Anthropic on Thursday announced a new beta feature for Claude to help you better understand and reflect on your usage of the AI tool. It gives you access to a visual dashboard to see how you’ve interacted with the chatbot, and how you could better optimize your time using it, according to a blog post. 

Finding new ways to make the most out of AI isn’t just a concern among users; the creators want the same thing so you’ll continue to use their products. And while giving your data to AI can be concerning, it’s helpful to see a feature that will feed you back some of your information in a potentially beneficial way. 

The new reflection tool will identify your usage patterns and present you with a summary of what you spent most of your time doing during a selected timeframe. Currently, you can choose one-, three-, six- or 12-month timeframes to dial in your usage or get a broader perspective. Anthropic says it’ll soon add a specific view for how much time you’ve spent using Claude, too.

The reflection dashboard will provide insights for your overall usage, peak activity, conversation line charts and task breakdown charts. You can set quiet hours or get reminders to take a break after a certain amount of time using Claude as well.

Anthropic says you can build new skills within the reflection dashboard and optimize the ways you work with Claude, using the 4D AI Fluency Framework. The framework consists of skills including delegation, description, discernment and diligence. 

Your reflection gives you a summary of how you’ve interacted with Claude across each of the 4D framework’s pillars. It’ll also provide suggestions on how to improve your workflows with Claude, such as starting a Project instead of re-explaining context. 

Your reflection dashboard won’t include information from incognito chats or use files from tools you’ve connected before. The blog post gives a specific example where if you’ve asked Claude to summarize your email inbox, the summary itself may appear in the reflection, but the specific emails wouldn’t. Any conversation connected to a health integration tool will also be left out of your reflection. 

Anthropic says it worked with digital media and wellbeing experts from the MIT Media Lab’s Advancing Humans with AI program, the Digital Wellness Lab at Boston Children’s Hospital and the Family Online Safety Institute to build this tool. The blog post says that while sensitive conversations can surface with a reflection, they will only appear at a high level. 

The reflection dashboard is now available in beta for free, Pro and Max users who have enabled memory in their Claude accounts. You can access your reflection by opening settings on the web or desktop app and selecting the option to reflect on your usage. Currently, reflections on Cowork conversations are not available, but will be soon.