🗓️ Claude's Big Update: It Now Creates Your Presentations & Meetings

You probably already know Claude as a smart AI assistant. But recently, it has become more than just a simple chatbot. Claude is changing into a tool that can create files, connect to other apps, and do work in ways you might not have imagined.

If you build products, write code, manage projects, or just want to get more done without spending more time, these updates are very important for you.

In this article, we will look at what Claude can do now: its ability to make and edit real files, connect more deeply with your phone’s apps, its smarter model upgrades, new privacy policies, and practical tools to add Claude to your daily work.

Please read this whole article to get a complete understanding. Let’s see what Claude can do now – and why you might start using it more than you think.

Scheduling On The Go

One of the most useful updates is Claude’s ability to connect with your phone apps and handle real-world scheduling.

Imagine you are heading out and suddenly remember you need to meet a colleague. Instead of switching between apps like Google Maps, your calendar, and a reminders app, you can just tell Claude one simple thing:

“Schedule a meeting at a nearby coffee shop tomorrow at 4 PM with my colleague named An. Remember to add a note to bring the project documents.”

What will Claude do?

1. Check your calendar: First, Claude will ask for permission to access your calendar. Once you agree, it will check if you are free at 4 PM tomorrow. If you are busy, it will tell you and suggest another time.

2. Find a place: Based on your current location, Claude will find nearby coffee shops. It might suggest a few choices with their addresses.

3. Create the event: After you choose a coffee shop, Claude will automatically create an event in your calendar. It will fill in all the details: “Meeting with An,” the location of the coffee shop, and the time at 4 PM.

4. Add a note: Claude will also add the note "bring the project documents" to the event and can even create a reminder on your phone 30 minutes before the meeting.

All of this is done with just one request. You don’t need to switch between different apps. This is when Claude starts to feel more like a real personal assistant than a chatbot.

Another example: Planning your weekend.

You can try a more complex request:

"I want to have a picnic at a park near my house this Saturday morning with my friend Minh. Please check my calendar to see if I am free from 9 AM to 12 PM on Saturday. Find a park with a large grassy area. Then, create an event on my calendar and invite Minh by email. Also, create a to-do list of things to bring in my notes app."

Claude will perform a series of actions: check your calendar, find a suitable place, create an event and send an invite, and finally, make a checklist for you. This shows its ability to connect apps and handle multi-step tasks.

Create And Edit Files Directly

This is a big step forward. Claude can now create, edit, and convert popular file types like Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and PDF right from the chat. (Note: You may need to install the Claude desktop app to use all these features).

Instead of just getting text that you have to copy and paste somewhere else, you can now ask Claude to create nearly finished files for you, or work with files that you upload.

Working With Excel Spreadsheets

This is a very powerful feature for anyone who works with numbers. You don’t need to be an Excel expert to create professional spreadsheets anymore.

Example: Let's say you own a small shop and have a list of sales written down or in a simple text file.

You can upload that text file and ask Claude:

"Please take the data from this text file and create an Excel spreadsheet. The spreadsheet needs to have these columns: 'Date', 'Product Name', 'Quantity Sold', and 'Revenue'. In the 'Revenue' column, please automatically calculate it by multiplying 'Quantity Sold' by the price (Product A: 50,000 VND, Product B: 75,000 VND). Finally, at the bottom row, please calculate the total revenue for all products. Add a second sheet and create a column chart showing the revenue by date."

Claude will generate an Excel file with:

• Data neatly organized into columns.

• Formulas already included (=C2*50000).

• A function to calculate the total (=SUM(D2:D30)).

• A separate sheet with a visual chart, helping you easily track your business performance.

Writing Word Documents

For writing tasks, Claude can save you hours of formatting and organizing documents.

Example: You are a student who has gathered a lot of messy notes for your essay.

You can paste all those notes into Claude and give this command:

"Based on these notes, please create a well-structured Word document about 'The impact of climate change on agriculture in the Mekong Delta'. The document should have:

A title page with the title and my name.

An automatic table of contents.

Main sections: Introduction, Key Impacts (drought, saltwater intrusion), Proposed Solutions, and Conclusion.

Use Heading 1 for the main sections and Heading 2 for smaller points.

At the end of the document, summarize the main points in 3 bullets."

You will get a professionally formatted .docx file, ready for you to edit and add more details.

Designing PowerPoint Presentations

Preparing a presentation often takes a lot of time, especially the design part. Claude can help you create a quick draft.

Example: You need to prepare a short presentation for a team meeting tomorrow.

You can upload a report document and ask:

"Please summarize this report and create a 7-slide PowerPoint presentation.
Slide 1: Title 'Project Alpha Progress Report - September'.
Slide 2: Project goals.
Slide 3: Tasks completed (use bullet points).
Slide 4: Results achieved (if there is data, create a simple chart).
Slide 5: Challenges we faced.
Slide 6: Plan for next month.
Slide 7: Thank you slide.
Please use a simple design with a blue and white color theme."

Claude will create a .pptx file that you can open and adjust the small details. It can even connect with tools like Canva to create more beautiful designs if you set up the connection (we will talk about this later).

Handling PDF Files

Working with PDFs is often difficult, but Claude has made it much simpler.

Example 1: Getting information out of a PDF

You have a 50-page PDF report and you only need the data table on page 27. Instead of copying it manually and messing up the format, you can ask:

"Open the PDF file I just uploaded, go to page 27, find the table named 'Monthly User Statistics' and extract all the data from that table into a new Excel file."

Example 2: Filling out a form

You received a registration form as a PDF and need to fill it out.

"This is a PDF registration form. Please help me fill in the following fields:
Full Name: Nguyen Van A
Date of Birth: 15/10/1995
Address: 123 ABC Street, Ward X, District Y, HCMC
After filling it out, please save it as a new PDF file named 'Completed_Registration_Form.pdf'."

This ability to work directly with files changes Claude from something that answers questions to something that does the work for you.

Connecting To Other Tools With "Connectors"

Another huge update is that Claude can now connect to your other tools and services – your apps, storage drives, design tools, and data – using a feature called Connectors (built on Anthropic's Model Context Protocol, or MCP).

Think of Connectors like giving Claude a key to your other apps. With this "key," Claude can go into those apps to get information or perform actions for you (after you give it permission, of course).

The Connectors Directory makes this setup much easier. Instead of needing to do complex technical setups, you can look through a list of available apps like Google Drive, Slack, Canva, and Notion, and connect them directly.

Here are some real-world examples:

• Managing tasks with Notion:

  If your team uses Notion to manage tasks, you can ask Claude:

  You don’t need to open Notion and filter the tasks yourself. Claude will do it and give you the result right in the chat.

• Working with files in Google Drive:

  This connection is extremely helpful for office work.

"Go into my 'Monthly Reports' folder on Google Drive, find all documents with 'revenue' in the title, read them, and summarize the key business points from the last 3 months in a short paragraph."

• Getting updates from Slack:

  If you don't have time to read all the messages in your work channels, Claude can help.

"Check the #general-announcements channel in our Slack for the past 24 hours and let me know if there are any important announcements I missed."

• Helping with design on Canva:

  You can start a creative idea right inside Claude.

"I need an Instagram post to promote our 'Weekend Sale' event. Please create a design draft on Canva using a template from my account. The main text should be '30% off all products, for 2 days only'."

It's important to know that most connectors are only available on paid plans. Also, there might be some limits, for example, some connectors may only work on the desktop app.

New Privacy And Data Policy

When a tool becomes more powerful, controlling your personal data also becomes more important. Anthropic recently updated its Terms of Service and Privacy Policy to give you a clear choice: do you agree to let your chats and coding sessions (on Free, Pro, or Max plans) be used to train future AI models?

Here is how the new policy works:

• If you choose "Opt-in":

  • Data from your new or continued chats can be used to train future Claude models, helping them become smarter.

  • Your data may be stored for up to 5 years.

  • However, conversations that you have deleted will not be used for training.

• If you choose "Opt-out":

  • The old policy will apply: your data will only be stored for 30 days.

  • Your conversations will not be used for model training.

If you are an existing user, you have until September 28, 2025, to make this choice. New users will see this option when they sign up. You can change your setting anytime in the Privacy Settings.

This gives you more control, but it also means you have to make an important decision. If you work with sensitive information or have strict privacy rules, this is something to think about carefully.

What You Can Now Do That You Couldn't Before

Claude's latest updates let you do things you probably didn't expect from an AI assistant. It's no longer just a place to ask questions; it's a partner that can actually work with you.

For students and researchers:

You can use Claude to search for the latest studies on the web, then ask it to put all the information into a PDF with notes or a complete presentation. Instead of spending hours formatting citations or copying tables into PowerPoint, you can give Claude the raw material and get back a structured document that is almost ready to publish.

• Specific example:

"Please find 5 scientific articles published in the last 2 years about 'CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing for cancer treatment'. Summarize each article in 3 bullet points, including the original link. Then, create a Word document that combines all these summaries, organized by author's name."

For product and project managers:

The connectors feature really changes how you work. Claude can pull tasks directly from your Notion board, write meeting invitations in Google Calendar, and even create a progress report as a Word or PDF file – all from a single request. This means less switching between tabs and more focus on making decisions.

• Specific example:

"Please connect to my 'New App Launch' Trello board. Get all the cards from the 'Urgent To-Do' column and create a meeting event for 10 AM tomorrow in Google Calendar with the title 'Urgent meeting about priorities'. Invite the project members and paste the list of cards into the event description."

For developers:

The new file creation tools let you hand off repetitive data tasks. You can upload log files or CSVs, ask Claude to clean them up into organized datasets, and even get back charts or trend analyses.

• Specific example:

"I have a 'user_feedback.csv' file containing user comments. Please write a Python script to read this file, perform sentiment analysis (positive, negative, neutral) on each comment, and create a new CSV file with an added 'Sentiment' column. Also, create a pie chart showing the percentage of each sentiment."

The Result:

import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from textblob import TextBlob
import numpy as np

def analyze_sentiment(text):
    """
    Analyze sentiment of a given text using TextBlob.
    Returns: 'positive', 'negative', or 'neutral'
    """
    if pd.isna(text) or text.strip() == '':
        return 'neutral'
    
    # Create TextBlob object
    blob = TextBlob(str(text))
    
    # Get polarity score (-1 to 1)
    polarity = blob.sentiment.polarity
    
    # Classify sentiment based on polarity
    if polarity > 0.1:
        return 'positive'
    elif polarity < -0.1:
        return 'negative'
    else:
        return 'neutral'

def process_feedback_csv(input_file, output_file, comment_column='comment'):
    """
    Process the CSV file and add sentiment analysis.
    
    Parameters:
    input_file (str): Path to input CSV file
    output_file (str): Path to output CSV file
    comment_column (str): Name of the column containing comments
    """
    try:
        # Read the CSV file
        print(f"Reading {input_file}...")
        df = pd.read_csv(input_file)
        
        # Check if the comment column exists
        if comment_column not in df.columns:
            print(f"Available columns: {list(df.columns)}")
            # Try to find a column that might contain comments
            possible_columns = [col for col in df.columns if any(keyword in col.lower() 
                              for keyword in ['comment', 'feedback', 'review', 'text', 'message'])]
            if possible_columns:
                comment_column = possible_columns[0]
                print(f"Using column '{comment_column}' for sentiment analysis")
            else:
                raise ValueError(f"Column '{comment_column}' not found in CSV file")
        
        # Apply sentiment analysis
        print("Performing sentiment analysis...")
        df['Sentiment'] = df[comment_column].apply(analyze_sentiment)
        
        # Save the results
        df.to_csv(output_file, index=False)
        print(f"Results saved to {output_file}")
        
        return df
        
    except Exception as e:
        print(f"Error processing CSV file: {e}")
        return None

def create_sentiment_pie_chart(df, save_path='sentiment_distribution.png'):
    """
    Create a pie chart showing sentiment distribution.
    
    Parameters:
    df (DataFrame): DataFrame with sentiment analysis results
    save_path (str): Path to save the pie chart
    """
    # Count sentiments
    sentiment_counts = df['Sentiment'].value_counts()
    
    # Calculate percentages
    total = len(df)
    percentages = (sentiment_counts / total * 100).round(1)
    
    # Create pie chart
    plt.figure(figsize=(10, 8))
    colors = ['#28a745', '#dc3545', '#6c757d']  # Green, Red, Gray
    wedges, texts, autotexts = plt.pie(sentiment_counts.values, 
                                      labels=sentiment_counts.index,
                                      autopct='%1.1f%%',
                                      colors=colors,
                                      startangle=90,
                                      explode=(0.05, 0.05, 0.05))
    
    # Customize the chart
    plt.title('User Feedback Sentiment Distribution', fontsize=16, fontweight='bold', pad=20)
    
    # Add count information to labels
    new_labels = []
    for label, count, pct in zip(sentiment_counts.index, sentiment_counts.values, percentages):
        new_labels.append(f'{label.title()}\n({count} comments)')
    
    # Update legend
    plt.legend(wedges, new_labels, title="Sentiment Categories", 
               loc="center left", bbox_to_anchor=(1, 0, 0.5, 1))
    
    # Make percentage text more readable
    for autotext in autotexts:
        autotext.set_color('white')
        autotext.set_fontsize(12)
        autotext.set_fontweight('bold')
    
    plt.tight_layout()
    plt.savefig(save_path, dpi=300, bbox_inches='tight')
    plt.show()
    
    # Print summary statistics
    print("\n=== Sentiment Analysis Summary ===")
    print(f"Total comments analyzed: {total}")
    for sentiment, count in sentiment_counts.items():
        percentage = (count / total * 100)
        print(f"{sentiment.title()}: {count} comments ({percentage:.1f}%)")

def main():
    """
    Main function to run the sentiment analysis workflow.
    """
    input_file = 'user_feedback.csv'
    output_file = 'user_feedback_with_sentiment.csv'
    
    # Process the CSV file
    df = process_feedback_csv(input_file, output_file)
    
    if df is not None:
        # Create pie chart
        create_sentiment_pie_chart(df)
        
        # Display sample results
        print("\n=== Sample Results ===")
        if len(df) > 5:
            print(df[['comment', 'Sentiment']].head())
        else:
            print(df[['comment', 'Sentiment']])

if __name__ == "__main__":
    # Install required packages (uncomment if needed)
    # import subprocess
    # import sys
    # 
    # packages = ['pandas', 'matplotlib', 'textblob']
    # for package in packages:
    #     subprocess.check_call([sys.executable, '-m', 'pip', 'install', package])
    
    main()

For content creators and marketers:

Claude can now help you go from an idea to a finished piece of content. Start with a brief summary, ask Claude to write a draft blog post, then request a PDF version with images, or even a presentation for your next client meeting. Because web search is built-in, you can add up-to-date statistics and information without leaving the chat.

• Specific example:

"Based on the product description for 'XYZ noise-canceling headphones' that I uploaded, please write a blog post of about 800 words for my website. The post should have a catchy title, an introduction about the benefits of noise-cancellation, 3 key features of the product, and a call to action. Please find and include some statistics about how noise affects work productivity."

Tips And Best Practices

The new features are very powerful, but you will get the most out of them if you use them smartly.

1. Always check which features are on your plan.

   

   File creation and connectors might still be in a testing phase and only available for users on Max, Team, and Enterprise plans. If you are on a Pro or Free plan, you might not see them yet. Knowing this saves you time looking for features you don't have access to.

2. Break down complex tasks into smaller steps.

   

   If you have a big request, break it into smaller steps. This helps Claude understand better and gives more accurate results.

   • Step 1: "Please summarize the main points from this document."

   • Step 2: "Great. Now, based on those main points, create an outline for a presentation."

   • Step 3: "Using this outline, please create the detailed slides for the presentation."

3. Check your app permissions.

   

   When using Connectors, you give Claude permission to access your other apps. From time to time, you should go to your settings to review which apps are connected and remove any connections you no longer need to protect your data.

4. Always double-check information from the web.

   

   The web search feature helps Claude get real-time information, but it can still find unreliable or biased sources. Always check the facts and figures, especially if you are using the information for important decisions, client work, or published content.

Final Thoughts

Claude is no longer just a chatbot you ask questions to. With file creation, app connectors, web search, and improved memory, it is becoming a platform that can fit directly into your daily work.

These updates mean less copy-pasting, less switching between apps, and more time to focus on the parts of your job that truly matter.

In the future, Anthropic will likely continue to add more integrations and improve safety features. So, now is a good time to start experimenting. Try the tools that fit your workflow, pay attention to the privacy settings, and see where Claude can save you effort. The sooner you adapt, the more value you will get from it.

Thanks for reading.

This article was inspired by and contains information from a piece written by Pradip Kaity. The examples and expanded sections have been adjusted to provide additional value to the reader.

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