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The day-one trap

From Claude Cowork Foundations: 5 Day-One Fixes: A calm, interactive walkthrough of the five fixes that get your Claude Cowork foundation right — reading files in Obsidian, a lean CLAUDE.md, the Memory Diet, migrating projects, and the workstation-vs-skill check. Built around a predict-then-reveal deck so each one actually sticks.

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Get your Cowork foundation right

Most Cowork friction isn't the model — it's the setup nobody mentions. Five day-one fixes; predict each one before you see it, and you'll remember it far longer.
  • Format: 5 quick tips
  • Time: ~15 min
  • Style: Predict, then reveal
“If you get the foundation wrong, you're going to keep running into avoidable issues down the line.” Five small fixes get the foundation right.

Before we start

Cowork is powerful — so what actually causes the avoidable token-and-context problems people keep hitting?

The five tips

  1. The Markdown Translator — read & edit your files in Obsidian
  2. The 300-line rule — a lean root CLAUDE.md
  3. The Memory Diet — a lean MEMORY.md + an ARCHIVE.md
  4. The Project Transplant — migrate Claude Projects into Cowork
  5. The Skill Check — is it a workstation or a skill?

Topics: claude-cowork, anthropic, tips, day-one, interactive