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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.

Scheduled a daily AI-news podcast delivered via RSS feed to a podcast

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.

Arranged a free replacement parcel for a broken IKEA cupboard door

Kndarp sent the AI a photo of a broken IKEA cupboard door with its article number. The AI searched his emails for the original order number, reached out to customer support on chat, and arranged a replacement parcel arriving next week at no cost — 'No £ spent.'

He is juggling several legal cases of his own, and the AI transcribes the audio, organizes the evidence and writes the summaries his lawyers get

He is juggling several legal cases of his own, and his lawyers do not have time to answer him every day. The AI transcribes audio, organizes his evidence and writes the case summaries he hands to them. He calls it the best tool he has ever had, and says stopping would mean going back to doing all of that alone.

Publish the government data nobody can read, and email it weekly

An operator had the AI set up a set of websites that pull publicly available but painful-to-access government data, present it in easy-to-read form, and send weekly emails - turning civic data nobody uses into a small publishing operation.

Pay my parking ticket from a photo, no instructions needed

In a Vox feature on personal agents, entrepreneur Matt Van Horn said his wife sent Instinct a photo of a parking ticket with no instructions at all. The agent, which already had her credit card on file, simply paid it.

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

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.

The AI pulled the exact boundary files for two local councils

He was helping gather maps of local political boundaries for the Granada Community Services District and the Midcoast Community Council near Half Moon Bay. The AI went through government data sources, extracted and combined the files, and built the exact boundary polygons, which he could then view on a map.