I ASKED A FRIEND WHO WORKS IN AI RESEARCH HOW HE ACTUALLY USES CLAUDE DAY TO DAY. HE SHOWED ME HIS SETUP ON A CALL. I'VE BEEN USING CLAUDE AT 5% EVER SINCE I SAW IT.
He didn't post about it. Just shared his screen and said "this is the only thing I open before email."
I asked him to explain.
The first file in his vault is called CLAUDE.md. It has everything — how he thinks, what he's working on, where he gets stuck, decisions he keeps putting off. Claude reads this file first, every session. Automatically.
Meaning he opens Claude and it already knows the context. Doesn't ask "how can I help?" Doesn't wait for a prompt. Just picks up exactly where they left off yesterday.
Here's the part that actually got me: he said the first two weeks the vault felt empty and pointless. He almost gave up on it. Then on week three, Claude started citing things he'd forgotten he'd written. That's when it clicked — this wasn't notes anymore. This was a memory that worked better than his own.
I decided to try it myself. Set the whole thing up in one evening. First week, I thought it was overhyped.
Then on day 9, I asked "what do I actually know about this project?" and Claude pulled up an idea I'd written at 2am months ago and completely forgotten. Connected it to three other notes I'd made separately. Together they were basically a finished plan I'd been trying to piece together for weeks.
I just sat there staring at the screen. These were my own thoughts. My own words. Assembled into something I never would have seen on my own.
A month in, here's what actually changed: I stopped being afraid of forgetting things. Before, if I didn't write something down immediately, it was gone. Now I know that even a messy, half-asleep sentence at 2am gets sorted, connected, and filed exactly where it belongs.
For the first time, it felt like my brain had a backup. And the backup is smarter than the original.
Full step-by-step breakdown in the article — link below if you want to build your own.
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I ASKED A FRIEND WHO WORKS IN AI RESEARCH HOW HE ACTUALLY USES CLAUDE DAY TO DAY. HE SHOWED ME HIS SETUP ON A CALL. I'VE BEEN USING CLAUDE AT 5% EVER SINCE I SAW IT.
He didn't post about it. Just shared his screen and said "this is the only thing I open before email."
I asked him to explain.
The first file in his vault is called CLAUDE.md. It has everything — how he thinks, what he's working on, where he gets stuck, decisions he keeps putting off. Claude reads this file first, every session. Automatically.
Meaning he opens Claude and it already knows the context. Doesn't ask "how can I help?" Doesn't wait for a prompt. Just picks up exactly where they left off yesterday.
Here's the part that actually got me: he said the first two weeks the vault felt empty and pointless. He almost gave up on it. Then on week three, Claude started citing things he'd forgotten he'd written. That's when it clicked — this wasn't notes anymore. This was a memory that worked better than his own.
I decided to try it myself. Set the whole thing up in one evening. First week, I thought it was overhyped.
Then on day 9, I asked "what do I actually know about this project?" and Claude pulled up an idea I'd written at 2am months ago and completely forgotten. Connected it to three other notes I'd made separately. Together they were basically a finished plan I'd been trying to piece together for weeks.
I just sat there staring at the screen. These were my own thoughts. My own words. Assembled into something I never would have seen on my own.
A month in, here's what actually changed: I stopped being afraid of forgetting things. Before, if I didn't write something down immediately, it was gone. Now I know that even a messy, half-asleep sentence at 2am gets sorted, connected, and filed exactly where it belongs.
For the first time, it felt like my brain had a backup. And the backup is smarter than the original.
Full step-by-step breakdown in the article — link below if you want to build your own.