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Learn the fundamentals, complete professional assignments with Cowork, create reliable automated workflows, and develop your skills in your current role, learn new skills before career switching, and design and sell services and products. Key features Learn through concise, lessons featuring readable screenshots, explanatory diagrams, guided activities, and practical examples. Complete realistic projects that reflect how managers, researchers, writers, marketers, analysts, consultants, and other professionals work. Develop responsible AI practices by applying verification, privacy controls, permission boundaries, and human approval throughout your work. Book 1: Ask Claude Set up and secure your Claude account, select an appropriate plan and model, and navigate its essential features. Write well-structured prompts and improve weak responses through evaluation, follow-up questions, and revision. Search the web, assess sources, analyze uploaded files, and check Claude’s output for unsupported claims. Configure Styles, preferences, Memory, Projects, and sessions to create an organized personal environment. Book 2: Get Real Work Results Install Claude desktop app and understand when to use conversational Chat instead of delegated Cowork tasks. Give Claude controlled access to local folders and applications while protecting original and confidential files. Produce professional documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and evidence-based reports. Plan and supervise multi-step assignments, recover failed tasks, schedule recurring activities, and establish a weekly work system. Book 3: Automate Recurring Tasks Compare Claude’s automation building blocks and select the simplest appropriate option for each task. Find, install, create, test, and manage reusable Skills and plugins. Connect Claude to workplace services and custom tools through connectors and MCP. Coordinate agents and subagents while controlling permissions, resisting prompt injection, and adding

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Claude Visual Bible A step-by-step, screenshot-by-screenshot guide to writing, researching, analyzing, and automating with Claude Mark J. Price
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Claude Visual Bible Copyright © 2026 Packt Publishing All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles or reviews. Every effort has been made in the preparation of this book to ensure the accuracy of the information presented. However, the information contained in this book is sold without warranty, either express or implied. Neither the author, nor Packt Publishing or its dealers and distributors, will be held liable for any damages caused or alleged to have been caused directly or indirectly by this book. Packt Publishing has endeavored to provide trademark information about all of the companies and products mentioned in this book by the appropriate use of capitals. However, Packt Publishing cannot guarantee the accuracy of this information. Portfolio Director: Ashwin Nair Relationship Lead: Nitin Nainani Project Manager: Ruvika Rao Content Engineer: Hayden Edwards Technical Editor: Arjun Varma Copy Editor: Hayden Edwards Production Designer: Ajay Patule Growth Lead: Sayantani Saha First published: September 2026 Production reference: 1160926 Published by Packt Publishing Ltd. Grosvenor House 11 St Paul’s Square Birmingham B3 1RB, UK. ISBN 978-1-80865-839-6 www.packtpub.com
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Contributors About the author Mark J. Price helps beginners and everyday knowledge workers get real, practical value out of AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude. Based in Brighton, England, he brings two decades of experience as a technical author, including ten editions of a bestselling C# and .NET series for Packt, to making AI ap- proachable for readers with no technical background. A former maths teacher and Microsoft Certified Trainer, he comes from a family of teachers and now chats with readers in Packt’s Discord. Thank you to all my readers. Your support means I get to write these books and celebrate your successes. Special thanks to the readers who give me actionable feedback via my GitHub repository and email, and interact with me and the book communities on Discord. You help make my books even better with every edition.
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Get in touch Feedback from our readers is always welcome. General feedback: If you have questions about any aspect of this book or have any general feedback, please email us at customercare@packt.com and mention the book’s title in the subject of your message. Errata: Although we have taken every care to ensure the accuracy of our content, mistakes do happen. If you have found a mistake in this book, we would be grateful if you reported this to us. Please visit http://www.packt.com/submit-errata, click Submit Errata, and fill in the form. Piracy: If you come across any illegal copies of our works in any form on the internet, we would be grate- ful if you would provide us with the location address or website name. Please contact us at copyright@ packt.com with a link to the material. If you are interested in becoming an author: If there is a topic that you have expertise in and you are interested in either writing or contributing to a book, please visit http://authors.packt.com/.
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Table of Contents Introduction 1 Why you picked up this volume ................................................................................................... 1 How this volume is structured .................................................................................................... 4 How to read the four books ........................................................................................................ 5 Get the sample files and bonus content ....................................................................................... 5 A note about the figures in this book ........................................................................................... 6 How this book handles a fast-changing Claude ............................................................................ 7 Why not just ask Claude to explain itself? ................................................................................... 8 Key terms to help you follow along ............................................................................................. 9 What prerequisites do you need? ............................................................................................... 10 Book 1: Ask Claude 11 Chapter 1.1 Understand What Claude Can Do ............................................................................ 12 Chapter 1.2 Create Your Account and Choose a Plan ................................................................... 18 Chapter 1.3 Use Claude on the Web, Phone, and Desktop ............................................................ 23 Chapter 1.4 Have Your First Useful Conversation by Typing, Talking, or Showing ........................ 30 Chapter 1.5 Write, Refine, and Improve Prompts Through Conversation ..................................... 35 Chapter 1.6 Learn Something New or Tutor a Child .................................................................... 41 Chapter 1.7 Plan Everyday Life and Compare Important Choices ................................................ 47 Chapter 1.8 Search and Verify Current Information ................................................................... 50 Chapter 1.9 Conduct Research with Cited Sources ...................................................................... 53 Chapter 1.10 Add Documents and Images to a Chat .................................................................... 56 Chapter 1.11 Organize with Instructions, Memory, and Projects ................................................. 59 Chapter 1.12 Project – Build Your Personal AI Workbench .......................................................... 64 Book 2: Create Real Work Results 69 Chapter 2.1 Use Claude Safely and Responsibly at Work ............................................................. 70 Chapter 2.2 Choose the Right Mode for Each Task ...................................................................... 73 Chapter 2.3 Draft Professional Documents ................................................................................ 79 Chapter 2.4 Summarize and Extract Information ....................................................................... 86 Chapter 2.5 Analyze Spreadsheets and Data ............................................................................... 91
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Table of Contentsviii Chapter 2.6 Create Visual and Interactive Content ...................................................................... 98 Chapter 2.7 Create Presentations and Visual Reports ............................................................... 104 Chapter 2.8 Add Plugins, Connectors, and Skills ...................................................................... 110 Chapter 2.9 Project – Produce a Useful Weekly Briefing ............................................................ 118 Book 3: Automate Recurring Tasks 125 Chapter 3.1 Choose the Right Automation Building Block ......................................................... 126 Chapter 3.2 Schedule Recurring Work ..................................................................................... 128 Chapter 3.3 Turn a Procedure Into a Reusable Skill .................................................................. 135 Chapter 3.4 Build a Library of Skills for Real Work ................................................................... 149 Chapter 3.5 Connect Trusted Information and Tools with MCP ................................................. 155 Chapter 3.6 Control Software with Computer Use ..................................................................... 162 Chapter 3.7 Automate Personal Organization and Build Workflows ........................................... 172 Chapter 3.8 Project – Build and Measure an End-to-End Workflow ............................................ 177 Book 4: Advance Your Career and Income 181 Chapter 4.1 Choose What Better Work Means to You ................................................................ 182 Chapter 4.2 Audit Your Role and Find High-Value Work ............................................................ 184 Chapter 4.3 Measure and Document Your Improvement ........................................................... 186 Chapter 4.4 Learn the Skills Your Next Role Requires ............................................................... 189 Chapter 4.5 Combine AI Fluency with Human Strengths .......................................................... 191 Chapter 4.6 Propose and Lead an AI Improvement at Work ...................................................... 193 Chapter 4.7 Build a Case for Promotion or Higher Pay .............................................................. 195 Chapter 4.8 Prepare for a Better Job or Career Change ............................................................. 198 Chapter 4.9 Build a Portfolio and Measurable Case Study ......................................................... 200 Chapter 4.10 Turn a Problem into a Service or Product ............................................................. 203 Chapter 4.11 Project – Complete a 30-day Career Value Project ................................................. 205 Epilogue 209
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Introduction Welcome to Claude Visual Bible! In this introduction, you will learn: • Why you picked up this volume • How this volume is structured • How to read the four books • A note about the figures • How this book handles a fast-changing Claude • Why not just ask Claude to explain itself? • Key terms to help you follow along • What prerequisites do you need? Why you picked up this volume At this point in your journey with AI, you may have sensed that Claude could help you work faster and think more clearly. Maybe you have asked it a few questions, got it to rewrite an email, or asked for an idea when you got stuck. But you probably still treat it as a chatbot: something you type into, not something you create, do research, or automate aspects of your life with. Closing the gap between casual, occasional Claude use and using it to genuinely improve your work and personal life, is why I wrote this volume. You do not need a technical background to close the gap. You need a clear path from your first conversation to confident, professional use, with checkpoints along the way that reinforce what you learn. Most guides to Claude choose one of two extremes. Some try to cover several large subjects, including coding, in one slim volume, so each subject gets miserly treatment. Others promise easy income from a handful of prompts, without teaching you how to check whether the result is any good. Neither approach matches how real people truly build value with AI. The real path looks like this: ask for useful guidance, produce a checked piece of work, turn a proven procedure into something repeatable, then use that evidence to improve a career or generate a new income.
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Why you picked up this volume2 Claude Visual Bible is different because it follows that better path, one step at a time: Introduction Figure 1: Four steps to advance your work and home life with AI This guide also gives you something other books don’t: premade files to practice on. Every chapter includes sample files matched to that chapter’s task, like a Word document to summarize, or a spreadsheet to analyze, so you can start immediately instead of hunting for your own test material or skipping the exercise altogether. Alongside those files, tasks come with one or more prompts you can copy straight into Claude. You’re not left to guess how to phrase a request or peer at tiny text in a poorly cropped screenshot. You get a working prompt as a starting point, then a clear explanation of which parts to tweak for your own documents, your own job, and your own goals. Claude Visual Bible also takes a wider view of what building value with Claude means. The obvious move is selling a product or service, but that route has genuine risk and a low success rate. Book 4 covers that path, but treats it as one option among several, alongside using Claude to work faster in your current job, build the case for a promotion, or prepare for and land a new career. For most readers, improving what they already do is a far more practical, more likely route to success than starting a business from nothing. That practical scope extends past work, too. In Book 1 you’ll find tasks aimed at your personal life, such as planning, organizing, and budgeting at home, or helping your kids with their homework and teaching them how to use AI responsibly. Who this book is for This book is for you if you have the curiosity and the everyday computer skills most adults already do, such as using a web browser, installing an app, and working with documents, spreadsheets, and images. You will get the most from this book if you recognize yourself in one or more of these situations: • You want to close the gap between casual Claude use and confident, professional use
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Why you picked up this volume 3 • You manage a team, a small business, or your own workload, and want to work faster without sacrificing quality • You want to build a habit of checking AI output instead of trusting it automatically • You want to use Claude for personal tasks too, such as planning, budgeting, or helping a child complete school assignments ethically • You are looking for a path from your first conversation with Claude to a completed piece of work, a repeatable process, or a stronger case for a promotion or new role A flesh-and-blood author writing for a respected publisher I am a living, breathing human based in Brighton, on England’s south coast. Close enough to London for exciting cultural weekends, breezy enough to survive the increasingly sweltering British summers. I’ve written more than 20 programming titles for my publisher Packt since 2016, including ten editions of my best-selling C# and .NET book. I update it every year in November and I plan to do frequent updates for Claude Visual Bible too since Claude is improving so rapidly. Teaching is in my blood. My mother was a maths teacher, my sister a primary school teacher, my grandfather taught at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, and teaching and military careers run through my uncles and cousins too. I taught GCSE and A-Level maths in two London secondary schools, and I hold a Computer Science BSc (Hons) from the University of Bristol. That mix, maths teacher and software developer, turns out to be exactly what a beginner’s book about AI needs. Teaching maths to teenagers taught me how to break an intimidating idea into the smallest step that still makes sense, and how to spot the exact place a student gets stuck before they even ask. Software development taught me precise problem solving: to test whether something actually works rather than assume it does, and to write instructions a computer, or a nervous beginner, can follow without guessing. Put those together and you get a guide that walks you from confusion to confidence one checked step at a time, the way a good maths teacher walks you from “I don’t get it” to “oh, that’s actually simple.” Introduction Figure 2: Me and my background
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How this volume is structured4 There’s another reason my software developer background matters here, beyond teaching precision: programmers are the canary in the coal mine for what AI does to a profession. I’ve spent the last few years watching AI move from autocomplete to something that can draft, test, and ship real code. That’s a transition I lived through in my own daily work, which is exactly why I can show you, concretely, what to watch for as the same pattern reaches and transforms your profession. Writing books for a decade took my face-to-face classroom teaching instinct further: it’s how I now reach far more people, in far more places, than any classroom could, and I love hearing from readers all over the world. It’s my way of making a dent in the universe, as Steve Jobs mused he wanted to do. My involvement didn’t end when I delivered the final drafts to my publisher. I am active in Packt’s Discord channels, where you can chat with me and other readers about my books and share tips and tricks on how to get the most out of AI. You can learn more about me and confirm my credentials at the following links: • GitHub repositories: https://github.com/markjprice/ • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markjamesprice/ • Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Mark-J.-Price/author/B071DW3QGN • Packt: https://subscription.packtpub.com/search?query=mark+j.+price • Discord channel: https://discordapp.com/channels/963343534323269662/963344584287604736 How this volume is structured This single volume contains four books. Each one covers a stage of that path: Book title AI role What changes for you Book 1 – Ask Claude Advisor You move from asking occasional questions to holding a useful conversation, doing real research, learning new skills, and organizing your work using Claude features like projects. Book 2 – Create Real Work Results Coworker You produce documents, spreadsheets, presentations, analysis, visual and interactive content, and other media. You learn how to prepare briefs for images that need a dedicated image-generation tool, and you learn to supervise longer, multi-step assignments. Book 3 – Automate Recurring Tasks Agent You turn a procedure you repeat often into a skill or a scheduled task that Claude can run for you. Book 4 – Advance Your Career and Income Coach You use what you learned in the other books to earn a promotion, make a career change, or provide a service to generate additional income. Each of the four books in this volume contains a series of concise chapters and ends with a practical hands-on project, so you finish every book holding a completed piece of work, not just a lot of theory swimming around in your head. You pay Anthropic only when you’re ready to use what their paid subscription plan gives you. You can complete nearly all of Book 1 on the Free plan. As your needs grow into real work and repeatable automation in Book 2 and Book 3, you can upgrade your plan to Pro or higher which covers everything you’ll need: Claude Cowork, scheduled tasks, connectors, skills, and plugins. Only features like Claude Tag, admin-built plugins, and org-wide connector authorization sit beyond an individual plan, reserved for Team- and Enterprise-managed workspaces most readers won’t need.
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How to read the four books 5 How to read the four books If you are new to Claude, then read the four books in order. Each one builds on the skills from the one before it. You cannot automate a procedure in Book 3 until you can produce reliable work in Book 2, and you cannot produce reliable work until you can hold a useful conversation, which is what Book 1 teaches. If you already use Claude regularly, start closer to where your own skills stop. Skim the chapter headings at the start of Book 1 and Book 2. If the tasks look familiar, move ahead to Book 3. Inside each chapter, look for several types of recurring boxes: • Watch out boxes warn you about a specific mistake or risk • Good practice boxes give you a habit that improves your results • What to ask next boxes give you one optional follow-up prompt you can send right after finishing the chapter’s task • Real-world example boxes give you a need solved by real people using AI Two more boxes point you outside the book: • Learn more online boxes link to an official resource, such as documentation from the AI provider. Interfaces and features change often. When a detail is likely to change after you buy this book, I give you a link to a verified source instead of guessing. • Sample files boxes link to a file or folder in this book’s online repository. Download these files when a chapter’s activity needs them, if you don’t want to use your own. You can open them, upload them into Claude, or copy from them, depending on what the chapter asks you to do. You don’t need to use every box. Read the ones that help with what you’re doing right now. Each chapter ends with a Try it now section that gives you one task you can finish in five to fifteen minutes. It also gives you a few questions to check what Claude produced, so reviewing its work becomes a habit rather than an afterthought. Every Try it now task is written to work for as many readers as possible, so it stays intentionally general rather than a task built around one specific job. That breadth is what lets a teacher, an accountant, and a shop manager all work through the same chapter. If you’d like a task closer to your own role, I keep a growing online list that matches common professions to the chapter where a suggested, tailored prompt fits, so you can try something that maps directly onto your day-to-day work instead of adapting the general version yourself. Find it at https://github.com/markjprice/claude-vb/blob/main/docs/ bonus/professions/README.md. I add new professions and prompts to that list over time, so it’s worth checking back even after you’ve finished the book. Get the sample files and bonus content Other Claude guides expect the reader to supply their own files to work with while learning skills. Claude Visual Bible provides sample files, so you don’t have to scramble to think of or create your own. These files are stored in a repository in my GitHub account so I can keep them updated. Watch out: Several of the listed features are still in beta at the time of writing and could get removed or get renamed after publication.
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A note about the figures in this book6 Don’t worry! Although GitHub is designed for software developers, anyone can use it. For example, you can go to the following link to see sample files you could use in Book 2: https://github.com/markjprice/claude-vb/tree/main/Files/Book2 Just click a file like 2-3-sample-brief.docx and then click the Download raw file button: Introduction Figure 3: Download a sample file from this volume’s GitHub repository You can also download all the folders and files in one go using the following link: https://github.com/markjprice/claude-vb/archive/refs/heads/main.zip Once the ZIP file is downloaded, extract its contents to your local computer folder. I have also written three accompanying bonus books: • Beyond Your First AI: This bonus book explains when a different AI service is the better tool for a specific job, or a backup when your primary AI is unavailable. It covers OpenAI ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Mistral Vibe, and some Chinese providers like DeepSeek and Qwen. • Profession-Specific Prompts: This bonus book adds a layer that the general prompting skills taught in the print books do not cover: the specific duties, risks, and rules that come with 20 professions. • Local AI Models: The print books taught you to work with Claude running in Anthropic’s cloud. This bonus book covers running an AI model entirely on your own laptop or desktop, with nothing leaving your device. Since Anthropic does not release any of its own models, this uses free and open-weight models like Google Gemma 4, Alibaba Qwen3.8, Meta Muse Glimmer, and NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning. You can find links to these in the Epilogue. A note about the figures in this book The word Visual in Claude Visual Bible is a promise. Every screenshot and diagram does one specific job: it helps you decide what to do, shows you what Claude is doing, walks you through an action, or helps you judge whether a result is good enough to use. • Screenshots are cropped to the part of the screen that matters and enlarged so the interface text stays readable on a printed page. Where a screenshot shows several controls, I number them and explain each one in order. • Diagrams are reserved for ideas that are hard to explain in a sentence, such as how a project holds context, or how a process moves from a trigger to a finished result. I never place essential information only inside an image. When a figure matters to a task, the surrounding text explains it too, so the instructions still work even if a picture is hard to see.
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How this book handles a fast-changing Claude 7 One of my favorite benefits offered by my publisher is that for every purchase, Packt provides free PDF and online web versions. You can unlock your free benefits by turning to the Free benefits with your book section in the book’s front matter. This will allow you to zoom into full-color screenshots if that helps. How this book handles a fast-changing Claude Claude’s menus, buttons, and features change often. Books built only around today’s exact user interface would be out of date within months. Introduction Figure 4: A solid foundation, current screenshots, with fast-changing details updated in an online changes page in the book’s GitHub repository So, the books teach decisions and tasks that stay useful after the interface moves: how to judge whether a source is reliable, how to decide whether a task belongs in a quick chat or a longer piece of work, how to tell when a procedure is stable enough to automate. These long-lasting principles will serve you well while Claude evolves rapidly over the coming months and years. Screenshots illustrate these ideas using the interface as it exists today, and each set of instructions combines a stable landmark, such as a menu’s purpose, with the exact label currently shown on screen. If a label changes, the landmark still points you to the right place. Where a detail is likely to move, such as plan prices or a settings screen, I have placed it on a companion page you can check online instead of printing it here. I will keep that page updated after the book is printed, so the printed pages can stay focused on what to decide and why, not on details a future software update could make wrong. Visit https://github.com/markjprice/claude-vb/blob/main/changes.md for the current list of changes. I organize it by chapter number, so you can jump straight to the section that affects the page you are reading. This page shows: • Interface changes: A new menu name, a moved button, or a renamed setting, matched to the chapter and step where the old version appears in this book. • Plan and pricing changes: Current plan names, prices, and usage limits, since these move more often than the underlying features. • Feature availability: Notes on when a feature described as a preview becomes generally available, or when a feature is removed. • Region and account differences: Cases where a feature works differently, or not at all, depending on your country, device, or account type. • Corrections: Any error identified in the book after printing.
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Why not just ask Claude to explain itself8 Why not just ask Claude to explain itself? You can ask Claude to explain its own features, and you should keep doing that after you finish this book. It is a fair question to ask why you need a book at all. Here is what this book adds: Introduction Figure 5: Comparing asking Claude itself and reading this volume Ask Claude four separate questions and you get four separate answers, each shaped by how you happened to phrase the question that day. This book orders material into four stages, each building on the skills from the one before it, and each ending with a project that gives you something finished to show for it. This book is a curated experience crafted by an education expert. Claude can describe a feature confidently and still be wrong about whether that feature is available on your plan, in your region, or on your device. This book states those limits where they matter and points you to a page I keep updated after printing. Claude can check or critique its own work when you ask, but that is not independent verification. The books therefore build a human check into every chapter, with a short Check the result section that asks you to review accuracy, sourcing, and safety before you rely on anything Claude produced. The books have been checked against primary sources and reviewed before publication. A chat response has not. I verify product details against official documentation, mark anything uncertain, and correct errors on the companion update page. Good practice: Use Claude with web search for quick, current answers. Use this book for the parts that need structure, verification, and a plan you can follow to the end.
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Key terms to help you follow along 9 Key terms to help you follow along This glossary covers the terms used most often throughout the books: Term Definition Artifact Substantial, standalone content that Claude creates in a dedicated panel separate from the conversation, such as a document, code, diagram, visualization, webpage, or interactive tool. You can review and revise an Artifact without losing your place in the chat. Claude also has a separate file-creation capability for producing downloadable Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF files. Chat The Claude mode built for questions, discussion, and shorter, focused assistance. Code The Claude mode built for software development: writing code, running tests, and working with Git repositories. This book does not teach Claude Code. Connector A connected service that gives Claude access to information or actions outside the conversation, such as a calendar or a file storage service. Context Information you give Claude, through your message, an uploaded file, or an earlier part of the conversation, that shapes its response. Cowork The Claude mode built for longer assignments: research, connected files and apps, and finished documents, spreadsheets, presentations, or reports. Dictate A way of entering text by speaking instead of typing. Claude transcribes what you say into the message box; you are still writing text, just with your voice instead of your hands. Not the same as Voice. Incognito Chat A conversation you turn on that Claude does not save to your history and does not use to create memories. Instructions for Claude Personal preferences and background, such as your role or preferred tone, that you save once in Settings so Claude applies them automatically to every new conversation without you repeating them. Projects can also have their own instructions that apply only to that project. Memory Information Claude can store between conversations. You can review, correct, or delete it at any time. MCP (Model Context Protocol) A standard way to connect Claude to external tools and information, so different services can work with Claude without a custom-built connection for each one. Plugin An installable bundle that can include skills and connectors for a specialized task. Project A workspace that keeps related chats, files, knowledge, and instructions together around one ongoing piece of work. Prompt The message you send Claude: what you want it to do, and what a good answer should include.
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What prerequisites do you need10 Research A Claude capability that plans a research task, gathers sources, and produces a longer, cited report instead of a single quick answer. Scheduled task A set of instructions that Claude runs automatically at a time or interval you choose, without you starting the conversation yourself. Skill A reusable set of instructions, examples, and resources that Claude can run to complete a specific, repeated task. Voice A mode where you speak to Claude and it replies in an ongoing spoken conversation, rather than only transcribing your words into text. Not the same as Dictate. Web search Searches the internet for current information and includes what it finds, with citations, directly in its response. Use it for a single question with a quick, current answer. Use Research (see above) when the question needs a longer, multi-source report instead of one search. What prerequisites do you need? You need very little to start Book 1: • Claude is available across Windows, macOS, Chromebook, Linux, iOS, and Android, either through a web browser or a dedicated app. The exact features can differ by device, but you can use whichever device you already have to begin Book 1. • A free Claude account. You can complete nearly all of Book 1 on the free plan, although some features, such as Research, require a paid plan. • A Claude Pro subscription, or higher, for the paid features like Research. By Book 2, I recommend upgrading to Pro or higher so you can follow the activities that use Cowork and other paid capabilities. • Familiarity with common documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. You don’t need specific software. Sample files for every chapter are ready to download from this volume’s GitHub repository, so your own files are optional, not required. A few more things will help before you turn the page: • Claude Visual Bible covers Claude’s Chat and Cowork experience on the web, phone, and desktop. It does not teach software development. If your goal is to write code, or build websites or mobile apps, look for the companion title, Claude Code Visual Bible. • Treat every Claude response in this book as a draft to review, not a finished answer to trust automatically. Each chapter shows you what to check. A wrong answer stated with confidence can still cost you time, money, or credibility, so this habit is worth building early and often. • Keep a notebook, document, or note app open as you read. Several chapters ask you to try a short task, and you will want somewhere to keep what you produce for the project at the end of each book. With that, you are ready to open Book 1 and have your first useful conversation with Claude.
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Book 1 Ask Claude Book 1 is about moving from asking occasional questions to holding a useful conversation with AI as an advisor and mentor, doing real research, learning new skills, and organizing your work in projects. It has twelve chapters, including an end-of-book project: 1.1 Understand What Claude Can Do 12 1.2 Create Your Account and Choose a Plan 18 1.3 Use Claude on the Web, Phone, and Desktop 23 1.4 Have Your First Useful Conversation by Typing, Talking, or Showing 30 1.5 Write, Refine, and Improve Prompts Through Conversation 35 1.6 Learn Something New or Tutor a Child 41 1.7 Plan Everyday Life and Compare Important Choices 47 1.8 Search and Verify Current Information 50 1.9 Conduct Research with Cited Sources 53 1.10 Add Documents and Images to a Chat 56 1.11 Organize with Instructions, Memory, and Projects 59 1.12 Project – Build Your Personal AI Workbench 64
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