AI to organise your calendar

It can help quite a lot: an AI connected to your calendar can suggest free slots, create appointments from an email or from a sentence like "Thursday afternoon with the accountant", and warn you about overlaps. What it can't do on its own is decide your priorities, because it doesn't know what matters most to you, unless you explain it.

For the AI to touch your calendar it has to be connected to it, meaning it has permission to read it and write to it. Without that connection, it can only suggest a plan that you then write down by hand, which isn't a bad way to start. The typical mistakes are homely ones: relative dates misunderstood ("next Tuesday", which one?), mixed-up time zones and duplicate appointments. And it's best not to confuse apps that promise to plan your day automatically with a general assistant you ask for specific things.

The calendar is one of the three legs of the challenge "Can you automate your life in ten minutes?", where I put the videos' promise to the test with my own tasks. There I tell you what can really be delegated, what needs checking and what made me waste time. If you try it yourself, start by letting the AI suggest and you decide.