Descriptions:
Claude Co-work’s new Projects feature fundamentally changes how users organize and configure their AI workspaces, and this tutorial from Paul J Lipsky is one of the most practical guides to using it correctly. Projects are self-contained workspaces tied to a specific folder on the user’s computer, each with its own persistent instructions, memory, scheduled tasks, and file access — all surfaced through a dedicated panel in the Co-work desktop app rather than managed through scattered markdown files.
Lipsky walks through building a bookkeeping project from scratch, demonstrating the right way to write project instructions (high-level role definition, not specific workflows), how memory updates automatically as Claude learns user-specific details like which accounting software is in use, and how Skills handle the actual step-by-step automation. He draws a clear distinction between the system’s components — folders hold raw files, projects are where work happens, instructions define scope, skills encode workflows, and memory maintains persistent context — and explains why conflating them leads to underuse of the feature.
The video also addresses a common criticism: that Projects merely formalize something power users already built manually using CLAUDE.md instruction files and separate memory files inside project folders. Lipsky acknowledges this but makes a compelling case that the new interface is meaningfully faster, cleaner, and less fragile — particularly because instructions and memory no longer clutter the working folders alongside actual deliverables. Useful for anyone currently relying on manual folder conventions in Co-work.
📺 Source: Paul J Lipsky · Published March 23, 2026
🏷️ Format: Tutorial Demo
