**Phase objectives:**See for yourself that AI is not just “chat” but can create real folders and files on your computer. **Phase success signs:**Yes.
zhanzhan-ai-courseFolders, create TXT and Markdown files with WorkBuddy; edit the original text with text, view the rendering with Obsidian and export PDF. **⏱️ Projected total time:**60–90 minutes (drill-free exercise)
Before you do it.
Some say AI doesn’t need to learn. But someone’s always thinking, “I’m about to be abandoned by the AI age — watching others use AI skilledly, but not myself, panicking.”
This class is built for you by the confidence that “I will never fall again, no matter how fast I run.” After this lesson, AI will be included in your cognitive context: it will develop and not escape your understanding framework. You’ll tell who’s selling anxiety and who’s passing knowledge.
Remember the first step of this lesson:**Ask AI if you have any problems.**From this point on, you have an Agent who can ask questions at any time.
Task 1: Install and login
🎯 **Sign of success:**WorkBuddy is able to access the New Job page when it is open and no longer requires login. Estimated time: 10 minutes
Operational steps
- Opens the browser, searchs for “WorkBuddy”, enters the official network and clicks to download the MacOS version. Screenshot M1-1: WorkBuddy web download page, download button position circle Red
- Opens the downloaded installation package and drags the WorkBuddy icon into the Application folder. 📸 Caption M1-1-2: MacOS installation window (draw icon to Applications)
- Found WorkBuddy in the “starter” and clicked on it. For the first time, if the system hints “applications from the Internet”, do “open”.
- Register/entry account by interface. Caption M1-1-3: Main interface after login, New Job button loop Red
🔍 What just happened? You’re not installing another chat software. WorkBuddy belongs to “Agent” — it’s connected to a big model behind it, but it has a pair of hands more than chat software: it can operate your computer directly. This is the basis of all the next courses.
Carnation alert: WorkBuddy can be used without any particular network environment, and it has access to large domestic models that are sufficient to perform most of the day-to-day operations. The world’s most advanced Claude Code, Codex will be connected to milestone two.
⚠️ Common card point: MacOS hint “can’t be opened because the developer cannot be verified” OpenSystem Settings → Privacy and security, and the bottom point of the page “are still to be opened”.
Task 2: Create curriculum workspace
🎯 **Sign of success:**WorkBuddy Sidebarzhanzhan-ai-courseFolder, Agent can tell it’s full path.
Estimated time: 5 minutes
Operational steps
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Create a new folder on the desktop (right-click desktop) and rename it to
zhanzhan-ai-course。 -
Open WorkBuddy and select “New Job”.
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Select a workspace Open a local folder
zhanzhan-ai-course。 • Screenshot M1-2-1: Workspace Selection Window, select the status of the folder -
Enter and send in the dialogue box:
请告诉我当前工作空间的完整路径
🔍 What just happened? “Workspace” is where you authorize Agent to operate. A clear range of activities for AI is the basic habit of using Agent — later you know, it’s called the “boundary of authority”.
This folder is the “classroom” of your entire class, and all the exercises that follow are in it. Don’t put any irrelevant documents in it.
From now on, folders and documents are jointly named in lowercase English, digital, short-line or underlined, without Chinese, spaces and brackets. The text can still be written in Chinese. This makes it difficult to encounter path recognition problems when switching between MacOS, Windows, command lines and programming tools.
Task 3: Let Agent create the first folder and two files
🎯 **Sign of success:**This post is part of our special coverage Global Voices 2011.lesson-01Existenceplain-text.txtandmarkdown-demo.md, the file name and suffix are identical.
Estimated time: 10 minutes
Operational steps
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Enter in WorkBuddy:
我在学习AI小白入门课程。请在当前工作空间创建 lesson-01 文件夹,并在里面创建两个文件: 1. plain-text.txt,内容是 WorkBuddy 这类 Agent 软件和传统 AI 聊天软件的区别; 2. markdown-demo.md,内容是 Markdown 文件和 TXT 文件的区别,要包含一级标题、二级标题、粗体和列表。 文件夹和文件名必须严格使用上面的英文名称,不要使用中文路径、空格或括号。 -
Wait for it to be executed.
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zhanzhan-ai-course→lesson-01It was confirmed that both documents appeared. Checklist M1-3-1: Real appearance in the visitlesson-01、plain-text.txtandmarkdown-demo.md
🔍 What just happened? It’s the first time you’ve ever seen AI “touch the truth” — it didn’t just say a word back to you, but…**Changed the real world on your computer.**I don’t know. The bean bag, the ChatGPT page version can’t do this. Remember this feeling, this is the difference between “Agent” and “Talking AI.”
• To develop habits:**Agent said it was done and Zoo really done it. Each time, you have to verify it yourself.**It’s a habit that goes through class and is the core of your ability to conduct AI work later — acceptance.
Task 4: Install Obsidian
🎯 **Sign of success:**The web page “Opening Local Warehouse” has been installed and can be accessed. Estimated time: 10 minutes
🔗 Shortcut Web site:https://obsidian.md/download
Operational steps
- Opens the Obsidian official network above, downloads the MacOS version.
- Opens the installation package and drags Obsidian into the Application folder.
- Open Obsidian from the starter. Click Open for the first time if the system asks for permission.
- Obsidian can directly manage local files and complete this course without login. 📸 Screenshot M1-4-1: Obsidian opens the page for the first time and closes the “Opens Local Warehouse”
🔍 What just happened? WorkBuddy is responsible for creating and modifying files, but different versions of WorkBuddy do not necessarily render Markdown. Obsidian is a notebook software specializing in managing and rendering local Markdown files, so this learning path is more stable.
Task 5: Open files with Obsidian to compare original and rendering effects
🎯 **Sign of success:**The same.markdown-demo.mdDisplays original symbols in text editing, titles, bold and lists in Obsidian reading view.
Estimated time: 10 minutes
Operational steps
- Open the gate, enter.
lesson-01I don’t know. Open separately with text editingplain-text.txtandmarkdown-demo.md。 - Finds in the original Markdown front of the first heading
#Bold on both sides.**and the list before-。 📸 Caption M1-5-1: Two files in text editing, rounding the original Markdown symbol - Go back to Obsidian, click “Open Local Repository” and select the desktop
zhanzhan-ai-courseI don’t know. Click Allow if the system asks if access to the desktop is allowed. - Open sequentially in the Obsidian left file list
lesson-01→markdown-demo.md。 - Click the reading view button at the top right corner to observe the layout of the title, bold and list.
- Modifys a sentence and saves it, and then opens the same file with a text edit to confirm that the changes appear simultaneously. 📸 Caption M1-5-2: The same Markdown file in the read view
🔍 What just happened? The file is actually stored on a computer hard drive, WorkBuddy, text editor and Obsidian only read and modify the same file in different ways.**File does not belong to a software.**Even if you change Agent later, your file still belongs to you.
🔬 Deep down. Markdown is the most important document format of the AI age: The program files from around the world, the answers from AI, your subsequent notes system, are almost all of them. The great thing about it is that it separates content from style — you write content and structure, and the style goes to the rendering. That’s why AI is particularly good at reading and writing Markdown.
Task 6: Convert Markdown to PDF
🎯 **Sign of success:**Shows normal openings in folders.pdfAnd you can say “PDF for reading delivery, Markdown for editing.”
Estimated time: 5 minutes
Operational steps
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Open in Obsidian
markdown-demo.md。 -
Click “More Options ” (three points) to export to PDF, save to
lesson-01。 -
Name File As
markdown-demo.pdf, the confirmation title, bold and list are normal. 📸 Caption M1-6-1: Generated PDF opening effect -
WorkBuddy:
pdf文件和markdown格式文件的区别是什么?有哪些常见的文件格式?为什么需要区分文件格式?
🔍 What just happened? You’ve mastered a practical work stream:Markdown Writing & PDF DeliveryI don’t know. If you’re going to send someone a formal document, you can let AI do that.
Mission 7: Let Agent be your teacher — four core concepts.
🎯 **Sign of success:**If you don’t look at the answer from AI, you can use your own words to say one word each for LLM, Agent, Token, API. Estimated time: 15 minutes
Operational steps
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Enter in WorkBuddy:
大模型、agent、token、API分别是什么意思?第一次使用workbuddy需要注意什么?请用小白能听懂的比喻解释。 -
After reading the answer,Close WindowI repeat four concepts myself. I can’t say it, ask again until I can say it.
🔍 What just happened? This is how the AI age learns:**Let the state-of-the-art AI become your exclusive mentor and get any questions first.**This course will not give you the concept, but will train you in “Ai to the concept.”
💡 Self-survey the answer (speak first, then contrast):
- LLM: Enter a black box to output a sentence.
- Agent: LLM with hands and feet, which can run your computer.
- Token: “The number of words” in the digital world is also a unit of account.
- API: Agreed dialogue interface between procedures and procedures.
Task 8: Compare different large models
🎯 **Sign of success:**At least two models can be identified, each with an applicable scene and a reason for selection. Estimated time: 10 minutes
Operational steps
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Enter in WorkBuddy:
不同厂家的大模型有什么区别?为什么有的大模型费用高?目前全球公认的最强大模型有哪些?国内公认的最强大模型有哪些? -
Question:
如果我是一个学AI的初学者,平时写作、办公、偶尔让AI写点小程序,你推荐我用什么组合?
🔬 Deep down. The bottom logic of model selection is the “capacity-cost-scenes” triangle: the strongest model is expensive and may require a special network; the home-grown model is cheap and adequate. Not just the strongest model, but the best.**A different model for different jobs.**I don’t know. This is the strategy of the course: to use domestic models on a day-to-day basis and to sustain the strongest model in the world (Step 2).
Task 9 (daily auxiliary exercise): blinding and shortcuts
🎯 **Sign of success:**Finish a Typing Club exercise; do a copy, paste, cut, minimize, break screen without the mouse menu. Recommended 30-60 minutes per day to continue the course cycle
🔗 Shortcut Web site:https://www.typingclub.com
Operational steps
- Open Typing Club and practice blind typing (without keyboard typing) from the first level. 📸 Caption M1-9-1: Typing Club
- Remember and practice these five shortcuts (macOS):
| Operation, | Shortcut, |
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| Copy Cmd+C | |
| Paste Cmd+V | |
| Cmd + Shift + 4 | |
| Minimising Window | Cmd+M |
| ♪ Bang, bang, bang, bang ♪ |
- Meet the non-facilities, ask AI, remember that you used macOS.
Why do you practice blinding: not just typing fast. Blinding lowers the psychological threshold for you to use your computer, and will significantly increase the frequency of your computer use.The AI era, every input you make is a valuable asset.- The smoother you enter, the bigger the collaborative bandwidth with AI.
Milestone 1 — Graduate review
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zhanzhan-ai-course/lesson-01TXT, Markdown, PDF files - [ Chuckles ] I personally verified every action that Agent said was done.
- I can edit the original Markdown in text, read the rendering in Obsidian.
- I know the documents belong to myself, not to WorkBuddy or Obsidian.
- I can say in my own words LLM, Agent, Token, API
- [ Chuckles ] I can tell you two big models and their respective scenarios.
- [ Chuckles ] I started beating blind every day.
Next stop. Milestone 2: Preparation for sustainable use