How To Guides

How to Make Charts and Data Visualisation with the Data Commons MCP

Jan 14, 2026 richardbaxter

How To Guides

This morning I found myself tasked with analysing a dataset for a client. While the analysis will be via SEMrush data exports and Python scripts to format the data I...

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Content Marketing Using AI: the Right Way

Jan 11, 2026 richardbaxter

Case Studies

When it comes to copywriting, AI gets a seriously bad rap. That's fair enough; it definitely feels like AI is coming to eat some of your dinner. But, as we...

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Working with AI: Using Gmail in Claude

Jan 8, 2026 richardbaxter

How To Guides

I've got a client over in Australia who are *just* warming up after a lengthy Christmas break. It's an SAP B1 integration with Shopify and Onetimpim - many moving parts!...

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RAG Without RAG: How to Make a Content Research Index for Claude

Jan 5, 2026 richardbaxter

How To Guides

This weekend's project started with a simple need: collect the transcripts from around 20 YouTube videos from my client's Youtube channel, for a research corpus. The goal was to accurately...

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Automating Tax Receipt Downloads with Gmail API and Docling

Jan 2, 2026 richardbaxter

How To Guides

Featured image: Docling analysing 200+ pdfs and converting to simple markdown How does anyone keep track of business expenses for UK self-assessment? For me, this started because I run multiple...

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Desktop Commander: The First MCP Extension You Need To Install

Dec 12, 2025 richardbaxter

How To Guides

When I discovered Desktop Commander, it quickly become the everything of how I work with Claude. Put simply, this MCP solves a specific, annoying problem: Claude can tell you what...

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Claude Desktop Makes a Brilliant Coding Assistant – Here’s How to Set It Up

Dec 11, 2025 richardbaxter

Beginner's Guides

I know what you're thinking. Everyone says if you want AI coding help, you use Cursor. Or Cline. Or GitHub Copilot. Basically anything that hooks into your IDE with inline...

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Claude Desktop – A Comprehensive Beginner’s Guide (2025)

Dec 11, 2025 richardbaxter

How To Guides

I've been using Claude Desktop for pretty much all of 2025, and it's become my primary AI interface. Not because it's dramatically different from the web version - it's the...

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The Rinse / Repeat Technique in Efficient LLM Context Window Use

Nov 7, 2025 richardbaxter

How To Guides

I've found lengthy prompt threads cumbersome, particularly in Sonnet 4.5 , where, for some reason Claude absolutely loves to create lengthy summary documents and then, a summary of the summary.This...

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How to Set Up Claude Desktop with Google Search Console MCP

Oct 2, 2025 richardbaxter

How To Guides

Claude Desktop's ability to support access to API services using Model Context Protocol (MCP) is impressive stuff. You can actually get Claude connected to the Search Console API and query...

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