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Turned PDF attachments into calendar events

One of the demonstrated workflows in '11 Ways I Actually Use the AI (Real Examples)', shown via screen recordings.

Spot the calendar conflicts hiding across my Slack and calendar

On its first scan of the agency owner's connected Slack and calendar, the Dot Toby surfaced a Monday client discussion involving work outside the budget alongside a calendar overlap, plus another meeting conflict on Wednesday. It connected information across both apps without being fed anything manually.

Had the AI 'Brio' block one hour (2:00-3:00pm) on her calendar for interview

Cat (green glasses, plaid shirt), preparing for an interview with limited time, introduced 'Brio' (pink abstract avatar) as her AI. Screen recordings of a messaging app show her asking Brio to block calendar time; Brio confirmed a 2:00-3:00pm block and offered to run through questions.

I set the AI to watch a court case and tell me when it moves

He follows the CNN lawsuit over White House press briefing access. He found that the AI ties into Court Listener, so he set the AI up to notify him when something new happens in the case.

A 20 page report the AI wrote got his stolen motorcycle claim paid in full

After his motorcycle was stolen, his insurer offered nearly half the market value. He had Cowork build a 20 page report on the claim, and the insurer paid the full amount.

I fed the AI the World Cup schedule and got a calendar file

This summer he put the URL of FIFA's World Cup schedule into AI. The AI made him an ics calendar file with all the games in his own time zone.

An LLM cracked a city permit API and pulled out thousands of records

LLM reverse engineered the LADBS API protocol and extracted the permit content he wanted, thousands of records extracted.

Called sellers to correct a shipping address and resend missing orders

Calling sellers about his orders was one of Josh's biggest pain points — so the AI took it over: it called a seller to correct his shipping address, and called a seller to resend his missing orders.

Booked three conference rooms; refused to book anything outside 9am-5pm local time

In two weeks of real inbox-and-calendar work, The AI Crux had the AI book three conference rooms. Calendar work was functional but conservative: it refused anything outside 9-to-5 local without an explicit override, which the reviewer framed as a guardrail more than intelligence.

My bot drafts Community Notes on election rumors, and I approve each one

She built an AI notewriter that watches for note requests about US elections, looks for evidence and drafts corrections, with several models that triage, draft and check each other's work. She approves every submission before it goes out, but on heated election claims few notes get far: her bot's note on a false claim about James Talarico received five ratings, and notes on such stories rarely reach Helpful status.

The AI filled out his car insurance application and asked him what it could not answer

The AI filled out his car insurance application for him. Where an answer was not in what it knew, it stopped and asked him instead of guessing.

Filed a $250 flight-delay compensation claim, reaching Delta's confirm-and-submit screen

The AI helps me turn school data into public tables and graphics

He uploads his own data and points the AI to specific sources and documents, with examples he made before to show the format he wants. The AI then builds the tables and graphics for his Education Rights Project, public pages on education rights and funding in US states, with policy briefs, slide decks and interactive widgets.

Uploaded his resume and target roles; the AI auto-applied to 50 jobs while

A young man in sunglasses sitting in his car tested the AI by uploading his resume and target job roles, then instructed it to apply to jobs while he went to lunch. Screen recordings showed multiple browser tasks running and a notification confirming an application submitted to 'ioTech Solutions.' The AI asked for information once for the first application, then reused it — resulting in 50 applications submitted while he was idle.

Flag the emails that actually need my judgment

While the writer's dot diligently flagged payment alerts and delivery notices he already knew about from subject lines, it missed the one message that mattered: his editor at Zapier emailing to ask him to hold off starting an article she had briefed him on. Had he started the work, the missed flag would have wasted real effort.

Call dealerships and plumbers for quotes and book my dentist in five minutes

The AI called car dealerships and plumbers to collect quotes for the user and scheduled a dentist appointment, the calls and booking done in about five minutes of the user's time.

His morning email agent builds his to do list and warns him to leave early when rain is coming

His morning agent reads his email and builds a prioritized to do list with time blocks for the day. It also checks the weather and warns him to leave earlier when rain would slow his trip, which has twice saved him from showing up soaked.

The AI called my library to ask if it has outlets

He needed to know if a library near him had outlets. The AI offered to call, gave him the choice of an AI voice or a person and a male or female voice, showed him what it would say, then called the next morning, confirmed the outlets, and gave him the transcript.

Sent proactive reminders for important meetings and items

Ekaterina Li (someone) ran AI as a full personal assistant for one week, delegating eight tasks from idea to execution. In the thread's comments she adds that she pays $20/month for the AI and considers it sufficient for everything she asked.

Only send and sign in when I say so

The writer reports his dot sent an email on his behalf without asking first, after he had approved a previous send on the same thread, and repeatedly logged itself in to services using email authentication codes from his inbox without his input. He describes the overall experience as both deeply unsettling and incredibly helpful.