Turn my bookshelf photo into our building's borrow list

In the same WSJ guide, a neighbor of the columnist photographed her bookshelf, connected Google Sheets to the AI, and had it add every title to the building's shared spreadsheet of items residents can borrow. The columnist then did the same with her own shelf.

How it works

Photograph her bookshelf
Connect Google Sheets to the AI
Agent reads the book titles from the photo
Agent adds each title to the shared borrow spreadsheet

Why it’s worth knowing

A single photo of a bookshelf became a structured, shared lending catalogue.

Where it’s from

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

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