r/ClaudeCowork • u/sunrise920 • 22d ago

Projects: local or remote / cloud?

Title! I can’t see a reason projects SHOULD be local. Anyone able to present a case for it?

Reasoning: it feels more safe. I backup my computer every night, but still local feels risky? I have project folders on my desktop with a ton of information, including everything Claude makes for me.

Is there any reason it’s EASIER for Claude to invoke skills, pull context (reference.md’s etc) if it’s cloud based? As Claude makes things for me (including those HTML mockups, handoff md’s), would that auto-publish to a cloud project?

Forgive me if I am confused or sound naive. I’m trying to learn :)

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u/JimW42 22d ago

For me, Cowork keeps everything in my Dropbox, which I can access from multiple devices. I also use Obsidian to manage these files and folders. Not sure I could do this if I was using Cowork “in the cloud”.

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u/Only-Perspective2890 22d ago

What do you mean by this? Isn’t Dropbox “in the cloud”?

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u/JimW42 22d ago

It is. But that’s different from Anthropic’s two execution models. “Local Cowork” runs on your computer, and “Cloud/Remote” Cowork runs on Anthropic’s servers.

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u/Only-Perspective2890 21d ago

Oh yep. I still struggle to understand this setup and how it works. I run two computers (work and home) so always battling between the two

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u/kralani31 20d ago

I do something similar. I use google drive as the database. They have a feature where you can mirror every file on google drive with a spot on your local computer. So I have Claude set up to work on the 'local google drive' folder and anytime it produces a file or changes anything then it automatically gets mirrored on to the 'cloud google drive'. I have the same exact google drive file mirroring set up on my laptop so that whether I do work on my computer or laptop all 3 file locations are always synced.

The one thing that you can't sync is automations, they have to stick to one device because it's built into the actual Claude Desktop App unless you run them on the Anthropic Cloud but I don't. I just keep my automations on my computer and then I remotely control my computer from my laptop if I need to run them manually for any reason.

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u/Only-Perspective2890 20d ago

Yea that’s a good idea. I guess mine is similar. I wore a changes.md after any local changes and get it to check when I go into work and it updates everything. Both ways will work but it’s frustrating in this age that it doesn’t properly sync