Neat topic! I’ve recently built a bunch of Claude Cowork Skills to help with reviews. I haven’t been this excited about software in years.
I expect I will purchase the Field Guide. I have been working with Claude for my work as a tech journalist and industry analyst, building a Project to do a first pass of proofreading/copyediting articles, and also using Claude for research and helping to draft articles. I expect I can learn a lot from the Field Guide.
Could you use a robot like this to either email a group of people the same email individually or via text message?
Would this field guide make sense for someone who uses NotePlan rather than Obsidian?
David has written this:
I’ve been getting questions about the Robot Assistant Field Guide. Three come up more than any other. They’re fair questions, so let me answer them directly.
“I don’t like Obsidian. Can I still build my robot?”
Yes!
This is an easy point of confusion. The magic really happens here with Claude Cowork. In order for your robot to have memory, it needs to create a bunch of text files on your computer that it can read as it does its work. Obsidian gives you the ability to navigate through those text files easily and read and modify, but that’s not the only game in town. Some people are using the Mac app NotePlan, which also gives you the ability to access, read, and modify text files. I just added a video to the course demonstrating the Robot with Noteplan and DEVONthink. Still others are just using a folder full of text files. I use Obsidian in the course because it’s free and I didn’t want you to have to buy another app, but there are several ways to pull this off.
Yeah, you just ask Claude to find the NotePlan folder then keep NotePlan running so it syncs (if you’re using CloudKit).
Otherwise it’s all the same.