From the course: Claude Cowork 7-Day Challenge: Find Practical AI Use Cases That Deliver

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Day 1: Set up a Claude Cowork workspace

Day 1: Set up a Claude Cowork workspace

Welcome to day one of the seven-day Cloud Codework challenge. Everything that we'll be doing in this challenge runs inside the Cloud Codework desktop application. If you haven't installed it yet, pause here and follow the setup link that I created in the exercise files. It takes about two minutes. Today's task is the fastest one in the challenge. We're going to set up your Cloud Codework workspace from scratch. Although this may seem simple, it's actually one of the most important and secure features that Cloud Codework has. In addition to making sure that the files and projects that you create aren't disorganized and all over the place, localizing your project to a single folder only gives Cloud Cowork control of anything that's inside of that folder and doesn't allow this agentic AI tool access to other data outside of that folder that you may not want Cloud Cowork having access to. OK, so I want you to follow along exactly as you're shown on screen. Open up the Cloud Desktop app…

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