Thread by @trq212

Claude Code is All You Need

When I first joined Anthropic I was surprised to learn that lots of the team used Claude Code as a general agent, not just for code.

I’ve since become a convert! I use Claude Code to help me with almost all the work I do now, here’s how:

Why?

In Claude Code Everything is a File, and it knows how to use your computer like you do.

Name your files well, and CC will be able to search them like you would.

This lets you make custom setups for memory, todos, journals, screenshots and more.

Here’s, my setup:

I use Mac OSX and run Claude Code in my home directory (~).

I have a that tells it how to access important directories in my folder.

I have different folders for memory, journals, ideas, code, to dos, memes, and scripts. Claude.MD

Journals & To Dos

I have a few custom commands:

/journal command that will create a new journal entry for the day.

/todos a command that will let me create new to dos or mark others as done. To dos are organized by topic in files, e.g. ‘claudecode.todos.md’

Claude will often search my code, projects, etc. for more context when I add a to do, which is super helpful.

Artifacts

I occasionally create artifacts as simple HTML files that can use my local file directory.

For example, here’s a custom meme generator that uses memes in my meme folder.

I think there’s more interesting be spoke software to be written.

Apple Notes & iMessage

Claude can access your apple notes and your imessages either through your file system.

You can ask Claude Code to build you quick scripts to do these and more, but here's mine for notes:

(I don't use imessage at work but it's just as easy)gist.github.com/ThariqS/4c4735…

MCPs

Anything that you can’t access locally, there are MCPs for! Notion, Google Docs, Linear, Github, Slack, etc. are all great MCPs to help Claude Code get as much context as you can to help you on your work.

For example, get any to dos you have for the day from Slack.

Steal my setup

You can just chat with Claude Code to make your own setup, but you can find some of my files here:

claudeMD: gist.github.com/ThariqS/2c3565…

/journal: gist.github.com/ThariqS/ae5ddc…

/todo: gist.github.com/ThariqS/25d515…