# New To Claude, Part 3: The Five Prompts
From learnaiwithmariah.com/guides/new-to-claude-5-things-part-3/

## 1. MEMORY AUDIT
Paste this into a new chat after checking memory is on:

Show me everything you currently remember about me, grouped into: my work, my preferences, my ongoing projects, and facts about people in my life. For each item, tell me where you picked it up if you know.

Then flag:
- anything you're unsure is still true
- anything that contradicts something else you have
- anything that looks out of date

Don't soften it and don't fill gaps with guesses. When you're done, ask me about the flagged items one at a time, and update your memory with my answers. Finish by listing the 3 things you'd most like to know about me that would make your answers better.

## 2. CLAUDE DESIGN, BRAND FIRST
Paste this before you ask it to design anything:

Before we make anything, I'm setting up my brand so everything you build stays on it.

- Display font: [FONT]. Body font: [FONT].
- Colors: [HEX] main, [HEX] background, [HEX] text, [HEX] accent.
- Logo: [attached / describe it].
- My brand sounds: [three words, e.g. warm, direct, no fluff].
- Who it's for: [my audience in one sentence].

Rules: never use a font or color I didn't list, no stock-photo style imagery, never center long paragraphs, and keep text large enough to read on a phone.

Confirm what you've got back to me as a short style sheet, tell me anything that's missing, then ask me what we're making first.

## 3. COWORK, THE FIRST HANDOFF
Send this from Cowork on your phone or computer:

Go through [my Google Drive folder called FOLDER NAME / my inbox from the last 7 days] and tell me what's actually in there.

1. Group everything by what it's for.
2. Name anything that looks like a duplicate, an old version, or something I forgot to reply to.
3. Tell me the 3 things I most likely need to deal with this week, with one line on why.

Rules: don't move, rename, delete, send or reply to anything. Just report back in a short list I can read on my phone. If you can't reach something, tell me instead of guessing.

## 4. EFFORT LEVEL, THE WEEKLY SORT
Paste this once and keep the answer somewhere you'll see it:

Here are the tasks I bring to you in a normal week: [LIST 8 TO 10 REAL TASKS].

Sort every one into LOW, HIGH or MAX effort.
- LOW: the answer is already decided and you're just producing it (reformatting, short summaries, renaming).
- HIGH: real reasoning, but a wrong answer is cheap to fix.
- MAX: being wrong costs me money, time or credibility.

For each task, give me one sentence on why it landed in that bucket. Be strict. Most tasks belong in LOW. Finish with a one-line rule of thumb I can remember.

## 5. RESEARCH, THE DECISION BRIEF
Click +, pick Research, then paste this:

I need to decide [THE ACTUAL DECISION].

My constraints:
- Budget: [X]
- Timeline: [X]
- My technical level: [X]
- It has to work with: [THE TOOLS I ALREADY PAY FOR]

Research the real options, then give me:
1. One recommendation.
2. The two runners-up and exactly why they lost.
3. What I give up by taking your pick.
4. The one thing that would change your answer if it were different.

Use current sources and cite them. Tell me where the evidence was thin instead of writing around it. Keep the final answer under 400 words, with the sources at the end.