A friendly starting point for using AI to help your Rotary club — save time, keep your club's history, and stop reinventing the wheel every year.
No tech background needed. If you can send a text, you can do this.
You only need these two. One to think with, one to remember with. Both have a free version — start there.
Claude is an AI you talk to like a smart, patient teammate. Ask it to draft an email, plan an event, summarize a long document, or think through a problem with you.
Get Claude →Obsidian is a simple place to keep notes that stay yours forever. Use it to build a "club brain" — history, contacts, how-we-do-things — so next year's board isn't starting from scratch.
Get Obsidian →You don't need to learn the "right" commands. Just tell the AI what you're trying to do, in plain words — like you'd explain it to a helpful friend.
If the answer isn't quite right, tell it why and ask again.
That back-and-forth is the skill. Get good at that, and you can use any AI tool that comes along.
Paste any of these into Claude, then change the details to fit your club. Tap “Copy” and go.
🤝 Get everyone on the same page (shared context)
“Here is a messy email thread about our fundraiser. Summarize the key decisions, who is doing what, and any open questions, as a short update I can send to the whole committee.”
📋 Plan an event or project (working together)
“Help me plan a Rotary pancake breakfast for about 150 people. Give me a task checklist, a simple timeline working back from the event date, and which tasks I could hand to volunteers.”
📚 Save your club's history (don't reinvent the wheel)
“I'm handing off as club president. Turn these notes into a clear ‘how we run our signature fundraiser’ guide the next president can follow, with steps, contacts, and lessons learned.”
✍️ Write something in your voice
“Draft a warm, short thank-you letter to a local business that donated to our club. Keep it under 150 words and make it sound genuine, not corporate.”
Official Rotary resources that pair perfectly with AI — ask Claude to help you use any of them.
Free online courses on leadership, membership, and running your club.
Open Learning Center →Send me anything — a question from the session, a task you want help with, or just “where do I start?” I read every one.