What's a boring task you can't wait for AI to fully take off your plate?

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SerialScroller60

Not asking about the big transformative stuff here, more the small tedious tasks everyone secretly hopes gets automated away eventually. Could be something at work, something at home, doesn't matter as long as it's genuinely boring. Curious what everyone's most anticipated small win actually is

These little automations tend to matter more day to day than the headline grabbing breakthroughs anyway. Nobody gets excited about scheduling emails until it's suddenly not their problem anymore. Small conveniences add up surprisingly fast once you actually have them

Share your most wanted boring task below. Bonus points if you've already found something that half solves it

Forge32

Expense tracking and categorizing receipts is the single most tedious task in my entire life and I would gladly never touch it again personally. Some tools already do this reasonably well honestly. Just want it to be completely invisible and automatic eventually

Harry43

Sorting through my inbox and actually flagging what genuinely needs a response versus what can wait would save me a real chunk of every single morning. Current filters get close but never quite nail it. Looking forward to whenever that finally clicks properly

Urban Phoebe

Meal planning based on whatever's actually in my fridge instead of me guessing badly every single week would be such a small quality of life win.

Waste less food, spend less money, think about it way less overall. Feels closer than a lot of the flashier AI applications people talk about

KyleOReilly96

Proofreading my own writing for tone before hitting send on anything important would save me from so many awkward messages over the years. Not asking it to write for me, just catch the moments where I sound harsher than intended. Small thing but genuinely useful

LAKnight_Prime

Scheduling meetings across different time zones without the usual back and forth email chain is the task I want gone the most. Feels like such a solvable problem that somehow still eats up way too much of my week. Would happily never think about it again
Cashback on everything or it didn't happen

Jan

Untangling my calendar every time a meeting gets rescheduled and cascades into three other conflicts sounds small but eats way more mental energy than it should. Would love for that entire process to just quietly sort itself out. Feels like exactly the kind of boring task AI should be handling by now

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