About Things You Never Knew Claude Could Do
Claude will read your grandmother's handwriting off a photograph.
Almost nobody knows, because nothing in the app tells you. This is the list nobody hands you: 40 things Claude genuinely does, each with the exact prompt or steps, and every one fact-checked.
What's inside
- What Claude can see – charts inside PDFs, handwriting, a screenshot of a table turned into a spreadsheet, two documents compared
- What it can make – working calculators (not instructions for one), real .xlsx / .docx / PDF files, diagrams, calendar files
- Doing the actual work – real calculations instead of estimates, cleaning messy exports, searching with sources
- Shaped to you – memory, custom instructions, teaching it a procedure once
- Conversation controls – edit an earlier message instead of starting over, thinking effort, answer-only-from-my-files
- Uses nobody tries – rehearse a hard conversation, make it argue your plan already failed
- Plus: 8 honest things Claude still can't do, and a 'first afternoon' shortlist
Who it's for
Anyone who uses Claude daily and suspects they're paying for things they don't use. No code.
