Claude For Dummies

Stephanie Diamond is a marketing professional and author of over two dozen books, including Writing AI Prompts For Dummies and Digital Marketing All-in-One For Dummies.

• INTRODUCTION 1About This Book 1Foolish Assumptions 2Icons Used in This Book 2Beyond the Book 3Where to Go from Here 3PART 1: GETTING STARTED WITH CLAUDE 5CHAPTER 1: Introducing Claude 7CHAPTER 2: Setting Up and Managing Your Account 17CHAPTER 3: Having a Successful First Conversation 39CHAPTER 4: Crafting Prompts That Get Results 55CHAPTER 5: Working with Projects and Memory 79CHAPTER 6: Customizing Claude with Skills and Connectors 101PART 2: MASTERING PROMPTING 119CHAPTER 7: Starting with Proven Prompt Templates 121CHAPTER 8: Understanding and Evaluating Claude's Responses 143CHAPTER 9: Combining Techniques for Power Results 155PART 3: USING CLAUDE EVERY DAY 167CHAPTER 10: Writing Everything Better and Quicker 169CHAPTER 11: Learning Anything Faster 185CHAPTER 12: Solving Problems and Making Decisions 199CHAPTER 13: Handling Data and Documents 211CHAPTER 14: Creating Content for Work and Life 227CHAPTER 15: Looking at Complete Workflow Examples 241PART 4: MASTERING ADVANCED FEATURES 259CHAPTER 16: Working with Artifacts 261CHAPTER 17: Accessing Current Information 283CHAPTER 18: Using Extended Thinking and Research Mode 301CHAPTER 19: Taking Control with Claude's Desktop Agent Cowork 317CHAPTER 20: Fixing Common Problems 337PART 5: THE PART OF TENS 351CHAPTER 21: Ten Ways That Claude Saves You Time Every Day 353CHAPTER 22: Ten Signs That You Need to Rewrite Your Prompt 357INDEX 363