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Studying with Claude
Connect each course's Claude project to its transcripts.
Connect a Claude project
Create one Claude project per course, then give it access to your transcripts.
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Turn on the Filesystem connector
In the Claude desktop app, open Settings → Connectors, turn on Filesystem and give it your lectures folder.
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Print the project instructions
Terminal
stenny project-instructions
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Paste them into each project
Paste each course's block into that course's project instructions. You only do this once.
This works in the Claude desktop app on the Mac. There's no way to push files into a project's knowledge automatically.
What Claude can do then
- Read the newest transcripts and summaries of the course.
- Cite them by lecture and minute, like Lecture 3 [0:12:30].
- Combine them with the project's own files, such as slides or exercise sheets.
- Keep the course glossary up to date from the project files and from misheard terms it notices. Claude only changes the glossary, never the transcripts.
Reading a whole course
For questions about a whole course, Claude can read the course files instead of each lecture:
| File | Contents |
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Data Analytics (all lectures).md | Every final transcript of the course, with a table of contents built from the section headings. |
Data Analytics (summaries).md | Every summary. Much smaller. |
They hold the same text as the lecture folders, so Claude should read one or the other, not both. Live drafts are left out until their final pass.
A one-hour lecture is about 11,000 tokens, so a semester of one course comes to roughly 150,000 to 250,000 tokens.
Written for an AI to read
Stenny writes every file so Claude can tell it apart and judge it:
- Every file name says the course and the date.
- Every file starts with the course, the lecture number, the date, the length and a note on how reliable it is.
- The note says the transcript is audio only: “this” or “here” may point to slides or the board, the lecture may stray from the slides, and voices from the room can slip in.
- The files link to each other: lectures to the previous and next one, and to their topics.
The AI step
Separately from your Claude project, Stenny can call Claude Haiku once after each lecture to add section headings, write the summary and suggest fixes for misheard terms. It never rewrites what was said. See How cleanup works and Set up the AI step.