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> # Claude Code Went From Good to Incredible With These 3 Tips
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> Teacher's Tech · Mar 26, 2026 · 1:05
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> 15.4K views · 274 likes
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> If you're using Claude Code, these three tips will save you hours, especially by understanding how to use claude code effectively. Learn about the power of the claude md file, a plain text file you drop into your project folder that Claude Code reads automatically to define your preferences, coding style, and rules. This approach to claude code workflow helps avoid repetition and ensures Claude Code understands your needs from the start, making it a crucial part of claude code best practices.
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> If you're using Claude code, these three tips will save you hours. Most people skip all three. Tip one, create a claw.md file. This is a plain text file you drop right into your project folder and Claude code reads it automatically before it does anything. Put your preferences in there, your coding style, your folder structure, your rules. Now, every single time you start a conversation, it already knows how you work. No repeating yourself. Think of it as as your agent's brain. Tip two, use plan mode. Hit shift tab twice and Claude code switches from just doing things to planning first. It'll map out every step before writing a single line of code. You review the plan, say yes or make changes, and then it executes. This one change alone stops most of those moments where it builds something completely different from what you wanted. Tip three, give it goals, not instructions. Instead of saying create a file called app.js and add a function that does this, say build me a research tool that takes a topic, searches the web, and saves the report. Let it figure out the how. That's when Claude code goes from an assistant to an actual agent working for you. Full beginner tutorial on my channel, check out the link.