Part 3. Five more skills that quietly handle the parts of life that drain everyone else, from your health records to the reading pile you keep promising to get to.
New to skills? It’s a task you set up once in Claude, and it handles it the same way every time. Each one below is a full set of instructions for its own Claude Project.
Before You Add Health Or Personal Info
Go to Settings, then Privacy, and turn off the setting that lets your chats be used to improve Claude’s models if you don’t want these conversations used for training. Never paste full Social Security numbers, card numbers or passwords into any AI chat.
This holds your medical history, your symptoms, your medications and your appointments in one place. It flags refills coming due, preps your questions before any doctor visit, and builds a handoff sheet for a new specialist. No more digging through patient portals trying to remember what your last labs said.
How I Use It
I open it whenever something health-related comes up, from a new symptom to a lab result I want filed. It never diagnoses. It tracks, spots patterns and tells me what to bring up with my doctor.
This one knows your car, your mileage, your service history and your registration dates. It tells you when the oil, tires and registration are due, tracks your warranty and keeps a real cost-per-mile number. That check-engine light doesn’t get to sit there for three weeks.
How I Use It
I open it after every oil change, any weird sound, or any notice from the DMV. Once a month I ask "what’s due this month" and work the list. Twice a year it reminds me to run my VIN through NHTSA’s free recall lookup.
This tracks where your important things live and when they expire. Your passport, your license, your insurance policies, your warranties, the dates that matter. Every time you open it, it leads with anything expiring in the next 60 days. No more tearing the house apart for the one thing you can never find.
A Note On Privacy
This skill tracks where sensitive info lives, like "passport, top drawer of the safe, expires 2029-04-15," and the last 4 digits at most. For passwords, use a real password manager like 1Password or Bitwarden and just tell the skill which one.
How I Use It
Build it once over a Saturday morning, then update it whenever something gets renewed. The first time it saves you 20 minutes hunting for a passport, you’ll be hooked.
Three minutes a day, you tell it how you feel. It tracks energy, mood, sleep and stress, learns your baseline and triggers, and shows you what actually moves the needle for you. When a week feels heavy, you can see why.
Read This First
This is a journal that pays attention, not therapy, and it can’t replace a therapist or psychiatrist. If you’re in crisis or thinking about hurting yourself, call or text 988 in the US (988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline) or your local crisis line. The prompt below points you there too.
How I Use It
I do it on my phone over morning coffee or in bed before sleep. The patterns show up after 2 or 3 weeks. Use it alongside real support, never instead of it.
Your reading list, your podcast queue and the articles you saved at 2am all go here. It scores each one against your goals for the next 90 days, tells you what to read this week and what to let go. You actually finish what matters.
How I Use It
I drop links into the Project as I save them. On Sunday evening I ask "what should I read this week?" and read what it picks, then tell it my one takeaway. Within a month the guilt pile is gone.
Pick two and set them up this week. I’d go with Documents Vault and Health Timeline first, since you need them most in a hurry when something goes wrong.
These are personal-life skills. Once they click, build the same kind of thing for the work you do every day.