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Recipes for everyday work

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 04Recipe: organising the team's shared memory without duplicating it7 min

   Shared memory does not improve by adding files: it improves when it links what already exists and flags what is repeated. Have Cowork compare the content of documents rather than their titles, note a link to the related document rather than merging, and keep a one page contents list up to date.

5. 05Recipe: producing the same document in several languages without it diverging7 min

   Designate one version as the source and lock it, then ask for each language directly from it, never from a translation. Then compare the key figures and technical terms across versions. Note in each file the source version it came from, so that a correction is not forgotten in one language.

6. 06Recipe: sharing a document as a single file that opens everywhere6 min

   Produce a single self-contained file that embeds everything it displays, text, images and formatting, with no outside link or font. Then open it offline before sending: a missing image or broken formatting reveals a dependency. The format alone guarantees nothing.

7. 07Claude Docs: a document your team edits with Claude8 min

   Claude Docs is for writing living documents with Claude and your team. People with editor access work on the document at the same time as you, and each change appears in real time, attributed to its author. For a precise touch-up, comment on a passage and mention @Claude, which replies in the thread.