The AI turns my screenshots and emails into calendar events
He uses AI to turn screenshots and emails into calendar events. He also uses it to find email receipts and tickets when he needs them.
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Email, calendars, forms and paperwork · 219 ideasThe AI translated my app into Italian in 30 minutes
He had the AI translate his MaPollution app into Italian, and it took 30 minutes. He can now offer his free service to people who speak other languages.
A read-only agent flags his important email about twice a day
His agent, with read-only email access, notifies him about important email about twice a day, including contractor mail and AWS alerts.
Scoured facilities job postings, tailored resumes per job board and submitted applications
A Reddit user with a facilities background asked the AI to scour matching job postings, tailor a resume for each job board, and submit applications automatically overnight. Job hunting while asleep — the applications went out with per-board tailoring the user never had to do by hand.
The AI found a serious security hole in a state legislature website while archiving it
She was using AI to archive legislative material when it flagged a serious vulnerability in a state legislature's website. She had to stop and report it.
The AI built his filing site add-on for about $10 in tokens
He is treasurer for Thida Cornes and had been dreading California's NetFile site on the second to last day of the first pre-election filing period. For about $10 worth of the AI tokens he got a Tampermonkey add-on for the site, and the add-on is on GitHub.
He runs his dad's work orders and meeting scheduling out of his dad's inbox
The same Cowork setup checks his father's email for work orders and schedules his father's meetings automatically. He turned off data sharing with AI for this, so the mail is not saved anywhere else.
The AI fixed our Pinewood Derby timers 30 minutes before the races
The AI patched the system files that link a USB to serial cable to the Pinewood Derby track for his Cub Scout group. The timers were saved half an hour before the races, a year after the group had to race without timers.
I used AI to build and file my own court complaint
She says she used AI, cross-checked by two more AIs, to put together a legal complaint and file it herself, without a lawyer.
The AI updated a charity's website and enriched it from its own photos, unasked
The AI updated a website he manages for a charity and on its own scanned beneficiary header images to add information to the writeup; done well.
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