How to Claude: The One-Page Cheat Sheet for Getting Started with Claude AI

How to Claude is a free one-page cheat sheet that shows you how to start using Claude AI in about 30 minutes. It covers what Claude is best at, how to install it, which model to pick, and a prompt template that works.

Most people open an AI tool, type a quick question, and get a quick answer back. This cheat sheet points you at the setup that makes Claude sound like you and work on your own files, not just chat.

Here is what is on it:

• The five ways to use Claude: Chat, Projects, Code, Cowork, and Skills
• A five-minute install
• Which model to use for which job
• How to set up Cowork with your own files
• The connectors that let Claude work inside the tools you already use
• A prompt template you can copy today

Save it. Share it. Print it and tape it to the wall. It is made to be passed around.

Download the cheat sheet (PDF)

Made by Michael Creel, Founder of Forward Loans (personal NMLS #420674). Forward Loans, NMLS #2006640.