Woah this is exactly what I was looking for.. I prefer Claude over ChatGPT for writing. Usually I use it when I'm stuck. I feed it my outline and ask to expand, then course correct from there. This is so much more thorough. Appreciate it!
- I write my articles in Markdown (which is a text format) and copy paste that into Substack. This way the formatting is already done. I don't have to style my articles in the Substack app. And I save my markdown files directly on my laptop so I can save context compared to HTML files
- instead of a CLAUDE.md, I use Claude skills so that I have larger context that can loaded on demand for the different phases of writing an article. Say that I write my draft first, I can later ask to only rewrite my SEO description or change the conclusion of the article without loading again a large CLAUDE.md context but only the parts of the context that are necessary for my goal
Same outcome, different ways to achieve that. More flexibility and lower LLM cost
nice, thanks for sharing that! only downside I see is that in Claude skills you cannot upload all your past articles to learn from due to size restrictions for uploading - or am I missing something? the markdown file makes sense to me- let's see if I can get that done in Claude Code also :)
Using AI to do the writing for you is the thing that everyone fears about AI. The fact that it may sound like you is actually worse because at some point this feature may be used against you instead of by you.
yeah, I am aware of that - but I think I use it in a way that is still me, my words and angle to it, written from my experience. it's all about how you use it imo
WOW, I love that. ChatGPT has *.MD file as well, and it's very similar to Claude code. In ChatGPT, MD files are conceptual, not automatically persistent unless you paste or store them somewhere visible. So if I understand correctly, in Claude, MD files are implicit, and in ChatGPT, MD files are explicit. So I am thinking of changing to Claude code.
Woah this is exactly what I was looking for.. I prefer Claude over ChatGPT for writing. Usually I use it when I'm stuck. I feed it my outline and ask to expand, then course correct from there. This is so much more thorough. Appreciate it!
thank you Sara, so glad you like it!
I follow a different approach:
- I write my articles in Markdown (which is a text format) and copy paste that into Substack. This way the formatting is already done. I don't have to style my articles in the Substack app. And I save my markdown files directly on my laptop so I can save context compared to HTML files
- instead of a CLAUDE.md, I use Claude skills so that I have larger context that can loaded on demand for the different phases of writing an article. Say that I write my draft first, I can later ask to only rewrite my SEO description or change the conclusion of the article without loading again a large CLAUDE.md context but only the parts of the context that are necessary for my goal
Same outcome, different ways to achieve that. More flexibility and lower LLM cost
nice, thanks for sharing that! only downside I see is that in Claude skills you cannot upload all your past articles to learn from due to size restrictions for uploading - or am I missing something? the markdown file makes sense to me- let's see if I can get that done in Claude Code also :)
I'm not uploading it.
I'm running Claude code in my terminal in the same location where all my articles are stored locally.
I'm not sure what do you mean by uploading restrictions.
oh I thought instead of Claude Code you'd only use Claude Skills. how do you connect them?
Claude Skills is not a different tool from Claude code. It's just a different way of doing things compared to Claude.md.
A different way to package your prompts in a way that is more token efficient.
I wrote an article on Claude skills (aka Agent skills)
great, will check it out. thank you!
Excellent information of using AI as a beginner
thank you, Laura!
Interesting! I just heard about this on Sunday. I’ve downloaded the app but don’t know how to use it. Thank you for the education on Claude.
very welcome :)
Using AI to do the writing for you is the thing that everyone fears about AI. The fact that it may sound like you is actually worse because at some point this feature may be used against you instead of by you.
yeah, I am aware of that - but I think I use it in a way that is still me, my words and angle to it, written from my experience. it's all about how you use it imo
Have you found using claude code more effective compared to a similar setup using a project within claude?
Do you use it to create copy or just to edit?
A really clear explanation for non-techies like me! Thanks, Claudia.
WOW, I love that. ChatGPT has *.MD file as well, and it's very similar to Claude code. In ChatGPT, MD files are conceptual, not automatically persistent unless you paste or store them somewhere visible. So if I understand correctly, in Claude, MD files are implicit, and in ChatGPT, MD files are explicit. So I am thinking of changing to Claude code.
You can create an assistant in ChatGPT which holds the information. It will then show up in the sidebar.
sidebar, ok, I will check that out.
Yes, this is exactly what I need
This is great, but can I do the same thing with ChatGPT? If not, I will switch to Claude.