In the last video, you saw how Claude
Cowork handles a simple self-contained
task.
Now, let's tackle something you do
before every major call, meeting prep.
Connect your calendar, Slack, and email
to Claude so you're ready to jump right
in.
You'll point Claude at your meeting
notes folder and tell Claude,
"Prep me for today's call with Acme Corp
at 1:00 p.m. Search my calendar for the
meeting, research who I'm meeting with,
>> [music]
>> check Slack for recent threads about the
account, review my previous meeting
notes, and create an agenda for the
meeting.
Make sure to follow the format of the
other docs in there as a template."
Claude makes a plan exactly as directed.
Calendar search, attendee research,
Slack and previous [music] meeting notes
review.
Then it gets to work on the task list.
While Claude is working, you realize you
forgot a source. You tell Claude,
"Please check my email for any
additional context on this account." In
chat, [music] you'd have to stop the
action or wait until it was done and
then regenerate from scratch.
Here, Claude pivots mid-task to complete
the work.
Claude finishes and shares a completed
agenda doc for the meeting [music] and
calls out some decisions to push for
during the meeting, your biggest win to
lead with, and [music] some watch items.
Claude has also saved the full agenda to
your working folder. You open the file
and review it.
Claude read the existing agenda format
and matched the structure. [music]
Notes with bullet hierarchy and the same
headings for each section.
It pulled attendees from the calendar,
>> [music]
>> contacts from Slack, and the feedback it
found in email.
There's a blank action item section
[music] ready to fill in during the
call.
You notice the prep brief is missing
context from a recent pricing
conversation.
You tell Claude, [music]
"Add the pricing update from last
Tuesday's Slack thread. That's going to
come up."
Claude finds the thread and folds it
into the brief.
You can make any final edits of this
file through Claude or make changes
yourself.
That's the handoff. Claude does the prep
work, but the final document is yours to
own.
Cowork can also work on its own, running
tasks [music] on a schedule while you
focus on something else.
Tell Claude, "Every hour, check the
content team's shared drive folder for
any documents [music] that were added or
modified.
For each one, note who made the changes
and summarize what's new.
Group the changes by client. Save the
summary as a doc in my daily updates
folder."
Claude drafts a prompt for a scheduled
task, [music] which you can review.
You can make changes, such as updating
the cadence to hourly, daily, weekdays,
or manual.
When everything looks right, you can
accept the proposal.
Claude then creates a scheduled task and
adds it to the scheduled page in the
left sidebar.
Claude runs it automatically while your
desktop app is open.
Each run executes as its own Cowork
session with fresh contacts, so Claude
always works from the latest state of
your files and connected tools.
For a scheduled [music] task to run on
its cadence, your computer needs to be
awake and the Claude desktop app needs
[music] to stay open.
If your computer was asleep or the app
was closed when a task was due, Cowork
runs it as soon as you're back and lets
you know it was delayed.
You can review past runs, [music] edit
the instructions, change the cadence, or
trigger it on demand from the scheduled
page.
Any connectors you've set up are
available for scheduled tasks.
That's how Claude CoWork fits into a
real work day.
>> [music]
>> Some tasks you'll steer while they run,
giving direction, adding context, making
adjustments.
Others will run on a schedule.
Either [music] way, Claude does the
legwork on your terms, and your
attention stays on the parts that need
it most.