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10 Hacks Every Claude User Should Know

Elevate your interactions with the AI chatbot.

By David Nield

May 29, 2026

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Claude is one of the AI platforms at the forefront of the generative AI revolution: It has become the go-to AI of choice for many coders, and is leading the push into agentic AI that can take actions for users, too. It’s also really simple to use, and even opens up with a warm and familiar greeting (“back at it” when I last loaded it). However you use Claude, there are also numerous features and tools worth knowing about that can help you dive deeper into the AI’s capabilities. Whether it’s getting Claude to rummage through your emails, adjusting the style that Claude responds in, or putting Claude to work in your web browser, there is plenty to explore outside of the core prompt box.

Connect Claude to Gmail to help manage your inbox

Connectors enable Claude to attach itself to other apps, and there are a lot of them, including Spotify, Canva, Tripadvisor, and Uber. You can add a new connector to Claude by clicking on the + (plus) button in the lower left corner of the prompt box, then choosing Connectors > Add connector.

The Gmail connector is particularly useful. If you give Claude permission to access your inbox, the AI can carry out tasks like summarizing your daily messages, or identifying emails that need responding to. You could try “which email sender do I leave unread the most in my Gmail account?” for example, or “find emails in Gmail over the last 30 days that look as if they needed a response.”

Use Claude to create interactive visualizations to boost learning

Claude showing how sound waves work.Credit: Lifehacker

Claude can’t generate AI images in the same way that ChatGPT and Gemini can, but it is able to produce diagrams, charts, and visualizations, and make them interactive. One of the best ways to make use of this is when you’re learning about something: You could get Claude to make an interactive diagram of a volcano, for example, or a timeline of the music of the 1990s you can scroll through.

A prompt like “create an interactive visualization for me explaining how sound waves work” will show off what Claude can do. You’ll get a simple animation in return showing how sound waves work, and sliders for adjusting the frequency and amplitude of the sound waves so you can see the differences it makes.

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