Day 18 of #30days30apps

Gemini (Google)

🤔 How can AI help me use AI?

I’m learning that AI tools can greatly improve productivity by doing simple, repetitive work that eats up time without using my expertise. This is the ideal. However, it’s still hard to figure out how to set up these solutions.

This week, I’m trying to make content system maintenance more efficient.

🛠️ Task: Add new terms (published in Google Docs) to CD tool (Writer AI), so guidance is pushed to UX designers.

🔍 Opportunity: Doing this manually is repetitive and takes time. I enter the same info twice. This adds up because I am targeting 5+ terms a week.

✏️ The challenge: How can AI create a file that I can use to bulk upload new terms every 1–2 weeks?

It’s funny because this workflow feels so easy that it’s boring. But breaking down the steps into a prompt for Gemini revealed some complexity.
1️⃣ Different data formats (text, bulleted lists, tables, images)
2️⃣ Different file formats (Google Docs, csv or xlsx)
3️⃣ Different depth of info (less rationale goes into Writer AI)

I haven’t figured this all out yet, but I thought it’d be interesting to share how I’m working with Gemini to break the overall goal into component problems that can be solved. For now, it seems that AI can assist or automate parts of our workflow… the magical future may be that it could take on a whole workflow like this. What’s boring for humans is still a little out of reach for AI. Maybe. Or maybe my coding and AI tooling knowledge isn’t up to the task yet. More to come on this… lmk if you have suggestions or want to volunteer AI support. I will buy you a coffee! ☕