Claude Code for product managers: research, writing, context libraries, custom to-do system, and more | Teresa Torres
Episode
43 min
Read time
2 min
Topics
Productivity, Relationships, Leadership
AI-Generated Summary
Key Takeaways
- ✓Custom Task System: Build personalized task management in Claude Code using markdown files with front matter (due dates, tags) stored in Obsidian, enabling natural language commands like "new task" instead of clicking through GUI interfaces daily.
- ✓Automated Research Pipeline: Set up Python cron jobs to search arXiv and Google Scholar daily based on custom keywords, automatically generate paper summaries overnight, and deliver filtered research digests integrated directly into your morning to-do list workflow.
- ✓Context File Architecture: Create small, focused context files (writing style guides, business profiles, product details) instead of one large file, allowing Claude to load only relevant context per task and deliver accurate, personalized responses without repetitive prompting.
- ✓AI Writing Partnership: Use Claude as a writing reviewer rather than generator by maintaining detailed style guides with specific tone, audience, and formatting preferences, enabling real-time feedback, research assistance, and typo correction while preserving authentic voice.
What It Covers
Teresa Torres demonstrates how she uses Claude Code to manage her entire workflow through custom task management, automated academic research digestion, structured context libraries, and AI-assisted writing without coding expertise.
Key Questions Answered
- •Custom Task System: Build personalized task management in Claude Code using markdown files with front matter (due dates, tags) stored in Obsidian, enabling natural language commands like "new task" instead of clicking through GUI interfaces daily.
- •Automated Research Pipeline: Set up Python cron jobs to search arXiv and Google Scholar daily based on custom keywords, automatically generate paper summaries overnight, and deliver filtered research digests integrated directly into your morning to-do list workflow.
- •Context File Architecture: Create small, focused context files (writing style guides, business profiles, product details) instead of one large file, allowing Claude to load only relevant context per task and deliver accurate, personalized responses without repetitive prompting.
- •AI Writing Partnership: Use Claude as a writing reviewer rather than generator by maintaining detailed style guides with specific tone, audience, and formatting preferences, enabling real-time feedback, research assistance, and typo correction while preserving authentic voice.
Notable Moment
Torres identified a methodological flaw in a viral research paper about purchase intent before it spread widely, then published a critical analysis that became her top-performing LinkedIn post, enabled entirely by her automated research summary system.
Episode Transcript
Why has Claude Code become your buddy? I was writing my notes in my task management tool and that was Trello. As time went on, I just started to get really worried about how am I ever gonna get my data out of Trello. And so I was like, I wonder if Claude can help. And that was like one thing. Maybe I could just do this better with Claude. And by moving my task management to Claude, now Claude sees my tasks. And I can literally start my day and be like, Claude, what's on my to do list that you can just do for me? I can say, hey, Claude, what's my sales pipeline right now? And because Claude is tagging my tasks, it literally can generate a list of all my sales tasks and where they're at. This has given me a lot of inspiration because I forget a lot of things. There's a lot going on. Welcome back to How I AI. I'm Claire Vaux, product leader and AI obsessive, here on a mission to help you build better with these new tools. Today, we have a very practical episode with Teresa Torres, author of Continuous Discovery Habits, which we all know and love, an internationally acclaimed author, speaker, and coach. Teresa's gonna show us how she uses Claude Code for basically everything, but especially to manage her huge to do list, all the information she needs to do a great job, and builds a giant contacts library so she can be, as she says, lazy with her prompting. Let's get to it. This episode is brought to you by Brex. If you're listening to this show, you already know AI is changing how we work in real, practical ways. Brex is bringing that same power to finance. Brex is the intelligent finance platform built for founders. With autonomous agents running in the background, your finance stack basically runs itself. Cards are issues, expenses are filed, and fraud is stopped in real time without you having to think about it. Add Brex's banking solution with a high yield treasury account, and you've got a system that helps you spend smarter, move faster, and scale with confidence. One in three startups in The US already runs on Brex. You can too at brex.com/howiai. Teresa, welcome to How I a I. I am so thrilled with today's episode because we get to see what I love, which is good old Claude code in a non coding environment. And we were laughing before the show. You were just in every directory on your computer straight in the terminal. Like, this is how we're living right now. So I have to ask you before we get into any of it, why Claude Code? Why has Claude Code been become your buddy? Yeah. This has been a really gradual evolution. I started like everybody else, like, literally in chat GPT and the web. And then I wanted to have an alum …
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