Stop 6 of 6 · Weekly
Get something out, then pick your track
How to leave a chat with a real Word doc, spreadsheet or PDF in your downloads folder, and how to choose what you learn next.
What it is
Everything so far has ended inside a chat window. This stop is about getting the work out of it, because the owner does not want a link to a conversation. He wants a file.
When an answer is long or structured, ask for it as a document. Claude opens a panel beside the chat holding the finished thing, and that panel has its own copy and download buttons. Three shapes cover most of Lina's week.
A Word document. Proposals, policies, a summary for the owner. Headings and paragraphs stay intact when he opens it.
A spreadsheet. The unpaid invoice list, a schedule, a comparison. Columns arrive as real columns, so he can sort them.
A one-page PDF. The thing that gets printed or attached without anyone editing it. A site checklist, a one-page fee summary.
Copy versus download
Copy takes plain text and works for anything going straight into an email body. Download gives you the actual file, with the formatting, ready to attach. If a table is involved, download. If Lina finds herself rebuilding a table by hand in Excel, she asked for the wrong one.
The levels ladder
Every other Academy course sits at a level, and the level tells you what it assumes you already do.
| Level | It assumes you already |
|---|---|
| Beginner | Are starting here, like this course |
| Intermediate | Upload files and use a Project without thinking |
| Hard | Run connectors and multi-step work across tools |
| Seriously hard | Are building things other people rely on |
Everything above Beginner lists Foundations as a prerequisite, which you have now finished. Intermediate is where almost everyone should go next.
Picking a track
Pick the track that matches what you actually do most days, not the one that sounds most impressive. If the answer is "a bit of everything", pick the one covering the task that eats the most hours this month. Do one track properly, apply it for a fortnight, then add a second.
Try this
Turn the table above into a one-page document I can download and send to the firm's owner. Title it "Unpaid invoices, week of [paste the date]". Keep the table, add two sentences at the top saying what the totals are, and no other commentary.
I am the office manager at a nine-person engineering firm: invoices, the shared inbox, proposals, scheduling and the owner's calendar. Ask me three questions about where my hours actually go, then tell me which single area I should learn first and why.