An Introduction to Cowork for Writers
Run your author business with Claude. No computer science degree required.
Cowork is the mode where Claude stops being a chatbot and starts being a teammate: reading your files, running your checklists, and doing real work beside you. This course takes you from first setup to a working AI-assisted author business, one friendly, plain-English lesson at a time.
It's taught from inside a working publishing operation (the same one that built this website with the robots you see around here), and it was built in the open, lesson by lesson, inside the publishing operation it teaches. The full video course lives here, complete.
Lifetime access, refreshed from time to time as the tools evolve. Your sign-in link arrives instantly by email.
What you get
The complete toolkit
41 lessons across four hands-on projects, plus a library of eleven ready-to-use author skills, full transcripts, and a complete class notes collection.
Evergreen by design
Built in the open inside a working publishing operation, and refreshed from time to time as the tools evolve. The workflows carry even when the buttons move.
Permanent access
The full course is yours for keeps. The classroom at learn.inkandcode.ai is already open — your sign-in link arrives by email right after checkout.
Every lesson, listed 📋
No mystery box: this is the complete curriculum, straight from the classroom. Tap a module to peek inside.
Start Here ▶️ · 3 lessons
- Read This First 🗺️
- Notes and Transcripts
- Welcome (0:40) 👋
A First Look 👀 · 6 lessons
- What Is Cowork (11:28)❓
- Getting Started (2:41) 🏁
- Let's Install Claude Desktop - Mac (1:29) 🍎
- Let's Install Claude Desktop - PC (5:28) 🪟
- Let's Take a Tour (9:12)✈️
- Usage Limits and Overages (5:49) 🪙
Project 1: Scheduled Tasks + Marketing Skills 💍 · 5 lessons
- Story Trend Scout Pt 1 (19:47) 🔎
- Story Trend Scout Pt 2 (28:53) 🔎
- Claude's New Built in Browser (3:23) 🌐
- Follow-up 1: Troubleshooting Scheduled Tasks (6:12) 🛠️
- Follow-up 2: They Moved the Furniture Again🪑
Project 2: Artifacts + Connectors · 5 lessons
- A Look at Artifacts (5:50)
- Artifacts in Action: Past and Present (9:47)
- Let's Build an Artifact from Scout Data (6:37)
- Let's Plan with Artifacts: Future (14:25)
- Follow-up: Artifacts Troubleshooting, Quirks, etc
Project 3: Drafting and Editing with Voice Profiles 🦜 · 8 lessons
- Overview + A Voice Profile Creator Skill (12:56) 🦜
- Creating a Voice Profile from Your Existing Books (20:16) 🦜
- Creating a Voice Profile from Scratch (30:13) 🦜
- Drafting with Voice Profiles (22:53) 🦜
- Reviewing the Drafts (22:53) 🦜
- Editing with Voice Profiles Pt 1 (24:27) 🦜
- Editing with Voice Profiles Pt 2 (28:49) 🦜
- Follow-up
Project 4: Let's Format Books! 📚 · 9 lessons
- Book Formatting with AI: Goodbye Vellum and Atticus (13:12)👋
- Formatting Proofs (6:13) 📖
- Making Your Interior Design Elements Pt 1 (14:06) 🎨
- Making Your Interior Design Elements Pt 2 (8:37) 🎨
- Book Formatting for Publication: Ginsus To Get You Started (28:20) 🔪
- Checking Your Formatting on iPad and KDP (6:52)✅
- Formatting the Next Book (22:39) 📚
- Formatting Fails (3:23) 😭
- Follow-up: Questions, Ideas, Updates
More Resources 🧰 · 5 lessons
- BONUS: Let's Get Mobile with Cowork (9:42)📱
- Final Thoughts 🧠
- All the Ginsus 🔪🔪🔪
- All My Classes 🎓
- Additional Resources 🔗
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