c/workflows — Full setups you actually use

I'm not a developer. I used Claude Code to build my uncle a local sales dashboard with one-click PDF export.

My uncle manages sales reps at a pharmaceutical company. He needs to see how each one is doing against budget, and then present that in a room, often while travelling. I am not a developer — my background is marketing. The obvious answers were generic BI software, or paying somebody to build a tool. Instead I directed Claude Code in plain language and built a small web app myself. The requirements came out of an actual conversation with him, not from me guessing. The figures are sensitive, so the app runs entirely in the browser: no server, no upload, works offline. He drags in the Excel export he already produces — deliberately not a live connection to the system, so nothing sensitive leaves his laptop. And the output is not only a dashboard. One click turns it into a PDF laid out as slides, because he needed something to put up in front of people, not a screen to scroll through alone.

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Workflowspiedino1mo agoPlaybook

How I turn a nonfiction book into a Claude skill instead of a summary

A summary tells you what a book says. Six months later it is useless, because you cannot remember which bullet applies to the situation actually in front of you. So I stopped making summaries. I extract the decision procedure instead — the steps someone following that method would really take, plus the judgment calls the book flags along the way — and save it as a skill file the assistant loads whenever the topic comes up. Then I consult it the way you would call someone who knows, instead of trying to remember what they once told you. The test I use is simple. Could you hand this to a new hire who never read the book, and would they be able to apply it? If not, I extracted the wrong thing and I go back.

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