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Make PDFs of my old articles stored in Dropbox

Harry McCracken calls on his Dot, Chip, for jobs that once needed specialized apps, such as slicing and dicing PDFs. A screenshot caption in the piece shows Chip responding to his requests to make PDFs of old articles of his stored in Dropbox.

How it works

  1. Take the request
  2. Pull the old articles from Dropbox
  3. Generate PDFs of them
  4. Return the finished files

Why it’s worth knowing

File chores that used to mean a separate utility app now happen inside a chat with his stored archive.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on fastcompany.com. See the original ↗

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