Automation · 9 min read
Let Claude Use Your Computer
By Hank BarkerPublished
Claude can open your apps, sort your files, and fill in forms the way you would. The three ways to turn it on, and how to keep it safe.
What's inside
- The three doors: Claude in Chrome, Cowork, and Claude Code, and which fits which job.
- The ~3-minute setup for the Chrome extension, and how Cowork reaches your real files on Mac and Windows.
- A copy-paste prompt to reorganize a messy folder safely.
- The control panel: per-app permissions, the blocklist, and the one rule that prevents disasters.
Who it's for
Anyone drowning in click-heavy busywork, sorting files, copying between tabs, filling the same forms.
Keep a copy of the guide
Download the PDF to keep the steps and prompts handy while you work.
Put this to work with your team
I’m Hank Barker, founder of PriorAIty. I help Michigan teams build useful AI habits through hands-on training and adoption consulting, with in-person and virtual options.
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Turn five work apps into one screen that tells you what to decide this morning. Built as a Claude live artifact, starting from the one question you need answered every day.
- The Morning Rebuild
A scheduled task that re-reads your calendar, inbox, documents and task list every weekday morning, then rewrites today into four sections and tells you what changed and why.
- Your Morning Industry Brief
A standing job that reads a fixed source list every morning, drops what it already told you, separates confirmed from unverified, and writes the brief into Notion before you sit down.
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