https://whatpeopledowithai.com/AI ideas worth trying. Public articles and issues. Use the clean Markdown or plain-text links, or copy the full text for your agent.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 22:48:33 GMThttps://whatpeopledowithai.com/examples/rainbow-teddy/urn:what-people-do-with-ai:example:rainbow-teddy<h1>He used Claude to build a game starring his child’s toys</h1><p>Example creator: Chris Harihar</p><p>Named tools: Claude, Claude Artifacts</p><p>Original source: <a href="https://x.com/ChrisHarihar/status/2111504147111379398">https://x.com/ChrisHarihar/status/2111504147111379398</a></p><p>Published: 2026-11-02T18:36:18.048163+00:00</p><p>Content updated: 2026-11-02T22:48:33.744649Z</p><p>Original source published: 2026-10-17</p><p>Public articles and issues. Use the clean Markdown or plain-text links, or copy the full text for your agent.</p><p>In <a href="https://x.com/ChrisHarihar/status/2111504147111379398">a video game Chris Harihar made with Claude</a>, his child’s stuffed animals became characters playing in a world based off their apartment with his child’s artwork to collect. A child’s imagination is brought to life in a game played during time shared on a bus.</p><p>Your version could start with a drawing, an invented character or an inside joke amongst friends. The interesting part is getting to play with something that already means something to you.</p><h2>Start with one playable idea</h2><p><a href="https://support.claude.com/en/articles/17153992-what-are-artifacts-and-how-do-i-use-them">Claude Artifacts</a> opens what Claude builds beside your conversation. You can try the result, describe a change and keep improving it in the same place. Artifacts are available on free and paid Claude plans; file creation needs to be enabled in Capabilities.</p><p>Give your character one job. A bear collecting hidden drawings is enough for a first version. So is a dog finding its favorite toys or a friend escaping a maze of office meetings.</p><p>Ask for simple artwork first. Play a round before adding more levels. Is the goal obvious? Can you move comfortably on your phone? Does something happen when you win? Those answers give Claude concrete changes to make.</p><h2>Try this</h2><p>“Build a small browser game starring [character] in [setting]. To win, the player must [goal] while avoiding [obstacle]. Use simple placeholder artwork and controls that are easy to use on a phone. Open a playable version beside this chat and show me how to play.”</p><p>Then give it one change you can see or feel: “Make the bear jump higher,” “Put the treasure somewhere harder to reach,” or “Make the buttons bigger.” Once the game is fun, bring in the details that make it yours: a familiar room, your own drawings, a character with a ridiculous name.</p><h2>Starter prompt</h2><p>Build a small browser game starring [character] in [setting]. To win, the player must [goal] while avoiding [obstacle]. Use simple placeholder artwork and controls that are easy to use on a phone. Open a playable version beside this chat and show me how to play.</p><h1>He used Claude to build a game starring his child’s toys</h1><p>Example creator: Chris Harihar</p><p>Named tools: Claude, Claude Artifacts</p><p>Original source: <a href="https://x.com/ChrisHarihar/status/2111504147111379398">https://x.com/ChrisHarihar/status/2111504147111379398</a></p><p>Published: 2026-11-02T18:36:18.048163+00:00</p><p>Content updated: 2026-11-02T22:48:33.744649Z</p><p>Original source published: 2026-10-17</p><p>Public articles and issues. Use the clean Markdown or plain-text links, or copy the full text for your agent.</p><p>In <a href="https://x.com/ChrisHarihar/status/2111504147111379398">a video game Chris Harihar made with Claude</a>, his child’s stuffed animals became characters playing in a world based off their apartment with his child’s artwork to collect. A child’s imagination is brought to life in a game played during time shared on a bus.</p><p>Your version could start with a drawing, an invented character or an inside joke amongst friends. The interesting part is getting to play with something that already means something to you.</p><h2>Start with one playable idea</h2><p><a href="https://support.claude.com/en/articles/17153992-what-are-artifacts-and-how-do-i-use-them">Claude Artifacts</a> opens what Claude builds beside your conversation. You can try the result, describe a change and keep improving it in the same place. Artifacts are available on free and paid Claude plans; file creation needs to be enabled in Capabilities.</p><p>Give your character one job. A bear collecting hidden drawings is enough for a first version. So is a dog finding its favorite toys or a friend escaping a maze of office meetings.</p><p>Ask for simple artwork first. Play a round before adding more levels. Is the goal obvious? Can you move comfortably on your phone? Does something happen when you win? Those answers give Claude concrete changes to make.</p><h2>Try this</h2><p>“Build a small browser game starring [character] in [setting]. To win, the player must [goal] while avoiding [obstacle]. Use simple placeholder artwork and controls that are easy to use on a phone. Open a playable version beside this chat and show me how to play.”</p><p>Then give it one change you can see or feel: “Make the bear jump higher,” “Put the treasure somewhere harder to reach,” or “Make the buttons bigger.” Once the game is fun, bring in the details that make it yours: a familiar room, your own drawings, a character with a ridiculous name.</p><h2>Starter prompt</h2><p>Build a small browser game starring [character] in [setting]. To win, the player must [goal] while avoiding [obstacle]. Use simple placeholder artwork and controls that are easy to use on a phone. Open a playable version beside this chat and show me how to play.</p>2026-11-02T22:48:33.744649ZMon, 02 Nov 2026 18:36:18 GMThttps://x.com/ChrisHarihar/status/2111504147111379398ClaudeClaude Artifactshttps://whatpeopledowithai.com/examples/family-history/urn:what-people-do-with-ai:example:family-history<h1>He used AI to uncover his family’s history</h1><p>Example creator: Scott Melker</p><p>Named tools: Grok Bot, ChatGPT, ChatGPT Deep Research</p><p>Original source: <a href="https://x.com/scottmelker/status/2115220656740577553">https://x.com/scottmelker/status/2115220656740577553</a></p><p>Published: 2026-11-02T18:36:18.048163+00:00</p><p>Content updated: 2026-11-02T22:48:33.744649Z</p><p>Original source published: 2026-10-27</p><p>Public articles and issues. Use the clean Markdown or plain-text links, or copy the full text for your agent.</p><p>Yearbooks, gravestone photographs, birth and naturalization records: those are among the finds <a href="https://x.com/scottmelker/status/2115220656740577553">Scott Melker described after researching his family history with Grok Bot and ChatGPT</a> on October 27.</p><p>An old document can give you somewhere to begin. A town, an approximate date or a question about one ancestor can do the same. Pick the person you’re curious about and follow that thread.</p><h2>Give the research somewhere to start</h2><p><a href="https://help.openai.com/en/articles/10500283-deep-research-in-chatgpt">ChatGPT Deep Research</a> can work through public websites and uploaded documents, then bring its findings together in a report with source links. That gives you a trail back to the records behind each connection.</p><p>Add what you already have, including alternate spellings, approximate dates and known relatives. Ask a specific question: Where did this person live before moving? What can we find about their arrival? Does this photograph connect to a school or town?</p><h2>Start the search</h2><p>“Research [ancestor’s name], who lived in [place] around [year]. I know [facts] and have attached [document or photo]. Help me answer [question]. Link the records you use, distinguish confirmed connections from possibilities, and suggest the most useful next record to look for.”</p><h2>Make something your family will want to open</h2><p>Once you have a few discoveries, turn them into a short illustrated family history: a simple tree, a timeline, photographs and three interesting stories, with links to the records. Save it as a PDF and share it by email or in the family group chat. Invite relatives to add corrections, memories and photos of their own.</p><p>“Turn this research about [family or ancestor] into a short illustrated family history for my relatives. Include a simple family tree, a timeline and three interesting stories, with links to the records behind them. Use [photos I’ve supplied]. Mark uncertain connections and leave out private details about living relatives. Format it so I can save it as a PDF.”</p><p>Send it with a question: “Does anyone remember this house?” A record gives you a date. Someone in the family may have the story that goes with it.</p><h2>Starter prompt</h2><p>Research [ancestor’s name], who lived in [place] around [year]. I know [facts] and have attached [document or photo]. Help me answer [question]. Link the records you use, distinguish confirmed connections from possibilities, and suggest the most useful next record to look for.</p><h1>He used AI to uncover his family’s history</h1><p>Example creator: Scott Melker</p><p>Named tools: Grok Bot, ChatGPT, ChatGPT Deep Research</p><p>Original source: <a href="https://x.com/scottmelker/status/2115220656740577553">https://x.com/scottmelker/status/2115220656740577553</a></p><p>Published: 2026-11-02T18:36:18.048163+00:00</p><p>Content updated: 2026-11-02T22:48:33.744649Z</p><p>Original source published: 2026-10-27</p><p>Public articles and issues. Use the clean Markdown or plain-text links, or copy the full text for your agent.</p><p>Yearbooks, gravestone photographs, birth and naturalization records: those are among the finds <a href="https://x.com/scottmelker/status/2115220656740577553">Scott Melker described after researching his family history with Grok Bot and ChatGPT</a> on October 27.</p><p>An old document can give you somewhere to begin. A town, an approximate date or a question about one ancestor can do the same. Pick the person you’re curious about and follow that thread.</p><h2>Give the research somewhere to start</h2><p><a href="https://help.openai.com/en/articles/10500283-deep-research-in-chatgpt">ChatGPT Deep Research</a> can work through public websites and uploaded documents, then bring its findings together in a report with source links. That gives you a trail back to the records behind each connection.</p><p>Add what you already have, including alternate spellings, approximate dates and known relatives. Ask a specific question: Where did this person live before moving? What can we find about their arrival? Does this photograph connect to a school or town?</p><h2>Start the search</h2><p>“Research [ancestor’s name], who lived in [place] around [year]. I know [facts] and have attached [document or photo]. Help me answer [question]. Link the records you use, distinguish confirmed connections from possibilities, and suggest the most useful next record to look for.”</p><h2>Make something your family will want to open</h2><p>Once you have a few discoveries, turn them into a short illustrated family history: a simple tree, a timeline, photographs and three interesting stories, with links to the records. Save it as a PDF and share it by email or in the family group chat. Invite relatives to add corrections, memories and photos of their own.</p><p>“Turn this research about [family or ancestor] into a short illustrated family history for my relatives. Include a simple family tree, a timeline and three interesting stories, with links to the records behind them. Use [photos I’ve supplied]. Mark uncertain connections and leave out private details about living relatives. Format it so I can save it as a PDF.”</p><p>Send it with a question: “Does anyone remember this house?” A record gives you a date. Someone in the family may have the story that goes with it.</p><h2>Starter prompt</h2><p>Research [ancestor’s name], who lived in [place] around [year]. I know [facts] and have attached [document or photo]. Help me answer [question]. Link the records you use, distinguish confirmed connections from possibilities, and suggest the most useful next record to look for.</p>2026-11-02T22:48:33.744649ZMon, 02 Nov 2026 18:36:18 GMThttps://x.com/scottmelker/status/2115220656740577553Grok BotChatGPTChatGPT Deep Researchhttps://whatpeopledowithai.com/examples/earlier-dinner/urn:what-people-do-with-ai:example:earlier-dinner<h1>An AI agent found him an earlier dinner reservation</h1><p>Example creator: Matt Palmer</p><p>Named tools: Grok Bot, Muse</p><p>Original source: <a href="https://x.com/mattyp/status/2116516547007308125">https://x.com/mattyp/status/2116516547007308125</a></p><p>Published: 2026-11-02T18:36:18.048163+00:00</p><p>Content updated: 2026-11-02T22:48:33.744649Z</p><p>Original source published: 2026-10-31</p><p>Public articles and issues. Use the clean Markdown or plain-text links, or copy the full text for your agent.</p><p>A 9:15 p.m. dinner reservation isn’t much use if you need to eat at six. <a href="https://x.com/mattyp/status/2116516547007308125">Grok Bot builder Matt Palmer shared an exchange</a> in which the agent found a 5:45 p.m. opening, asked for his approval and then reported moving his reservation.</p><p>Palmer had asked it to watch for cancellations at a San Francisco bathhouse and restaurant. Have your agent monitor the webpage rather than check on your phone all day, then get your attention when there’s a possibility worth acting upon.</p><h2>Make the target specific</h2><p>Give it the restaurant, party size, date and the range of times you would actually take. Include when to stop looking. An opening after you’ve already made other plans is no help.</p><p>Use Grok Bot, as Palmer did, or try Muse. Both provide a cloud computer and scheduled background work, so checking can continue while your laptop is closed. Start by asking it to check the booking page once. That establishes whether it can reach the actual availability before you ask it to keep watching.</p><p>Once that works, agree on a checking schedule and where you want the alert. Ask for a message when a matching table appears, rather than an update every time nothing changes.</p><h2>Try this</h2><p>“Check [venue or booking link] for a table for [number] on [date], between [earliest time] and [latest time]. Show me what is available now. If you can check this page reliably, set up checks at [interval] until [stop time and time zone]. Alert me through [notification channel] only when a match appears or you need my help. Don’t book, pay or change a reservation without my approval.”</p><p>The same kind of request can start with a cheaper flight, a better seat on a trip you’ve booked or tickets to a sold out movie showing.</p><h2>Starter prompt</h2><p>Check [venue or booking link] for a table for [number] on [date], between [earliest time] and [latest time]. Show me what is available now. If you can check this page reliably, set up checks at [interval] until [stop time and time zone]. Alert me through [notification channel] only when a match appears or you need my help. Don’t book, pay or change a reservation without my approval.</p><h1>An AI agent found him an earlier dinner reservation</h1><p>Example creator: Matt Palmer</p><p>Named tools: Grok Bot, Muse</p><p>Original source: <a href="https://x.com/mattyp/status/2116516547007308125">https://x.com/mattyp/status/2116516547007308125</a></p><p>Published: 2026-11-02T18:36:18.048163+00:00</p><p>Content updated: 2026-11-02T22:48:33.744649Z</p><p>Original source published: 2026-10-31</p><p>Public articles and issues. Use the clean Markdown or plain-text links, or copy the full text for your agent.</p><p>A 9:15 p.m. dinner reservation isn’t much use if you need to eat at six. <a href="https://x.com/mattyp/status/2116516547007308125">Grok Bot builder Matt Palmer shared an exchange</a> in which the agent found a 5:45 p.m. opening, asked for his approval and then reported moving his reservation.</p><p>Palmer had asked it to watch for cancellations at a San Francisco bathhouse and restaurant. Have your agent monitor the webpage rather than check on your phone all day, then get your attention when there’s a possibility worth acting upon.</p><h2>Make the target specific</h2><p>Give it the restaurant, party size, date and the range of times you would actually take. Include when to stop looking. An opening after you’ve already made other plans is no help.</p><p>Use Grok Bot, as Palmer did, or try Muse. Both provide a cloud computer and scheduled background work, so checking can continue while your laptop is closed. Start by asking it to check the booking page once. That establishes whether it can reach the actual availability before you ask it to keep watching.</p><p>Once that works, agree on a checking schedule and where you want the alert. Ask for a message when a matching table appears, rather than an update every time nothing changes.</p><h2>Try this</h2><p>“Check [venue or booking link] for a table for [number] on [date], between [earliest time] and [latest time]. Show me what is available now. If you can check this page reliably, set up checks at [interval] until [stop time and time zone]. Alert me through [notification channel] only when a match appears or you need my help. Don’t book, pay or change a reservation without my approval.”</p><p>The same kind of request can start with a cheaper flight, a better seat on a trip you’ve booked or tickets to a sold out movie showing.</p><h2>Starter prompt</h2><p>Check [venue or booking link] for a table for [number] on [date], between [earliest time] and [latest time]. Show me what is available now. If you can check this page reliably, set up checks at [interval] until [stop time and time zone]. Alert me through [notification channel] only when a match appears or you need my help. Don’t book, pay or change a reservation without my approval.</p>2026-11-02T22:48:33.744649ZMon, 02 Nov 2026 18:36:18 GMThttps://x.com/mattyp/status/2116516547007308125Grok BotMusehttps://whatpeopledowithai.com/examples/trip-companion/urn:what-people-do-with-ai:example:trip-companion<h1>He used Claude to turn travel bookings into a trip itinerary</h1><p>Example creator: Panos Tsamoudakis</p><p>Named tools: Claude, Claude Projects</p><p>Original source: <a href="https://www.tsamoudakis.com/how-i-planned-a-family-trip-with-claude/">https://www.tsamoudakis.com/how-i-planned-a-family-trip-with-claude/</a></p><p>Published: 2026-11-02T18:36:18.048163+00:00</p><p>Content updated: 2026-11-02T20:21:32.603666Z</p><p>Original source published: 2026-07-15</p><p>Public articles and issues. Use the clean Markdown or plain-text links, or copy the full text for your agent.</p><p><a href="https://www.tsamoudakis.com/how-i-planned-a-family-trip-with-claude/">Panos Tsamoudakis turned booking PDFs and family wish lists into an itinerary with Claude</a>. He says his family used the resulting web page file throughout a nine day New York trip.</p><p>His July 2026 account describes a page with a tab for each day, putting times, addresses and booking details beside the relevant activity. That is a useful thing to have when you’re heading for a train and someone asks where you’re going next.</p><h2>Put the trip in one place</h2><p>Start with a <a href="https://support.claude.com/en/articles/9519177-how-can-i-create-and-manage-projects">Claude Project</a>, and add your booking files and wish list to its project knowledge. Claude can use those files across chats in that project, so you can plan a museum day or change a dinner without uploading the same confirmations again. Projects are available on free Claude accounts too.</p><p>Add the details that change what a good day looks like for you. Which reservations are fixed? Which places matter most? Do you want a slow morning, a break after lunch, or time to wander?</p><p>Ask for one day first. It is easier to spot an overpacked afternoon in a short plan than in a long itinerary. Once the pace feels right, carry it through the rest of the trip.</p><h2>Ask for the thing you’ll use</h2><p>“Organize these plans for [destination/dates] into an itinerary I can read on my phone. We’re traveling with [people], staying in [area], and prefer [pace and interests]. Group nearby activities, preserve fixed bookings and leave room for breaks. Flag scheduling conflicts before creating the final version.”</p><p>Then ask for the format:</p><p>“Turn the agreed itinerary into a simple web page with a tab for each day. Show each activity’s time, address and map link. Keep the next stop easy to find on a phone. Put optional activities in a separate section so they don’t look like bookings. Show me how to save and open the finished page on [my phone type] and share it with [travel companions].”</p><p>Keep the agreed itinerary in the project’s knowledge as plans change. Your next question can be specific: “We have two hours free after the museum. Which places on our list fit nearby?”</p><h2>Starter prompt</h2><p>Organize these plans for [destination/dates] into an itinerary I can read on my phone. We’re traveling with [people], staying in [area], and prefer [pace and interests]. Group nearby activities, preserve fixed bookings and leave room for breaks. Flag scheduling conflicts before creating the final version.</p><h1>He used Claude to turn travel bookings into a trip itinerary</h1><p>Example creator: Panos Tsamoudakis</p><p>Named tools: Claude, Claude Projects</p><p>Original source: <a href="https://www.tsamoudakis.com/how-i-planned-a-family-trip-with-claude/">https://www.tsamoudakis.com/how-i-planned-a-family-trip-with-claude/</a></p><p>Published: 2026-11-02T18:36:18.048163+00:00</p><p>Content updated: 2026-11-02T20:21:32.603666Z</p><p>Original source published: 2026-07-15</p><p>Public articles and issues. Use the clean Markdown or plain-text links, or copy the full text for your agent.</p><p><a href="https://www.tsamoudakis.com/how-i-planned-a-family-trip-with-claude/">Panos Tsamoudakis turned booking PDFs and family wish lists into an itinerary with Claude</a>. He says his family used the resulting web page file throughout a nine day New York trip.</p><p>His July 2026 account describes a page with a tab for each day, putting times, addresses and booking details beside the relevant activity. That is a useful thing to have when you’re heading for a train and someone asks where you’re going next.</p><h2>Put the trip in one place</h2><p>Start with a <a href="https://support.claude.com/en/articles/9519177-how-can-i-create-and-manage-projects">Claude Project</a>, and add your booking files and wish list to its project knowledge. Claude can use those files across chats in that project, so you can plan a museum day or change a dinner without uploading the same confirmations again. Projects are available on free Claude accounts too.</p><p>Add the details that change what a good day looks like for you. Which reservations are fixed? Which places matter most? Do you want a slow morning, a break after lunch, or time to wander?</p><p>Ask for one day first. It is easier to spot an overpacked afternoon in a short plan than in a long itinerary. Once the pace feels right, carry it through the rest of the trip.</p><h2>Ask for the thing you’ll use</h2><p>“Organize these plans for [destination/dates] into an itinerary I can read on my phone. We’re traveling with [people], staying in [area], and prefer [pace and interests]. Group nearby activities, preserve fixed bookings and leave room for breaks. Flag scheduling conflicts before creating the final version.”</p><p>Then ask for the format:</p><p>“Turn the agreed itinerary into a simple web page with a tab for each day. Show each activity’s time, address and map link. Keep the next stop easy to find on a phone. Put optional activities in a separate section so they don’t look like bookings. Show me how to save and open the finished page on [my phone type] and share it with [travel companions].”</p><p>Keep the agreed itinerary in the project’s knowledge as plans change. Your next question can be specific: “We have two hours free after the museum. Which places on our list fit nearby?”</p><h2>Starter prompt</h2><p>Organize these plans for [destination/dates] into an itinerary I can read on my phone. We’re traveling with [people], staying in [area], and prefer [pace and interests]. Group nearby activities, preserve fixed bookings and leave room for breaks. Flag scheduling conflicts before creating the final version.</p>2026-11-02T20:21:32.603666ZMon, 02 Nov 2026 18:36:18 GMThttps://www.tsamoudakis.com/how-i-planned-a-family-trip-with-claude/ClaudeClaude Projectshttps://whatpeopledowithai.com/issues/01/urn:what-people-do-with-ai:issue:01<h1>Welcome to What People Do With AI</h1><p>Glad you’re here. This is a place to discover how people are using AI in their everyday lives, find something you’d like to try yourself, and get inspiration for your own ideas as we all learn how to better leverage these tools. This week a child’s stuffed bear becomes a video game hero, family trees are brought to life, and a dinner reservation gets a little earlier. Each story comes with a starting prompt so you can make it your own.</p><p>Sample edition: 2026-11-01</p><p>Published: 2026-11-02T18:36:18.048163+00:00</p><p>Content updated: 2026-11-02T17:33:46Z</p><p>Public articles and issues. Use the clean Markdown or plain-text links, or copy the full text for your agent.</p><h2>A stuffed bear becomes the hero</h2><p>Example creator: Chris Harihar</p><p>Named tools: Claude, Claude Artifacts</p><p>Original source: <a href="https://x.com/ChrisHarihar/status/2111504147111379398">https://x.com/ChrisHarihar/status/2111504147111379398</a></p><p>Published: 2026-11-02T18:36:18.048163+00:00</p><p>Content updated: 2026-11-02T17:33:46Z</p><p>Original source published: 2026-10-17</p><p>Public articles and issues. Use the clean Markdown or plain-text links, or copy the full text for your agent.</p><p>In <a href="https://x.com/ChrisHarihar/status/2111504147111379398">a video game Chris Harihar made with Claude</a>, his child’s stuffed animals became characters playing in a world based off their apartment with his child’s artwork to collect. A child’s imagination is brought to life in a game played during time shared on a bus.</p><p>Your version could start with a drawing, an invented character or an inside joke amongst friends. <a href="https://support.claude.com/en/articles/17153992-what-are-artifacts-and-how-do-i-use-them">Claude Artifacts</a> makes this easy to try: Claude writes the code and opens a playable version beside your chat, without you touching coding tools. Start with one character, one goal and one obstacle. Then play a round and ask for changes like “make the bear jump higher” or “add a hidden treasure.” You can build and improve the game in the same conversation.</p><h2>Starter prompt</h2><p>Build a small browser game starring [character] in [setting]. To win, the player must [goal] while avoiding [obstacle]. Use simple placeholder artwork and controls that are easy to use on a phone. Show me how to play the first version.</p><h2>Discover the story in your family tree</h2><p>Example creator: Scott Melker</p><p>Named tools: Grok Bot, ChatGPT, ChatGPT Deep Research</p><p>Original source: <a href="https://x.com/scottmelker/status/2115220656740577553">https://x.com/scottmelker/status/2115220656740577553</a></p><p>Published: 2026-11-02T18:36:18.048163+00:00</p><p>Content updated: 2026-11-02T17:33:46Z</p><p>Original source published: 2026-10-27</p><p>Public articles and issues. Use the clean Markdown or plain-text links, or copy the full text for your agent.</p><p>Yearbooks, gravestone photographs, birth and naturalization records: those are among the finds <a href="https://x.com/scottmelker/status/2115220656740577553">Scott Melker described after researching his family history with Grok Bot and ChatGPT</a> on October 27.</p><p>Start in <a href="https://help.openai.com/en/articles/10500283-deep-research-in-chatgpt">ChatGPT Deep Research</a> with a name, approximate date and town. Deep Research can work through multiple websites and your uploaded documents, then pull the findings into a report with source links. That gives you a trail back to the records behind each family connection. Add an old document or link to an archive, and ask one specific question.</p><p>Once you have a few discoveries, turn them into a short illustrated family history: a simple tree, a timeline, photographs and three interesting stories, with links to the records. Save it as a PDF and share it by email or in the family group chat. Invite relatives to add corrections, memories and photos of their own.</p><h2>Starter prompt</h2><p>Turn this research into a short illustrated family history for my relatives. Include a simple family tree, a timeline and three interesting stories, with links to the records behind them. Mark uncertain connections and leave out private details about living relatives. Format it so I can save it as a PDF.</p><h2>Get the earlier dinner without refreshing all day</h2><p>Example creator: Matt Palmer</p><p>Named tools: Grok Bot, Muse, Duet, Dots</p><p>Original source: <a href="https://x.com/mattyp/status/2116516547007308125">https://x.com/mattyp/status/2116516547007308125</a></p><p>Published: 2026-11-02T18:36:18.048163+00:00</p><p>Content updated: 2026-11-02T17:33:46Z</p><p>Original source published: 2026-10-31</p><p>Public articles and issues. Use the clean Markdown or plain-text links, or copy the full text for your agent.</p><p>A 9:15 p.m. dinner reservation isn’t much use if you need to eat at six. <a href="https://x.com/mattyp/status/2116516547007308125">Grok Bot builder Matt Palmer shared an exchange</a> in which the agent found a 5:45 p.m. opening, asked for his approval and then reported moving his reservation.</p><p>Palmer had asked it to watch for cancellations at a San Francisco bathhouse and restaurant. Have your agent consistently monitor the webpage rather than check on your phone all day, then get your attention when there’s a possibility worth acting upon.</p><p>Use Grok Bot, as Palmer did, or another agent like Muse, Duet, or Dots. Ask your agent to open the booking site, check availability and arrange repeat checks and alerts while you’re away. Ask it to watch for a cheaper flight, a better seat on a trip you’ve booked, or tickets to a sold out movie showing, then alert you when something opens up.</p><h2>Starter prompt</h2><p>Watch [venue] for a table for [number] on [date], between [times]. Confirm you can keep checking, then alert me when a match appears. Don’t book, pay or change a reservation without my approval.</p><h2>Turn your bookings into a trip companion</h2><p>Example creator: Panos Tsamoudakis</p><p>Named tools: Claude, Claude Projects</p><p>Original source: <a href="https://www.tsamoudakis.com/how-i-planned-a-family-trip-with-claude/">https://www.tsamoudakis.com/how-i-planned-a-family-trip-with-claude/</a></p><p>Published: 2026-11-02T18:36:18.048163+00:00</p><p>Content updated: 2026-11-02T17:33:46Z</p><p>Original source published: 2026-07-15</p><p>Public articles and issues. Use the clean Markdown or plain-text links, or copy the full text for your agent.</p><p><a href="https://www.tsamoudakis.com/how-i-planned-a-family-trip-with-claude/">Panos Tsamoudakis turned booking PDFs and family wish lists into an itinerary with Claude</a>. He says his family used the resulting web page file throughout a nine day New York trip.</p><p>His July project brought scattered confirmations and conversations into one place everyone could use. Start with a <a href="https://support.claude.com/en/articles/9519177-how-can-i-create-and-manage-projects">Claude Project</a>, and add your booking files and wish list to its project knowledge. Claude can use those files across chats in that project, so you can plan a museum day or change a dinner without uploading the same confirmations again. Ask Claude to turn the agreed plan into a page that’s easy to read on your phone.</p><h2>Starter prompt</h2><p>Organize these plans for [destination/dates] into an itinerary I can read on my phone. Group nearby activities, preserve fixed bookings and leave room for breaks. Flag scheduling conflicts before creating the final version.</p><h2>New this week: October 26–November 1</h2><p><strong>Edit the actual file in Gemini.</strong> The October 29 update lets you generate and edit documents, spreadsheets, presentations and PDFs inside the conversation. Make changes yourself or highlight a section for Gemini to revise. Available to all Gemini users: PDFs on web and mobile, other supported formats on web. <a href="https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/gemini-app/edit-files-directly/">See the update</a></p><p><strong>Turn a free textbook into a study companion.</strong> Gemini Notebook’s October 29 update adds hundreds of textbooks from providers including OpenStax. Choose Add sources → Textbooks, then ask questions, build practice quizzes or create a study guide from the book. The new free catalog gives you material to learn from without hunting down a PDF first. <a href="https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/gemini-notebook/new-access-textbooks/">Explore the catalog</a></p><p><strong>Catch subscription creep with Grok Bot.</strong> Its October 27 update adds templates for watching renewal prices and finding unused subscriptions. Start with “List my renewals and prices; don’t cancel anything.” Give it access to the relevant subscription information, then choose what to keep. <a href="https://x.ai/changelog/bot">Explore the templates</a></p><p><strong>Text your dot while you’re out.</strong> OpenAI’s October 28 rollout lets eligible U.S. Pro users message their dot through iMessage or RCS, with its existing memory and connected tools. Enable the beta in your dot’s profile and send your next research request while it’s on your mind. <a href="https://help.openai.com/en/articles/6825453-chatgpt-release-notes">Get started</a></p><h1>Welcome to What People Do With AI</h1><p>Glad you’re here. This is a place to discover how people are using AI in their everyday lives, find something you’d like to try yourself, and get inspiration for your own ideas as we all learn how to better leverage these tools. This week a child’s stuffed bear becomes a video game hero, family trees are brought to life, and a dinner reservation gets a little earlier. Each story comes with a starting prompt so you can make it your own.</p><p>Sample edition: 2026-11-01</p><p>Published: 2026-11-02T18:36:18.048163+00:00</p><p>Content updated: 2026-11-02T17:33:46Z</p><p>Public articles and issues. Use the clean Markdown or plain-text links, or copy the full text for your agent.</p><h2>A stuffed bear becomes the hero</h2><p>Example creator: Chris Harihar</p><p>Named tools: Claude, Claude Artifacts</p><p>Original source: <a href="https://x.com/ChrisHarihar/status/2111504147111379398">https://x.com/ChrisHarihar/status/2111504147111379398</a></p><p>Published: 2026-11-02T18:36:18.048163+00:00</p><p>Content updated: 2026-11-02T17:33:46Z</p><p>Original source published: 2026-10-17</p><p>Public articles and issues. Use the clean Markdown or plain-text links, or copy the full text for your agent.</p><p>In <a href="https://x.com/ChrisHarihar/status/2111504147111379398">a video game Chris Harihar made with Claude</a>, his child’s stuffed animals became characters playing in a world based off their apartment with his child’s artwork to collect. A child’s imagination is brought to life in a game played during time shared on a bus.</p><p>Your version could start with a drawing, an invented character or an inside joke amongst friends. <a href="https://support.claude.com/en/articles/17153992-what-are-artifacts-and-how-do-i-use-them">Claude Artifacts</a> makes this easy to try: Claude writes the code and opens a playable version beside your chat, without you touching coding tools. Start with one character, one goal and one obstacle. Then play a round and ask for changes like “make the bear jump higher” or “add a hidden treasure.” You can build and improve the game in the same conversation.</p><h2>Starter prompt</h2><p>Build a small browser game starring [character] in [setting]. To win, the player must [goal] while avoiding [obstacle]. Use simple placeholder artwork and controls that are easy to use on a phone. Show me how to play the first version.</p><h2>Discover the story in your family tree</h2><p>Example creator: Scott Melker</p><p>Named tools: Grok Bot, ChatGPT, ChatGPT Deep Research</p><p>Original source: <a href="https://x.com/scottmelker/status/2115220656740577553">https://x.com/scottmelker/status/2115220656740577553</a></p><p>Published: 2026-11-02T18:36:18.048163+00:00</p><p>Content updated: 2026-11-02T17:33:46Z</p><p>Original source published: 2026-10-27</p><p>Public articles and issues. Use the clean Markdown or plain-text links, or copy the full text for your agent.</p><p>Yearbooks, gravestone photographs, birth and naturalization records: those are among the finds <a href="https://x.com/scottmelker/status/2115220656740577553">Scott Melker described after researching his family history with Grok Bot and ChatGPT</a> on October 27.</p><p>Start in <a href="https://help.openai.com/en/articles/10500283-deep-research-in-chatgpt">ChatGPT Deep Research</a> with a name, approximate date and town. Deep Research can work through multiple websites and your uploaded documents, then pull the findings into a report with source links. That gives you a trail back to the records behind each family connection. Add an old document or link to an archive, and ask one specific question.</p><p>Once you have a few discoveries, turn them into a short illustrated family history: a simple tree, a timeline, photographs and three interesting stories, with links to the records. Save it as a PDF and share it by email or in the family group chat. Invite relatives to add corrections, memories and photos of their own.</p><h2>Starter prompt</h2><p>Turn this research into a short illustrated family history for my relatives. Include a simple family tree, a timeline and three interesting stories, with links to the records behind them. Mark uncertain connections and leave out private details about living relatives. Format it so I can save it as a PDF.</p><h2>Get the earlier dinner without refreshing all day</h2><p>Example creator: Matt Palmer</p><p>Named tools: Grok Bot, Muse, Duet, Dots</p><p>Original source: <a href="https://x.com/mattyp/status/2116516547007308125">https://x.com/mattyp/status/2116516547007308125</a></p><p>Published: 2026-11-02T18:36:18.048163+00:00</p><p>Content updated: 2026-11-02T17:33:46Z</p><p>Original source published: 2026-10-31</p><p>Public articles and issues. Use the clean Markdown or plain-text links, or copy the full text for your agent.</p><p>A 9:15 p.m. dinner reservation isn’t much use if you need to eat at six. <a href="https://x.com/mattyp/status/2116516547007308125">Grok Bot builder Matt Palmer shared an exchange</a> in which the agent found a 5:45 p.m. opening, asked for his approval and then reported moving his reservation.</p><p>Palmer had asked it to watch for cancellations at a San Francisco bathhouse and restaurant. Have your agent consistently monitor the webpage rather than check on your phone all day, then get your attention when there’s a possibility worth acting upon.</p><p>Use Grok Bot, as Palmer did, or another agent like Muse, Duet, or Dots. Ask your agent to open the booking site, check availability and arrange repeat checks and alerts while you’re away. Ask it to watch for a cheaper flight, a better seat on a trip you’ve booked, or tickets to a sold out movie showing, then alert you when something opens up.</p><h2>Starter prompt</h2><p>Watch [venue] for a table for [number] on [date], between [times]. Confirm you can keep checking, then alert me when a match appears. Don’t book, pay or change a reservation without my approval.</p><h2>Turn your bookings into a trip companion</h2><p>Example creator: Panos Tsamoudakis</p><p>Named tools: Claude, Claude Projects</p><p>Original source: <a href="https://www.tsamoudakis.com/how-i-planned-a-family-trip-with-claude/">https://www.tsamoudakis.com/how-i-planned-a-family-trip-with-claude/</a></p><p>Published: 2026-11-02T18:36:18.048163+00:00</p><p>Content updated: 2026-11-02T17:33:46Z</p><p>Original source published: 2026-07-15</p><p>Public articles and issues. Use the clean Markdown or plain-text links, or copy the full text for your agent.</p><p><a href="https://www.tsamoudakis.com/how-i-planned-a-family-trip-with-claude/">Panos Tsamoudakis turned booking PDFs and family wish lists into an itinerary with Claude</a>. He says his family used the resulting web page file throughout a nine day New York trip.</p><p>His July project brought scattered confirmations and conversations into one place everyone could use. Start with a <a href="https://support.claude.com/en/articles/9519177-how-can-i-create-and-manage-projects">Claude Project</a>, and add your booking files and wish list to its project knowledge. Claude can use those files across chats in that project, so you can plan a museum day or change a dinner without uploading the same confirmations again. Ask Claude to turn the agreed plan into a page that’s easy to read on your phone.</p><h2>Starter prompt</h2><p>Organize these plans for [destination/dates] into an itinerary I can read on my phone. Group nearby activities, preserve fixed bookings and leave room for breaks. Flag scheduling conflicts before creating the final version.</p><h2>New this week: October 26–November 1</h2><p><strong>Edit the actual file in Gemini.</strong> The October 29 update lets you generate and edit documents, spreadsheets, presentations and PDFs inside the conversation. Make changes yourself or highlight a section for Gemini to revise. Available to all Gemini users: PDFs on web and mobile, other supported formats on web. <a href="https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/gemini-app/edit-files-directly/">See the update</a></p><p><strong>Turn a free textbook into a study companion.</strong> Gemini Notebook’s October 29 update adds hundreds of textbooks from providers including OpenStax. Choose Add sources → Textbooks, then ask questions, build practice quizzes or create a study guide from the book. The new free catalog gives you material to learn from without hunting down a PDF first. <a href="https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/gemini-notebook/new-access-textbooks/">Explore the catalog</a></p><p><strong>Catch subscription creep with Grok Bot.</strong> Its October 27 update adds templates for watching renewal prices and finding unused subscriptions. Start with “List my renewals and prices; don’t cancel anything.” Give it access to the relevant subscription information, then choose what to keep. <a href="https://x.ai/changelog/bot">Explore the templates</a></p><p><strong>Text your dot while you’re out.</strong> OpenAI’s October 28 rollout lets eligible U.S. Pro users message their dot through iMessage or RCS, with its existing memory and connected tools. Enable the beta in your dot’s profile and send your next research request while it’s on your mind. <a href="https://help.openai.com/en/articles/6825453-chatgpt-release-notes">Get started</a></p>2026-11-02T17:33:46ZMon, 02 Nov 2026 18:36:18 GMT