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Turn paper mail into a to-do list

Photograph each letter when it arrives. AI reads them and gives you a dated to-do list and a calendar file. Works in ChatGPT or Claude.

The prompt

These are photos of my mail. For each letter tell me what it is, whether I need to do anything, the amount if there is one, and the deadline. Mark junk as recycle. Then give me a to-do list sorted by deadline, and an .ics calendar file with a reminder 3 days before each deadline.

What it did in my test

Four sample letters: a water bill, a car registration renewal, a dentist reminder and a credit card offer. It produced a dated to-do list with the amounts, marked the offer as recycle, and made a calendar file with 3 deadlines. Every value matched the letters.

It never acts for you

It writes a calendar file you import yourself. Nothing is paid, sent or booked. Don't photograph account numbers or anything you wouldn't want in a chat history; cover them with your thumb.

Try it for a week

Photograph each letter the day it arrives.

Send the week's photos in one batch.

Import the calendar file.