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The Family Reading

When everyone in a family — or both people in a couple — has finished their readings, this is how you bring them together into one. You set it up once; after that, you just gather the files, upload, and ask. It takes about five minutes to prepare, and it’s yours from then on.

Part 1 · Set it up once

  1. Make a new Claude Project. In Claude, create a Project and call it something like “Family Profiles.” Keep it private to your account — this is where your family’s profiles will live, so treat it like the family photo album it basically is.
  2. Paste in the instructions. Open the project’s instructions field and paste the whole block from Part 3 below. That’s the entire method — Claude follows it every time you start a chat in the project.
  3. (Optional) Add the full blueprint. If you have the Family Synthesis Blueprint document, add it to the project’s knowledge for extra depth. The instructions alone are plenty.

Part 2 · Each time you want a reading

  1. Gather the profiles. Each person takes their readings and clicks Download after each (kids do this with a grown-up), then sends you the files — email, text, AirDrop, or a shared folder all work. If several people share one device, have each one download and then clear their data before the next person starts.
  2. Start a new chat in the project and upload everyone’s files into it.
  3. Ask for the reading — one line is enough:
    “Write our family reading. The parents are ___ and ___; the kids are ___ (ages ___).”
    “Write a full marriage reading for ___ and ___.”
    If you forget to say who’s who, Claude will ask first.
  4. Re-run anytime. As the kids retake their readings each year, drop in the new files and ask again — the reading grows up with them.

Part 3 · The instructions to paste

Copy this whole block into your project’s instructions field (Part 1, step 2).


    

A word on privacy

This space holds real, tender information about the people you love, so a few honest notes. The profiles you upload are read by Claude under Anthropic’s terms, the same as any chat; they aren’t shared with anyone else. Keep the project private to your account, and delete the chat or files whenever you like.

Nothing about your family is stored anywhere on this site — the profiles exist only as the files each person downloaded and chose to send you. That’s the whole design: the data stays in the family’s hands.

A mirror and a conversation-starter, never a verdict. Part of the Full Profile.

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Written by Joshua Davis from Tulsa, Oklahoma — a hospital tech worker, student minister, and Eagle Scout who believes ordinary life deserves extraordinary attention. Timber & Ink is where he writes about slow hobbies, analog craft, and the sacred in the ordinary.

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