YNSPIRAGuides and articles
Here you'll find our step-by-step guides, practical tips and honest takes.
Where should your instructions go in Claude?
Claude has four places for instructions: global, Cowork global, projects and CLAUDE.md. Here's how to tell what belongs where.
How to build an "About me" skill that makes AI much more accurate
Let AI interview you for fifteen minutes, and save the result as a skill you can use anywhere.
Everything you need to know about Copilot Cowork and what to use it for
What Copilot Cowork is compared to regular Copilot Chat, where its limits are, and how it differs from Claude Cowork.
Clean up your files with Claude Cowork and let it keep them tidy
A hands-on test case for non-technical readers: let Cowork analyze, organize, and automate the cleanup of a messy folder, step by step.
How to analyze and organize files with Codex. A practical guide for non-technical users.
A concrete test case showing how you can use Codex to analyze, organize, and automate file cleanup.
How to write better prompts for Claude Opus 4.8
A practical guide to prompting Claude: the principles that work, concrete examples, and what changed with Claude Opus 4.8. For anyone who uses Claude in chat, Cowork, or Projects.
Which AI tools train on your conversations, and how do you change the settings?
Are your conversations used to train AI? Here's the answer for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Mistral and Perplexity, and how to change the settings.
Everything you need to know to really get started with Notion
Understand how Notion is put together, which building blocks you have to work with, and how to set up your own system without getting overwhelmed by all the flexibility.
How to create a presentation with Claude Cowork and Gamma
Learn how to use Claude Cowork together with Gamma to build relevant presentations on specific topics, tailored to you and your context, not just generic web research.
7 practical AI ideas for anyone working in communications or change management
Practical ideas for anyone in communications who wants to use AI for more than first drafts and meeting summaries
Copilot in Excel: smarter than you think, and a different tool than it was in 2024
Learn what Copilot in Excel can do in 2026, how the experience differs across the various interfaces, and practical tips for getting better results in data analysis.
Wispr Flow: A simple tool that changed my workday more than I expected
A review of Wispr Flow, how it differs from other dictation tools, and four ways it has changed my workday.
An intro to Codex for office workers without an IT background
A practical intro to Codex for office workers without an IT background: the most important features, simply explained.
Skills: when you need them and how to build your first one in Claude
Claude Skills let you turn repeatable workflows into reusable recipes Claude can pull up when needed. This guide covers what Skills are, when they're worth building, and walks through creating, saving, testing, and improving your first one step by step.
Copilot Notebooks: better than you think, as long as you avoid the classic mistakes
How to use Copilot Notebooks the right way. A short intro to the tool and 5 decisions to make so you avoid the most common pitfalls.
How to use Claude Cowork
A practical step-by-step guide to getting started with Claude Cowork: how to set up folder structure, context files and instructions so Cowork actually works as an AI colleague in your daily work.
Copilot Create: what's the point, and when should you use it?
Copilot Create: what's the point, how does it break with Microsoft's old logic, and when should you actually use it?
Intro to Gems (small AI helpers) in Gemini
A practical, honest guide to what Gems can do, when they're useful, and the limits worth knowing about.
The NotebookLM guide you didn't know you needed
A practical intro to NotebookLM if you want to understand the tool, get up and running quickly, and use it in a smart way.
How to set up Claude Code as your personal assistant - Part 1
A practical guide to installing Claude Code locally on Mac or Windows and using it as a personal assistant.
How to switch from ChatGPT to Claude without losing everything you've taught it
By analyzing your full ChatGPT conversation history with Claude Cowork -- not just the saved memories -- you can transfer far more context than the official method allows.
How to set up Claude Projects properly
A step-by-step guide to setting up Claude Projects with instructions, files, and Memory.
How to get 10x more out of Claude: From chat to working partner
Most people use Claude as a chatbot. Here's the progression from chat to Projects, Artifacts, Skills, and Cowork.