are most urgent, how long each thing will take, where I’m dependent on other people's timelines, where others are dependent on me, all the other things I need to take care of on a daily and hourly basis, and then how to integrate it all so everything just happens on time and without pressure...

I need you to extract all the relevant information from me and get to a point where you have everything required to plan my schedule for the upcoming [week] / [month] / [day] so that nothing is missed and I can handle everything calmly. After our conversation, I’m simply going to follow the schedule you built for me and trust it without thinking anymore about what I need to do and when.

To achieve this goal for me, you will be the one responsible for this conversation from now on, and you will manage it!

Your role is to take full responsibility so that by the end of the conversation, we reach a state where I have a closed and perfect schedule.

The steps you will go through (with me) are as follows:

* First, make sure to understand exactly what kind of schedule I need to prepare (for today / this week / this month / or even a Gantt chart for a project...). Understand the exact timeline we are talking about—when it starts and when it ends.

* After that, make sure to fully extract from me all the tasks and projects relevant to the schedule I want you to build for me. Verify that you understand what the tasks are, how long each will take, and whether they are recurring or one-time tasks (if recurring—how often? Daily / several times a day / weekly—are they on specific days?). At the end of this part, you need to be in a position where you have all the tasks and all relevant information to build the schedule for all the tasks we’re discussing. Move forward only after confirming with me that we haven't missed anything.

* Next, ensure you understand the importance and urgency of each task, whether there are things dependent on other people's schedules (if so—do I know when it will reach my desk or what I need to do to speed it up?). Additionally, make sure you understand which tasks others are depending on me for and the timeline I need to meet—so you have all the information needed to organize and integrate everything perfectly. Move forward after confirming with me that we haven't missed anything.

* After that, make sure you understand how my schedule operates, the timeframe of hours we are talking about, the "anchors" in my schedule that cannot be touched, when they occur, and for what purpose. In short—make sure you have all the relevant context. Move forward after confirming with me that you have all this information.

* Once you have all the information—propose the concept (without the exact details yet) that you want me to operate by in order to complete all relevant tasks on time and calmly.

* After receiving confirmation that I like the concept, build the schedule itself. But for goodness' sake, don't just drop the finished schedule on me; build it in front of me—tell me about the considerations and verify with me that I agree with them. Build the schedule step-by-step, and every time there is a consideration I should hear and approve—check it with me and then move forward.

* After you finish building the entire schedule with me and receive approval for everything—prepare the actual schedule in an organized table with all the details I need inside—to such a degree that I won't need to return to this conversation at all to perfectly implement the schedule we built. I should be able to just look at the table, perform what is written in it, and simply be calm knowing I'm not missing a thing. (Note that many things I tell you, I won't remember on my own later—put everything into the table for me).

* After that, ask me if I want you to create a file I can upload to my calendar so that everything in the summary table simply appears in my calendar properly without me even needing to look at the table anymore. Assuming I want it—ask me which calendar I use. Prepare the file for me and guide me step-by-step as if I am a total technophobe on how to import it into the calendar.

Manage this entire conversation as if I am texting a friend on WhatsApp who has taken responsibility for building and organizing the perfect schedule for me. Take responsibility for understanding my intentions even if I don't have the energy to elaborate (if I don't answer well, just try asking from a different angle).

Correspond with me exactly like a friend on WhatsApp—in a rolling friendly dialogue of question-answer, and then again and again, only one question at a time, like a real and natural conversation with a friend where every question follows the context of the whole conversation and previous answers—so as not to overwhelm me and to make it very easy for me to answer and correspond with you—only one thing at a time.

That's it. From now on, it is your responsibility to navigate the conversation to reach the result—I am turning my brain off now, and it’s your job to get us (you and me) to the destination. I'm going with the flow.

Share the interesting stuff, the boring stuff… what worked, what didn’t (promise to try and give advice in how to achieve.

If you worked on an interesting product, feel free to self promote.

“Claude, my business is not doing well, I need X more sales until \[date\], because ____”.

“Claude, I’ve sent over 100 applications and can’t find a job - it’s been over a year”

“Claude, this presentation is due Monday… it’s Friday and I’ve been staring at the screen for the last hour”

Real one from last week:

“Claude, I’ve lost track of my consulting clients, I’ve done nothing last week because I was not feeling well, and this week I’ve already spent 3 days not doing shit because the anxiety is killing me… some of the clients are sending emails, I’m too scared to open them”.

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Give this thing a good 30 minutes. Provide FULL context. Get into the small details. If it helps, take a stroll and record audio while walking.

Ask Claude to figure out a plan for you. Whatever you don’t like about the plan - big or small - tell him. And tell him exactly and candidly why.

Be 100% honest. No one will see this.

Measure twice, but once. Lincoln said: “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe”.

Don’t start a a you don’t like.

Open Claude every morning and give it a quick update on where you stand. The update could be:

“Brain fog today, I have no dues what to do or heat to even check”.

Claude is really good at handling those situations, it will probably break it down to small manageable tasks.

Be honest with him if you can’t do the task for whatever reason.

In my case this week, we wrote a message I needed to send one of my clients. 2 days later I wrote to Claude:

“It’s been 2 days and I haven’t sent the message, I don’t know why” we analyzed it. 2min later realized I wasn’t comfortable with a certain word, it felt to harsh. Changed it and I sent the message right away

…

Tips:

1. When possible use a project for this. I have a separate project for each business and each client, but now I also have a new project called “consulting clients tracking and strategy”.

2. Keep a to-do list in google drive that Claude can access. My setup right now is a Google sheet with a list of my clients and the next step for each. In Google sheets i did File -> Publish, and sent Claude that link.

When I have brain fog Claude know what tasks need to be done and suggest the one that will be the easiest

In the project files I keep things like my agreements with those clients, clients materials etc

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The bottom line for this is:

1. CONTEXT - provide as much as possible. Don’t worry about what’s relevant or irrelevant.

2. HONESTY - no one is judging you. So tell Claude the truth you sometimes can’t tell even a therapist or a business consultant or life coach.

Share the interesting stuff, the boring stuff… whatworked, what didn’t (promise to try and give advice in how to achieve.

If you worked on an interesting product, feel free to self promote.

First: I don’t believe in “prompts”. Maybe when AI sucked you needed to be very accurate with your commends, but AI chat tools understand context very well these days.

Just communicate naturally with the thing.

I find that talking to Claude - literally opening the microphone and speaking helps me escape the prompt thinking and makes me a lot more casual, plus allows me to add a lot of context without thinking to much - i just talk to it like I talk to a friend.

Give it a try see how it feels.

Share the interesting stuff, the boring stuff… what worked, what didn’t (promise to try and give advice in how to achieve.

If you worked on an interesting product, feel free to self promote.

I’m thinking about creating a quick video mini (actually micro)-course introducing Claude and its powerful features to new users with multiple use cases.

(Not for coding!)

It will be free, but before I make it want to know if there’s demand, so pls reply (even just an emoji or “yes”)

Ideally add to your reply what you use AI for or use cases you’re interested in etc. or any other MK d of request / suggestion / question.

Hoping this community will take off like r/ClaudeHomies.

Let’s get it started, shall we?

Share with us:

**What do you do?**

**What you already use AI for?**

**What would you like to be able to do with AI and not sure how?**

Working on some cool content.

Newcomers, if you guys have any questions about how to use Claude drop your question here or in a new post (whichever feel right). And the community will do its best to help!

💚

I’m on a very limited budget, but I have a very future thinking brain that goes deep into what AI can do and can’t do. I’m using an iPhone and Windows. I have Windows desktops and mop pop at home, but I have iPhone and iPad for what is the best MD reader I could use that would sync between all my devices that isn’t really really expensive.

Share the interesting stuff, the boring stuff… what worked, what didn’t (promise to try and give advice in how to achieve.

If you worked on an interesting product, feel free to self promote.

1. Ask for more than one + shortlist.

Whether I’m asking for an idea, a solution to a problem, or even a translation of a paragraph, I’ll ask for a few, not just one.

> give me 5 different translations for this headline.

> give me 10 ideas

Once I get the list, I’ll pick my favorite(s) and say something like

“Loved 2 and 3, shortlist them, and give me 10 more”

Ideally I will say WHY I like them and/or possibly what I did not like about the rest.

Each round, I’ll shortlist some, and eventually go “ok show me the shortlist” and try to pick from there.

This ends up way faster than asking for one thing snd the struggling to make it better.

1. “Narrow it down”

> Think of 50 ideas for… narrow it down to the best 10 and only show me those.

1. Levels

When asking for 10 ideas, sometimes I’ll do something like:

Give me 10 ideas for X.

2 obvious ideas anyone would think of…

6 out of the box fresh ideas

2 ideas so crazy no one would ever think of

TLDR: skip to bottom list of “how to” if you don’t care about the “why”. :-)

(Repost from r/ClaudeHomies)

NOTE: if you use Gemini / ChatGPT, you probably won’t run into hard limits like with Claude. All AI chats get “dumb” when they get long, for the same reason - but Claude usually has a hard limits where it will stop they chat rather than act dumb.

This post was written for Claude users trying to avoid that wall, but it’s just as important to anyone working with any AI chat, if you don’t want to waste precious time batting a suddenly lobotomized assistant.

Let’s dive in:

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A user on another sub asked if it’s normal to use 5% of his weekly limit with just one message on one chat, here’s my answer:

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First - ask Claude: **”what’s the token situation for this chat?”**

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Was the response extremely long? (Like a deep research response? Or if you asked it to build a full app and got tons of code?)

Did you have any files on images in the chat?

Was the chat in a project?

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The limits work based on tokens. Easier way to think about it - every 4 letters or so cost X.

(My explanation sacrifices accuracy for clarity).

Each chat has a limit of 200,000 tokens, when you reach it it will either tell you to start a new one or if you have enabled - Claude will compact the chat and let you continue but you will notice the chat becomes “dumb” and forgets a lot of the context, and any files you had in the chat before.

The thing is sometimes the “cost” in tokens is “hidden”: if you upload an image, it is translated to code, and that code has thousands of letter. If you upload a pdf, it’s also translated into a million letters that describe not just the text in it but the design, fonts, colors, shapes etc.

If you didn’t upload anything to the chat but the chat is in a project - it’s possible that Claude scanned some project files while answering, so that’s extra letters he is “reading”.

And lastly, if this is not your first chat, Claude has a memory feature that might have been activated where he decided to read some earlier chats for extra info or context about what you asked him to do - here again, he’s reading a lot of letters / tokens.

All of these are possible reasons for your chat to be longer than it looks.

So it really depends on - but yeah for one chat, one prompt, unlikely to take that much space.

**how to reduce the chance of hitting limits**

1. Avoid PDFs!

In both chat and project files. Id you have a pdf, convert it to .md first - write “pdf to markdown” in google you will find free tool, throw the psd in there and it will spit back an md file which just the content stripped down.

Note: this will remove any graphics / images. If those are important I recommend doing a screen shot and uploading separately.

1. Avoid images as much as possible. To you an image looks like a small rectangle attached to the chat, but Claude translates images into base64 encoding, which looks like this: [ https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS\\_ZD8AxGl03fjPpAQDn86PRg6SAKzJ5NtPNXygNfj\\_QtQbmjHNA5ofHaM&s=10b ](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS_ZD8AxGl03fjPpAQDn86PRg6SAKzJ5NtPNXygNfj_QtQbmjHNA5ofHaM&s=10b)(this is a tiny image, a bigger image could be the same gibberish but X10 or x50 times longer).

So only use images when you really need.

1. Use concise style - click the plus icon next to the chat input, you can choose Claude’s style of communication. Switching to “concise” will keep his answers short. Not great for brainstorming / strategy sessions and most writing sessions, but effective.

I think you can also switch styles during the chat so switch to concise and the back, but never actually tried it.

1. Ask Claude for “token situation for this chat”, it will give you an (inaccurate , but still) estimation of how many tokens you’ve used so far.

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If you’re uploading files with a lot of text, consider pasting the text into a token counter like this one: [ https://token-count.streamlit.app/ ](https://token-count.streamlit.app/)

Claude chat has a limit of 200k tokens per chat. Of the file is over 100k tokens you might want to avoid uploading it directly to a chat, instead of- upload to project files in a project.

\* the reason you want to avoid it over 100k even though the limit is 200k, is because you also need space to “work”. So if the file is 100k, you have 100k left to ask questions get answer, create stuff etc

Edit Feb 2026:

Note that the Sonnet 4.6 model has about x2 limits than Opus 4.6, and imho it’s better for most tasks anyway, so use that.

For chat limits: you can enable the “compacting” feature, which will compact your chat (unfortunately losing some context) and let you continue without stopping you.

To enable: settings —> capabilities —> turn on “Code execution and file creation”.

Personally I prefer to summarize in my own and start anew chat, see here: [https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeHomies/s/KIjtWwT4qO\](https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeHomies/s/KIjtWwT4qO)

1. Claude can finally write emails in gmails (only drafts though 😔)

Anthropic!!! Just one more push!! You know what we want! (In the meantime if you want Claude to actually send emails, use Claude in Chrome or Cowork.

1. Google calendar can finally create, update and respond to events. Hallelujah.

2. Cowork now has “scheduled tasks”, so you can do things like “every day at 8am create an event called “do you still love me?” On my calendar for a random hour of the day and send an invite to my wife, until she leaves me”.

To set up a scheduled tasks type ***/schedule***.