Claude for beginners — turn your material into a finished document

Turn viewing notes into a finished memo

Turn the fictional notes below into a clear one-page memo about a rental flat viewing. Organise the answer under these headings: flat condition, advantages, open questions for the landlord and next step. Do not invent missing information; mark unclear points as questions instead. If you add useful observations of your own, for example to a checklist, clearly label each one 'suggestion' so they do not get confused with the supplied information. Write in English with a friendly, practical tone.

Notes:
- The flat is 2h+k (two rooms and a kitchen), on the third floor, with no lift.
- The rent is 780 euros per month, excluding electricity.
- The kitchen cooker looked new, but there was no information about a washing machine.
- The balcony faces south and the flat is bright.
- A neighbour said the building's plumbing will be renovated next year.
- The landlord wants an answer by Friday at the latest.

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Turn the memo into a finished document

Turn the flat memo you just made into a one-page Word or PDF file, whichever works better for you. Keep all the supplied information and headings. Use a clear structure: title, flat condition, advantages, open questions and next step. Make the open questions stand out. Before creating the file, check that no invented information has slipped in. If neither file format is available, provide the same content as fully formatted text that I can copy into my own word processor.

Compatible with: Claude

Create a household expense tracker

Create an Excel file for tracking a month's household expenses. Make columns for date, expense, category and amount. Add the categories food, transport, housing and other. At the end, create a summary by category using formulas and one bar chart. Use euros and English headings. Keep only these four input columns in the spreadsheet, with the summary below them.

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Turn instructions into a checklist

Turn these fictional instructions for a housing association's communal yard clean-up into a clear checklist. Group the tasks into before the clean-up, during it and at the end. Add a checkbox and estimated duration for each task. Do not add any tasks that are not mentioned in the instructions. Make the result a downloadable Word file.

Instructions:
The yard clean-up starts on Saturday at 10. We will rake the front yard and playground, clear the area around the bin shelter, wash the equipment store windows and take the garden waste to the city's collection point. Rakes are in the store. The waste must be covered in the trailer. Coffee will be served in the common room at 12.

Compatible with: Claude

Turn an announcement into an editable draft

Create a clear, editable one-page announcement for this fictional book club's spring season. Use a title, a short introduction, a list of dates and a call to action at the end. Keep all the supplied information, but separately suggest two possible subheadings. If artifacts are enabled, make the result an editable artifact. If an artifact does not open, provide the same content as a finished text draft.

Information:
The book club meets downstairs in the library on the first Tuesday of each month at 18. In spring, the reading is a work by Minna Canth in January, a novel chosen by the participants at their first meeting in February, and a short story collection in March. You are welcome even if you have not finished the book.

Compatible with: Claude