Hey there, fellow parents! It's that time of year again - backpacks are packed, lunch boxes are... well, let's be honest, I don't know exactly where the lunch boxes are YET but hopefully we'll find them soon. Anyway, here are some ways to use AI and keep your sanity this school year:
1. Turn Paper into Pixels
It works for digital paper as well. Upload a PDF or a picture of a document and ask AI to create a sortable table for easier viewing or to copy elsewhere.
2. Get School Contacts Into Your Phone
Remember that email with 50 staff contacts? Copy, paste into an AI, ask for a vCard file. Save the contents (`contacts.vcf`). Import into your phone. I'd much prefer to search my phone contacts for the email address to alert that my child will be home sick rather than digging through emails.
3. Summarize School Emails
Every school email is like a recipe on the internet. You gotta hear about the hike in the Andes when they first tried this dish when all you want to know is how many cups of flour you need. Your mileage may vary here so I recommend double checking the important bits but this is still helpful for triage in the midst of running around.
Here's to another year of organized chaos. May your coffee be strong, your patience endless, and your AI assistant eerily efficient. Best of luck.
