Turn genealogy notes into a spreadsheet and plan
Have an agent sort family-history notes into a clean spreadsheet and a short next-step research plan.
ChatGPT Agent
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Turn firm case studies into a presentation deck
A team had ChatGPT Agent gather consulting examples and turn them into a slide deck in 32 minutes.
ChatGPT Agent
Send a daily news brief and turn tabs into slides
Use an AI browser to collect top stories, email a short digest, and turn open sources into a cited slide deck.
Perplexity Comet
Turn videos and papers into searchable Markdown libraries
They used OpenClaw to organize video and paper summaries into two separate Markdown-based libraries that could be searched later.
OpenClaw
Turn a stack of articles into a cited summary
Have an agent compare many articles, pull out shared themes, and draft a source-cited summary document.
Claude CodeClaude in Chrome
Use Claude Code to clean up Obsidian journal notes
A developer used Claude Code in Obsidian to add links to journal entries and turn rough book notes into polished reviews.
Claude Code
Search an Obsidian vault for old research files
A developer set up Claude Code to find and sort research material inside an Obsidian vault on macOS.
Claude Code
Turn transcripts and PDFs into themes and evidence tables
Use Claude Code to summarize interviews, build evidence tables, and draft an annotated bibliography from a study folder.
Claude Code
Screen papers in a folder against your criteria
Codex can read PDFs or spreadsheets in a project folder, sort items by your rules, and write the results into new files.
Codex
Sort new arXiv papers before you read them
A weekly Codex agent finds fresh arXiv papers, records them once, and flags the ones worth closer attention.
Codex
Gather recent LLM papers and turn them into a Word file
Nitika Sharma used Perplexity Comet to collect recent LLM and agent training papers, then had it format the results in a Word document.
Perplexity Comet
Research speakers and sort your browser tabs
One person used Comet to study conference speakers, compare camera products, and clean up messy tabs.
Perplexity Comet
Have Comet gather Reddit pain points into NotebookLM
A newsletter writer used Comet to pull Reddit threads about browser frustrations into NotebookLM and expand the set automatically.
Perplexity Comet
Build a dashboard from a semantic data layer
Use a coding agent with Graphene to define metrics, query your warehouse, and publish a report with charts and screenshots.
Custom agent
Build a reusable stock-analysis workspace
A custom agent kept one investment project alive, saving models and notes so later sessions could pick up where the last run stopped.
Custom agent