Tip: put Claude Cowork to work while you sleep

Most people use Claude Cowork on demand: you ask, it answers. But its real strength is working on its own, on a schedule, through scheduled tasks.

The idea

Instead of repeating the same request every morning, you set it once. Cowork runs it automatically and delivers the result.

Three concrete ideas

• Your morning brief: “Every day at 7am, summarize the 5 most important stories in my field.”
• Inbox under control: “Each morning, summarize my unread emails and flag the ones needing an urgent reply.”
• A regular check-in: “Every Monday, prepare a progress update from the files in my project folder.”

How to do it

First connect a folder from your computer so Cowork can access your files, run your request once to check the result, then simply say: “do this every morning at 7am.” It’s scheduled.

Good habit

Start with a simple, low-stakes task, check the output for a few days, then expand. You turn Cowork into a colleague who has already cleared the ground before you even turn on your screen.