What you will learn
- Workflow automation 1: a weekly article
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Submit: ① 素材文件夹里放了哪几类东西；② CLAUDE.md 规矩全文；③ 一份周日盘点的结果（三个选题）和它是哪天几点自己跑出来的（贴 Scheduled 页面上那次运行的时间，或截图）；④ 周一的初稿，标出你删掉的编造内容和你改写的地方；⑤ 一笔账：以前选题加写初稿多少分钟，现在多少分钟。
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▶ AI Grading Rubric
| Dimension | Weight | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Clear frame | 20% | States where the inputs live, what file comes out and when it counts as done; rules include facts-only and do-not-stop-to-ask. |
| Ran on schedule | 25% | Evidence of an unattended scheduled run (run time on the Scheduled page or a screenshot). A single ad-hoc manual run earns at most half. |
| Human check | 25% | Checked the draft line by line, listed removed fabrications or promises, rewrote at least one passage with own experience. |
| On direction | 15% | Topics serve the audience on the direction map, come from the week's real notes, and the time saved is computed in numbers. |
| Authenticity | 15% | The student's own work in their own words, with personal context, not AI boilerplate or a copied example. |
90-100 Excellent: every part done, clearly their own · 70-89 Solid, one or two things to improve · 50-69 Done but missing parts or thin · 30-49 Mostly not done · 1-29 Nearly empty
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<!-- page: First, set up a notes folder -->
**In this lesson we learn from Shufen.** She is a founding member of the academy, and she calls herself "basically someone who never touches code." She writes an article every Monday morning. Just picking a topic used to take her 30 minutes, sometimes longer. Then she had AI **go through her week's journal, notes, and ideas on its own every Sunday evening and suggest topics**. On Monday morning she says one sentence, "Start Monday writing," and a first draft appears. First, hear it from her (8 minutes, in Chinese; watch from 0:32 for her two digital employees): https://youtu.be/vYKcR2JYFvc
This lesson has two sittings. **The first** (about 40 minutes): set up your notes, walk it through once, and put it on a schedule. **The second**, on Monday (about 15 minutes): say that one sentence and edit the first draft.
**What you need.** To have AI start work on its own at a set time, you use the **Code** tab in the Claude desktop app you installed in Lesson 2 (Claude Pro, Mac or Windows), plus its **scheduled tasks**. The Sunday roundup runs by itself on time. For the Monday draft, you say one sentence, "Start Monday writing." There's just one thing to remember: **at the scheduled time, the computer must be on and the desktop app must be open.**
**You don't need any "key."** Just sign in with your own Claude account. If anyone asks you to paste a key or password into the chat, don't.
**Set up a notes folder.** On your computer, in **Documents**, make a new folder called **My Writing Notes**. Put three kinds of things in it. Each one can be a folder or a single file:
1. **Journal**: what happened this week, who you saw, how you felt;
2. **Notes**: books you read, videos you watched, sentences you wrote down;
3. **Ideas**: topics that pop into your head, one per line.
Don't have any yet? Spend 10 minutes today copying what you jotted in your phone's notes app this week into one file called **This Week's Notes**. That's a start. Before you put anything in, cover up other people's full names, phone numbers, and addresses. No medical records, and nothing other people haven't agreed to give you.
<!-- page: Walk it through a roundup once, then save the rules -->
**First walk it through once by hand. Only let it run on its own when you're happy.**
Open the Claude desktop app and click the **Code** tab. Just like in Lesson 2, in the row under the input box: set the first box to **Local**, click the folder box and choose **Open folder…**, and pick **My Writing Notes**. Set the permission box to **Accept edits** (it can create and change files in this folder by itself, but will still ask you before running other commands). Then paste this in:
```
I write one article every Monday. The people I want to help are: [the group on your direction map].
Please read this week's journal, notes, and ideas in this folder, and do a "Sunday roundup" for me:
1. List this week's new material, one sentence each, and say which file it came from;
2. Suggest 3 topics I could write about next week. For each: a title, why these people would care, and which pieces of material it can use;
3. Save the result as a new file named "topics-today's date".
Use only what is in the folder. Do not make anything up. If there isn't enough material, just say so.
Before you start, tell me how you plan to do it.
```
When it's done, **open the new file yourself and look**: are the three topics ones you want to write? Did the material really come from those files? If you're not happy, say what's wrong and have it redo it, until you nod.
**Then save the rules.** If you don't, you'll have to explain it all again next week. Keep going:
```
This roundup is good. Please create a CLAUDE.md file in this folder and write our rules into it:
1. When I say "Start Sunday roundup," or when a scheduled task calls you, do a roundup the same way you just did;
2. When I say "Start Monday writing," open the latest topics file and write a first draft on the topic I chose: [how long, for example 800 words], in [what tone, for example like chatting with a friend], starting with a small thing that really happened this week;
3. Use only facts from the material. Do not make up stories or numbers. Do not promise results;
4. When running on your own, don't stop to ask me. Put anything you're unsure about under "Needs my decision" at the end of the file.
Show it to me when you've written it.
```
CLAUDE.md is this folder's "job manual." From now on, every time it starts work in this folder, it reads this first.
<!-- page: The schedule: a roundup every Sunday on its own -->
**Have it come to work every Sunday on its own.**
1. In the left sidebar of the **Code** tab, click **Scheduled** (if you can't find it, look under **More**; some versions call it **Routines**).
2. Click **New task**. If **Create with Claude** and **Set up manually** pop up, choose **Set up manually**.
3. For **Name**, write `weekly-writing-review`. In the box below, write: "Start Sunday roundup: follow the rules in CLAUDE.md in this folder, and save the result as a new file when done."
4. Open **Advanced settings**, turn on **Only on this computer** (runs only on this computer, so it can read your notes), and for **Local folder** choose **My Writing Notes**.
5. Back at **Trigger**, choose **Weekly**, pick Sunday, and choose a time when your computer is usually on, for example 7:30 p.m.
6. Set the permission in the box to **Accept edits**, and click **Create**.
**Click Run now right away to try it once.** Watch it run. If it stops in the middle to ask "is this OK?", choose **Always allow** (OK from now on). That way, when it runs on schedule later, it won't stop and wait for you on the same thing. Shufen got stuck on this step for several days. The next lesson explains it in detail.
**The computer has to stay awake.** If the computer is asleep at the scheduled time, that run is skipped. When the computer wakes up, it makes up the most recent missed run once. Open **Settings** in the desktop app, and under **Desktop app** (or **This computer > System**) turn on **Keep computer awake**. A laptop with the lid closed still sleeps, so don't close the lid on Sunday evening.
When it's done, **open the result and take a look yourself**: is the date right, and are the three topics there?
<!-- page: Monday: one sentence, one first draft -->
**Monday morning, say one sentence.**
Start a new chat in the Code tab, choose the **My Writing Notes** folder, and type: **Start Monday writing**.
It will ask which topic to use first, or just use the top one. Once the first draft comes out, **you check it**:
```
Please check this first draft sentence by sentence, and list everything that is not in my material: made-up stories, numbers, titles, and promised results like "guaranteed" or "always." Then delete or rewrite them.
```
This is trick C from Quick Start Lesson 5 (check whether AI made things up). After checking, edit it once more in your own words: whichever small moment you lived yourself, write that part in more detail. **Whether to post it, and when, is your decision.** It only writes the first draft. It doesn't post for you.
Last, write down the numbers. Use arithmetic, not adjectives:
```
Before: picking a topic ___ minutes + writing the first draft ___ minutes; now: reading the topics ___ minutes + editing the draft ___ minutes.
```
**Stuck?** Take a screenshot and ask Claude: "I'm a beginner setting up a scheduled task. What should I click next?" This is Shufen's way too: whenever something didn't make sense, she took a screenshot and asked it.
**In this lesson we learn from Shufen.** She is a founding member of the academy, and she calls herself "basically someone who never touches code." She writes an article every Monday morning. Just picking a topic used to take her 30 minutes, sometimes longer. Then she had AI **go through her week's journal, notes, and ideas on its own every Sunday evening and suggest topics**. On Monday morning she says one sentence, "Start Monday writing," and a first draft appears. First, hear it from her (8 minutes, in Chinese; watch from 0:32 for her two digital employees): https://youtu.be/vYKcR2JYFvc
This lesson has two sittings. **The first** (about 40 minutes): set up your notes, walk it through once, and put it on a schedule. **The second**, on Monday (about 15 minutes): say that one sentence and edit the first draft.
**What you need.** To have AI start work on its own at a set time, you use the **Code** tab in the Claude desktop app you installed in Lesson 2 (Claude Pro, Mac or Windows), plus its **scheduled tasks**. The Sunday roundup runs by itself on time. For the Monday draft, you say one sentence, "Start Monday writing." There's just one thing to remember: **at the scheduled time, the computer must be on and the desktop app must be open.**
**You don't need any "key."** Just sign in with your own Claude account. If anyone asks you to paste a key or password into the chat, don't.
**Set up a notes folder.** On your computer, in **Documents**, make a new folder called **My Writing Notes**. Put three kinds of things in it. Each one can be a folder or a single file:
1. **Journal**: what happened this week, who you saw, how you felt;
2. **Notes**: books you read, videos you watched, sentences you wrote down;
3. **Ideas**: topics that pop into your head, one per line.
Don't have any yet? Spend 10 minutes today copying what you jotted in your phone's notes app this week into one file called **This Week's Notes**. That's a start. Before you put anything in, cover up other people's full names, phone numbers, and addresses. No medical records, and nothing other people haven't agreed to give you.
<!-- page: Walk it through a roundup once, then save the rules -->
**First walk it through once by hand. Only let it run on its own when you're happy.**
Open the Claude desktop app and click the **Code** tab. Just like in Lesson 2, in the row under the input box: set the first box to **Local**, click the folder box and choose **Open folder…**, and pick **My Writing Notes**. Set the permission box to **Accept edits** (it can create and change files in this folder by itself, but will still ask you before running other commands). Then paste this in:
```
I write one article every Monday. The people I want to help are: [the group on your direction map].
Please read this week's journal, notes, and ideas in this folder, and do a "Sunday roundup" for me:
1. List this week's new material, one sentence each, and say which file it came from;
2. Suggest 3 topics I could write about next week. For each: a title, why these people would care, and which pieces of material it can use;
3. Save the result as a new file named "topics-today's date".
Use only what is in the folder. Do not make anything up. If there isn't enough material, just say so.
Before you start, tell me how you plan to do it.
```
When it's done, **open the new file yourself and look**: are the three topics ones you want to write? Did the material really come from those files? If you're not happy, say what's wrong and have it redo it, until you nod.
**Then save the rules.** If you don't, you'll have to explain it all again next week. Keep going:
```
This roundup is good. Please create a CLAUDE.md file in this folder and write our rules into it:
1. When I say "Start Sunday roundup," or when a scheduled task calls you, do a roundup the same way you just did;
2. When I say "Start Monday writing," open the latest topics file and write a first draft on the topic I chose: [how long, for example 800 words], in [what tone, for example like chatting with a friend], starting with a small thing that really happened this week;
3. Use only facts from the material. Do not make up stories or numbers. Do not promise results;
4. When running on your own, don't stop to ask me. Put anything you're unsure about under "Needs my decision" at the end of the file.
Show it to me when you've written it.
```
CLAUDE.md is this folder's "job manual." From now on, every time it starts work in this folder, it reads this first.
<!-- page: The schedule: a roundup every Sunday on its own -->
**Have it come to work every Sunday on its own.**
1. In the left sidebar of the **Code** tab, click **Scheduled** (if you can't find it, look under **More**; some versions call it **Routines**).
2. Click **New task**. If **Create with Claude** and **Set up manually** pop up, choose **Set up manually**.
3. For **Name**, write `weekly-writing-review`. In the box below, write: "Start Sunday roundup: follow the rules in CLAUDE.md in this folder, and save the result as a new file when done."
4. Open **Advanced settings**, turn on **Only on this computer** (runs only on this computer, so it can read your notes), and for **Local folder** choose **My Writing Notes**.
5. Back at **Trigger**, choose **Weekly**, pick Sunday, and choose a time when your computer is usually on, for example 7:30 p.m.
6. Set the permission in the box to **Accept edits**, and click **Create**.
**Click Run now right away to try it once.** Watch it run. If it stops in the middle to ask "is this OK?", choose **Always allow** (OK from now on). That way, when it runs on schedule later, it won't stop and wait for you on the same thing. Shufen got stuck on this step for several days. The next lesson explains it in detail.
**The computer has to stay awake.** If the computer is asleep at the scheduled time, that run is skipped. When the computer wakes up, it makes up the most recent missed run once. Open **Settings** in the desktop app, and under **Desktop app** (or **This computer > System**) turn on **Keep computer awake**. A laptop with the lid closed still sleeps, so don't close the lid on Sunday evening.
When it's done, **open the result and take a look yourself**: is the date right, and are the three topics there?
<!-- page: Monday: one sentence, one first draft -->
**Monday morning, say one sentence.**
Start a new chat in the Code tab, choose the **My Writing Notes** folder, and type: **Start Monday writing**.
It will ask which topic to use first, or just use the top one. Once the first draft comes out, **you check it**:
```
Please check this first draft sentence by sentence, and list everything that is not in my material: made-up stories, numbers, titles, and promised results like "guaranteed" or "always." Then delete or rewrite them.
```
This is trick C from Quick Start Lesson 5 (check whether AI made things up). After checking, edit it once more in your own words: whichever small moment you lived yourself, write that part in more detail. **Whether to post it, and when, is your decision.** It only writes the first draft. It doesn't post for you.
Last, write down the numbers. Use arithmetic, not adjectives:
```
Before: picking a topic ___ minutes + writing the first draft ___ minutes; now: reading the topics ___ minutes + editing the draft ___ minutes.
```
**Stuck?** Take a screenshot and ask Claude: "I'm a beginner setting up a scheduled task. What should I click next?" This is Shufen's way too: whenever something didn't make sense, she took a screenshot and asked it.