Cover of Claude and You: A Plain-English Guide to Using AI in Everyday Life, by Derek Epperson
2026 Edition  ·  90 pages  ·  Instant PDF

You tried AI once.
Then you closed the tab.

Nobody told you how to talk to it. This guide does, in plain English, with real conversations from ordinary days.

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Here is what a page of it actually looks like.

Paul had been fighting his cable company for six weeks. They had overbilled him $140, and every phone call ended with a promise that never arrived. Every letter he tried to write came out either too angry or too meek. So he stopped writing it himself.

Paul
I need to write a formal complaint letter to my cable company. They overbilled me $140 in October, I've called three times, each time they said it would be fixed, and it never was. I want the $140 credited and I want someone senior to respond, not a front-line rep. I need to sound serious without sounding like I'm just venting.
Claude
In October, I was incorrectly charged $140 on my account. I contacted your customer service on [date 1], [date 2], and [date 3]. Each representative acknowledged the error and assured me a credit would be applied. To date, no credit has appeared.

I am requesting two things: a $140 credit applied to my account within 10 business days, and a written response from a customer relations manager confirming this has been resolved.

Paul sent the letter. He had a $140 credit and a call from a supervisor within four days.

Every chapter in the guide works like that. One thing Claude can do for you, explained in plain English, with a real conversation you can copy and adjust. None of them are about writing code.

What is actually in the 90 pages

Twenty chapters, an introduction, and an appendix. You do not have to read it front to back. Start wherever your life is most complicated right now.

Chapters 1 to 4

Getting started

What Claude actually is, in five minutes. Getting it running on your computer, your phone, and your desktop, with the free plan and no credit card. Your first real conversation. And the short chapter on why Claude answers the way it does, which is the one that stops most people from giving up in week one.

Chapters 5 and 6

Asking well

The one prompt recipe that fixes most bad answers, and the difference between a question that gets you nothing and a question that gets you exactly what you wanted.

Chapters 7 to 12

Everyday life

Email and messages. Research and decisions. Writing. Planning. Health and insurance paperwork. Making sense of long documents.

Chapters 13 to 17

Work, thinking, and the parts people miss

Writing at work without sounding like a robot. Thinking a hard problem through out loud. Uploading files and photos. Using Projects so you stop re-explaining yourself. And how the web, phone, and desktop versions fit together in one day.

Chapters 18 to 20

Honest limits

When not to use Claude. What happens to what you type. And a seven day plan to turn all of this into an actual habit.

The appendix

50 prompts you can copy tonight

Organized by situation, not by theory. Email, health and medical, work writing, planning, personal decisions, documents, home and family, research. Fill in the brackets and send.

Who this is for, and who it is not

Buy it if

  • You have heard about AI for two years and still feel a step behind.
  • You tried it, got something bland or strange back, and quietly gave up.
  • You want help with the actual stuff: the email, the form, the appointment, the decision.
  • You want one place that covers the website, the phone app, and the desktop app.
  • You are buying it for a parent, and you want something they will genuinely read.

Skip it if

  • You write software for a living.
  • You want prompt engineering at scale, or agent workflows.
  • You are looking for Claude Code, MCP, or API documentation.
  • You already use Claude every day and have your own habits.

If you are in this column, the guide will bore you. That is not who it was written for, and saying so now is cheaper for both of us than a refund later.

Reasonable questions

Do I have to pay for Claude on top of this?
No. The guide starts you on Claude's free plan, which is genuinely useful and enough for weeks. Chapter 2 explains what the $20 Pro plan adds and when it is actually worth it, so you can decide later instead of guessing now.
What exactly do I get for $19?
One PDF, 90 pages, designed cover to cover, delivered the moment you check out. Read it on a laptop, a tablet, a phone, or print it. It is yours to keep.
I am really not a technical person. Will this actually work for me?
If you can send an email, you can use Claude. There is nothing to install to get started, no settings to configure, and no jargon you are expected to already know.
Will this be out of date in six months?
The buttons will move. The way you talk to Claude will not. The guide teaches the second thing.
Is this an official Anthropic product?
No. It is an independent guide, written by one person, not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic. Nobody paid for a mention in it.
Is it any good?
It is new, so there are no reviews to point at yet, and inventing some would be a strange way to start. The sample above is straight out of the book, so you can judge the writing for yourself before you spend anything. That is the only honest answer I have.

Ninety pages, and by page ten you will have already used it.

Nineteen dollars, once. No subscription, no account to create here, no upsell waiting on the other side.

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