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Working notes on Claude.

Things I learned, mistakes I made, and patterns that held up across real projects.

May 2026

My First Claude Code Automation (Step by Step)

From interactive session to scheduled non-interactive automation — the actual steps, and what breaks first.

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May 2026

Building a Prompt Library That Actually Gets Used

Why most prompt libraries get abandoned, and the four-field format that keeps them alive.

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May 2026

Lightweight Task Tracking With Claude (No App Required)

A plain-text NOW/NEXT/WAITING file that Claude can reason about — no task app required.

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May 2026

My Claude Daily Workflow (What I Actually Do)

Morning open, work block, afternoon review, end-of-day close — what the loop really looks like.

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May 2026

How I Triage My Inbox With Claude Every Morning

Three categories, one prompt, and how I tuned it after Claude flagged too much.

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May 2026

Claude Hooks: What They Are and Why They Change Everything

Hooks let code run automatically around Claude’s tool calls — before a commit, at session start, after a write.

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May 2026

How I Set Up Claude Session Memory (And What I Got Wrong First)

Claude forgets everything between sessions — here’s the small-file system I landed on after the obvious approach stopped working.

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