We waste countless hours on repetitive digital chores—but AI tools like ChatGPT can eliminate these time-sinks with a single prompt. Here are 9 tedious tasks you should never do manually again:

1. Email Triage

→ “Summarize this thread and highlight action items”
→ “Draft a polite follow-up to [Name] about [Topic]”

2. Calendar Tetris

→ “Find meeting times for 3 people next week with 1-hour buffers between calls”
→ “Convert these time zones: 2pm EST to GMT and PST”

3. Research Shortcuts

→ “Compare features of [Product A] vs [Product B] in a table”
→ “Give me 5 credible sources about [Topic]”

4. Document Grunt Work

→ “Turn these meeting notes into a formal report”
→ “Proofread this and fix grammar/tone”

5. Social Media Brain Dumps

→ “Rewrite this blog excerpt as 3 Twitter threads”
→ “Generate 5 LinkedIn post ideas about [Industry Trend]”

6. Spreadsheet Sorcery

→ “Create a formula to calculate [X] from this data”
→ “Format this CSV into a table with headers”

7. Travel/Expense Hassles

→ “Summarize this receipt: vendor, amount, category”
→ “Plan a 3-day NYC itinerary for a business trip”

8. Code Debugging

→ “Explain why this Python script returns an error”
→ “Optimize this SQL query for faster execution”

9. Learning CliffsNotes

→ “Break down [Complex Concept] into simple steps”
→ “Quiz me on [Topic] with 5 multiple-choice questions”

Pro Tip: Save your most-used prompts as templates. A few seconds of AI can reclaim hours of your week—time better spent on creative work or deep focus.

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