If you’re using Claude Co-work every day to do the same stuff—summarizing emails, prepping for meetings, checking your calendar—you’re doing it the slow way. In this video, I walk through how Scheduled Tasks work so you can set something once and let it run forever. The big “gotcha” you need to know: scheduled tasks only run while your computer is awake. So don’t schedule a 5:00 a.m. run if your laptop is shut; it’ll fire the next time your machine is on. I show two ways to create schedules: (1) build a task manually from the Scheduled Tasks panel (clock icon in the sidebar), where you name it, write the prompt, set frequency (hourly/daily/weekdays/weekly), pick a time, choose a model, and select a working folder/project; and (2) use /schedule directly inside a Co-work conversation to turn an existing chat into an automated recurring task (like daily MLB scores). I also cover how to embed skills directly into your scheduled prompt (so it’s not just “plain text”), how to run a task once to pre-approve tools so future runs don’t pause for permissions, and how to organize schedules inside Projects with task history by day. If you’re not sure what to build first, my recommendation is a daily morning brief that pulls email, calendar, and Slack into one place.