A year of calendar improvements with Google's Gemini
Once again, my kiddo's school has released their annual calendar as a PDF, and I wanted to add all the important dates to my Google Calendar. My family's life revolves around this centralized source of truth, and last year I had to dig around in my calendar's page source to get at the info I needed to automate this process.
This year, it was one prompt, and one click. This is awesome.
I simply opened the PDF in my browser, popped open the Gemini sidebar, and it worked with the Fast model on the first try. It took me longer to write this all out!
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