---
title: 'How to Use Claude Projects (Full Tutorial)'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=w7_yWjYyxjE'
video_id: 'w7_yWjYyxjE'
date: 2026-08-12
duration_sec: 394
---

# How to Use Claude Projects (Full Tutorial)

> Source: [How to Use Claude Projects (Full Tutorial)](https://youtube.com/watch?v=w7_yWjYyxjE)

## Summary

This video provides a step-by-step tutorial on using Claude Projects, a feature that allows users to create custom AI workspaces. The tutorial demonstrates how to organize files, instructions, and chats in one place, making it easier to manage related work and improve AI response consistency.

### Key Points

- **Introduction to Claude Projects** [00:00] — Claude Projects lets you create a custom AI workspace where you can upload files, add instructions, and keep related chats together, helping to organize everything in one place.
- **Creating a New Project** [00:25] — To create a new project, click on the projects icon on the left-hand side, then click on 'new project' in the top right-hand corner. You can name the project and add a description, which can be edited later.
- **Organizing with Separate Projects** [01:14] — It's recommended to create separate projects for different types of work (e.g., marketing, research, coding) to keep everything organized.
- **Starring a Project** [01:46] — You can star a project to quickly access it from the sidebar, making it easy to return to high-priority projects.
- **Adding Project Instructions** [02:02] — Project instructions help Claude understand how to respond across all chats within the project. You can add instructions for tone, formatting, branding, or workflow guidance. The tutorial demonstrates by telling Claude to start every response with a cookie emoji.
- **Uploading Files** [03:05] — Claude Projects allows you to upload files (documents, spreadsheets, images, PDFs) that Claude can reference across all chats. You can upload from your device, add text content, or reference a GitHub repository. Drag and drop is also supported.
- **Using Uploaded Files as Context** [04:06] — Once files are uploaded, Claude can use them as context in future chats. The tutorial demonstrates asking Claude to summarize customer feedback from an uploaded survey.
- **Uploading Files in Individual Chats** [04:50] — Files uploaded directly within an individual chat are only available in that conversation and do not become part of the overall project knowledge.
- **Managing Chats in a Project** [05:05] — All chats within a project are organized together. You can remove a chat from a project or move it to a different project via the three-dot menu. Existing chats can also be added to a project.
- **Archiving Projects** [05:49] — Once a project is completed, you can archive it to reduce clutter. Archived projects can be accessed later from the archive section.

### Conclusion

Claude Projects is a powerful tool for organizing AI work, allowing users to centralize files, instructions, and chats for specific projects. By using projects, you can save time and ensure Claude has the right context without repeating yourself.

## Transcript

In this video, I’ll show you how to use Claude  Projects step by step. Claude Projects lets you   create a custom AI workspace where you can upload  files, add instructions, and keep related chats  
together. If you use AI chat a lot, you probably  end up with lots of different conversations,   some related and some not. Projects helps you  organize everything in one place. I'm Kevin  
and let's dive in. Here I am on the main chat  screen of Claude. To create a new project, over   on the left-hand side, let's click on the projects  icon. This brings us to the projects home screen,   and you'll see all of your recent projects. In the  top right-hand corner, let's click on new project.  
Here we could type in a name for the project. In  my case, I'll create a project for launching a new   brown butter salted caramel cookie for my small  business, the Kevin Cookie Company. Hopefully this   one becomes a best seller. Now down below, you  can also add a description to explain the purpose  
of the project. I'll leave that blank for now.  Keep in mind, you can always change these later.   In general, it's a good idea to create separate  projects for different types of work so everything   stays organized. For example, you might have  one project for marketing, another for research,  
and another for coding or schoolwork. Once you're  done, right down here, let's click on create   project. This drops us into the new project, the  beginning of something great, hopefully a very   profitable cookie launch. I can keep everything  related to this launch right here in one place,  
including all of my files, any instructions, and  chats with Claude. If I ever want to go back and   the option to edit all of these details.  Now this project is a top priority for me,  
so I want to be able to get back to it quickly.  Up here, I'll click on the star icon. Now over on   the left-hand side, if I open up the sidebar, here  you can see the project under starred. That way I   could very quickly get back to it. Let's now close  the sidebar. Next, let's add project instructions. 
Project instructions help Claude understand how  you want it to respond across all chats within   the project. Over on the right-hand side, let's  click on the plus icon next to instructions. To   make this really obvious, I'll start with a  simple instruction. I'll tell Claude to start  
every response with a cookie emoji. Of course, in  the real world, you'd probably use instructions   for things like tone, formatting, branding,  or workflow guidance, but this makes it really   easy to see that instructions are working. Once  you're all done, in the bottom right-hand corner,  
let's click on save. Let's try a quick chat.  Right up here, I'll ask it to write a tagline   for our new brown butter salted caramel cookie  and then let's run that. There we go. Now that   tagline looks great and you'll notice the cookie  emoji appears at the beginning of the response,  
just like we specified in the instructions.  That means you don't have to repeat yourself   every time you start a new conversation. Claude  already understands the context and instructions   for this project. Up above, let's click back into  the main project view. I’ll click here. One of the  
most powerful features in Claude projects is the  ability to upload files. Claude can then reference   those files across all chats within this project.  Over on the right-hand side, you'll see the files  
category. Let's click on the plus icon. You can  upload files from your device, you could also add   text content, or you could even reference a GitHub  repository, which is typically used for coding   and programming projects. Now, alternatively,  you can also drag and drop files directly into  
the project, and this is my preferred method.  Now I have three files that I want to upload.   One contains customer survey results. Another is a  product pricing spreadsheet. And the last contains   branding notes for the launch. Clearly, we're  running a very sophisticated cookie operation  
over here. You can upload many different file  types, including documents, spreadsheets, images,   PDFs, and more. Now, if you ever want to remove a  file, you could simply click on this X icon. Now   that the files have finished uploading, Claude  can use this information right here as context  
in future chats within this project. Now let's  see it in action. So right up here, I'll ask it   to summarize the customer feedback. If you recall,  one of my files includes a customer survey which  
has feedback on these new cookies. Right up here,  let's run that. Right up here, we start with that   cookie emoji. We're off to a good start. Now here,  Claude reviews all of the different uploaded files   and pulls out the most common feedback themes  from the survey data. Now, instead of repeatedly  
uploading these files every time that I start  a new chat, Claude already has access to this   information within the project. Now personally,  I think that makes it a lot easier to keep all of   your work organized in one place. Now you can also  upload files directly within an individual chat.  
Just keep in mind, those files are only available  within this conversation and won't automatically   become part of the overall project knowledge. Let's now go back to the main project screen.   Up here, I'll click on the project. You'll  notice that all my chats now stay organized  
within this project. Now I can quickly jump  back to any previous conversation related   to this cookie launch. Let's go back. If I no  longer want a chat to be part of this project,   I could click on the three dots and here I can  remove it from the project or I can even change  
it to a different project. And if you already have  an existing chat elsewhere in Claude, over here,   I’ll open the sidebar and here I see all my  different conversations. On any one of these,   I click on the three dots and here I can add it to  a project and that way that conversation will now  
become part of this project. Now I recommend  avoiding unrelated chats in the same project   so that way Claude stays focused on the right  context. Right over here, let's now click back   into main projects view. I'll click over there  and then let's close the sidebar. Once you finish  
working on a project, you can archive it to help  keep things organized and reduce clutter. Now   maybe our brown butter salted caramel cookie  becomes so successful that we no longer need   to actively manage the launch. Of course, that'd  be a nice problem to have. Over here, I can click  
on the three dots and here I have the option to  archive and let's click on archive. Now, if I ever   want to get back to an archived project, I can  simply click on archive right up here and there   I see the project. Hopefully our brown butter  salted caramel cookie becomes a huge success. 
That's a mouthful, just like the cookie is.  In the meantime, feel free to check out more   Claude tutorials right up here. Thanks for  watching and I'll see you in the next video.