Automation · Ideas
Ideas to steal¶
Ranked by risk. Start in the first list, earn your way down.
Low risk — start here¶
Nothing sends, deletes, or spends. Worst case: a bad draft.
- Meeting notes → follow-up draft, waiting in a folder for your review.
- Weekly reading digest: summarize the articles you saved this week.
- File tidier: propose renames/moves for a messy folder — as a list you approve.
- Draft replies to routine emails, saved as drafts, never sent.
Medium risk — after a few clean weeks¶
Touches real data or reaches other people after your approval.
- Report assembler: pull the week's numbers into your template; you review and send.
- Content pipeline: article → repurposed drafts → your review → scheduled.
- Inbox sorter: label and prioritize email; you still read what matters.
High risk — most people should stop before here¶
Sends, changes, or spends without a human in the moment. Only with months of trust, tight limits, and a kill switch you've tested.
- Auto-sending anything. Auto-purchasing anything. Auto-deleting anything.
The pattern¶
Notice every good idea has the same shape: AI does the boring assembly, a human does the judging. Automations fail when that line gets blurry.
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