You know the group chat.

The one where everyone’s throwing in restaurant recommendations, Google Maps links, “we HAVE to do this,” counter-opinions, timelines, vibes. It’s a beautiful mess, until you’re the one who’s 200 messages behind and the trip is coming up fast.

That was me last week. I opened the WhatsApp group for an upcoming trip and no way I was going to scroll through all of that and piece together what we’d actually decided.

So, I exported the entire WhatsApp group chat onto my computer. (You can do this with iMessage too — there are apps that let you export any messaging thread into a folder.) All the messages, links, images dumped into one folder.

Then I opened Claude Cowork, pointed it at that folder, and said: organize this into a document. Give me the agenda, recommended places, tips people shared, logistics — all of it.

To take it a step further, I could tell Claude that I trust certain people’s recommendations more than others. So if Joe's restaurant picks are gold and Alex's aren't quite my style, it knows whose to prioritize. Claude weights the recommendations accordingly and puts the high-trust picks front and center.

The final document had the context around any activity or recommendation. I shared it back with the group and immediately became the most organized person on the trip.

Then, I used Claude in browser to go through every Google Maps link in the chat and save each location to my map with notes on why it was recommended. So now I have a fully loaded map for the trip.

Total time: 20 minutes. I went from completely behind to having a shareable doc and a ready-to-go map.

Sometimes, I forget to use all the tools I use for work (Claude Cowork & Browser) in my personal life. Glad I remembered this time. Have you thought of any cool personal use cases for AI?