Unhinged cowork use cases
I’m having a tough time coming up with ideas of how to effectively use Cowork. I keep seeing ideas like have Claude re-organize and rename all your files, but my files are… organized already. Or like getting a daily digest of all the emails you have to respond to. That would just be adding extra work because I’m gonna read and respond to all my emails… I know I’m lucky to have a pretty good level of executive functioning and so I don’t need help with that kind of thing. But I’m sure there are interesting ideas and more complex things that would be really useful.
I tried making a dashboard that pulled my overdue Asana tasks and unread emails in my inbox (which function as a to-do list), and I gave it the Getting Things Done framework (which I use), but now it really just feels like a to-do list that tells me how many deep work hours I have in my day per my calendar, which… I already look at my calendar to see what my day is gonna be like.
I want help analyzing stuff, but I can’t figure out how. I did make one tool that, every time I checked off a task that was sorted as a medium level task, it asked me how long that task took. So that eventually it will help prompt me by saying “hey you’ve been avoiding this task for three weeks, but it’s only gonna take you 20 minutes,” but beyond that… Does anyone have ideas?