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  "video_id": "reddit_1u92t33",
  "channel_slug": "ClaudeAI",
  "channel_handle": "r/ClaudeAI",
  "title": "8 things about Claude Projects that took me too long to figure out",
  "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1u92t33/8_things_about_claude_projects_that_took_me_too/",
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  "upload_date": "20260618",
  "published_at": "2026-06-18T10:40:39+00:00",
  "transcript": "ive been on Pro since forever and only started using Projects seriously a few months ago. here's the stuff i wish someone had told me on day one instead of figuring out the hard way.\n\n1. project instructions beat custom styles for consistency. if you want every chat in a project to sound a certain way, put it in the project instructions, not a style. styles are global, instructions are scoped. i mixed these up for weeks.  \n2. the knowledge files go stale in your head. i had an old brief sitting in a project's knowledge for two months and kept wondering why answers felt off. it was answering from the old doc. clean your knowledge like you clean a fridge.  \n3. starting a fresh chat inside the project is underrated. long chats get muddy. new chat, same project, keeps the context but drops the mess. i was scared to lose history. dont be.  \n4. Sonnet 4.6 is fine for most project work. i was defaulting to Opus 4.8 for everything out of habit and burning through limits. moved the routine stuff to Sonnet and stopped hitting ceilings by 3pm.  \n5. you can put \"say i dont know instead of guessing\" in the instructions and it actually helps. cuts the confident-wrong answers a lot.  \n6. one project per actual project. i had a mega-project called \"work\" that became a junk drawer. splitting it by client made everything sharper.  \n7. paste your own writing into the knowledge if you want it to match your voice. telling it \"write like me\" does nothing. showing it 3 samples does a lot.  \n8. it wont remember across projects. obvious in hindsight. i assumed context bled between them and it doesnt.  \n\nprobably half of this is obvious to people who read the docs. i did not read the docs. what's the one Projects thing you figured out late that felt dumb in hindsight?\n\n\n\n--- Top Comments ---\n\n\n[21 upvotes] Quick question - what benefits did you see in working with Project instead of Claude Code with local folder access?\n\nI used to have projects but it was impossible to maintain versions in Project and my local drive. \nNow I use Claude code to plan and create files and folders and synced with Google Drive so I have cloud access as well.\n\n[18 upvotes]  The biggest one for me was realizing that Projects are great for continuity, but not for infinitely growing chats.\n\n I used to keep everything in one conversation because I didn't want to \"lose context.\" Now I start fresh chats inside the same project all the time, and the answers are usually better.\n\n[7 upvotes] We all have mobile phones with auto correct. I can see you absolutelyk ow how to capitalize a letter.\n\nDude I don't care you used AI, but trying to hide it by making every first word lowercase is just so dumb man. Its literally more obvious than an em dash. Why dude? We are *literally in an ai sub* 😂\n\n[5 upvotes] i was planning to do a quick guide for my non-techie colleagues but seeing where you started from, i fear i'll have to detail a lot more than i thought.  \n  \n\n\nmost of your findings are applicable for any collaborative project even without AI: structure, encapsulation, readme, using templates or references to get inspiration from, keeping documentation up to date, etc... are absolutely necessary if you don't want your colleagues to either lose hours reading all, or simply skipping/ignoring what they don't see as immediately relevant, even though \\*you\\* know it's fundamental.\n\n\n\nthanks for sharing your experience though.\n\n[4 upvotes] Why are there no capital letters?? ",
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