{"id":640,"date":"2025-04-23T23:03:46","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T23:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farisismail.com\/?p=640"},"modified":"2025-04-23T23:03:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T23:03:47","slug":"late-to-the-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farisismail.com\/?p=640","title":{"rendered":"Late to the Party"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was trying to optimise my life today, by making a Google sheet that lists all of my children&#8217;s school events, and after that I thought it would be great to have a script that could automatically create these as events in a calendar. I already have a calendar allocated for the kids, I just don&#8217;t want to do it manually. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hence I googled how to do it with AppScript, which is like macro in Excel, but for Google Sheets. I am hopelessly incapable of coding, so I found <a href=\"https:\/\/workspace.google.com\/blog\/productivity-collaboration\/g-suite-pro-tip-how-to-automatically-add-a-schedule-from-google-sheets-into-calendar\">this<\/a> guide and followed it. It&#8217;s quite good, but it has vital steps hidden in other linked posts somewhere else in Medium. Also the guide uses &#8216;shift&#8217; and &#8216;signups&#8217;, which I wanted to change to events, but then I got confused. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I googled and after a while, thought of using ChatGPT. It amazingly found my errors, and corrected it. It even offered to add some other functions, such as checking for duplicates. Before long, I was adding new functions that I can never expect to write myself. There were also some parts that I didn&#8217;t understand, like the variables or functions, and ChatGPT explained it to me. I was amazed!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, I am late to the party, as everyone has already been prompting till their quota ran out. However, I have been using it before, but just for outlining documents and I think ChatGPT helps in brainstorming but there is no real content and it waffles a lot. I guess in the case of coding, I am a beginner and these things are just the basic, so that&#8217;s why I am amazed, compared to my experience in reading and writing documents. Still, it is a very powerful tool and has helped me a lot today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Still considering to pay or not for the unlimited prompt, aka &#8216;Pro&#8217; account. Let me sleep on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you for reading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was trying to optimise my life today, by making a Google sheet that lists all of my children&#8217;s school events, and after that I thought it would be great to have a script that could automatically create these as events in a calendar. I already have a calendar allocated for the kids, I just&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[90,24],"class_list":["post-640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farisismail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farisismail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farisismail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farisismail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farisismail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/farisismail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":641,"href":"https:\/\/farisismail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions\/641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farisismail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farisismail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farisismail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}