Descriptions:
Paul J. Lipsky demonstrates five Claude Co-work use cases designed for users who have moved past basic file organization. The video opens with a daily briefing workflow: a scheduled Co-work task that runs each morning to flag priority emails, surface calendar events, pull industry news ranked by engagement, and report on YouTube analytics—all delivered as a desktop file before the workday starts. Lipsky shows how to configure this using Co-work’s scheduled tasks panel, including an undocumented syntax for specifying custom times and multi-point schedules not exposed in the standard dropdown.
Subsequent use cases cover Dispatch—Anthropic’s companion mobile app—for sending tasks to Co-work from a phone and receiving results without needing computer use; Mac computer use configuration (accessibility and screen recording permissions, the “unhide apps” toggle); and an iMessage-based automation where Lipsky messages a named Co-work agent (“Frank”) from his Apple Watch to trigger overnight research tasks. Each section includes the exact settings path inside the Claude desktop app.
The throughline is using Co-work as a persistent local agent across device contexts rather than just a chat interface. For Claude users looking to automate recurring research, reporting, or task delegation without writing code or configuring external tools, this video serves as a practical reference for what the current Co-work feature set can handle end-to-end.
📺 Source: Paul J Lipsky · Published March 29, 2026
🏷️ Format: Tutorial Demo
