From Nested Nightmares to an AI Prompt
I love how AI gives us superpowers!
Things that were hard to do become easy to do.
Let me show you one.
From Complex Logic to Simple Prompts
My work calendar is always beautifully colour-coded.
That’s because I’ve set up an automation that categorises my meetings based on rules I created over time. It checks things like keywords in the event name, who else is invited, and then applies a category.
I built this automation in Microsoft Power Automate (but you can do it in Zapier and many other automation tools).
And until recently it looked like a mess of nested conditions. It worked, but I was so afraid of breaking it that I stopped touching it altogether.
It had become legacy software, stuck and rigid.
Now with AI: Just Three Steps
Now, I’ve rewritten the same process in just three steps.
Trigger when a new event is created, like before
Run a prompt
Set a category
That’s it.
And the prompt? It simply says:
Categorise new calendar events using the following logic...
And then I explain the logic, and it returns the category name.
Do you know how I wrote that prompt?
I took a screenshot of my old process, fed it to ChatGPT, explained what I wanted and we iterated and wrote the prompt together.
What This Really Means
I’m showing you this because yes, colour-coding your calendar brings joy, but also because I want you to rethink what’s possible.
What are the things you thought you couldn’t do, but maybe you can?
Maybe writing an automation becomes easy
Maybe you can start doing some graphic design
Maybe you can write a book
AI gives us superpowers to do things we thought we couldn't.
So this is your official invitation to make a cup of tea, look through the window, and think: what are the things that I thought I couldn't do, and now I can?
Then, try them with AI!
Join Us in Melbourne
We do so much more of these things when we do them together in a community, showing each other what we’ve done, what worked, what didn’t, giving each other ideas. so...
On 25 July, we’re doing exactly that in Melbourne.
Yes, it’s cold in Melbourne, but it’s beautiful (and we will have hot soup for everyone).
We’ll be in a room together, going through advanced prompting, sharing tools, and building automations side by side.
It’s going to be fun, full of generous knowledge sharing, and you’ll walk out so much smarter than you came in.
Want to join us? There are still a few tickets here
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Inbal Rodnay
Guiding Firms in Adopting AI and Automation
Keynote speaker | AI Workshops | Executive briefings | Consulting CIO
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