Editorial dashboard

To test Anthropic’s new big-brained model, Fable 5, I decided to create an editorial dashboard for my newsletter and writing exercises. I keep a folder on my PC for exercise drafts, articles, and accompanying images and I have a few tools I use to edit the exercises, but I wanted an integrated dashboard that would track my progress and warn me of deadlines.

I handed the task off to Claude Cowork running Fable 5 and told it to work independently while I watched a manga recap. It asked a few questions, but after that I didn’t hear back until it had finished.

• Ran for about 25 minutes
• 2700-line single HTML file with 132,000 characters.
• Used 30% of my session budget, 6% of weekly budget

The plan ran through 6 phases.

1. Study remaining renderer details (today.css, boost styles, today.js)
2. Build dashboard.html — scaffold, folder connection, data layer
3. Build exercise tracker + editor (daily and boost)
4. Build article tracker + editor with versioned drafts
5. Build test modal replicating today/boost pages
6. Verify dashboard end-to-end

On the new dashboard I have tabs for an overview, the writing exercises, the boost exercises, and weekly articles. Once I connect my local folder it checks for any problems and populates the tabs.

Needs attention

• 6 of the next 7 days still in draft: 2026-06-12, 2026-06-13, 2026-06-14, 2026-06-15, 2026-06-16, 2026-06-17.
• Missing PNG for: 2026-06-15, 2026-06-16.
• No article draft for the week of Jun 8 (due Monday 2026-06-08).
• 4 boost exercises in draft: 6N1P, 7FNB, DKQG, ETYF.

There’s too many different features to list. It put together a fantastic app for me to manage my workflow, and I probably spent more time describing what I wanted than it took to implement the dashboard. Here’s a screenshot of the exercise tab with the edit pane extended.

Anyone on the Pro plan will probably hit session limits in 20 minutes (maybe sooner since Cowork has doubled usage limits for the month.) So far, it definitely seems worth the added cost. It definitely feels like the model you want building a first version and architecting the roadmap.