For a long time, I only opened Claude Code when I thought I had a coding problem. I’d ask it to write a script, explain something unfamiliar, or help me untangle a project that had already gone sideways. It was useful, but I kept treating Claude’s ability to inspect an entire directory as a side feature rather than my favorite use. Once I started pointing it at messy project folders, scattered notes, old drafts, and files with names that stopped being helpful months ago, it became far more useful in my actual day-to-day work.