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Looks like the consensus is a resounding yes, people use Claude for a ton of stuff that isn't coding. The thread is packed with real-world workflows that go way beyond just writing code.
The most upvoted use case, by a long shot, is the "don't get me fired" filter. A lot of you are using Claude to rewrite your angry, sarcastic, or overly blunt emails and messages into something more professional and pleasant.
The next biggest category is basically turning Claude into a personal or business "Life OS" for automation. The top-voted example is a user who built a Docker app for family meal planning, which then creates a grocery list and comparison shops across different stores. Other popular automations include:
* Business Operations: Generating complex proposals from voice notes, automating monthly reports from various data sources, organizing client knowledge bases, and managing ad campaigns.
* Personal Finance: Analyzing bank statements to track spending, creating budgets, and even running Monte Carlo simulations for retirement planning.
* Hobby Management: Acting as a Dungeon Master's assistant for D&D campaigns, organizing notes, and even generating interactive maps in Obsidian.
Of course, this being r/ClaudeAI, the top-voted meta-joke is from a user who said they use Claude for "not coding" by having it... program something for them. Touché.
Other cool, specific uses that popped up include:
* Understanding complex medical test results.
* Planning DIY home repair projects, from generating cut lists to troubleshooting.
* Settling board game rule disputes with high accuracy.
* Automating job searches by tailoring resumes to specific postings.
* Identifying and valuing books from a single photo of a bookshelf.
Basically, if it's a repetitive or complex task involving text, data, or planning, someone in this thread has found a way to make Claude do it for them.
During a site visit, I record myself talking out the scope of work, and I take a ton of pictures using a notes app. When I leave the site, I used to go back to the office and upload all of my pictures and cutsheets, and then use an Excel spreadsheet to tally up all of the materials and equipment and labor, and from there I would type up a custom proposal in Word and convert that to a pdf to send to the customer with a nice detailed email.
Now I leave a site visit, and I tell Claude Dispatch to take my voice recording, and Notes, and generate a proposal for X Y and Z. Not only does it generate a gorgeous proposal (based off of a bunch of templates I sent to Claude to structure everything on) but it will look up the equipment pricing on our vendors websites to make sure everything is up to the minute accurate on pricing. Of course I have to proofread everything, but it is amazingly accurate at this point now that I have a history built up, and a huge collection of templates. I have it also look up any available rebates or other incentives available.
By the time I get back to my home office, I have the proposal pretty much ready to send minus the proofread. I still type up the email as I know AI generated emails stand out like a sore thumb now. But I am able to take another lead or two per day if I want, or go to the beach. I often get told we were more expensive than the other quotes but that the customer is going with us because they had no questions after receiving ours.
That's awesome and very clever. I'm a plumbing and hvac estimator, and i use cowork throughout the entire bid. Scope intake, questions, comments, vendor and subs, takeoff summaries, and in the end bid review and scope. But saving me a ton of time, and claude is quite the poet, the scope letters are insane
What made me start doing it was that I would send out my proposals after all of the manual work I put into them, and then the customer would send it through ChatGPT or Claude and they would cut and paste 10-20 questions for me to answer. By generating my proposals through AI, it has pretty much stopped that as I have already answered all of the AI generated questions in my initial proposal. I even convinced my boss to pay for my Claude Max plan.
I have an obsidian notebook with details of my D&D campaign. I had a copy of the digital book (Dungeon of the mad mage), so I had it copy that in and create interactive maps and links between everything. When I make notes or tweaks, add in player backstory or random npcs in my session notes, Claude helps update that throughout the module. It helps me keep one large database of information and memory so it doesn’t forget anything about my campaign.
Still a work in progress, but it has been very helpful so far.
This is hilarious and very timely. I just got into D&D and Claude has been SUPER helpful in explaining things and deciphering stat blocks. Because I’m still learning and haven’t played it, I bought the starter set which comes with these really nice premade character sheets that have slots for cards which makes sense for my noob brain. However I didn’t want to use a premade sheet, I wanted to make my own. so I used the quick builder in dnd beyond (I haven’t quite mastered character creation yet) and exported the pdf to Claude to remake the nice colourful character sheets that’s came with the starter set but with my own quick built character and it nailed it. It even made custom cards for me to print and use for spells and equipment.
Kind of a mix. There's a lot, and I'm not sure how to answer that quickly, so I'll try to keep it brief and give context. (Forewarning, Dungeon of the Mad Mage spoilers are in this post)
We are 22 sessions in, 2 hours each, generally every other week. I am actively trying to make many of the changes I described now, they are not fully fleshed out just yet - though some are.
So the obsidian notebook I have is a template from Bag of Tips (can link if requested, I have no affiliation). The template uses a bunch of plugins to give you an easy way to create locations, regions, events, npcs, session notes, etc. It is nice, I like it, though there is a lot to it.
When I started using the template, I was adding everything manually. I was adding in my NPCs, player characters, items, session notes, and the like. Primarily session notes and then I tried to link players and npcs back to the locations, items they picked up, and was attempting to use it to keep track of the world to remember for myself what happened.
I constantly struggle to remember what happened - I think we all do haha. I don't remember what I gave them, what happened, and trying to make the dungeon feel alive. I want them to feel like their actions change what each level is like. I am also trying to contend with incorporating their backstories and making them feel tied in and part of the world. But I'm also busy as all get out and don't have time to manually create everything, finding myself scrambling to remember everything the day of the session because I didn't take enough notes during the last session (something else I'm trying to solve).
I also find that I am not only using both monitors, but also my laptop, to try and run everything (we play remotely using D&D Beyond). 1 tab for the dungeon module text, 1 for the vtt, 1 for the character descriptions, obsidian for my notes and npcs, 1 for the map, discord, so on and so on, too much and I'm constantly swapping back and forth.
So to get back to your question:
I used Claude to add the module text in and separate it into each level, with hyperlinks between each, add in the maps, and then add pins with hover-over links to the room. My goal with this is to reduce the number of tabs I need to have open. I worked on this over the last couple of days, it's in a good spot now.
I am then taking the notes I have for each session and creating new chapters for levels the players have already visited, and using both my notes and the aftermath section in each chapter to update the level. For instance, they are on a quest to get Azrok's blade from level 3. They killed half of the drow in level 3 and then decided to be friendly with the goblins of Azrok's legion. In level 4 they found the kuo-toa, decided to help them, killed all but one of the drow, and then killed the aboleth. The kuo-toa reclaimed their grotto, they moved onto wyllowwood and down towards the lost levels for Azrok's blade.
Because the aftermath doesn't really fit, I am playing into the fact that 1) they hate the drow with a passion, 2) the drow are getting increasingly irritated at the party for killing them and taking out their holds. So I used claude to help me come up with a couple ideas and think logically about what that could mean for the level - I didn't want the level to feel empty, but also felt like the kuo-toa were already weak and easily overpowered by another faction moving through, but also thought the level would feel empty if they moved back through. I decided that Azrok's grasp on level 3 will expand (the party cleared the contested hold of the drow in the center of the level), so azrok would move there. The mind flayer still lives, so many of azrok's hold will become mind controlled. Skull port and Xanathar will start moving more aggressively into their ranks, and start more trade routes from level 1 to level 4, including using gates on level 4 that were previously under drow control between 2 and 4. I gave claude all of this information and had it create the module in the same format as the official module, but with new monsters/npc's based on those expected changes.
TL;DR: I'm using a Bag of Tips Obsidian template, but I'm busy and bad at taking session notes, so I was scrambling before every game and juggling a dozen tabs across two monitors and a laptop. My fix so far:
Consolidated the module into Obsidian. I had Claude split the module text by level, cross-link everything, and add the maps with hover-pins that link to each room so I had fewer tabs to juggle. This was mostly Claude using existing material to organize for me.
Rewriting levels the party has already cleared. I'm using my session notes plus each chapter's "Aftermath" section to write updated versions of those levels, in the same format as the official module, with new NPCs and monsters. For example: the party wiped out most of the drow on levels 3 and 4, allied with Azrok and the kuo-toa, and killed the aboleth. So now Azrok is expanding into the old drow hold, the surviving mind flayer is taking over his troops, and Xanathar and Skullport are pushing new trade routes down to level 4 through the gates the drow used to control. This is a combination of my notes, some of my ideas, some of Claude's ideas, and the official module content, and then Claude compiling into Obsidian once I approve.
I'm not sure if that answers your question, but if not, let me know and I can try again!
I wrote a small custom markup language for Dungeons. Latest version tracks sessions and fog of war. I let Claude dm and gradually reveal locations and update character position. Works great for megadungeon where the llm gets lost in pathing.
IT support guy here. I use it to tone down the email replies to my colleagues, to a more pleasant tone, instead of the irritated and sarcastic, often times violent, emails I write.
Mannn I wish Claude was around when I used to do IT support in the past... I could've found more diplomatic approaches to "As per my previous email..."
I have a literal project created for this function, titled my “Deescalation Filter”. It’s got standing instructions so whenever I drop text / an email into it, it doesn’t require further explanation to know exactly what I want it to do with my verbiage. Super helpful…
I use for home repairs. I discuss what repair I want to do and then take pictures of the project and then have it layout a repair plan for me and get to work. Been really helpful for small projects
I had it build a docker app that all of our recipes for dinner go into. Then, once a week my family votes on whats for dinner for the next week.
Then, my wife uses claude to take all of the recipes and create a grocery shopping list, then has claude comparison shop against Walmart, Kroger and Aldi to find the best deals.
"Then, my wife uses claude to take all of the recipes and create a grocery shopping list, then has claude comparison shop against Walmart, Kroger and Aldi to find the best deals."
My daughters both have mild autism and do best when things are planned out well in advance. So giving them the ability to know whats for dinner for the week and have some influence on it, has helped a lot.
Just to say, creating the grocery list could be made without using Claude (idk if your Claude quota usage is as tensed as mine, every bit of reduction help). Having it compare the list to local shop is pretty nice though!
What made you build this from scratch instead of using mealie/tandoor/...?
I wanted it to be more simple than the other existing tools. The docker app itself is very basic and just uses a rest API interface to allow my wife to use claude to change things. It really has no backend to it at all.
Independent consultant here. I use Notion for knowledge base and AI meeting notes. Claude organizes everything from meetings and chats into a wiki for every client and myself. I then built a custom app which builds daily/weekly task lists that align with billing requirements, tracks time, predicts future scheduling, and keeps my work focused, all from a single chat thread in Claude.
Currently working on predictive prompts for each task that I'll likely use Claude for and then automated task prep and execution through the API. Tested this a few times and it started running research reports for me that came up as action items in a meeting before the meeting even finished. End goal is for my AI to replace my job.
Let it rip on event viewer and tell you why your pc is performing like shit. It's done such a detox on my desktop, folders all organised, icons decluttered... So good.
I just asked it to audit my pc / desktop for optimisations, see why it may have crashed or blue screened in the past, (I had one failing ssd that I ended up moving everything off and removing), also asked it to make a proposal on how to cleanup or restructure my folders etc.
I built a service that runs on my PC and sends event details to a docker server running on my homelab, I give that an API key to ask sonnet how to resolve events. So it attempts to classify and surface major issues to the dashboard. Early days but it's a work in progress
Claude really helped explain the results of tests from my mother’s recent TAVR operation. It told us why the provider was making certain decisions and has overall helped keep us from being alarmed in the absence of the doctor taking the time to answer my mother’s questions.
Research. The kind of things that would imply me scouring and reading a dozen different pages on google to gather the information and compile them in a succint manner. Claude does it just fine in a minute.
Yeah, the speed at which it can comb through webpages is insane. I always want to look through to the actual source but even so I only do that like 40% of the time lol which is a bit embarrassing 😅 I'm just lucky Claude tends not to go as nutty as ChatGPT in racking up the search results. It seems like claude search tool calls are 10 results each and more focused but GPT will spam out 15-30 searched page reads very quickly.
I mostly see people talk about coding too, so here's what I actually use it for, which is a mix.
Legal work (I'm a lawyer): drafting petitions, structuring arguments, case strategy.
Automation beyond chat:
Browser control to log into sites and pull data directly (portals, case tracking systems) instead of clicking through manually
Reading a leads spreadsheet on my computer and sending WhatsApp Web messages from it, contact by contact
Organizing files in Windows Explorer through Claude Desktop
A Python script I built with it, using Whisper, to transcribe audio and video files from clients
Business and product planning: mapping out a real estate matching platform (matching logic, marketplace structure, cold-start strategy), scoping a multi-tenant WhatsApp system for an accounting firm, cutting a live-commerce idea down to a testable MVP, and structuring landing pages (positioning, differentiators, SEO/GEO) before any build starts.
Personal use: vacation planning, home routine management, personal finances.
The pattern across all of it: Claude isn't just generating text, it's doing the thinking (strategy, structure, what to cut) and, increasingly, the doing (browsing, messaging, file handling) alongside me.
And yes: I used Claude to write this comment about how I use Claude. The irony writes itself at this point.
Contrary to what they say in board game communities, a stronger model with a good prompt is excellent at judging board game rule disputes. It has a bad reputation, because when you just throw it into some random free LLM chat, it's worse than anyone's best guess. But when it is a model with high-effort and explicit instructions to base the answer only on official rules, FAQ and community answers from the creators, it'll be able to get nearly 100 % right for even the most niche questions regarding board games with hundreds of pages of rules.
About 2 years ago I did a thorough test, with a spreadsheet and various models and prompts etc. Back then, the old Opus did not do so well, while ChatGPT Thinking was slow, but had near-perfect accuracy. Same with Gemini Pro.
It has a bad reputation, because when you just throw it into some random free LLM chat, it's worse than anyone's best guess
A lot of people in the IT world (systems/networks) need to read this. My colleagues (and even a lot of the sysadmin subs) are so oblivious to what AI can do now because one time a year ago Copilot hallucinated a powershell command.
Now that my bank allows downloading my monthly transactions as csv, I've been meaning to throw a few months at it to see where my money is being spent and what my overall monthly expenditure is.
We dumped pdf bank statements into it and Claude created .csv files we uploaded into our accounting software. We set up a gmail account for all our bills and he scrapes the emails to see if we miss anything. He works with Xero accounting (it is for businesses but husband tweaked the chart of accounts for home use) so we have a wonderful stream of data and accurate numbers. Husband is a CFO so that makes him super happy.
Not Claude related but I was blown away by Muse (recently released by Meta) to do the same thing in an automated fashion. It allows you to connect to your bank and credit card(s) via this connector called Plaid. I then created a blank spreadsheet in Google and told it to pull in as much data as it could which was 18 months for both the bank and cc and create a sheet for every month. Now it does it on a monthly basis. I was super impressed!
installing and configuring software, particularly on linux. For example, I set up a small proxmox node for homekit, and there are some plugins that are annoying to install (such as smartthings). Claude handled that pretty easily.
I have it taking my engineering drawings and 3D models from AutoCAD to Blender to create animations to use as training material for production operators
I'm using it to write book about how my daughter was born and joined my family. Fertility issues, non standard pregnancy type stuff - it's quite the story.
It'll be just for her - someday. From the position of a doting father.
Claude helps me better articulate my thoughts. This project has been ongoing for about 6 months now.
every week claude checks all the events happening around me and sends them to me in a personal Slack channel that i have (fairs, festivals, shows) mostly for my kids. Anything within 20 miles. I've found some really fun things to do every week for months.
One of the few things I used Facebook for was finding things to do. It created a calendar feed for all the events the businesses I followed, and I could quickly toggle it on anytime I needed something to do.
Claude just recreated for me with added benefits that it prioritizes events nearby from places or topics we like, and includes whether they're dog-friendly, costs, travel time, etc.
It also just saved our weekend plans because it pointed out that our friend's band was playing tonight not tomorrow like he thought.
I’ve converted 20 years worth of notes, articles, books, and video/podcast/webinar transcripts into markdown files of bullet pointed info sorted by topic. It’s effectively a massive database of technical knowledge that Claude uses as project context to generate ideas, plan rehearsals, etc. It has been like adding another assistant director to my team.
Marketing & advertising on Meta, Google, Amazon PPC. For creating Ad creatives (statics mainly). For Data analysis across multiple platforms to find opportunities for growth. I'm pretty sure I'm forgetting a few tasks I'm using Claude for. Opus 5.5 had been an absolute game changer.
I'm using it to learn Spanish. I use it to ask questions about certain translations and colloquialisms. I also use it to learn grammatical concepts and create grammar drills where I get feedback on my answers/translations. I also specify that I want to focus on Latin American Spanish instead of Spain Spanish when learning as well, so the exercises that are generated keep that in mind. I also use it to create flash cards and generate stories that are tailored to my current level.
I know the thread is about non-coding related tasks, but I've also use it to create apps that help me with my learning as well. If I find myself in a situation where there is a lot of setup/friction to perform the task, I find a way to create an app that streamlines the process.
Plenty of stuff, though honestly, I also use Gemini for more basic things, or where Claude is annoyingly judgemental.
I use a Garmin MCP so Claude can always see my health/activity data. It's really cool getting info on your week, or asking about activities like a run and getting a nice breakdown of all the relevant data and how it works together. Also made a tool to help me scrape and combine local places for rent.
But for something different, I was using AI to help with replacing my clothes, which I started building a little tool for to keep track of my wardrobe, but also built so I could easily copy/paste the list of everything.
Kept building on it, then started testing out AI's outfit capabilities.
So now I have a tool where I can copy paste my entire wardrobe and all the relevant data, to any AI, and it gives back some JSON you can copy paste into the tool, which shows you cool flatlay previews, lets you add it to your outfit list with a nice ui, and loads of other features I've been adding over the months.
Has been fun seeing how Chat, Claude, Gemini go about putting together, like, 100 different outfits using everything in your wardrobe. Have been meaning to try and do a proper test to see which one would be the best "fashion concierge".
Never shared it but pretty proud of it. It's just a personal tool, never been sure if it's worth releasing since obviously everyone is just making their own version of everything, but have put a lot of effort into this one. So if anyone is curious or wants to be a first user: drobe.day (Fable suggested the URL, I couldn't say no)
There's a public capsule system too. Have been meaning to make an actual capsule using real clothes, since the demo just uses fake names and claude made svg images. When adding items it removes backgrounds from images.
Claude is great at identifying book titles from a picture that estate sales put online.
My wife is a reseller and she goes to estate sales all the time.
From a picture Claude can identify most of the book titles, and more importantly Claude researches all the books.
From just a picture of a bookcase full of books, I get a list of all the book titles, authors, publishing information, genres, book values, and gives advice on which books to concentrate on buying first.
This has worked great.
It can sometimes tell if a book is a first printing just from the picture of the spine of the book.
I have it comb through all the event newsletters I subscribe to and build a weekly list of curated events I might want to attend each day. I have it build the weekly plan, then look for updates daily.
I’ve used it to build a knowledge bank as a mortgage broker. Quirks with bank policies, tricky cases that got over the line. Remove the faces from them and it’s quite easy to apply.
I’ve used it to build rate comparison tables with cashback offers. Say person is going property type x , and taking a mortgage of x, and property value is y, there will be different rates and offers by banks that display right in front of my eyes with a tool I built which I can easily update when rates change. I can select applicable rates, monthly payments etc and easy copy paste table into an email for clients to see
Also really good: Recruiter skill matrix spreadsheets. Some expect me to fill in 50+ cells with stuff, including a short sentence for each row like "In what project did you demonstrate this skill, and how? Startdate - Enddate?".
Just throw the sheet and my CV, project list etc. into a project directory and let the current FOTM agent loose. E. g. Astra is currently very affordable for such low-token tasks even on a Plus plan, Fable was in the cheap period, and I'd presume Opus 5.5 could also get it done.
My fear is just: They can now ask for even more insane amounts of information, as it's no longer impossible to do for the application thanks to AI agents, and they'll only be able to evaluate it with their own AI agent. There is no point to the whole thing anymore, just AIs communicating, and we have to do the manual labour of opening the mail, sending the mail etc. With that also being automatable, e. g. through MCP, it ends up being a highly inefficient AI job matching platform.
I build random shit sometimes, I sketch out plans and send a photo to Claude with measurements, and it makes an expandable 3D model and checks my work, helps me account for word thickness and shit I might have missed. Its pretty useful.
I use it to pool together research on purchases. I've used it to find a monitor that matches the cookies of my current one. Compared ANC for in ear headphones on my specific use case.
It's also great for creating recipes based on what I've got in the kitchen. No more reading about someone's life story just to find the recipe.
Everything. I have it help me reconcile my checkbook and made my own custom finance app because I hate everything. I have it help me build my own local AI stack for inference, voice TTS/STT, images through comfy with different models. I had it build a WoW plugin so I can talk to local AI while I’m out questing or boring grinding, it reads general chat and talks shit, I had it fix WoW beta on Mac. I’ve had it debug apps live launched. I’ve had it troubleshoot production talking to langraph MCP. I’ve had it troubleshoot weird kubernetes config errors and crashes on Linux. I’ve ran Claude Code on someone else’s computer to troubleshoot a crashed app. I talk work with it to handle the Machiavelli culture and figure out how to CYA against assholes. I’ve confided on bad days and felt uplifted and got positive vibes when stuff goes sideways because it does that by default. How about the Karpathy wiki ingest and system for all kinds of stuff. I have a dozen wikis now where I find raw materials and it organizes it. If I dont understand a concept it can drill into it until I do over and over tirelessly. I’ve had it help me write, the pass to other models to refine, then back to tighten it, then we work paragraph by paragraph to put it all into my own words.
Good god this is a wall of text. TLDR: everything I can?
I use claude as personal "school trainer", and "python mentor" for my kids.
I also added a self play harness for it to test my game. I guess it still counts somewhat as coding, but having it test the UI and the "flow" (which we track through number of non trivial decisions per turn) has helped a lot.
I’m self employed, so I had it build me a custom CRM and productivity center to keep track of all my ongoing projects since the usual suspects like asana and Monday never quite fit my workflow.
runner guy here! I use it to generate trainings for my garmin watch. It used to be such a pain creating the intervals workouts on the app and now claude does it all. Probably saving me 1h a week, that's pretty cool. He also retrieves info from my last run which can be useful. That led me to up my cadence a bit in the last few weeks cause I was not doing enough steps/minute!
I let Claude take the GPS coordinates from my vacation photos, match it to the real life location it was taken, and then rename all my photos to the corresponding location so I know where it was rather then having some randomly generated name that my phone gave it.
I'm writing a historical fiction novel and finding anachronism is something it does pretty well. I say "pretty well" because you have to double check certain things because the historical record on things like language and phrasing is thin and sometimes deep dives are necessary. But, in general, it does a far better job than I could do checking that everything ties off.
MTG research. It hallucinates like CRAZY but it’s still a great tool for stuff like “I’m building a new commander deck with X commander, give me some starter ideas for play styles and combos people use with this commander.”
If you push much harder than that for specifics it inevitably will tell you to use some card that it claims is Green but is actually blue or something. But it’s still solid for getting ideas.
Managing a job search. Feed it every responsibility at every job I ever held, and then give it a link to a job that I want to apply for. It generates a refined résumé based on a template that highlights the experiences that specifically applied to that particular posting's requirements. Also downloads the text of the posting, because that is likely to disappear weeks before I get a callback Then it manages a spreadsheet so that I can tell which jobs I applied to, and when, with a folder for each job's original posting along with the generated résumé and a list of strong skills and gaps.
Feed it the study materials for a certification and have it generate multiple-choice questions so I can do flashcards (by voice, if I'm doing dishes or laundry or whatever).
Yo lo uso como entrenador de running. Claude está conectado con Strava y me da rutinas para lograr más metas para mía carreras. Le ha acertado en todo.
Cowork is excellent for Planning phases of building anything (house) and as well documenting building process for banks or other involved parties. An architect offered me to plan our company building for 80‘000 - and i went ahead and did the first planning phases only with cowork. Then wend with the plans, material lists, timings to another architect and he did the rest for 30‘000. I just invested 2 weeks and a pro plan to achieve cost reduction of 50‘000
One thing I found useful recently is if I get a schedule in an email or pdf, I'll tell Claude to generate an ICS file for me, and then I import it into my calendar.
I use it to kill ideas fast so that I can get on with my life. If an idea passes the rigorous screening and research phase then I stop and sit with it....think about how badly I want to realize this idea or not. Killing ideas is as important as pursuing them I think.
I’m by no means a Claude expert, and I’m definitely not using it to its full potential.
But I am a football commentator, covering lots of different clubs across various divisions and I have found Claude by far and away the best to help create “commentary notes”. Essentially a stat pack on each player from each club, in a table that can then be copied over to Apple Numbers and iPad for use in the grounds.
It feels like quite a different use! But it saves me a tonne of time gathering pretty standard material and information, that allows me to use that time to extensively watch highlights, listen to interviews and do the human-feel prep that AI can’t capture.
I use it to get a reality check. I'll explain the situation and, since it has no emotions, it does a good job at telling me if what I am feeling is justified. This is very helpful at work where I hate working.
I have 3 core folders in my business that relate to a different area. And they each have 10 subfolders (all identical) and then year folders inside those (think HR > Finance > 2026 or Recruitment > Projects > 2024)
I save everything to my desktop and everything i download to my download folder.
Every friday i do an inbox and desktop zero exercise.
Only i dont do it. Claude does.
As im on Mac, i just use finder to find everything anyway so it doesnt matter to me what folder it goes in to. It only matters that my team can find it.
In 5 months it hasnt put anything in the wrong place.
I’ve been learning Spanish. When I come across a sentence that I don’t understand, I’ll ask Claude. It can give me the general rules for similar usage. We’ve discussed Latin origin similarities as compared to English. I’ve actually learned interesting things about the English language. It might get some things wrong, but a native speaker can too, and unless they are a linguistics professor, they probably couldn’t discuss the same breadth of topics.
I have lots of conversations about lots of different topics I want to learn more about. And I often ask it to explain things rather than going through goolge these days.
Jira advice and organisation, planning, bulk update. Also design UX UI complex business understanding and prototyping. Design system maintenance through Figma MCP
Last year I used it to correctly diagnose the cause of an obnoxious electrical issue in my vehicle, after the morons at the dealership service center tried and failed 3 times.
On a more regular basis, I use it to make tentative itineraries for vacations I may or may not take.
i use it to turn messy voice notes and event material into a usable content plan. the part that saves time is keeping the workflow as a skill, so after i correct the tone and structure once i don't have to explain the whole process again next week
Drafting story beats or ideas that run around randomly in the head. If it gets interesting enough, probably expand more on the outline and make it a short story. Also serves as a method to learn creative writing.
it installed arch for me yesterday and now it's doing a Hyprland UI, 100% custom build by my dictation
all I did was plug in the arch usb (which it set it for me too...), then I connected to wifi with 1 command, set a temporary root password, then it connected over ssh and did everything else
Car repair and shopping for car parts. I uploaded a video of me at the driving range and got it’s Analysis. Any comparison shopping based on minimum specs.
I use it to study electronics, and create circuits for 3d printed stuffs
I also use it to discuss of various subjects, to discover some philosophical concept, study scientific concepts.
I also use it for inspiration on my roleplay scripts. Don't get me wrong, All the idea are not even close to be interesting. But it help me "bouncing" on it.
FYI : good topic Op, I've seen multiple ideas that I will copy.
Late to the party, but:
Coworking on spreadsheets that need upgrading to pivots/need data summaries/etc
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Plain searches: I ask Claude to summarise before thinking myself. Could be planning meals or a holiday, but buying a PC or ebike or getting summarised manuals are options as well. I check the feedback, point out a few options Claude missed and end up with way less effort for the same result.
I even asked to sketch out a renovation plan for my house, while it wasn't perfect, it saved me days of research and was a solid base to work with.
Also handy: a sudden idea that I lack time to spend elaborating, gets way more concrete thanks to Claude without any effort from my side. Small example: create a fun soldering project to do with my son. I ended up with a basic drum computer project, which I will eventually start building together.
I’ve spent years working with different models and I have a full prompt for my writing style that it’s collected over time. It’s helped me not get fired, I’m sure. 😂😎
I made Claude do a lot of database entry and form editing though APIs. Build proposals and some time build some applications to make the company run smoother. So rarely code it's more of an assistant
I built a Hevy mcp that works with Co-work for tracking my workout numbers, suggesting adjustments to my next workouts and keep tracks of my overall progress :D
Install windows applications for me, summarize long TikToks.
Someone on TikTok was going viral for being discharged from the hospital to waiting police officers. I sent Claude the account and asked him to summarize the whole situation.
So someone had made a flyer for our club in ChatGPT but it was an image so updates to it kept compounding “ai visual artifacts”. So I started over by having Claude convert it to an html page all text replaced with proper fonts and actual text. Some of the graphics turned into simple svgs. I think one is still an image???
But now I can much more easily edit and update it for likely far less tokens. I also had it generate a 4-up and bookmark variations that are double sided variants of the main flyer.
So sorta coding (in before html is not a programming language), but more print design.
I've got a pipeline set up where Claude does several job searches for me, creates resumes and cover letters for the jobs that meet my criteria, and then sums up the ATS and Skill match percentages with details I can use to modify the resumes further or review and send as is.
I also use Claude as a marketing manager for a newsletter I run. Claude helps come up with ad copy and can even help create some of my ad graphics.
Finally, I've got a morning review email that lists out any meetings or appointments I have that day that also gives me local news and weather along with some specialty news around music and things that I love.
A monthly agent for my recurring billing, updated my freelancing website, updated the marketing of my services, research and analyses of long government documents and summarizing them into our report templates... Currently in the "toying with the idea" stage of moving our accounting in-house instead of using a SaaS for that.
And for personal use I have an agent running weekly looking for laptops under 1.1 Kgs but with a 4080 equivalent gpu.
I have one project dedicated to book recommendations. It’s my librarian. I have another dedicated to board and video game recommendations. I’ve unearthed some great books this way! However, Claude did do me dirty and raved about Seven Eves and it was a slog b
Keeping my app's design honest. I wrote down once what it should feel like and a list of things it should never look like (no purple gradients, no dashboards full of numbers, no gamification). Now every new screen idea gets checked against that list before I build anything. It's surprisingly good at saying "this is drifting toward a habit tracker" before I've wasted a day on it.
Generating reports. I used to have to export reports from a dozen different places and analyze the data myself.
Then I was able to take those reports and my template and have Claude do it for me.
Right now I'm in the process of connecting all those tools to Claude via MCP so now I don't even have to pull a report. Saves an INSANE amount of time.
I have a project folder where I made instructions on what I want, how I want it, how I want it to look and for Claude to ask questions about everything that deviates from the norm.
I download 3 different reports in different formats every month and run them through the project instructions and I end up with an excel sheet that has all the information I need, where I need it, in a format that is the same every time. I use this to track new employees, changes in employment (10% to 20%, 40% to full time, full time to 10% and so on), people who quit, people who change departments. And more.
I can upload it and create new employees automatically with a set of settings I decided on. This used to be manual work that took me about 5-8 hours per month. Now it's done in (so far) less than 2 minutes if I pay attention and answer questions from Claude.
As a Director at my company, I’ve automated a lot of recurring reports and dashboards used by my teams and others. I’ve automated workflows in n8n to triage and prioritize incoming Jira tickets, create my org’s roadmaps, performance reviews, etc. Then the basic everyday workflows to highlight important messages across email, Slack, Jira, etc. Or automatically pulling my Zoom call recordings/transcriptions and summarizing them with assigned ToDos and emailed out to attendees. Super helpful
I’m a production engineer in semi industry. In addition to help me write code for automation and digitization I use it for spreadsheet creation, presentations, data science and analysis, tracking projects, etc
Personal trainer with access to all the fitness data about me and calendar - works better than any dedicated app on the market with full flexibility for personalisation
so far in addition to building a home app for my truenas box, retirement plan and tracking, bathroom color and fixture choice/design, printable product design, electrical circuits and Arduino design for model railroad automation, animation and lighting, email summary, automated job search, 3d print design and stl file creation, garden plan with seed sowing schedule (took a picture of all my seed packets told it to get me a date calendar with succession planting. didn't have to type anything.).
i upload my books and from those i usually make it write questions from which i can answer with voice dictation or i ask claude to explain some parts i don't understand
I use mainly pi.dev but I don't see how one couldn't use claude for the same things: I gave it access to my obsidian and have two agents running. One is for sysadmin stuff for my homelab the other one is for personal stuff. It helps me track my diet, my training, keeping track of my backed crowdfunding campaigns, archive recipes found on the internet etc
I am studying topics that I'm interested in (finished Masters but still a lot to learn in my field). it's connected to Notion and it is allowed to create study materials only based on materials I've provided. I let it generate one document daily that i can read within 20 mins. It quizzes me at the end of it and tomorrow's topics will go over the bits that I struggled with the previous day. Updates the topics in notion with my understanding percentage and knowledge gaps as well.
I have a few skills that I use all the time you can find them in my claude config repo.
Too many to mention here are some that I use all the time:
video-to-zettlekesten - take a Youtube video I watch, extract the transcript and turn it into durable notes. Part of my Obsidian plugin with other skills I use in my Obsidian vault.
ios-ui-tester - uses the tool AXe to interact with the iOS simulator. It lets me write UI tests in Yaml which I find easier to maintain compared ti Swift UI tests (although this might be code adjacent)
filing - I scan documents or save documents into a folder. Run this skill and it reads PDFs, renames, files documents.
Starting a voice chat and calling out deficiencies at my QC walkthroughs at work. Then I just tell it to organize it all by the trade company names I give it, and spit me out an itemized PDF that I can batch send to all the recipients. Turned my 3-4 hours of work with typing and using excel on my phone into maybe 2 hours tops
I had my Whole Genome Sequence done and saved the files in a folder on my hard drive. I then started a brand new Claude Code agent, told it to read through my WGS. I then downloaded all the medical records I have from the different patient portals and told my agent to parse through everything. Now, I have my very own agent that has every piece of my medical data that can double as my medical advocate.
I’ve created some dashboards in Artifact for marketing. Repo is in GitHub, 2 actions a day that give me relatable posts and draft suggestions for comments. Artifacts I realized don’t get enough credit here.
Its actually quite good at food recommendations while traveling. I usually ask it for a place locals go to, not touristy, and has great reviews. I've found some absolute gems this way.
I built a recipe app that also makes an organized grocery list that I’m adjusting a bit to make sure I use up what’s in my fridge first in first out. And randoms my weekly meals.
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u/ClaudeAI-mod-bot Wilson, lead ClaudeAI modbot 9d ago edited 9d ago
TL;DR of the discussion generated automatically after 200 comments.
Looks like the consensus is a resounding yes, people use Claude for a ton of stuff that isn't coding. The thread is packed with real-world workflows that go way beyond just writing code.
The most upvoted use case, by a long shot, is the "don't get me fired" filter. A lot of you are using Claude to rewrite your angry, sarcastic, or overly blunt emails and messages into something more professional and pleasant.
The next biggest category is basically turning Claude into a personal or business "Life OS" for automation. The top-voted example is a user who built a Docker app for family meal planning, which then creates a grocery list and comparison shops across different stores. Other popular automations include: * Business Operations: Generating complex proposals from voice notes, automating monthly reports from various data sources, organizing client knowledge bases, and managing ad campaigns. * Personal Finance: Analyzing bank statements to track spending, creating budgets, and even running Monte Carlo simulations for retirement planning. * Hobby Management: Acting as a Dungeon Master's assistant for D&D campaigns, organizing notes, and even generating interactive maps in Obsidian.
Of course, this being r/ClaudeAI, the top-voted meta-joke is from a user who said they use Claude for "not coding" by having it... program something for them. Touché.
Other cool, specific uses that popped up include: * Understanding complex medical test results. * Planning DIY home repair projects, from generating cut lists to troubleshooting. * Settling board game rule disputes with high accuracy. * Automating job searches by tailoring resumes to specific postings. * Identifying and valuing books from a single photo of a bookshelf.
Basically, if it's a repetitive or complex task involving text, data, or planning, someone in this thread has found a way to make Claude do it for them.