From the course: Everyday Productivity with Claude Cowork

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Turn a messy folder into something useful

Turn a messy folder into something useful - Claude Tutorial

From the course: Everyday Productivity with Claude Cowork

Turn a messy folder into something useful

Most real work doesn't start clean. It might start as a folder full of files that you haven't even seen in a long time and may have even forgotten about. So in this folder that we inherited, there's a ton of files and each file also has this prefix that is just the name of the company, Red 30 Tech, plus some ID numbers and some post fixes that aren't particularly helpful. Maybe you've inherited a folder like this in the past. Understanding it would take a lot of time. Let's see how Cowork can help us take care of this task. I've got a new task going right here and I've got the work folder already selected. So I'll type in this prompt. I'm going to say organize this folder into category subfolders and rename the files for clarity. Remove company name prefixes, remove the underscore LIL number number suffixes, use title case and remove redundant words like PowerPoint, do not change the file content and create file index spreadsheet at the root with folder, file name, type, size, and a…

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