Have you checked 5 Cowork tips I sent earlier?
2026-09-22T13:44:34Z openrouter_paid deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash
Claude Cowork is a desktop app that connects directly to your files, eliminating repetitive copy-paste. It saves hours by remembering context and projects, unlike Claude Chat.
The article introduces Claude Cowork, a desktop application that connects Anthropic's Claude AI directly to a user's local files, distinguishing it from Claude Chat (a browser-based Q&A tool) and Claude Code (a terminal tool for developers). The author explains that most people use Claude Chat inefficiently, spending 15-20 minutes per session re-explaining context and manually copy-pasting between Claude and their documents—amounting to about 6 hours per month or 3 full working days per year. Claude Cowork eliminates this overhead by working with real files in a designated workspace folder, remembering projects, and allowing users to start tasks immediately. The article then provides the first of five tips in detail: using Obsidian as a Markdown translator. Since Cowork stores instructions and memory in .md files, editing them raw is cumbersome. The fix is to open the Cowork workspace as a vault in Obsidian, which renders the files with clean formatting, making them as readable as Notion or Google Docs. The author recommends enabling “Show all file types” in Obsidian settings to see PDFs, images, and spreadsheets alongside the .md files. The article also includes sponsor promotions for HubSpot resources on ChatGPT prompts and AI for business. Overall, the key argument is that Claude Cowork is a productivity game-changer for non-technical users, and the actionable takeaway is to set up Obsidian for easy management of Cowork’s markdown files. The remaining four tips are not detailed in the provided text, but the article promises them for those who explore further.