The five settings sitting in your account that almost nobody turns on. Where each one lives, and the exact copy-paste move that makes it worth having.
Part 1 taught Claude to know you. Part 2 taught Claude to do work. Part 3 is the set most people never turn on at all… and then wonder why Claude still feels like a chatbot from 2022.
These five are settings and modes that already exist inside your account. Nothing to install. Nothing to pay extra for except one. Each one below gets the exact click path, the exact move that makes it worth having, and a copy-paste prompt at the end.
Knowing a setting exists is worthless. Knowing what to type into it is the whole reason it works.
If you haven’t done Part 1 and Part 2 yet, start there. Everything below assumes those are already done.
1. Turn on Memory. Then go read it.
Claude writes down what it learns about you and carries it into every new chat automatically. The part almost nobody does is open the file and actually read what’s in there.
Where: Settings → turn Memory on. Then find the memory file itself and open it. It’s not a black box. It’s editable text. You can read it, edit it, delete lines, add lines.
The move that matters: read it like a stranger wrote it about you… because in a sense, one did.
Fix what’s wrong. Delete what’s stale. Add the two or three things it clearly never picked up. A wrong memory is worse than no memory, because Claude will confidently build on it for months.
The first time I did this on my own account, I found it still thought I was working on a project I had abandoned in March. Every chat had been quietly assuming that context. Ten minutes cleaning it up made the next month of chats sharper than any prompt tweak I’d tried.
The prompt to run right after you turn it on… see the copy-paste section at the bottom.
2. Open Claude Design.
Claude Design is where you build landing pages, slide decks, one-pagers, and marketing graphics by describing them out loud. It renders on a live canvas while you talk, so you redirect it mid-build instead of starting over every time you don’t love what you see.
Where: in the message box, look for the design option (Anthropic’s been moving this around… check both the + menu and the tools row). It kicks you into a live canvas view.
The move that matters: import your brand before you make anything.
Give Claude your exact fonts (display and body), your exact hex codes, and your logo file. Do it once. From that point on, every design you make will actually look like you.
The difference between “make me a landing page” and “make me a landing page that looks like it came from my brand” is entirely that three-minute setup step. People skip it, get generic-looking output, and blame the tool.
The prompt to run every time you start… see the copy-paste section.
3. Get familiar with Dispatch.
Dispatch lets you text Claude a task from your phone and have it run on your desktop. You pair once, and after that you’re texting your own computer from anywhere.
Where: open Claude on desktop, find Dispatch in the sidebar, scan the QR code with your phone. Under two minutes to set up. This one needs Pro or Max, so it’s the only paid item in this set.
The move that matters: don’t use it for chatting.
Use it for the thing you always remember at the worst possible time. Standing in the grocery line, thinking of the file you meant to pull. Walking the dog, remembering the invoice you meant to send. Sitting at soccer practice, realizing you forgot to draft the reply that’s been sitting in your inbox for three days.
Text the task from your phone. Claude opens the apps on your actual desktop and gets it done. Your files never leave your machine. You come back to your desk and the work is finished.
The value isn’t the phone. The value is that the work happens while you’re away from the desk.
The prompt to test the first time… in the copy-paste section.
4. Change your Effort Level.
This tells Claude how hard to think before it answers. Most people never touch it and quietly burn their monthly limit on tasks that didn’t need any real thinking at all.
Where: click the model name next to the send button. Pick Effort. Levels are low, medium, high, extra high, and max. High is the default. You can change it mid-conversation.
The move that matters: treat it like a budget, not a quality dial.
Drop to low for anything where you already know the answer and just want it typed. Reformatting a list. Renaming files. Summarizing something short. Rewriting a sentence.
Push to max for the handful of things a week where being wrong actually costs you. A pricing decision. A hard email to a client. The plan you’re going to follow for a month. The email that decides whether a lead becomes a client.
Higher effort is slower and eats more of your monthly limit. Spending it on busywork is how people hit their cap by Wednesday and wonder what happened.
The prompt to sort your real weekly tasks… in the copy-paste section.
5. Test Research Mode.
Hit the plus button, pick Research. Instead of one search and one answer, Claude runs search after search… and each new search decides what to look for based on what the last one found. It combs through the web and your connected apps and comes back with something actually thorough.
The move that matters: give it a decision, not a topic.
“Research email marketing platforms” gets you a comparison table you could have found on any blog. Useless.
“I send two campaigns a week to 4,000 people, I need automations and a visual builder, my budget is under $50 a month, and it has to work with Stripe and Google Sheets. Tell me which one to pick and what I’m giving up by picking it”… gets you an actual answer you can act on.
Name your constraints. Ask for a recommendation. That’s the difference between a report and a decision.
The prompt shape to always use… in the copy-paste section.
The five copy-paste prompts
Do them in order. The whole set takes an afternoon.
1. Memory Audit
Paste this right after turning Memory on:
Show me everything you currently remember about me, grouped into four categories: my work and business, my preferences and how I want you to work with me, 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 not sure is still true, and anything that seems to contradict something else you have. Don't soften this. Don't fill gaps with a guess.
When you're done, ask me one question at a time about the items you flagged, and update your memory with my answers as we go.2. Claude Design, Brand First
Paste this before you ask it to design anything, ever:
Before we make anything, I want to set up my brand so everything you build stays on it.
My display font is [FONT NAME].
My body font is [FONT NAME].
My main brand color is [HEX].
My background color is [HEX].
My text color is [HEX].
My accent color, if I have one: [HEX].
My brand sounds [three to five words that describe your voice, e.g. warm, plain-spoken, a little bold, no corporate jargon].
Hard rules:
- Never use a font or color I did not list.
- Never use stock-photo style imagery. If we need visuals, ask me what to use.
- Never center long paragraphs of text.
- Never add hype language like "unlock," "elevate," "game-changer."
Confirm you have all of this. Then ask me what we're making first, and don't start until I answer.3. Dispatch, The Standing Task
Text this to Dispatch from your phone the first time you use it:
On my desktop, open the folder called [FOLDER NAME] and tell me what's actually in it.
Group the files by what they're for. Name anything that looks like a duplicate or an old version. Then tell me the three files I most likely need this week.
Do not move, rename, or delete anything. Just report back.4. Effort Level, The Weekly Sort
Run 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 YOU ACTUALLY DO]
Sort every single one into LOW effort, HIGH effort, or MAX effort.
- LOW means the answer is already decided and you're just producing it.
- HIGH means real reasoning, but a wrong answer is cheap to fix.
- MAX means being wrong costs me money, time, or credibility with a real person.
For each task, give me the single reason it landed in that bucket. Be strict. Most tasks belong in LOW and people waste their limits pretending otherwise.5. Research Mode, The Decision Brief
Use the plus button, pick Research, then paste this shape:
I need to decide [THE ACTUAL DECISION].
My constraints:
- Budget: [$X]
- Timeline: [X]
- My technical level: [X]
- It has to work with these tools I already pay for: [LIST THEM]
- Non-negotiables: [ANYTHING ELSE THAT MATTERS]
Research the real options. Then give me:
1. One recommendation, and why it wins for my specific situation.
2. The two runners-up, and exactly why they lost.
3. What I'm giving up by taking your pick.
4. The one thing that would change your answer if it were different.
Tell me where the evidence was thin or contradictory, instead of writing around it.If you only do one thing
Do the Memory Audit.
It’s the only one on this list that makes every future chat better without you doing anything else afterwards. And it’s the one where people find something genuinely wrong sitting in there… a stale project, a preference from six months ago, a fact about someone that changed. Fix that once and the whole tool sharpens.
Ten minutes. Compounds forever.