Home & family: AI assistant use cases

Household projects tracked in Linear

Adds every chore to a Linear project, researched a sprinkler blowout from photos, and found parts at Home Depot.

Setup: Keeps a running list of household facts like car year, make, model and oil filter.

Puts a work schedule and family chores on the phone

Blocked a month of shifts with drive time on the calendar and keeps the family list in iPhone Reminders.

Setup: Added each work day plus an hour of drive time before and 30 minutes after. Uses the phone Calendar and Reminders access. Author trims scheduled routines to save usage.

Morning news digest plus two kids' editions

Reads the news each morning and writes an adult brief plus two kids' editions from real sources.

Schedule: Every morning

Setup: Covers Germany, the author's region and the world, including English editions.

Pitmaster bot that watches brisket probes

Wired ThermoWorks thermometers into the bot so it pings at the stall and when it's time to pull.

Setup: The bot found an open-source connector and wired it in. Author says it took about five minutes.

“Plan dinner tonight” fills the right store list

Built a ready-made bot for the author's There Lists app that puts ingredients on the right store list.

Setup: No official connector existed, so the bot built a workaround; sign in with Apple. The app pings when you walk into that store.

Custom family newspaper printed every morning

Prints a daily paper with Parry Sound weather, news, events, the family calendar and school bus cancellations.

Schedule: Every morning

“The Morning Paper” local news bot

A published bot that delivers a local morning paper every day, with a printed weekend edition.

Schedule: Daily + weekends

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