8 practical ways to integrate AI into your daily life

Menu planning

If you're trying to cut down on grocery expenses or need to create recipes and shopping lists for specific dietary needs, you know it can be time-consuming. AI can help here: you can tell it about your dietary restrictions, food preferences, and budget, and ask it to create meal plans and shopping lists for you.

Alternatively, you can enter the contents of your fridge into these tools and ask for recipes that you can make without buying anything else.

You'll still want to review the recommendations once to ensure they make sense and meet your needs, but it's easier than starting from scratch.

Managing your schedule

Are your days less organized and filled with haste? AI can help. You can provide the platform with your to-do list, and basic schedule (working hours, meetings, lunch plans, etc.), and ask it to create a daily schedule for you.

This way, instead of puzzling over how much time each task will take, the machine can do it for you, and you can always adjust your request for more free time or add background tasks for maximum efficiency.

Handling simple correspondence

AI tools like ChatGPT might not always be suitable for writing long, research-based documents. They tend to explicitly lie and fabricate sources. However, they are very good at short, simple tasks like emails, especially in templates.

These types of messages are easy to write and don't take much time, but this also makes them suitable for a limited set of AI skills.

Brainstorming

AI is great at just throwing out suggestions in response to a prompt. Whether it's ideas to entertain kids, party ideas, new shows to watch, or gift ideas, AI can save you time by unloading a long list of suggestions in just a few seconds.

Creating a packing list

If you're going on a trip, especially to a place you've never been before, you can provide the AI chatbot with information about where you're going, how long you'll be there, and a short list of likely activities, and it can create a packing list for you.

AI can not only help you choose what to bring but also suggest items you might not have thought of.

Estimating repair costs

While there are many online calculators to help you figure out how many tiles, cans of paint, or laminate you need, AI can be much more accurate and flexible because you can input all the details into the prompt, including all the angles and features of your floor or room.

Plus, it can show you its math so you can verify it and adjust your prompts if something looks off. It will also help you estimate costs and create lists of tools and materials you'll need for the job.

Summarizing

The era of quick, concise podcasts or YouTube videos that immediately showed you what you wanted to know is long gone, and the era of four-hour podcasts or videos has arrived. Even if you watch or listen at 2X speed, that's still a lot of time.

An AI chatbot can summarize it for you very efficiently, so if all you want to get from a podcast or video is the information it contains, feed it to the AI and get a clear, bullet-point summary in response. Time stamps will also be included so you can jump to specific points for listening.

Interview practice

Job hunting can be a nerve-wracking (and seemingly endless) experience these days. If you manage to get through the interview stage, you know you need to practice.

While having a real, live person ask you questions might be the best way to prepare, AI can step in and help you prepare for those interviews very effectively.