Solve your note writer's block with "Claude Cowork"!
"I want to keep writing notes, but I don't know what to write."
The wall that towers high in front of creators is writer's block.
You have the motivation to write.
But no ideas come to mind.
And before you know it, your updates have stalled....
I'm sure many of you have had that experience.
The solution to this "I can't come up with ideas" problem is Claude Cowork.
In this article, I will explain the process of using Claude Cowork to dig up note content themes from your own experiences and then expand those written articles to social media.
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Why does writer's block happen?
Did you know that the true nature of writer's block is not actually "having no ideas"?
In fact, in many cases, the cause is not being able to recognize the experiences within yourself as content.
・Insights gained from daily work
・Questions received from customers
・Things you struggled with and overcame in the past
These are all treasure troves of content, but because they are "obvious" to you, you don't realize they are valuable topics.
That is why, if you have someone who can inventory your experiences from the outside, your ideas will increase all at once.
The idea behind this article is to entrust that role to AI (Claude Cowork).
How Claude Cowork is different from "ordinary AI"
You might think, "Wouldn't ChatGPT be fine for that?"
Certainly, you can ask a chat AI to "give me 10 note ideas."
However, if you do that, only general ideas will come out. They tend to be common themes that anyone could write about.
But with Claude Cowork, you can read files in your computer's folders.
If you put your daily notes, past experiences, and work records into a folder and hand it over, it will suggest "topics rooted in your real-life experiences that only you can write about."
What's more, it can even create an article from the suggested topics and handle the output and saving of the file for you.
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3 steps to dig up topics with Claude Cowork
Step 1: Collect materials in a folder
First, gather everything that could serve as material for your content into a single folder (it's safer to use alphanumeric characters for the folder name, e.g., note_idea).
Things you should include are:
Daily observation notes and rough idea journals
Records of questions and consultations received at work
Articles and posts you have written so far
Notes on your background and experiences you have overcome
It doesn't need to be perfectly organized. Claude Cowork can decipher even fragmented notes.
Step 2: Have it identify topics
Switch to the "Cowork" tab in the Claude app, load the folder, and give the following instructions:
Read the notes and past articles in this folder and suggest 20 content themes I could write about on note.
・Please make them specific themes rooted in my real-life experiences
・For each, please add a brief note on the target audience and "what the reader will gain"
・Please list them in order starting with the ones I can write about immediately
Then, instead of generalities, a list of themes derived from your own materials will appear. You will be surprised at how much you actually have to write about.
Step 3: Have it create an outline as well
Once you find a theme that interests you, you can ask it to create the framework for the article right then and there.
Please create an outline for a note article based on the theme 'XX' within this.
・Make the flow of headings such that readers will want to read until the end.
・Please also include key points for what to write under each heading.
If the structure is decided, the hurdle for writing the main text drops significantly. You will no longer have the pain of starting from a blank page.
Expanding written articles into 'one week's worth of SNS posts'
What's difficult about posting isn't just writing the article. The task of spreading the articles you've written is also quietly heavy.
With Claude Cowork, you just need to have it read the article you've finished writing and ask it this:
Based on this article, please create 7 posts for X (formerly Twitter).
・Please ensure you can post from different angles every day using various perspectives from the article.
・Keep each within 140 characters and add a line at the end to pique interest in the article.
If one week's worth of posts is born from a single article, your posting, which used to be 'write and done,' will change into posting that truly reaches people.
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Turning idea generation into a 'system'
This series of flows can be registered in the 'Skills' function of Claude Cowork. Once it's a skill, from next time, you just need to add new memos to the folder and call it up.Your monthly content idea generation will turn into a routine task that finishes in 5 minutes.
For posting, continuing is more important than anything else. If you create a system that doesn't stop due to running out of ideas, you can continue effortlessly for a long time.
Summary
The real cause of running out of ideas is not that you 'have no ideas,' but that you 'don't realize your own experiences are ideas.' If you have Claude Cowork read your own memos and experiences,themes only you can write about will be found one after another, and you can leave everything from the outline to SNS expansion to it in one go.
Let's change the time spent with your hands stopped wondering 'what should I write' into time for 'writing' and 'delivering'.
For those who want to learn more in detail
The excavation of posting ideas introduced in this article is just the entrance to examples of utilizing Claude Cowork.
In the book 'Claude Cowork for Freelancers',
finding posting themes from your own experiences and memos
Automate web research to gather material for your articles
Organize the content you want to convey into article and manuscript structures
Create free gifts or seminar materials from your articles
Summarize sales and page views into monthly reports with graphs
We carefully explain these and other use cases that support the 'publishing' and 'monetization' of content-based freelancers, complete with actual screenshots and copy-pasteable prompts.
If you think 'AI seems difficult,' don't worry. This book aims to help those using AI for the first time to follow along and try it out as they read. Move from publishing that is driven by running out of ideas to publishing that you can sustain. Take that first step with this book.
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Purchasers will also receive an exclusive spreadsheet containing the copy-pasteable prompts introduced in this book.
Let's start using Claude Cowork today to generate your content ideas.
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