Claude Turned a Dense PDF Into Questions I Could Actually Answer

I used Claude the way most people first try it — slowly, and with a lot of backtracking.

I kept breaking this task by overthinking it. Here's the order that finally worked.

Step one is the boring part people skip: gather the raw material in one place so the tool isn't guessing.

Then let Claude do the draft, but watch caps out on very long coding sessions.

The fix that mattered: check the one fact you'd be embarrassed to get wrong

What changed: writes the cleanest long-form prose of the bunch Now it's a ten-minute job I don't dread.

Don't expect it to be fire-and-forget. The tool handles the volume; you handle the judgment. That split is the whole trick.