Recipes for everyday work
- 01Recipe: sorting your mail without ever sending anything by mistake6 min
A prompt injection attack requires two conditions at once, reading untrusted content and being able to act on it: for mail, the real barrier is no longer an inability to send, it lies in the approval setting in force on your workspace, to be checked before trusting your own proofreading alone.
- 02Recipe: turning scattered notes into a clean document or spreadsheet6 min
Cowork produces structured documents and spreadsheets with working formulas from raw notes: on a large batch, explicitly asking for a plan and then each section separately gives a more reliable result than a single big instruction launched over the whole folder.
- 03Recipe: building a text in separate steps rather than in one go7 min
An important text is broken into named steps, each with a single role, an approved plan first, then the drafting, then aligning the tone as a step in its own right, then a reread handed to an editor role rather than a simple request to rewrite.
- 04Recipe: organising the team's shared memory without duplicating it7 min
A good shared memory rests on four moves, gathering, spotting duplicates even when the wording differs, linking what belongs together, and finding things quickly through a light contents page rather than by searching the whole folder every time.
- 05Recipe: producing the same document in several languages without it diverging7 min
A single locked source drives every translated version, and a consistency check then compares the figures and key terms between each language, so that a correction made in one version is not forgotten in the others.
- 06Recipe: sharing a document as a single file that opens everywhere6 min
A document meant to be sent by email or messaging must fit into a single file with no external link or dependency, validated by reopening it offline before sending, so that it displays the same way for everyone without any installation.