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Re:Ask HN: How do AI agents help you in your daily life? by Nicholas_C on Thursday November 05, 2026 @05:54PM (#50385707)
For me, AI has really helped me out with random personal research projects I've always wanted to look into. I had a long note with dozens of projects that I never had time to work on. Now most of them have been knocked out. I also use it for things like ordering groceries. That doesn't sound like that much of a time saver but I can ask for meal ideas and then convert that into a recipe and an online grocery order. I've been going to Home Depot a lot so I dictate the list of stuff I need and have it build a shopping list along with a map of exactly where everything is in the store so I don't have to wander or ask for help. I also journal after every judo class I attend, I dictate how it went and my tool (notion) organizes my thoughts based on a template I have and gives me notes to review before next class. Building a budget now is very simple as well. Before I had to manually recategorize things in a spreadsheet and build a bunch of lookups by hand. Now I can throw AI at it and it can figure it all out.

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