{
  "id": 637346,
  "title": "15 incredibly useful things you didn’t know Claude could do",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/15-incredibly-useful-things-you-didnt-know-claude-could-do",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-12T04:30:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Fast Company",
    "slug": "fast-company",
    "url": "https://www.fastcompany.com/91575872/claude-tips"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "For those who are not familiar with AI, Anthropic's Claude is an often overlooked AI resource that offers a range of impressive capabilities. Claude was launched five years ago by a team of former OpenAI employees who aimed to build their own generative artificial intelligence engine. This AI powerhouse is especially popular among coders, designers, and automation enthusiasts for its powerful tools and strong focus on productivity. However, Claude can also serve as a helpful assistant for more straightforward tasks, and its unique approach to AI provides several advantages over other well-known AI systems.\n\nOne of Claude's most valuable features is its ability to avoid the common pitfalls of AI accuracy, such as \"hallucination\" or making up false information. By instructing Claude to \"think deeply,\" \"research,\" double-check its work, or provide a confidence level in its answers, users can significantly improve the quality and reliability of the information received. These prompts may require more processing time, but the resulting answers are often more thorough and accurate.\n\nClaude also offers a more interactive experience by prompting users to ask clarifying questions to improve its understanding of the original query. Users can even combine this feature with previous tips to create more detailed prompts, leading to more personalized and robust responses. Additionally, Claude can generate visualizations like interactive diagrams, charts, flowcharts, org charts, timelines, and process maps, making complex concepts easier to understand.\n\nAnother useful feature is Claude's ability to create custom interactive widgets, such as calculators, unit converters, budgeting tools, and recipe-scaling wizards, right within its chat interface. Users can easily create custom calculators for any purpose by simply asking Claude to do so. Moreover, Claude can generate custom interactive maps that outperform Google Maps, plotting locations and comparing them to provide a more comprehensive view. Claude can also build custom games, ranging from simple tic-tac-toe and Connect Four to more complex text-based role-playing games, providing users with a source of entertainment during their chat sessions. Finally, users can ask Claude to write bookmarklets, which are small programs that can enhance their web browsing experience, such as creating a dark mode switch or adding a summary button for any webpage.",
  "summary": "For most regular tech-using mortals, thinking about AI means thinking about ChatGPT or Gemini . For those in the know, though, there’s also Anthropic’s Claude . And whether you’re among the Claude-embracing crowd or someone who’s never ventured into its embrace, this off-the-beaten-path productivity powerhouse is packed with potential that you’ve probably never noticed. Claude came online five…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}