Project Setup
The most common project failure is no folder at all.
Create the project folder and its context structure before any build work starts. Ten minutes that decide whether the project is still navigable in three months.
Work happening in a scratch directory, decisions living in a chat history, and assets in a downloads folder. When the session ends, the project effectively ends with it.
- The folder structure, with a reason for each part
- Why context files beat one long document
- Writing CLAUDE.md on day one, not at the end
- Open items as a real tracked artifact